Left to right= Detroit Newspaper Anime Reviewer - Smart guy - Translator/Smart Guy - Shinichiro Watanabe
- Started off by watching the openings of both CowboyBebop and Samurai Champloo.
- Watanabe explained that he's always had an interest in Detroit. He listened to a lot of Kiss when he grew up. He liked Detroit Rock City as a song but he thought Detroit looked like the cover to Destroyer
Large Cover Clicky . He was very happy to see that the city didnt really look like that
- We watched Samurai Champloo episode 1 on a half size movie screen, with Japanese dialouge and English subtitles. Watanabe was happy to see it, since he normally doesnt get to see finished project.
- When asked about how he chose music for his works, he said that most of the time he chooses it after the fact, but with Rain in episode 5 of Cowboy Bebop, he made the visuals to fit the song. He also mentioned that he feels flattered when people compliment him on music choices, since its so important to him.
- He was asked what he though about downloading anime. He said that he cannot tell people what to do, but if you download something, and you really do enjoy it, buy it. That way he will still get asked to make more stuff. Also, if you want to see a Samurai Champloo movie, email/write to Geneon.
- He has 8000 songs on his iPod...all paid for, and burnt from his own cd's. He has about 16000 more he'd like to put on thier but its too small
- "Hollywood" has asked him about directing a Live action movie. He's thinking about it.
It was a very interesting 2 hours. There was a reception type deal upstairs where he was going to sign autographs...There where too many people and one of the kids we brought had homework, so we left.
A steal for only $9
EDIT: He found it funny that Lucas used an anime style for Star Wars Clone Wars. The stilted animation was always about $$$ in Japan, and now its a style being used by Lucas to capitalize on a popular trend. Because you know, Lucas is so poor
(he had a great sense of humor)