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nakamorijuan · 1 month

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坂本真綾 - 約束はいらない Maaya Sakamoto - Yakusoku Wa Iranai Tenkuu No ESCAFLOWNE - Opening Theme

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fght-ff-yr-dmns · 3 months

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There's a trend to replicate the front cover of Sonic Youth's Goo, but this has to be my favourite so far.

#Cowboy Bebop #Spike Spiegel #Faye Valentine #anime #Shinichiro Watanabe #Yoko Kanno #art #Sonic Youth

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wallisninety-six · 10 months

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Hold your horses, there's a thought in my head and it's this: I need to see Cowboy Bebop with the Ed Edd n Eddy soundtrack over it

#ed edd n eddy #cowboy bebop #90s cartoons #90s anime #cartoon network #danny antonucci #shinichiro watanabe #yoko kanno #jazz #radical edward #edd #double d #animation #anime #memes #nostalgia #sunrise animation

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roseillith · 9 months

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オリジナルサウンドトラック Ⅲ ｢COCOA｣／菅野よう子 / Turn A Gundam Original Soundtrack III COCOA (2000) artwork

#a #turn a gundam #dianna soreil #kihel heim #loran cehack #m #yoko kanno

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animatejournal · 1 year

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Cowboy Bebop: Knockin' on Heaven's Door Director: Shinichirō Watanabe | Studio: Sunrise | Japan, 2001

#Cowboy Bebop #Steve Blum #English Dub #Beau Billingslea #Robbery #Anime #Animation #Japan #Hajime Yatate #Yoko Kanno

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animebackgroundmusic · 2 months

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"Zero Signal" by: Yoko Kanno From: Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex - Solid State Society

#Ghost in the Shell Stand Alone Complex Solid State Society #Yoko Kanno #Zero Signal

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pendragaryen · 6 months

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Heaven's not enough If when you get there, just another blue And heaven's not enough You think you've found it, then it loses you You've thought of all there is But not enough And it loses you in a cloud There Most everything is nothing that it seems Where You see the things you only wanna see I'd fly away To a higher place To say words I resist, to float away To sigh, to breathe, forget Heaven's not enough If when I'm there I don't remember you And heaven's not enough You think you know it, then it uses you I saw so many things But like a dream Always losing me in a crowd Cause I couldn't cry Cause I turned away Couldn't see the score Didn't know the pain Of leaving yesterday Really far behind In another life, In another dream By a different name Gave it all away For a memory And a quiet lie And I felt the face Of a cold tonight Still don't know the score But I know the pain Of leaving everything Really far behind And if I could cry If I could live What truth I did, then take me there Heaven goodbye

~ Yoko Kanno ~

#queue #heaven's not enough #wolf's rain #yoko kanno #song #fave songs #lyrics #heavens not enough #wolfs rain #anime #fave animes #text post #words #my edit

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nerds-yearbook · 11 months

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On May 21, 1998, the first soundtrack (ost) for the popular anime series "Cowboy Bebop" was released. One of the standouts of the series was the jazz inspired music. The show would kick off with these words, "I think it's time we blow this scene. Get everybody and the stuff together. Okay, three, two, one let's jam," and then launch into the driving theme "Tank!" The theme was even used by the figure skater Kevin Reynolds, dressed as the show's lead Spike Spiegel, in one of his short programs. Most of the music was performed by composer Yoko Kanno's band "Seatbelts" that she put together for the show. The first album contained the tracks "Tank! (opening theme)", "Rush", "Spokey Dokey", "Bad Dog No Biscuits", "Cat Blues", "Cosmos", "Space Lion", "Waltz for Zizi", "Piano Black", "Pot City", "Too Good Too Bad", "Car24", "The Egg and I", "Felt Tip Pen", "Rain (lyrics by Tim Jensen and performed by Steve Conte)", "Digging My Potato", and "Memory - music box". ("Cowboy Bebop OST", Music, Event)

#nerds yearbook #may #1998 #cowboy bebop #music #song #ost #soundtrack #jazz #sci fi tv #anime #sci fi #seatbelts #yoko kanno #tim jensen #steve conte #spike spiegel #kevin reynolds #figure skating

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dariellon · 6 months

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"They say there's no such place... as Paradise. Even if you search to the ends of the Earth, there's nothing there. No matter how far you walk, it's always the same road. It just goes on and on. But, in spite of that..."

#wolf's rain #kiba #wolf's rain art #wolf's rain kiba #anime #anime art #digital art #steve konte #yoko kanno

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piicklejar · 2 years

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★ COOL THINGS FROM MY JOB ★

Artist: Yoko Kano/ Seatbelts

Album: Cowboy Bebop CD-BOX Original Soundtrack Limited edition (2002)

Credit if you’d like to repost ! :)

#my scans #cowboy bebop #spike speigal #faye valentine #90’s #90s anime #yoko kanno #the seatbelts #cowboy bebop spike #scans #archive

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dangrr-2-societyy · 7 months

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T R A N Q U I L I T Y

“Road To The West” by Seatbelts from the album Blue is still a TOP TIER anime OST from Cowboy Bebop. Still got me Vibin ngl 😭.

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nakamorijuan · 1 month

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坂本真綾 - ともだち Maaya Sakamoto - Tomodachi Tenku No ESCAFLOWNE - Insert Song

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riafunnel · 5 months

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Unreleased music from the Escaflowne movie! These are additional tracks not included in the movie OST.

