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Kids on the Slope
Sakamichi no Apollon · 坂道のアポロン · 2012
Jazz, friendship, and a rural 1960s summer.
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StatusFinished Airing
SeasonSpring 2012
StudioMAPPA, Tezuka Productions
SourceManga
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Kaoru Nishimi transfers to a seaside town in 1966 and expects the same isolation he's always experienced, until he falls in with Sentaro Kawabuchi, a rough delinquent with an unexpected talent for drums. Through Sentaro and his childhood friend Ritsuko, Kaoru discovers jazz, and the three build a friendship complicated by attraction, class, and the specific intensity of adolescent loyalty. The music sequences are meticulously animated, and the story treats jazz less as a subject than as the thing that makes honesty between these three possible.
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Directed by Shinichiro Watanabe with music by Yoko Kanno, the Cowboy Bebop team, and adapted from Yuki Kodama's manga by MAPPA and Tezuka Productions, Kids on the Slope is celebrated for its rotoscoped performance sequences, which were animated from real musicians' playing to capture accurate technique. Its period setting is rendered with careful attention to 1960s Japanese social texture. The series remains one of the most respected music anime ever made, valued equally for the authenticity of its performances and the emotional precision of its coming-of-age story.
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27
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1612nd Key Animation3
ADR Director3
Animation Director13
Art Director1
Assistant Animation Director5
Assistant Director1
Background Art7
Character Design3
Chief Animation Director2
Chief Producer1
Color Design1
Director1
Director of Photography1
Editing1
Episode Director9
Executive Producer1
In-Between Animation3
Inserted Song Performance2
Key Animation58
Original Creator1
Planning1
Producer6
Production Assistant2
Production Manager2
Publicity1
Recording2
Recording Assistant1
Sound Effects1
Special Effects3
Storyboard13
Theme Song Arrangement1
Theme Song Composition1
Theme Song Lyrics2
Theme Song Performance2
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