15:00 Yowamushi Pedal Gets New Stage Play in August.15:30 'Girlfriend, Girlfriend' Manga Enters 'Final Conflict'.16:44 Crayon Shin-chan Anime Gets Collaboration Episode with Shin Kamen Rider Film.I’ve said this before but the inter-generational conflict in Steamboyis one of the real highlights for me, I always thought it was written really wellįor the next one of these posts I’m planning on writing about Chiaki J.In Millenium Actresswhile Chiyoko takes medicine she says “never listen to doctors, they always think that old people are sick”.Spike’s sleight of hand in ‘Gateway Shuffle‘ always pleases me.I think I ought to do more than that actually, but while I’m still figuring out how I want these posts to work, I’ll just note three things today: Ideally, I’d like to include a quote or two or mention a few moments in the various scripts to highlight things I’ve enjoyed. You can also see Murai’s work in screenplays for Bubblegum Crisis: Tokyo 2040, Devil Lady and Knights of Sidonia along with all of Kino’s Journey and the script for Steamboy too – among plenty of others. (There’s also Bebop’s ‘Gateway Shuffle’ too, which always struck me as another comparatively dark episode). There’s a relentless kind of menace to both and perhaps something similar can keen seen in Boogiepop Phantom, which credits Murai with series composition. And if you’ve seen either the Bebop episode or Perfect Blue I think tonal similarities are clear. When I later realised that he was also credited with one of the standout Cowboy Bebop episodes: ‘Pierrot le Fou’ I was surprised (in a good way).

I think the main idea for this series of posts came from noticing that Sadayuki Murai adapted Perfect Blue for the big screen and also worked on another Kon film, the amazing Millennium Actress.

Steamboy anime reviews