(Link to download FLAC files is in the description. It's safe, can confirm!)

#escaflowne #vision of escaflowne #escaflowne movie #escaflowne ost #yoko kanno #hajime mizoguchi #anime ost #rare soundtrack #rare ost #anime movie

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acquired-stardust · 6 months

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Anime Spotlight #2: Cowboy Bebop: Knockin' on Heaven's Door (2001)

Happy Halloween! Acquired Stardust's second anime spotlight caps off our two-part Halloween spotlight special. Join Ash for a look back at her favorite Halloween movie to celebrate the season.

Growing up, September ushered in my favorite time of year. Summer heat began to give way to the chill of an upstate New York fall and before you knew it October was here, the gateway to the holiday season, which meant a constant rotation of Halloween movies on the living room television which my mom would have on at virtually all hours of the day. Little traditions like that have colored my early childhood and remained something I enjoy keeping up and coming up with new ones. Eventually, I was overjoyed to be able to share my own favorite Halloween movie with my mother one year when we sat down to watch this together, and I distinctly remember her enjoying it and especially taking a liking to the lovable catlike hacker Radical Edward, a very popular and enduring character actually based on series composer Yoko Kanno. But perhaps we're getting a little ahead of ourselves.

Sometimes getting the band back together isn't all it's cracked up to be. People change. Sometimes creative desires diverge. For many bands there are distinct before and afters. Cowboy Bebop, with director/creator Shinichiro Watanabe's process of thinking of his works in the context of music, was a hell of a series. Anime conquered the west in several steps, from the college campuses importing laserdiscs to Toonami and then Adult Swim, Cowboy Bebop holds a special place in that movement particularly as a bridge for the uninitiated - because it was heavily inspired by western media and of an extremely high quality people into anime often used it to bring those unfamiliar into the fold to great success. Cowboy Bebop has a pretty enduring legacy of not just being the favorite anime of many, but also being the first anime of many who were turned off by the more battle shonen stylings of Dragonball Z that had swept countless youth up into anime fandom in the early 2000s. It's inspired countless people in their own creative endeavors such as the late Monty Oum of Haloid, Dead Fantasy and RWBY fame, and Adult Swim classic The Boondocks also featured tributes. The recent Final Fantasy VII Remake Intergrade also features an unmistakable musical allusion to Yoko Kanno's work on the series in a chase scene backed by a several-movement jazz track.

Sometimes it's hard for a band to recapture exactly what made it so special in its heyday, but that's absolutely not the case for Knockin' on Heaven's Door, the movie released in 2001 in Japan. Much of what makes the original series work so well, such as an iconic soundtrack and impeccable script, not just returns for the movie but is in top form. A large cast of distinct characters, including several introduced in this movie, are all utilized very effectively. Iconic anime dubbing studio Animaze knocks it out of the park yet again with not only returning actors reprising some of the most iconic roles in all of English-language dubbing but also impresses with Dave Wittenberg as hacker Lee Samson and even the rare anime role from Jennifer Hale before she became quite as ubiquitous as she is now.

Animation and art direction are in top form as well, with plenty of attractive uses of lighting and the framing of shots. Small details such as the hair or clothes blowing in the wind or the falling of an ashtray aboard the spaceship Bebop manage to be almost as impressive as some of the mesmerizing fight scenes. There are also some extremely dynamic uses of the point of view even in slower exposition scenes. You've also got the soundtrack that sees series composer Yoko Kanno return with plenty of the iconic and bombastic jazz the series is known for along with some other auditory treats, and vocalist Mai Yamane also returns for two tracks that are among her best contributions to the series which really says a lot.

Set largely between Halloween and the day before culminating in a tense action sequence at a Halloween parade, Knockin' on Heaven's Door sees the bounty hunting crew of the spaceship Bebop attempt to catch a large bounty in the wake of a mysterious terrorist attack on a freeway. Each character splinters off in their own direction as is series standard, chasing down their own individual leads through their own processes which helps to illustrate not only why this crew contrasts so well in its very distinct members but also showcases a strength of the series in its oozing of characterization with action and dialogue alike.

The captivating push and pull of dialogue between characters that the series is known for is never stronger than in this film, which is a real testament to not only the talents of the late frequent Watanabe collaborator Keiko Nobumoto but the returning writer-voice director duo of Marc Handler and Mary Elizabeth McGlynn, respectively, along with the incredible voice cast. There is a reason that Cowboy Bebop is widely believed to have one of if not the strongest English language dubs of any anime, and while other examples in that upper echelon come to mind for me I find it hard to disagree with anyone who finds it to indeed be the finest. Remarkable parity between the television series and movie is a common thread, and the movie even features a number of long running cameos, at least one of which pays off in a big way.

For anime fans of a certain age, Cowboy Bebop is held with an extreme reverence and often tops the list of favorites. While it may not be my personal favorite, it's pretty high up there. Regardless it's impossible to dispute the sheer quality in every single aspect of the series, and Knockin' on Heaven's Door exemplifies so many of the strengths of the series at an impressive feature-length runtime. It's also a tradition around our house to watch this every Halloween in celebration, inspired by all the movie marathons around my house growing up. The stunned silence I watched this film in for the very first time as a child will be something I never forget, and it goes without saying that it's my favorite Halloween movie pretty easily. Hopefully it will be an experience you don't forget any time soon either.

A gem hidden among the stones, Cowboy Bebop: Knockin' on Heaven's Door is undoubtedly stardust.

-Ash