Lazy short review
Star Cowboy
Japanese houses can be obtained from European and American houses:
Its age is the oldest generation in Japanese anime
It has gained a new height of recognition of Japanese works in the European and American markets
Each episode of it is a film made for music
It requires the viewer to have a certain age and experience, otherwise you won't see it as good
After it, there was no one to come
"Lupin III" is considered to be the undead bird of Japanese animation, began serialization in 1967, 1971 TV animation, the impact of this anime on a group of animators at that time can be imagined, Ya pi male protagonist before There are Lupin III, "City Hunter" Officine Yu, and then there is "Star Cowboy" Spike: bird nest head, dead fish eyes, closed past, hanging Er Lang Dang's personality, all day long can not make ends meet to do the life of the last meal, there is also an unknown past.
It's a work that pays homage to the Western cinematic world: Cantonese, Hong Kong's streetscapes, Bruce Lee's skills, Wong Kar-wai-esque taste, the rules of survival of cowboys in the American West, music that encompasses the world...
The basic musical style of "Star Cowboy" is based on jazz and blues, and then a large number of European and American music elements are added, and the ever-changing music makes people "ears" overwhelmed, and there are only nostalgic 80s pop songs in "Guardians of the Galaxy", which has made people excited; and "Star Cowboy" gives a big gift package, even the general audience will be fascinated by all kinds of music, and then marvel: the original music world is so vast!
<h1>Appreciation of masterpieces</h1>
Day comics are tired of watching, feel that the routines are similar, watching "Star Cowboy" is like digging into a gold mine.
Before introducing how good Star Cowboy is, let's take a look at the extent to which Japanese anime has developed before it, so as to understand what kind of high-level production this is, and can become the cult of anime fans around the world.
In the recent years since EVA, it has been able to reach a very high level in all aspects and can be hailed as a classic: "Girl Revolution", "Mobile Suit Gundam Reverse A", "His and Her Things" and "Interstellar Cowboy", which is considered to be the best animation work in the past 10 years.
Sunrise (Sunrise) company for several years once a nerve, a mention of Sunrise, most animation fans will think of Gundam for the first time, yes, Sunrise can be said to be the representative company of Japanese robot animation, from the earliest "Letin the Brave", "Invincible Steel man Titan 3" to Gundam, to the eighties "Armored Cavalry", "Legend of the Demon Hero", and the nineties I jokingly called "Super Robot Renaissance" The brave series are sunrise works, it can be said that this company alone supports half of the robot animation industry, Saying that Sunrise stands for "Robot Animation" should not be wrong to get there.
However, this company has a very interesting feature, that is, every few years it will be nervous to engage in a set of good things that are not the same as mainstream robot animation, first in 1987's "City Hunter" and "Magic Hand Little Chef/Guy Tome", then in 1991's "New Century GPX" and "Mom is a Fourth Year in Elementary School", and then the protagonist of this time, 1998's "Interstellar Cowboy", and the latest is "InuYasha". This kind of "explosion" every few years that does not know how to "explode" one or two sets of animations that are not the same as the mainstream genre of the company can be said to be a major feature of Sunrise.
Without Mobile Suit Gundam 0083, Chrono Fortress Plus, and City Hunter, there would be no Star Cowboy! About this conclusion, first mention the relationship between "Mobile Suit Gundam 0083" and "Time Fortress Plus" and "Star Cowboy": "Star Cowboy" supervisor Shinichiro Watanabe and character designer Toshihiro Kawamoto met in "Mobile Suit Gundam 0083", Watanabe performed in "Mobile Suit Gundam 0083", and Kawamoto was a human being, and in "Time Fortress Plus" keiko Nobumoto and yoko Sugano, who was the core of "Star Cowboy"! These two sets of works are classics in the history of animation, and the people who have made these two sets of masterpieces have cooperated to make a set of animations, even if they don't look at the content, they know that this is a rather amazing set of works, right?
And the relationship between "City Hunter" and "Star Cowboy" is mainly stylistic, "City Hunter" in the history of Japanese animation is special is that it has a strong Western urban flavor, which is extremely rare in Japanese animation, most of the Japanese anime in the city is not chaotic or evil and dark, but in "City Hunter" but a different urban flavor: chaos is chaos, but there is another special feeling, living in this city (Shinjuku) in the human dragon snake mix, Doing some normal people think that it is an unseemly job, everyone has an unknown past, but they all love life, love this city, do not be ashamed of their birth and work, do not steal or rob and will not hurt people, what is shameful? And this clear worldview is being inherited by Star Cowboy.
And the characters in the "City Hunter" story are all adults, both behavior and mind are mature adults, not the protagonists of traditional Japanese anime and manga are children, and they are quite mature as soon as they appear without some childish behaviors and ideas, which has also become the feature of "Star Cowboy", regardless of the "specifications" Ed and Ein, almost all the characters are adults, they will not do anything is childish, but after their own careful consideration, And the consequences are borne by oneself; the real adult world.
