21:44 ironically i feel like the way that k-on is mostly just friends goofing off and eating snacks and occasionally forcing themselves to play music makes it actually one of the most accurate depictions of trying to be in a band with your friends in highschool
We'd get high and record some shitposty bullshit song. Unfortunately now all of the project files for those are long gone and all I have are my mp3s. We wrote so much but only recorded one actual serious song together, though I am going to release some of the not shit ones in my solo project. Also I had a falling out with the other guitarist so rip Heathcross.
I both feel awkward responding "thank you" to a bunch of comments, but also feel awkward not saying anything to them. So blanket statement that if you commented a nice thing, I probably saw it and appreciated it.
And also imagine an anime opening theme ending and song with nu metal song from nu metal band such as Linkin Park Korn Staind Godsmack Disturbed Deftones Chevelle Evanscence and many more nu metal bands and that will be cool
As a jazz musician, Kids on the Slope felt like a gift to anybody who deeply invested themselves in the culture of the music. In my opinion, represented Jazz as an art better than *American films* like Whiplash, which is saying a lot. Shinichiro Wantanabe has such a deep appreciation for western music and art, as does the composer of the show, Yoko Kanno. It's truly a timeless and criminally underappreciated show, so I'm very glad you included it in this video.
Picked up a guitar after watching BECK during a really bad time and it literally saved my life. Switched to bass just after and its been over 15 years playing in different bands, meeting different people. Sometimes you kinda get down thinking you'll never "make it" but it's not the destination that matters, its the journey. Btw how awesome is AKG right??
i used to be a session musician and pub performer, after a motorbike accident left my left hand royally fucked (lost the use of 3 of the fingers and my wrist is fused solid), i gave up on guitar, watched beck, and bought a left handed guiar and relearned everything on my right hand, now im working on my 1st self published album and met my wife after her mom booked me to perform at there club. beck gave me the realisation that "shit happens, so just fucking deal with it" hell i even have a song ive spent the last a year working on called "tokyo" about how the anime fixed my mental health and got me to pick up my old tele
@@kaduvictor1782 never will, im not releasing the song, its a personal song for my wife, but the album im selling 100 copies of when i release just to say i made an album
Gotta say Bocchi is one of the most accurate depictions of how live shows can go - that "bad gig" depiction felt so real that I got some light PTSD from seeing it. Solanin was absolutely brutal as well, especially if you've ever been the musician boyfriend. Great video overall, man!
Beck Mongolian Chop Squad was one of my favorite animes at one point. I remember falling asleep to Funimation and I woke up in the middle of the night with the music from this show playing. I stood up the rest of the night finishing the episodes
The lack of mentioning Detroit Metal City is truly a crime. Such a highly underrated show, as it's an intersection of gag comedy, wild art style, and shockingly good music.
Thank you!!! It's too often dismissed as crude or offensive without appreciating just how tragic the story is.. And yeah, the anime direction does such a good job keeping the spirit of the manga too. One of my fav music stories.. "Sound of Noise" .. a Danish live-action movie, is my other favorite.
DMC is seriously underappreciated by today's anime community. I don't see anybody doing review or reaction of the series. Both the anime and live action versions were great imo.
As someone who’s always wanted to start a band, deals with bad anxiety, and spends most of my time playing my instrument and recording music, Bocchi the Rock has been one of the most relatable and feel good anime I’ve ever seen. One of the best anime of the year!
I think you will like Sound! Euphonium by Kyoto Animation. Instead of a band, it is a music anime about wind orchestra in high school. It got a great cast of characters in a good coming of age story. The music performance is breathtaking even for someone not into classical music like me. Remember to watch the movie "Liz and the Blue Bird " after the 2 seasons of TV series.
Hibike Euph is one of the most touching animes ive ever watched, and Liz and the Blue Bird was just too good!! Can’t wait for ensemble contest and season 3.
As a band kid, I absolutely loved Sound Euphonium! It's become one of my favorite shows. I've had many of the same experiences the characters had, and also the animation is just gorgeous!
Hibike! Euphonium is god tier. As someone who holds their high school band experience very close to my heart the writing itself is pretty good and it's incredible how well they captured the atmosphere of it all. Every time I watch it actually feels like a time machine. And even if you can't relate to the band experience the production value of the show itself is just insane, I easily think it's KyoAni's magnum opus even if it isn't that mainstream.
Really appreciated the segment about anime with a certain music style even if it's not remotely a music anime. Hearing toe in Sonny Boy throughout the show and then with Sonny Boy Rhapsody during the scene you showed just hit so hard for me
Shinichiro Wanatabe (creator of samurai champloo) ties a specific style of music to all of his work. Space Dandy has a surfrock vibe and Carole and Tuesday is a love letter to modern pop. Carole and Tuesday at the very least belongs in this video for sure.
Beck was hugely influential for me in highschool, so much so that I bought a bass and practiced enough to fill in for the bassist in my friend's band for a gig. I sucked ass, never had the chance to play live again, and kinda fell off it after a few years, but I still look back at it and think to myself "I had an absolute blast."
