History Creator / ShinichiroWatanabe

Shinichiro Watanabe (born May 24, 1965) is a well-known Japanese anime director. He likes to mix different opposing styles into his works to create something new--for example, ''Anime/CowboyBebop'' is cowboy space opera mixed with film noir, martial arts, and jazz. ''Anime/{{Samurai Champloo}}'' fuses traditional samurai with hip-hop music and culture. ''[[Anime/SpaceDandy Space Dandy]]'' fuses RaygunGothic and {{Zeerust}} with disco music.

He's also the music producer for ''Anime/MichikoToHatchin'' and ''Anime/LupinIIITheWomanCalledFujikoMine''

* ''Anime/GeniusParty'': Directed the last short, ''Baby Blue''.

Shinichiro Watanabe (born May 24, 1965 ) is a well-known Japanese anime director. He likes to mix different opposing styles into his works to create something new--for example, ''Anime/CowboyBebop'' is cowboy space opera mixed with film noir, martial arts, and jazz. ''Anime/{{Samurai Champloo}}'' fuses traditional samurai with hip-hop music and culture. ''[[Anime/SpaceDandy Space Dandy]]'' fuses RaygunGothic and {{Zeerust}} with disco music.

!!He has also worked on shorter works for the following:
* ''[[Anime/ArmoredTrooperVOTOMS Armor Hunter Mellowlink]]''

He has directed the following full-length works:

He has also worked on shorter works for the following:

[[AC: Tropes found in his work:]]

* AuthorAppeal: [[AwesomeMusic MUSIC]]. Every one of his directed works had some genre (or genres) of music as a major part of the storyline and/or general theme of the series. And among the works where he's credited but isn't directing, he's usually in charge of the music production for the show.

* ''[[Manga/SakamichiNoApollon Kids on the Slope]]''

* ''Anime/TheAnimatrix'': A Detective Story
* ''Anime/EurekaSeven'': Third ending animation
* ''Anime/MobileSuitGundam0083StardustMemory'': Unit director (6 out of 13 episodes)
* ''Anime/StarDriver'': First opening animation
* ''Anime/GeniusParty'': Last short: "Baby Blue"

* ''Film/BladeRunner2049'': Third tie-in short "Blade Runner Black Out 2022"

Shinichiro Watanabe is a well-known Japanese anime director. He likes to mix different opposing styles into his works to create something new--for example, ''Anime/CowboyBebop'' is cowboy space opera mixed with film noir, martial arts, and jazz. ''Anime/{{Samurai Champloo}}'' fuses traditional samurai with hip-hop music and culture. ''[[Anime/SpaceDandy Space Dandy]]'' fuses RaygunGothic and {{Zeerust}} with disco music.

* ShortRunInPeru: ''Anime/SpaceDandy'' yet again. It's U.S. premiere in January 2014 was on {{Toonami}} at 11:30, coming a half-hour before its premiere in Japan.

He's also the music producer for ''Anime/LupinIIITheWomanCalledFujikoMine''

Shinichiro Watanabe is a well-known Japanese anime director. He likes to mix different opposing styles into his works to create something new--for example, ''Anime/CowboyBebop'' is cowboy space opera mixed with film noir, martial arts, and jazz. ''{{Samurai Champloo}}'' fuses traditional samurai with hip-hop music and culture. ''[[Anime/SpaceDandy Space Dandy]]'' fuses RaygunGothic and {{Zeerust}} with disco music.

* TallDarkAndHandsome: A tendency with his male protagonists, noticeably with his leads in his biggest three animes [[Anime/CowboyBebop Spike]], [[SamuraiChamploo Mugen and Jin]] and [[Anime/SpaceDandy Dandy]].

* ''Anime/ZankyouNoTerror''

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Shinichiro Watanabe is a well-known Japanese anime director. He likes to mix different opposing styles into his works to create something new--for example, ''{{Cowboy Bebop}}'' is cowboy space opera mixed with film noir, martial arts, and jazz. ''{{Samurai Champloo}}'' fuses traditional samurai with hip-hop music and culture. ''[[Anime/SpaceDandy Space Dandy]]'' fuses RaygunGothic and {{Zeerust}} with disco music.

* TallDarkAndHandsome: A tendency with his male protagonists, noticeably with his leads in his biggest three animes [[CowboyBebop Spike]], [[SamuraiChamploo Mugen and Jin]] and [[Anime/SpaceDandy Dandy]].

* TallDarkAndHandsome: A tendency with his male protagonists, noticeably with his leads in his biggest three animes [[CowboyBebop Spike]], [[SamuraiChamploo Mugen and Jin]] and [[SpaceDandy Dandy]].

* DoingItForTheArt: As above,''Anime/SpaceDandy'' uses different art styles, moods and directing styles for each episode, plus having every bad guy and alien race designed by a different artist.

* AuthorAppeal: [[AwesomeMusic MUSIC]]. Every one of his directed works had some genre(or genres) of music as a major part of the storyline and/or general theme of the series. And among the works where he's credited but isn't directing, he's usually in charge of the music production for the show.