<h1>The "craftsmanship" of animation</h1>
In fact, since the "Mobile Suit Gundam 0083" since the quality of Japanese television animation began to deteriorate, since the explosion of Japan's bubble economy, in addition to such as Toei these powerful companies, most animation companies will be the original painting and animation work to find Taiwan, South Korea and even Chinese mainland OEM, these looking for foreign companies OEM animation quality is extremely uneven, good of course, but the difference is "weird twenty faces", the character will change shape. In addition, after "EVA" made an excellent money-making effect at low cost, other production companies thought that the quality of the work and the ability to make money were not directly related, ignoring the breakthrough of "EVA" itself in creativity and shooting methods, and the result was a bunch of uninspired, quality and rotten things (not to mention TV, and even many OVAs are shoddily made garbage, thinking that hanging a big name will be easy to sell, simply treating consumers as idiots).
But this is by no means the case in Star Cowboy, whether it is the picture quality or the dubbing, sound effects or even Eye catch (the program name illustration or short film before and after the TV show broadcast advertisement) is meticulous, the production is very serious, even if the tricks are played, it is particularly laborious, unlike the fan works of "EVA" and "He And She", which is a set of first-class professional animators who go all out professional works, in Japanese parlance is "professional art" (the skills displayed by people with skilled skills).
Series composition: Keiko Nobumoto
His representative works include the 1994 OVA "MACROSS PLUS", the 1996 TV series "White Line Stream", and the 2003 animation "Wolf Rain". In 2003, he worked with director Toshi Imabata on the screenplay for the animated film Tokyo Godfather. In 2002, he was the script supervisor of square-ENIX's action RPG "Kingdom Hearts".
Character Design: Toshihiro Kawamoto
He has worked on original paintings for works such as "Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ", "Venus Battle Record", "Mobile Police Patlabor", etc., and later participated in "Mobile Suit Gundam 0080", "Mobile Suit Gundam 0083", "Mobile Suit Gundam 08MS Squad", "BLOOD THE LAST VAMPIRE", "ESCAFLOWNE", "RahXephon", "Wolf Rain", "Fullmetal Alchemist", "Mobile Angel ANGELIC LAYER" and many other works. In these works, he mainly held positions such as character design, painting supervision and original painting.
Mechanical design: Yamane Gongli
His debut work was the 1987 OVA "Blowing Sugar Crisis". Served as "Mobile Suit Gundam G Gundam", "Mobile Suit Gundam 08ms Squad", "Mobile Suit Gundam SEED", "Mobile Suit Gundam SEED DESTINY", "Starship Operators", "Overman King Gainer", "Tide-Line Blue", "Silent Fleet", "Infinite Lyvias", "Escaflowne in the Sky", "Silent Unknown" Mechanical design of a large number of animations.
Stage setting, original case collaboration, script: Masaharu Kawamori
Famous animation supervisor, performer, mechanical designer. The original work, director, series composition, and mechanical setting of the "Chrono Fortress" series.
Stage Design: Imago Yong
Animation creators. He is widely known for his role as the stage designer for "Interstellar Cowboy". It is also active in the field of drawing covers and illustrations of manga and books. He has participated in the design and painting of the animated films "Lupin III DEAD OR ALIVE", OVA "Leap to the Top", TV animations "Nadia of the Incredible Sea", "Evangelion of the New Century", "EAT-MAN '98" and other works. In the 2001-2002 Heisei edition of "Football Junior", Imago served as the main director, design, storyboard, and performance. Manga works include "マレの風」「ジオブリーダーズAA」"Armored Riderボトムズ Hyeon-yiたる邪端", and has also participated in the production of highly religious anime films such as "The Law of the Sun", "The Law of Gold", and "The Law of Eternity"
Cowboy Bebop
Premiere: April 3, 1998
Director: Shinichiro Watanabe
Writer: Masayuki Murai
Original story: Hajime Yatate
Sound distribution: Koichi Yamadera / Noboru Ishizuka / Megumi Hayashibara / Aoi Tada / Takeo Wakamoto / Masaaki Takama / Yurika Hino / Yutaka Nakano / Maaya Sakamoto / Takaaki Nakao / Mika Doi / Ryohei Yamaguchi
Animation: Sunrise
别 name: Space Cow cub, Gold Man, Cowboy Bebop
Episodes: 26
Other screening countries include the United Kingdom, France, Australia, Germany, Poland, Spain, Canangda, the Philippines, India and so on.
Hajime Yatate
This name often appears in anime produced by Sunrise and is listed as the original author, but this is not a single person, but a "collective pen name" used by Sunrise Planning Department to facilitate copyright management.