I never thought I'd see the day that people forget about Nodame Cantabile when it comes to anime/manga about music. Nice nod to Ajikan btw. Pity about Gotoh's voice. I still miss his trademark wails bc it added so much emotion to their music.
Gotta say one of the most underrated soundtracks is Megalobox S2. Blew my mind completely, & while I normally skip intros i replayed it multiple times lol
9:10 The word there, ganbaru, is less "good luck" and more "keep at it" or "keep trying". I think its a little funnier that he's like "tf you mean try?".
As for the Bocchi withdrawal syndrome. So far they have been making a lot of stuff and making a movie. And they are now doing music video with Kita' VA singing with the musical team in Bocchi. Even the Bocchi's VA has a series her learning to play the guitar and playing it in the live house and ending up that her guitar string broke mid performance.
oh my god, its the first time ive heard anyone else say that theyre scared to watch something because of how cool it is!!!!!!! i feel the exact same way about so many animes that it saddens me. also i was scared to finish bocchi the rock for the same reason. they might make a season 2, which im really hoping for because its probably the most relatable anime that ive watched so far (not to mention the reason why i decided to pick up guitar). thank you so much for making this, i love stuff like this so much. this video has spawned such deep emotions in me that are so overwhelmingly hard to describe, im so sorry that i cant put them into words, but thank you, a lot
Nice video. You've even included 2 of my favorite Japanese movies, Linda Linda Linda and Swing Girls. I've watched and read almost everything here aside from the Sing Street movie which I'm inclined to watch now haha! A few titles I liked that wasn't mentioned here are: Detroit Metal City (Has an anime, live action movie and manga. A guy that wanted to be a pop star but reluctantly became a death metal singer) Black Heaven (Space opera anime about a frustrated rocker guy) Sora no Aosa o Shiru Hito yo (Anime movie. Bassist girl) Taiyo no Uta (A movie about a singer girl with an illness where she can't be exposed to the sun. Starring Yui) Brass Knuckle Boys (Japanese movie. A girl working for a record label discovered a punk band and wanted to sign them. She didn't know that they're old guys now and has long been inactive) Fish Story (Japanese movie, though not really about bands or musicians at its core, it revolves around a mysterious punk song) Almost Famous (A teen journalist covering an up and coming band) Rock Star (Mark Wahlberg movie about a guy kicked out of his own cover band) Yesterday (Cool premise. A guy transported to a parallel universe where The Beatles didn't exist so he got famous singing their songs) Other animes: Nana(also have live action), Shigatsu wa Kimi no Uso, Hibike Emporium, Ao no Orchestra (currently ongoing), BanG Dream.
Shiori Experience is legitimately my favorite manga of all time, I cried multiple times reading it just because of how SEEN I felt by it as a struggling artist trying to find their own voice and an audience that wants to hear and share in it. It's everything I love in a flexible tone that I adore. The Self-Study arc is so fuckin' good... I gotta reread it now!
I also did video talking about Shiori Experience. It made me so happy that you mentioned it since it’s an underrated manga and now is getting the recognition it deserves. Great video man 👌
This video fucking rocks. Since I haven't actually seen it mentioned anywhere here: the anime "Paripi Koumei"(or "Ya Boy Kongming!") absolutely hooked me with its 12 episode first season/single season. It's about this legendary Chinese strategist being reborn in modern day tokyo and becoming a young aspiring singer's manager... and using his ancient battle strategies and insight to help her out. Very powerful characters, great character interaction and pretty damn wild in a lot of places. Haven't read the manga yet, but the original music for the anime is really good.
Sigh... looks like I got more anime/manga to add to my ever-growing "Plan to Watch/Read" list. Blue Giant, Shiori Experience, and Solanin in particular look worth checking out. Great work as always!
Just want to say thank you for all these jpop videos. it's really helping to explain to my bandmates why i listen to it and why it influences my playing.
Fun fact about solanin, the author came up with the name when his then girlfriend mentioned that akg was making a new album called solanin (meaning to say sol-fa). Solanin is the name of the poison in a potato’s shoot and stem (solanine in English)
21:53 That's what I thought when watching Heikei Monogatari. It's kind of like Inu-Oh, with the mix of traditional instruments such as the Biwa mixed with the modern electric guitar sometimes. Even the main character is named after the Biwa. But the anime also just tells its story through the use of music.
32:00 he's summoning his inner Aki Hamaji (Bocchi the Rock author) lmao I dont know if you know Detroit Metal City, it's a music/comedy anime about a country bumpkin boy who is unwillingly forced to play in a death metal band but he actually wants to be a pop star. it's making fun of metal stereotypes and questioning do you choose dream or fate
I used to binge watch Beck, and I always dreamed of playing in a band. I started rewatching Beck and then decided to pick up the bass again. Not long after, I met my best friend and guitarist for our band Embering Effigy. I mean it when I say, I wouldn't be living my teenage dream of being in a metal band, without Beck Mongolian Chop Squad!
