The animation works directed by Shinichir? Watanabe are basically not particularly bad. Even though Shinichir? Watanabe's "Echoes of Tokyo" was praised and criticized by the audience, on the whole, Shinichir? Watanabe is indeed a guarantee of quality.
The audience who have seen Shinichir? Watanabe's animation works are deeply impressed by Shinichir? Watanabe's ability to control stories. In Shinichir? Watanabe's animation world, music is a particularly important part. Even in Shinichir? Watanabe's view, music is as important as animation.
In the new animation in April this year, there is a work directed by Shinichir? Watanabe, which pays great attention to the music itself-Carol and Tuesday.
Although the current plot of this animation is still relatively slow, and there is no particularly attractive plot conflict, the sincerity of this animation in music production, as well as teacher Shi Bujun, an animation lover and pop music lover, very much approve of Shinichir? Watanabe's practice.
The music used by Shinichir? Watanabe in Ode and Tuesday was made by famous musicians all over the world. Even the singers of the two heroines in the animation were selected through global sea elections.
Through this animation, Shinichir? Watanabe showed his broad vision of international music. This animation has various pop music styles and is an international Japanese animation with music as its theme.
Shinichir? Watanabe's persistence in music is not only reflected in the music itself, but also in the process of animation performance. Similarly, taking "Carol" and "Tuesday" as examples, the music performance pictures of this animation are basically completed by transfer painting technology. The specific production process is to let the singer sing while playing the songs in the animation, and then the animator draws the real shot picture of the singer's performance into an animation picture through the transfer painting technology, so that the music performance in the animation is more realistic.
Carol and Tuesday is not the first time that Shinichir? Watanabe has shown his musical ambition and vision in animation. In several animations that Shinichir? Watanabe cooperated with famous Japanese musician yoko kanno, Shinichir? Watanabe and yoko kanno broke through the boundaries of Japanese animation music.
Shinichir? Watanabe's first animation "Time and Space Fortress PLUS" invited yoko kanno to be responsible for the soundtrack of the animation. In order to show the songs performed by future world music singers, Shinichir? Watanabe asked yoko kanno to produce the avant-garde synthesizer electronic streaming music at that time, which was an unprecedented attempt in the previous animation series of "Time and Space Fortress".
The music world of Star Cowboy is extremely rich. In order to show Shinichir? Watanabe's multi-cultural world view and feelings for classic old movies and classic music in animation, Shinichir? Watanabe asked yoko kanno to try to create background music of blues, pop jazz and rock.
So the magic of Star Cowboy lies not only in the profound and free story setting, but also in all kinds of excellent music.
Shinichir? Watanabe's music styles are quite diverse, and he is constantly exploring how to promote music to the same important position as pictures. The soundtrack in Chaos Warrior is basically rap or jazz rap. In order to make this animation with the theme of ancient Japanese samurai fit the rap style perfectly, Shinichir? Watanabe changed many words and deeds of his characters into a more hip-hop style, which is also the result of the integration of various cultures.
Shinichir? Watanabe's animation always conveys his old feelings for many classic works, and makes the audience deeply understand through the plot and excellent music. This animation director is really a person who can play music in animation.
All the above are personal opinions. Don't spray if you don't like it