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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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