0:10 Now I wasn't expecting H2 to make a cameo..... I like old school anime too! I'm kinda the weird one with deep interest in both old & new stuff (both anime, manga and music apply)
Shiori Experience is EVERYTHING to me! I'm not an anime/manga fan, but i love it with all my heart. I'm kinda geek about music, ehehe, thank you for the video!
The newer FLCL seasons are worth a watch, if only to give some context to the original. Neither holds up to the nostalgia of the first, but they tell their stories well, and the music is woven in just as well (Thank You My Twilight in Alternative is just... mmm) 20:38 exact same reaction, minus the figure
Regarding the hesitancy to not Watch a show because you know you're going to LOVE it, either from the premise/reviews alone, or the talk around it from the Anime community, I do that too! my main reasoning is to just save it for a rainy day, but usually when an Anime is so popular; it tends to get harder and harder to avoid plot/visual spoilers online... so depends on the show I might watch it a month or two later after it finishes airing. at around 21:31 your captions say "girls dicking around" instead of messing around, just a heads up; I appreciate the captions you add to your video!
I think watching Kids on the Slope set my expectations too high for how much actual practicing was going to happen in K-On. I also still haven't gotten over not being able to watch a new episode of Bocchi every week. Can't wait to take a look at some of the other recommendations. Surprised Scott Pilgrim vs the World wasn't in the post-credits!
Well K-ON isn't necessarily a music-driven anime, it's pretty much just moe, slice-of-life, and comedy. Music is kind of like a quarter of what actually happens in the show. I do feel kind of disappointed in thinking of it that way, but it's definitely not for everyone.
After losing my drive for music, i happened to come by Kids on the Slope. It reignited a fire in me that forgotten for so long. It is such a beautiful and incredibly underrated anime with such amazing soundtracks.
Beck did the same for me several years ago. It took me back to my younger days of meeting the right people. People who would teach a little and loved to jam. It really made me miss it and I think that anime put me back on that road, not immediately mind you, but put that stirring back in me.
Almost immediately after watching this video I went on to search for On-Gaku. Thought it looked ridiculous yet fun... Boy, was I in for a surprise. Its simplistic nature mixed with the idea of music full of feelings made it such a masterpiece. Loved every single bit of it. I'm now going to recommend it to everyone, thanks.
21:12 I feel the exact same thing with both K-On and Bocchi. I like them as a slice of life anime but not as a music genre anime, though Bocchi does a bit better in exploring music and gigs. It might be because I'm into jazz but I feel like Blue Giant does it best in exploring music and the hardships of it especially since Jazz as a genre is not as popular as it once was in the 60's, and to me that shounen goal of being the best jazz musician is needed for Dai since its hard to accomplish something with jazz compared to rock/other genres of music mentioned in the other manga you mentioned. Though maybe Solanin might prove me wrong, I'll check it out.
Got this in my recommendation and I just saw Asobi Seksu's Citrus (fav album and one i will not stfu about) in the first few seconds, so this is pretty much an automatic like+comment+subscribe 🤠
I am actually glad I already know half the stuff on this list. I think the first I'll check out is Bocchi~ Great video, your passion for the subject is contagious as always. (: Now excuse me, this gave me motivation to continue writing these half-finished lyrics I started a week ago.
After watching Bocchi the Rock and reading Hibike! Euphonium's Novel, I got this drive to go through japanese media about music and writing some thoughts about the way music is portrayed and how it's communicated in language (going through them in japanese), so I really felt represented by your video because it shared a lot of my own thoughts, specially on the halfway point of the frustration with how much media is classified under the "music" category in anime sites when it's a show that happens to have music in it (was a surprise to find out that Nana fell into that category for me when i heard for years about it being one of the best music anime ever)
In high school I was going through the whole dream of becoming a musician but was too afraid of actually trying and instead lived that out vicariously through my friends who could actually play music, and that's about when I picked up Beck: MCS because the main character had a well drawn Les Paul on the cover of volume 1. The art does have some weird quirks as you highlighted, but those big action shots are pretty amazing. Very rewarding series to stick all the way through. I'm definitely gonna check out Kids on the Slope and Bocchi the Rock, I had always considered K-on but something kept me away. Excellent video man!
Bro I am hyped af to see all of these. I knew bocchi was about music, but I never knew how well it spoke about the reality of playing music for a career. Or like the other ones, never heard of the other ones and those seem sick. Also I gotta recommend Gravitation. It's a BL manga with comedic and musical aspects to it, but it's a light hearted version of the reality of making it in music. It's a fun read, I love it.
Man I feel you on dragging your feet watching Bocchi. I had seen a couple clips from the show on TikTok and was like “This has the possibility to become one of the best things I ever watched”. Then it took me weeks to finally hype myself up enough to sit down and watch it. I connected with Bocchi the Rock even more than I thought I would. Bocchi easily became top 5 all time for me and I haven’t even started reading the Manga yet. Not just Bocchi though, your coverage of all these series is much appreciated and you gave me stuff I definitely want to check out. Thanks for the video
Thank you for this video! I have a fictional band (1st Assault) and a fictional record label, POM Records and I always loved the creativity not just around music but the scene & people as well. I would read band stories, biographies, see the behind-the-scenes of videos, studio videos, etc. I've been kind of a shut-in most of my life, so this has been an outlet and to hear and watch these anime that flesh out some of that experience is very relaxing and entertaining and gives me ideas as well.
