Is there a more iconic anime and music combination than Cowboy Bebop and its jazz soundtrack?
Cowboy Bebop and Jazz
Connor Williams
Anthony Cruz
FLCL and Samurai Champloo are two other shows that are synonymous for having an iconic soundtrack, expect for those it isn't jazz but instead alt-rock and hip-hop respectively.
Honestly, I don't see any other anime coming close to having an "iconic anime and music combination" as much as those three shows; despite other shows having stellar soundtracks in their own right (Made In Abyss, Death Note, Wolf's Rain, Kids on the Slope, Your Lie in April, Escaflowne, Ghost in the Shell SAC etc).
For me, I think what made Cowboy Bebop so unique in that regard is how it may have been the first anime where the soundtrack has its own identity, so to speak.
Austin Russell
i think its the best OST, period.
Jayden Ramirez
Legend of the Galactic Heroes and classical music.
Brayden James
Does SpaceDandy not have a music genre attachment like CB and SC?
Carson Bailey
Oh Edo Rocket has a really jazzy soundtrack, but the anime is old and forgotten.
Michael Bennett
space dandyisn't popular enough for it's disco/funk sound to become instantly iconic.
Carter Flores
Based.
I like Cowboy Bebop, but I can't listen to most of the music outside of the show on it's own. Meanwhile with shows like FLCL, Samurai Champloo, and LOTGH, I can listen to the music in just a casual day and not find it out of place.
Joshua Fisher
Doesn't Michiko to Hatchin have a specific music style?
Kids on the Slope is Jazz, also. Hell, even K-On! is very much pop rock centric in story and OST.
Ethan Cox
I guess Lupin III comes close, but not quite.
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Nathaniel Powell
Given the anime is globally famous as being good for both its story and its quality of art
Given the anime is globally famous for its OP and its ED
Given the anime is globally famous for its soundtrack, the ENTIRE soundtrack, and is top-rated in quality, diversity, originality and performed by a globally famous singer/artist/composer
Given the anime LITERALLY has a genre of music in its name, as well as most of its episodes
...no, probably not.
Adam Gutierrez
how much of the ost was plagiarized again?
Asher Flores
Bad Dog is based on that Tom Waits song but I wouldn't call it plagiarism
Jayden Stewart
Ghibli films and plinky plunky piano music desu
Tyler Clark
oh it does for sure, but it's nowhere near as iconic as Bebop and Champloo
>FLCL and alt-rock
see, what makes FLCL even more different that Bebop and most other shows, is that instead of a band just doing the OP and ED, they did the entire show's soundtrack which makes it feel so different and unique. I'm not sure how many other anime has a soundtrack like that
Brandon Brooks
Gundam Thunderbolt and it's free Form jazz.
Jose Thompson
anime ruined music for me, i like watanabe's shit and jazz but this series means i can't talk about charlie parker without anime being inseted into it
Ethan Nelson
Did Watanabe's Terror in Resonance just drop the paired music theme that he has successfully used in Cowboy Bebop, Samurai Champloo, and later Space Dandy?
Isaac Collins
Really?
Of them I'd say that CB has the most easily listenable song outside of the anime context.
Actually to be honest I listened to the Bebop soundtrack many times before I finally got around to watching the series in full.
Gabriel Bell
I openly listen to the entire Cowboy Bebop OST at work, where there's lots of people. It's jazzy and comfy and instrumental.
Dylan Richardson
wdym paired music?
Chase Perez
RUNNING IN 90'S
Wyatt Johnson
yeh but is Initial D on the same level as Cowboy Bebop? (in terms of soundtrack)
Liam Gonzalez
>they did the entire show's soundtrack which makes it feel so different and unique. I'm not sure how many other anime has a soundtrack like that
Boogiepop Phantom had a sound track made up entirely with electronic artists.
Justin Jenkins
ZANKOKU NA TENSHI NO YOU NI
Jose Murphy
Aria and its OST.
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Robert Foster
Yes
Luke Hughes
As in the series as a specific music theme. Cowboy Bebop's music was focused around jazz and Samurai Champloo's music was focused around hip-hop and Space Dandy's music was focused around retro-funk.
Jordan Cook
There are tons of anime with well-regarded soundtracks, even if they haven't (yet) been considered as impactful as Cowboy Bebop.
CB has music as integral to its plot so it's a little hard to top
Sebastian Cook
Does anyone remember the Zig Forums soundtrack/ost project from 2010-2012-ish? I'm looking for a link but I don't know if it's still around
Luke Sullivan
Damn, I found it: web.archive.org
I'm impressed that desuarchive and archive.org go back that far.
Robert Torres
Yeah name some