Anime fans you may find this interesting...
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| #1 Posted 1 year ago | Reply | Now, I barely listen to rap, and when it comes to Kanye West it's a big never. But in Italy, MTV was all I had to watch so I made do with whatever video they played.
But when Kanye West's video Stronger was on, I couldn't beleive what I was seeing. The fact the video is set in Japan and uses a large amount of subtitled Katakana wasn't surprising since Japan is a good setting for music videos. What did surprise me was this:
The simalarity is no accident, as scenes of the video are based on the anime classic Akira. I don't know if this is well known in the anime community, but since no one in the forums had pointed it out yet I thought it best to show it.
It's interesting to see how mainstream anime is getting, now that music videos are paying tribute to them, some are even taking it that step further by being anime themselves e.g. The Breaking the Habit video, animated by Studio GONZO, known in the West for their animated sequence in Kill Bill.
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| #2 Posted 1 year ago | Reply | Wow good find. I Really don't think it's a coincidence either.
*kanye west I'm coming for that album, september 11*  |
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| #3 Posted 1 year ago | Reply | | Kanye West has already said he was inspired by Akira. No big surprise there. |
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| #4 Posted 1 year ago | Reply | | Ha, i hadn't actually noticed the Akira similarity, it's surprising how similar they made it though. |
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| #5 Posted 1 year ago | Reply | That is AWESOME! Yeah I though about all the Jap references, with the Katakana and such...
And I love that song/Daft Punk anyway, after they released One More Time...
*Dances to music* |
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