DUDE YOU GET IT!! I've been scared to watch Bocchi ever since it came out, even though its perfect for me. Maybe now I can finally start it. Great video!
this has to be my new favorite video. i tend to rewatch long videos like this occasionally and ill be sure to have the memory of it well up inside me after a few months and smlie just as i have the fist time i watch it. youve made an incredible thing and i cant wait to see what you do next. also your credits made me chuckle i love it
I've seen and read quite a few of these, like Beck and Ongaku: Our Sound, Kids on the Slope, and Linda Linda Linda. Great how you've put them all together like this. And definitely some more to check out! So nice you included Samurai Champloo, which you made me think of while talking about Inu-Oh. SC is one of my favorite anime, not least because of the music. Yes the hip hop, I mean... Nujabes !!... But what really resonated with me was that song by Asazaki Ikue during Mugen's story. Beautiful. Thanks for a great video !!! Afterthought: I’d add Kono Oto Tomare!, just because the koto is an amazing instrument. The manga really does a good job conveying music in drawings. The anime art is a little simpler, but the music is fantastic. And I’d maybe add Given. It’s more about the personal stories of the band members, but the songs are great.
Was speculating whether or not I should buy Solanin a few months back, but I think the bit about it in this video has sold it for me. Definitely gonna read it now.
solanin is my favourite manga. and the movie adaptation with Akfgs Solanin is awesome. and ent who made the soundtrack is actually the main singer of the band straightener
I remember when I was learning guitar that I would always first watch an episode of Beck: Mongolian Chop Squad, and right after I was in the mood to put even more work into my practice. Its such a good series and I really wish they continued with the anime to go even further.
I still think about how Greg Ayers, the dub actor for Koyuki in Beck, said in a panel that he was PISSED that they couldn't afford the Beatles cover. Lol
I fuckin' LOVE BECK.
Great, now I gotta add even MORE movies to my watch list, Great video btw
hey? damn you're real
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I know what you are.
@@jt6716i know what you are.
You like nu metal and band such as Linkin Park you like it?
21:44 ironically i feel like the way that k-on is mostly just friends goofing off and eating snacks and occasionally forcing themselves to play music makes it actually one of the most accurate depictions of trying to be in a band with your friends in highschool
replace eating snacks in k-on with smoking weed and it's just every single band ever
replace smoking weed with doing crack, LSD, heroin, etc and its just every single rock band ever
@@swagguy7515 me and my band just get high and watch house md clips :(
My friends only drinks tea and plays the heaviest music
We'd get high and record some shitposty bullshit song. Unfortunately now all of the project files for those are long gone and all I have are my mp3s. We wrote so much but only recorded one actual serious song together, though I am going to release some of the not shit ones in my solo project. Also I had a falling out with the other guitarist so rip Heathcross.
I both feel awkward responding "thank you" to a bunch of comments, but also feel awkward not saying anything to them. So blanket statement that if you commented a nice thing, I probably saw it and appreciated it.
dont worry you cooked up with this video
Just heart them bro 😂
Every channel does it
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You like nu metal? and band such as Linkin Park and you like it?
And also imagine an anime opening theme ending and song with nu metal song from nu metal band such as Linkin Park Korn Staind Godsmack Disturbed Deftones Chevelle Evanscence and many more nu metal bands and that will be cool
BECK goes so hard the manga is so good, the way they integrate real music figures in the manga is so dope to me
As a jazz musician, Kids on the Slope felt like a gift to anybody who deeply invested themselves in the culture of the music. In my opinion, represented Jazz as an art better than *American films* like Whiplash, which is saying a lot. Shinichiro Wantanabe has such a deep appreciation for western music and art, as does the composer of the show, Yoko Kanno. It's truly a timeless and criminally underappreciated show, so I'm very glad you included it in this video.
Well said and i completely agree. It just feels like Kids on the slope, and watanabe for that matter, gets it
100%, this anime will always be extremely important to me, and its the one that truly make me fell in love with Jazz
One of my favorite animes of all time.
Some of the music is downright beautiful too aplon blue and YURIKA are so damn beautiful I love listening to them out of the show too
This video is better than 90% of anime content out there
ABSOLUTELY!
yea true it's so perfect i found so much gems here
Picked up a guitar after watching BECK during a really bad time and it literally saved my life. Switched to bass just after and its been over 15 years playing in different bands, meeting different people. Sometimes you kinda get down thinking you'll never "make it" but it's not the destination that matters, its the journey.
