Spike cowboy bebop aesthetic12/7/2023 They decided it was probably a better idea if we related this new 2049 to that particular incident. “Having discussions with the producer on Blade Runner 2049, they used a word called the BlackOut incident, which was not mentioned a lot. However, the owner of the whole entire franchise wanted to have something that connects the first and second films, and because Roy dies in the first movie, I wasn’t able to pass that through. “When I was first given the offer to do the prequel… I really like the character from the first Blade Runner movie, Roy Batty, so I really wanted to make a story for him. “The offer originally came from America themselves,” he recalls. Pretty much all of the special effects style sci-fi movies or series out there starting looking a lot like Blade Runner.”īeing a fan of the original dystopian sci-fi cult-classic, Watanabe was ecstatic to direct an anime prequel to the Blade Runner 2049 sequel called Blade Runner BlackOut 2022. “I assume that everyone in the anime industry has seen Blade Runner at some point. “When it was released in the 80s in Japan, Blade Runner was actually a series that influenced the Japanese media very much so,” he explains. She told me there’s no way of doing any other type of dogs, it had to be a corgi. Shinichiro Watanabe: I had a very strong request from the scenario writer that she really loved corgis and we had to have a corgi. IGN: What about Ein? Why did you decide for him to be a corgi? I personally think that he might not even be human, someone from outer space. Shinichiro Watanabe: I wanted to create a character that surpasses humanity. Why did you decide for Ed to be non-binary and have no gender, or have their gender be ambiguous? IGN: Well actually, I’d like to quickly ask about that. Shinichiro Watanabe: Its gender is meaningless, we don’t need it. Shinichiro Watanabe: It’s kind of subconscious but don’t forget in Cowboy Bebop, there’s four of them. Is that a conscientious decision or something you gravitate towards when storyboarding? IGN: Each of your series always follows a core cast of three, there’s always two men who clash and a woman who tags along. Shinichiro Watanabe: I guess you could say I don’t think they’d get along very well. Do you think that Faye and Jet would continue on as partners or go their separate ways? Of course with Faye, a big part of her character arc is finding a place she belongs and feeling like the Bebop crew is her family. “However, they were actually created around the same time and after I got to watch Guardians of the Galaxy after Dandy was finished and completed, I realised, ‘oh yeah, they actually have a similar feeling, they’re actually quite similar.’” “I had a lot of people tell me Space Dandy was like Guardians of the Galaxy,” he adds. In an attempt to merge those two ideas together, Watanabe instructed the show’s composers to use musical instruments that predated the 1980s, grounding the musical tone in a camp 80s feel. “With Space Dandy, you’ve obviously got your image of the space and 80s music, and blending them together is how I created it.” “With Samurai Champloo, we were thinking of listening to hip hop music, watching a lot of Japanese style traditional dramas - old style dramas - that was the sort of image I had when putting those ideas together,” he continues. “When creating Cowboy Bebop,” Watanabe tells me, “I thought it would be more interesting if I added different types of elements together to create something that was completely new.” “People who are watching from the costume department always go, ‘I made that,’ so that was my way of have a little moment as well,” explains Holland.A series of stills displayed at the Cowboy Bebop Exhibition at Madman Anime Festival 2017. One of the name tags worn on-screen pegs a character as Hine, a nod to a costume cleaner in the department. While many of the costumes connect through detailed elements that relate to the characters’ backstories, sometimes the meaning is elsewhere. ![]() ![]() The letters - CPMDNY - reference famed musicians Charlie Parker and Miles Davis’ initials, along with New York, the location of a particular performance. The number and letter combo relates to Jet’s love of jazz. A discussion about machine characteristics led to its inclusion. ![]() Of other interest is the serial number on Jet’s (Mustafa Shakir) robotic arm. “The idea is that Spike has something of Julia wrapped around him,” she notes of the character’s heartbreak. Its lining is printed with a pattern of falling roses representing his lost love Julia, whose own motif is a rose. His suit jacket has custom-designed buttons with the Japanese character for “water” on them. Other signature costumes include similarly significant design details: Spike ( John Cho) has a “fluidity and affinity with water, so I pulled that out as a motif,” says Holland.
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