Line #29 Creator/ShinichiroWatanabe


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2	[[caption-width-right:240:[[Anime/CowboyBebop "Bang."]]]]
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4	Shinichiro Watanabe (born May 24, 1965) is a well-known Japanese anime director.
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6	He likes to mix different opposing genres and musics into his works to create something new--for example, ''Anime/CowboyBebop'' is cowboy SpaceOpera mixed with FilmNoir, 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.
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8	Not to be confused with Creator/ShinichiWatanabe, the director of ''Anime/ExcelSaga''.
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11	!!He has directed the following full-length works:
12	[[index]]
13	* ''Anime/MacrossPlus''
14	* ''Anime/CowboyBebop''
15	* ''Anime/SamuraiChamploo''
16	* ''Manga/KidsOnTheSlope''
17	* ''Anime/SpaceDandy''
18	* ''Anime/TerrorInResonance''
19	* ''Anime/CaroleAndTuesday''
20	[[/index]]
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22	!!He has also worked on:
23	* ''[[Anime/ArmoredTrooperVOTOMS Armor Hunter Mellowlink]]'': Supervisor.
24	* ''Anime/TheAnimatrix'': Directed ''The Kid'' and ''A Detective Story''.
25	* ''Anime/EurekaSeven'': Third ending animation.
26	* ''Anime/MobileSuitGundam0083StardustMemory'': Unit director (6 out of 13 episodes).
27	* ''Anime/StarDriver'': First opening animation.
28	* ''Genius Party'': Directed the last short, ''Baby Blue''.
29	* ''[[Film/BladeRunnerShorts Blade Runner: Black Out 2022]]'': Tie-in short to ''Film/BladeRunner2049''.
30	* ''Anime/BladeRunnerBlackLotus'': Producer.
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32	He's also the music producer for ''Anime/MichikoAndHatchin'' and ''Anime/LupinIIITheWomanCalledFujikoMine''
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34	!Tropes found in his work:
35	* AnachronismStew: Used exceedingly well.
36	* AuthorAppeal: [[SugarWiki/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.
37	* CastOfSnowflakes: Taken up to eleven in ''Anime/SpaceDandy'', where every bad guy and alien race is designed by a different artist.
38	* CreatorThumbprint: Likes to have a focus on a character's eye.
39	* GenreMashup: Watanabe's most well known tend to combine multiple genres and music styles together to create something new.
40	** Anime/CowboyBebop is cowboy space opera mixed with film noir, martial arts, and jazz.
41	** Anime/SamuraiChamploo fuses traditional samurai with hip-hop music and culture.
42	** Anime/SpaceDandy fuses Raygun Gothic and Zeerust with comedy and disco music.
43	* GenreRoulette: Watanabe is well-known for taking many genres and hitting "puree".
44	* ProductionPosse: With composer Music/YokoKanno, who has to date composed the soundtrack for four of his directorial works.
45	%%* GoOutWithASmile
46	%%* TheRival
47	* ShortRunInPeru: ''Anime/SpaceDandy'' yet again. Its U.S. premiere in January 2014 was on Creator/{{Toonami}} at 11:30, coming a half-hour before its premiere in Japan.
48	%%* TakingYouWithMe
49	* TallDarkAndHandsome: A tendency with his male protagonists, noticeably with his leads in his biggest three animes [[Anime/CowboyBebop Spike]], [[Anime/SamuraiChamploo Mugen and Jin]] and [[Anime/SpaceDandy Dandy]].
50	%%* YouKilledMyFather[=/=]RevengeBeforeReason

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