Btw how awesome is AKG right??
i used to be a session musician and pub performer, after a motorbike accident left my left hand royally fucked (lost the use of 3 of the fingers and my wrist is fused solid), i gave up on guitar, watched beck, and bought a left handed guiar and relearned everything on my right hand, now im working on my 1st self published album and met my wife after her mom booked me to perform at there club. beck gave me the realisation that "shit happens, so just fucking deal with it" hell i even have a song ive spent the last a year working on called "tokyo" about how the anime fixed my mental health and got me to pick up my old tele
@@bigfrankfraser1391 man, you got some real willpower! Would love listen to that song when it comes out
@@kaduvictor1782 never will, im not releasing the song, its a personal song for my wife, but the album im selling 100 copies of when i release just to say i made an album
@@bigfrankfraser1391 I see... some songs are just too personal
@@kaduvictor1782 yeah, that and its a shitty song, ive rewritten the thing 187 times
Beck is probably one of my favorite anime of all time I love it
Gotta say Bocchi is one of the most accurate depictions of how live shows can go - that "bad gig" depiction felt so real that I got some light PTSD from seeing it. Solanin was absolutely brutal as well, especially if you've ever been the musician boyfriend. Great video overall, man!
Beck Mongolian Chop Squad was one of my favorite animes at one point. I remember falling asleep to Funimation and I woke up in the middle of the night with the music from this show playing. I stood up the rest of the night finishing the episodes
The lack of mentioning Detroit Metal City is truly a crime.
Such a highly underrated show, as it's an intersection of gag comedy, wild art style, and shockingly good music.
Yeah, DMC also pretty amazing. Especially the manga
It's beavis & butthead of anime
Thank you!!!
It's too often dismissed as crude or offensive without appreciating just how tragic the story is..
And yeah, the anime direction does such a good job keeping the spirit of the manga too.
One of my fav music stories..
"Sound of Noise" .. a Danish live-action movie, is my other favorite.
DMC is seriously underappreciated by today's anime community. I don't see anybody doing review or reaction of the series. Both the anime and live action versions were great imo.
As someone who’s always wanted to start a band, deals with bad anxiety, and spends most of my time playing my instrument and recording music, Bocchi the Rock has been one of the most relatable and feel good anime I’ve ever seen. One of the best anime of the year!
Same here
good luck to you, i feel the same and i also want to start a band
Same
I think you will like Sound! Euphonium by Kyoto Animation. Instead of a band, it is a music anime about wind orchestra in high school. It got a great cast of characters in a good coming of age story. The music performance is breathtaking even for someone not into classical music like me. Remember to watch the movie "Liz and the Blue Bird " after the 2 seasons of TV series.
Hibike is so good!!!! The encore scene in liz and the blue bird hits so hard 😭
Hibike Euph is one of the most touching animes ive ever watched, and Liz and the Blue Bird was just too good!! Can’t wait for ensemble contest and season 3.
As a band kid, I absolutely loved Sound Euphonium! It's become one of my favorite shows. I've had many of the same experiences the characters had, and also the animation is just gorgeous!
Hibike! Euphonium is god tier. As someone who holds their high school band experience very close to my heart the writing itself is pretty good and it's incredible how well they captured the atmosphere of it all. Every time I watch it actually feels like a time machine. And even if you can't relate to the band experience the production value of the show itself is just insane, I easily think it's KyoAni's magnum opus even if it isn't that mainstream.
Liz is a damn masterpiece.
FLCL soundtracks are on another level, the pillows changed my life, great video btw
The pillows ... mannnn they're great
THE SOLANIN CREDIT SCENE IS AMAZING 😭😭😭😭😭
Really appreciated the segment about anime with a certain music style even if it's not remotely a music anime. Hearing toe in Sonny Boy throughout the show and then with Sonny Boy Rhapsody during the scene you showed just hit so hard for me
THANK YOU for talking about Shiori Experience, its an amazing manga. Somehow even made me teared up at some point.
Shinichiro Wanatabe (creator of samurai champloo) ties a specific style of music to all of his work. Space Dandy has a surfrock vibe and Carole and Tuesday is a love letter to modern pop. Carole and Tuesday at the very least belongs in this video for sure.
You're gonna mention Space Dandy, but not Cowboy Bepop? It even has one of its musical influences in the title
- Space Dandy
- Cowboy Bebop
- Samurai Champloo
- Carole and Tuesday
- Kids on the slope
Like how can someone even top that? The man is insane ngl.
BECK:the Mongolian Chop Squad !! an epic series about a boy learning to play guitar
Beck was hugely influential for me in highschool, so much so that I bought a bass and practiced enough to fill in for the bassist in my friend's band for a gig. I sucked ass, never had the chance to play live again, and kinda fell off it after a few years, but I still look back at it and think to myself "I had an absolute blast."
I never thought I'd see the day that people forget about Nodame Cantabile when it comes to anime/manga about music. Nice nod to Ajikan btw. Pity about Gotoh's voice. I still miss his trademark wails bc it added so much emotion to their music.
Nodame Cantabile is great❤
Yes it is! I haven't finished the vid but it's sad to read it won't come up! It portrays the hard life of a music uni student well
31:50 careful, punpun will put you in your place.
Lovely video!