Award-winning experience
1998
Kobe Animation Award, Japan
2000
Won the Nebula Award of the Japan Science Fiction Convention
2006
IGN (the world's top gaming media) has been the best animated soundtrack in its history
Japan's TV Asahi ranked 40th in japan for japanese favorite anime
2007
Anime Insider ranked first among the 50 Best Animations by industry magazine editors
2015
In the list of the top ten best animated ending songs WatchMojo.com by the Canadian Video Business Network, the game's "Real Folk Blues" ranked fifth
IMDb (the world's largest movie archive website, the Internet Movie Database), ranks 24th among the world's 250 best-looking TV shows. (Top Japanese works)
The soundtrack "Tank!" by musician Yoko Kanno for the opening of the anime has been voted the No.1 for best Japanese animation OP (opening song) by foreign netizens
The Japanese magazine "Newtype" list of 25 best animations, ranked second. (The first is EVA)
T.H.E.M What anime interviews say about the anime: Usually a work is either complex or delicate, and this work makes most animations and even Hollywood as a whole feel ashamed
The most famous entertainment column of the American "Onion Newspaper", A.V. Club commented that "Star Cowboy" is the benchmark of the overall water quality of the anime, giving a heavy blow to those who disdain anime
In 2001, it became the first animation to become a program section under the name of cartoon network television station, The Advanced Swim Channel (an animation channel with adult audiences as the main target), and has been replayed four times so far, which is enough to see its success in the United States
On June 7 this year, the news that "Star Cowboy" will be made into an American drama, and Sunrise has also confirmed this news, and the live-action TV series will be jointly produced by the United States and Japan. The Star Cowboy episode will be co-produced by Tomorrow Studios and studio ITV Studios, with Marty Adelstein, who has previously praised Star Cowboy, directing episodes such as Prison Break and Mystery Calling, and the script for the show will be led by Christopher Yost, who is in charge of the Thor series. Midnight Radio will participate as executive producer, and the original animation producer Sunrise will serve as the production director.
<h1>The theme, the story is no longer important? </h1>
In 2071, human habitation has expanded to the entire solar system, and the bit-phase difference space gate makes interplanetary travel possible. 50 years before that, in 2022 AD, a major accident in the development of a space-difference space gate above Earth dealt a devastating blow to the Earth and the Moon. Part of the Moon separated from the Moon, and countless fragments fell to Earth as meteorites. The surface became barren. Ironically, according to the information obtained by accident, it promotes the completion of the bit difference space gate. As the surface of the earth is contaminated with rays, humans gradually migrate to other planets in the solar system.
Nations ceased to exist, and people of different languages and cultures intermingled, forming communities with their own cultural identity on each planet. Like the chaotic period after World War 2, a new era of wonder and dynamism has arrived. The mafia forces in the economically revived areas gradually expanded, and on the other hand, as the gap between the rich and the poor further widened, the number of perpetrators also increased at a very rapid rate. This period came to be known as roaring Twenties. A variety of mafia and mafia elements have emerged, and the illegal activities carried out in secret such as the drug trade have also expanded.
Time passed, the planets and moons became independent countries, and the generation that did not know the Earth also grew up. The difference space gate technology has become completely stable and has become an indispensable part of people's lives. The planets formed the Inter Solar System Police (ISSP) to fight interstellar crime. Along with isisP, a bounty boss system, commonly known as the Cowboy Act. After applying for a license, bounty hunters can arrest wanted criminals and receive a prescribed amount of bonuses. The 300,000 bounty hunters who traveled across the solar system for the bounty came alive.
2071 is one such era.
Bebop
The term derives from a classification of jazz, Bipop, a revolutionary new genre of jazz in the United States that began in the early to mid-20th century and began to show dew until 1945.
The entire work is considered to be a pioneer in the integration of Japanese animation from Western culture, and the animation contains many western elements, such as the bounty hunter system. There will be an illusion: the director should be a person with european and American study experience.
Themes and stories, which are important factors affecting the greatness of a set of works, many creators hollow out their minds to think of an excellent story that has something to say and make a sound is to leave the work for posterity. But "Star Cowboy" is the weakest in terms of theme and story, basically there is no theme idea running through the twenty-six words, each sentence has an independent theme, or even no theme, just a simple funny nonsense, in short, completely independent operation between each word, free play.
The story is not too esoteric, such as Spike,
The triangle relationship between Bixas and Julia is already an old Hong Kong-style jianghu movie style, other characters and performances, Phil's past is not a need to think of the past to think of, simple character design abandons the most popular "the more complex the character's past, the better the dog's blood" (the game "Final Fantasy" can be said to be a typical work of this kind of thinking, in short, do not make the character's past life strange and never give up), "refreshing" is the screenwriting policy of "Interstellar Cowboy".