BRO I SCEAMED WHEN YOU MENTIONED SHIORI!!!!!! IT'S LITERALLY MY BIGGEST INSPARATION
Gotta say one of the most underrated soundtracks is Megalobox S2. Blew my mind completely, & while I normally skip intros i replayed it multiple times lol
9:10 The word there, ganbaru, is less "good luck" and more "keep at it" or "keep trying". I think its a little funnier that he's like "tf you mean try?".
As for the Bocchi withdrawal syndrome. So far they have been making a lot of stuff and making a movie. And they are now doing music video with Kita' VA singing with the musical team in Bocchi. Even the Bocchi's VA has a series her learning to play the guitar and playing it in the live house and ending up that her guitar string broke mid performance.
oh my god, its the first time ive heard anyone else say that theyre scared to watch something because of how cool it is!!!!!!! i feel the exact same way about so many animes that it saddens me. also i was scared to finish bocchi the rock for the same reason. they might make a season 2, which im really hoping for because its probably the most relatable anime that ive watched so far (not to mention the reason why i decided to pick up guitar). thank you so much for making this, i love stuff like this so much. this video has spawned such deep emotions in me that are so overwhelmingly hard to describe, im so sorry that i cant put them into words, but thank you, a lot
Nice video. You've even included 2 of my favorite Japanese movies, Linda Linda Linda and Swing Girls. I've watched and read almost everything here aside from the Sing Street movie which I'm inclined to watch now haha!
A few titles I liked that wasn't mentioned here are:
Detroit Metal City (Has an anime, live action movie and manga. A guy that wanted to be a pop star but reluctantly became a death metal singer)
Black Heaven (Space opera anime about a frustrated rocker guy)
Sora no Aosa o Shiru Hito yo (Anime movie. Bassist girl)
Taiyo no Uta (A movie about a singer girl with an illness where she can't be exposed to the sun. Starring Yui)
Brass Knuckle Boys (Japanese movie. A girl working for a record label discovered a punk band and wanted to sign them. She didn't know that they're old guys now and has long been inactive)
Fish Story (Japanese movie, though not really about bands or musicians at its core, it revolves around a mysterious punk song)
Almost Famous (A teen journalist covering an up and coming band)
Rock Star (Mark Wahlberg movie about a guy kicked out of his own cover band)
Yesterday (Cool premise. A guy transported to a parallel universe where The Beatles didn't exist so he got famous singing their songs)
Other animes: Nana(also have live action), Shigatsu wa Kimi no Uso, Hibike Emporium, Ao no Orchestra (currently ongoing), BanG Dream.
"Those Snow White Notes" is one of my favorite music anime. Not the most original anime, but omg do I love every moment of it
Nodame Cantabile, Bocchi the Rock, and Your Lie In April are probably my favorite music anime
Shiori Experience is legitimately my favorite manga of all time, I cried multiple times reading it just because of how SEEN I felt by it as a struggling artist trying to find their own voice and an audience that wants to hear and share in it. It's everything I love in a flexible tone that I adore. The Self-Study arc is so fuckin' good... I gotta reread it now!
I also did video talking about Shiori Experience. It made me so happy that you mentioned it since it’s an underrated manga and now is getting the recognition it deserves. Great video man 👌
i love your videos man
Solanin hits man
Yeah, seems really eye-opening
Ongaku was a heartwarming surprise for me, love that movie.
Now I have a lot more music related anime and manga to read. Also reminds me I still need to watch All About Lily Chou-Chou. Great list and video!
This video fucking rocks.
Since I haven't actually seen it mentioned anywhere here: the anime "Paripi Koumei"(or "Ya Boy Kongming!") absolutely hooked me with its 12 episode first season/single season. It's about this legendary Chinese strategist being reborn in modern day tokyo and becoming a young aspiring singer's manager... and using his ancient battle strategies and insight to help her out.
Very powerful characters, great character interaction and pretty damn wild in a lot of places. Haven't read the manga yet, but the original music for the anime is really good.
Sigh... looks like I got more anime/manga to add to my ever-growing "Plan to Watch/Read" list. Blue Giant, Shiori Experience, and Solanin in particular look worth checking out.
Great work as always!
Shiori experience is absolutely amazing
Just want to say thank you for all these jpop videos. it's really helping to explain to my bandmates why i listen to it and why it influences my playing.
Fun fact about solanin, the author came up with the name when his then girlfriend mentioned that akg was making a new album called solanin (meaning to say sol-fa). Solanin is the name of the poison in a potato’s shoot and stem (solanine in English)
21:53 That's what I thought when watching Heikei Monogatari.
It's kind of like Inu-Oh, with the mix of traditional instruments such as the Biwa mixed with the modern electric guitar sometimes.
Even the main character is named after the Biwa. But the anime also just tells its story through the use of music.
32:00 he's summoning his inner Aki Hamaji (Bocchi the Rock author) lmao
I dont know if you know Detroit Metal City, it's a music/comedy anime about a country bumpkin boy who is unwillingly forced to play in a death metal band but he actually wants to be a pop star. it's making fun of metal stereotypes and questioning do you choose dream or fate
I used to binge watch Beck, and I always dreamed of playing in a band. I started rewatching Beck and then decided to pick up the bass again. Not long after, I met my best friend and guitarist for our band Embering Effigy. I mean it when I say, I wouldn't be living my teenage dream of being in a metal band, without Beck Mongolian Chop Squad!
0:10 Now I wasn't expecting H2 to make a cameo..... I like old school anime too! I'm kinda the weird one with deep interest in both old & new stuff (both anime, manga and music apply)
Shiori Experience is EVERYTHING to me! I'm not an anime/manga fan, but i love it with all my heart.
I'm kinda geek about music, ehehe, thank you for the video!
Lovely video man... I genuinely hope u get tons of views. All the love!
Man, I read Shiori Experience after this video last month. Best manga Ive ever read.
The algorithm has gotten so good that as soon as I felt nostalgic about Beck, began listening and watching highlights, it brought me here. I dig it.
The newer FLCL seasons are worth a watch, if only to give some context to the original. Neither holds up to the nostalgia of the first, but they tell their stories well, and the music is woven in just as well (Thank You My Twilight in Alternative is just... mmm)
20:38 exact same reaction, minus the figure
This video is crazy underrated, i expected it to have at least a million views
20:57 same man. I just ordered the Kita guitar because i want more bocchi
YES I LOVE SHIORI EXPERIENCE great video
Regarding the hesitancy to not Watch a show because you know you're going to LOVE it, either from the premise/reviews alone, or the talk around it from the Anime community, I do that too!
my main reasoning is to just save it for a rainy day, but usually when an Anime is so popular; it tends to get harder and harder to avoid plot/visual spoilers online... so depends on the show I might watch it a month or two later after it finishes airing.
at around 21:31 your captions say "girls dicking around" instead of messing around, just a heads up; I appreciate the captions you add to your video!
I think watching Kids on the Slope set my expectations too high for how much actual practicing was going to happen in K-On.
I also still haven't gotten over not being able to watch a new episode of Bocchi every week. Can't wait to take a look at some of the other recommendations. Surprised Scott Pilgrim vs the World wasn't in the post-credits!
Well K-ON isn't necessarily a music-driven anime, it's pretty much just moe, slice-of-life, and comedy. Music is kind of like a quarter of what actually happens in the show. I do feel kind of disappointed in thinking of it that way, but it's definitely not for everyone.
I had exactly the same experience. K-On Season 2 was amazing, but really far from an anime focused on music
Waiting for this video to blow up - it's so damn good for its level of recognition
I'm genuinely amazed at the quality of the videos you produce! Keep it up man, you're going to be huge.
also you mentioned shiori experience. i love you
cant stop rewatching the solanin section, you articulated why I love the manga so well
fucken well put together. beginning with beck made me remember my childhood.
After losing my drive for music, i happened to come by Kids on the Slope. It reignited a fire in me that forgotten for so long. It is such a beautiful and incredibly underrated anime with such amazing soundtracks.
Beck did the same for me several years ago. It took me back to my younger days of meeting the right people. People who would teach a little and loved to jam. It really made me miss it and I think that anime put me back on that road, not immediately mind you, but put that stirring back in me.
SHIORI EXPERIENCE REFERENCED I LOVE YOU, THANK YOU FOR INTRODUCIBG MORE PEOPLE TO IT, also great video i will be watching more
bro, you are my new favorite anituber
Thank you for posting this, I've been trying to find more music related animes.
Almost immediately after watching this video I went on to search for On-Gaku. Thought it looked ridiculous yet fun... Boy, was I in for a surprise.
Its simplistic nature mixed with the idea of music full of feelings made it such a masterpiece.
Loved every single bit of it. I'm now going to recommend it to everyone, thanks.
Thank you for covering Inu-Oh, such an incredible piece of work.
21:12 I feel the exact same thing with both K-On and Bocchi. I like them as a slice of life anime but not as a music genre anime, though Bocchi does a bit better in exploring music and gigs. It might be because I'm into jazz but I feel like Blue Giant does it best in exploring music and the hardships of it especially since Jazz as a genre is not as popular as it once was in the 60's, and to me that shounen goal of being the best jazz musician is needed for Dai since its hard to accomplish something with jazz compared to rock/other genres of music mentioned in the other manga you mentioned. Though maybe Solanin might prove me wrong, I'll check it out.
Got this in my recommendation and I just saw Asobi Seksu's Citrus (fav album and one i will not stfu about) in the first few seconds, so this is pretty much an automatic like+comment+subscribe 🤠
I am actually glad I already know half the stuff on this list. I think the first I'll check out is Bocchi~
Great video, your passion for the subject is contagious as always. (:
Now excuse me, this gave me motivation to continue writing these half-finished lyrics I started a week ago.
After watching Bocchi the Rock and reading Hibike! Euphonium's Novel, I got this drive to go through japanese media about music and writing some thoughts about the way music is portrayed and how it's communicated in language (going through them in japanese), so I really felt represented by your video because it shared a lot of my own thoughts, specially on the halfway point of the frustration with how much media is classified under the "music" category in anime sites when it's a show that happens to have music in it (was a surprise to find out that Nana fell into that category for me when i heard for years about it being one of the best music anime ever)
You know then made a signature guitar for beck. It’s the beck orange mustang
Your Lie in April would've been great for this list, but great video that has put many more things onto my plan to watch/read list.
In high school I was going through the whole dream of becoming a musician but was too afraid of actually trying and instead lived that out vicariously through my friends who could actually play music, and that's about when I picked up Beck: MCS because the main character had a well drawn Les Paul on the cover of volume 1. The art does have some weird quirks as you highlighted, but those big action shots are pretty amazing. Very rewarding series to stick all the way through. I'm definitely gonna check out Kids on the Slope and Bocchi the Rock, I had always considered K-on but something kept me away. Excellent video man!
The one second of Survivor showing up in the intro just jettisoned my brain into orbit
Bro I am hyped af to see all of these. I knew bocchi was about music, but I never knew how well it spoke about the reality of playing music for a career. Or like the other ones, never heard of the other ones and those seem sick.
Also I gotta recommend Gravitation. It's a BL manga with comedic and musical aspects to it, but it's a light hearted version of the reality of making it in music. It's a fun read, I love it.
Man I feel you on dragging your feet watching Bocchi. I had seen a couple clips from the show on TikTok and was like “This has the possibility to become one of the best things I ever watched”. Then it took me weeks to finally hype myself up enough to sit down and watch it. I connected with Bocchi the Rock even more than I thought I would. Bocchi easily became top 5 all time for me and I haven’t even started reading the Manga yet. Not just Bocchi though, your coverage of all these series is much appreciated and you gave me stuff I definitely want to check out. Thanks for the video
I love your videos!!
Please, never stop doing them
Fantastically curated list. Thank you for sharing!
Thank you for this video! I have a fictional band (1st Assault) and a fictional record label, POM Records and I always loved the creativity not just around music but the scene & people as well. I would read band stories, biographies, see the behind-the-scenes of videos, studio videos, etc. I've been kind of a shut-in most of my life, so this has been an outlet and to hear and watch these anime that flesh out some of that experience is very relaxing and entertaining and gives me ideas as well.
DUDE YOU GET IT!! I've been scared to watch Bocchi ever since it came out, even though its perfect for me. Maybe now I can finally start it.
Great video!
First video ive ever seen from you, except to have a long lasting fan right here
The algorithm brought this up. I guess it's a sign that it is about that time for me to rewatch Beck.
this has to be my new favorite video. i tend to rewatch long videos like this occasionally and ill be sure to have the memory of it well up inside me after a few months and smlie just as i have the fist time i watch it. youve made an incredible thing and i cant wait to see what you do next. also your credits made me chuckle i love it
I've seen and read quite a few of these, like Beck and Ongaku: Our Sound, Kids on the Slope, and Linda Linda Linda. Great how you've put them all together like this. And definitely some more to check out! So nice you included Samurai Champloo, which you made me think of while talking about Inu-Oh. SC is one of my favorite anime, not least because of the music. Yes the hip hop, I mean... Nujabes !!... But what really resonated with me was that song by Asazaki Ikue during Mugen's story. Beautiful.
Thanks for a great video !!!
Afterthought: I’d add Kono Oto Tomare!, just because the koto is an amazing instrument. The manga really does a good job conveying music in drawings. The anime art is a little simpler, but the music is fantastic.
And I’d maybe add Given. It’s more about the personal stories of the band members, but the songs are great.
This is such a fucking well done video, so underrated.
i recommend watching nana its a great music anime it has a slow start but by episode 4 youll be complety hooked
Was speculating whether or not I should buy Solanin a few months back, but I think the bit about it in this video has sold it for me. Definitely gonna read it now.
Love rockets in the background of the intro?? Yeah. Liked the video already
Kids on the slope was my intro to jazz and I've loved it since. It's such a powerful and varied genre
Ongaku our sound is fantastic
ty for all the recommendations
This is the content that I really needed. Cause looking for music-related animes on MAL myself was kinda pain in the S
solanin is my favourite manga. and the movie adaptation with Akfgs Solanin is awesome. and ent who made the soundtrack is actually the main singer of the band straightener
Oh im losing it at the ending credits!! Great video genuinely makesme wanna read/watch all these shows!!!!
Lol you brought me back when you played that little bit of typhoon
I remember when I was learning guitar that I would always first watch an episode of Beck: Mongolian Chop Squad, and right after I was in the mood to put even more work into my practice. Its such a good series and I really wish they continued with the anime to go even further.
12 rods mentioned! been eyeing to get that cd myself for a while now, great taste :)
Loved Beck: Mongolian Chop Squad! I’ll have to watch these other ones
Maaaaann, the nodame cantabile bait at the beginning got me.
thank you for filling up my queue for the next month bro, excellent analysis!
I don't often leave comments, but this video was really good, the commentary was entertaining and video itself was really interesting, good job
I still think about how Greg Ayers, the dub actor for Koyuki in Beck, said in a panel that he was PISSED that they couldn't afford the Beatles cover. Lol