{"id":58568,"date":"2023-12-09T01:24:29","date_gmt":"2023-12-09T01:24:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.alltheanime.com\/?p=30544"},"modified":"2023-12-09T01:24:29","modified_gmt":"2023-12-09T01:24:29","slug":"kids-on-the-slope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gamefootballmobileanimeiphone.com\/index.php\/2023\/12\/09\/kids-on-the-slope\/","title":{"rendered":"Kids on the Slope"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Andrew Osmond.<\/p>\n

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Kids on the Slope <\/em>was the first collaboration between director Shinichiro Watanabe and composer Yoko Kanno following the iconic Cowboy Bebop<\/em>. The new anime proved to be an enormously entertaining teen love-triangle drama, with a great central trio and some of the best music set-pieces ever created in anime.<\/p>\n

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It\u2019s the 1960s, and unhappy teenage boy Nishimi moves to live with his relatives on Japan\u2019s south island, Kyushu. He\u2019s determined to hate his new school, though his resolve softens when he meets Ritsuko, a very<\/em> pretty freckle-faced girl in his class. More dramatically, Nishimi meets the boy Sentaro, a formidable masculine specimen. Both a bruiser and a physical Adonis, Sentaro picks punch-ups for fun and relishes pushing Nishimi out of his comfort zone \u2013 though at the same time, he seems to be a friend. Sentaro has known Ritsuko since childhood, and has a surprise talent \u2013 he\u2019s a brilliant jazz drummer. And as it happens, Nishimi plays the piano\u2026<\/p>\n

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The music they all make is great. At first, it expresses the men\u2019s communication, their rivalry and camaraderie. Later, as Nishimi is provoked by Sentaro to man himself up, so music becomes his present to the girl he loves. Many of their sessions are in an intimate basement room, but there are two bravura public set-pieces before awed crowds. They\u2019d leave any audience smiling, particularly when they bring in such world standards as \u201cMy Favourite Things\u201d (from The Sound of Music<\/em>), \u201cSome Day My Prince Will Come\u201d and Art Blakey\u2019s \u201cMoanin.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Despite its down-to-earth setting, Kids <\/em>opens with cinematic glamour. The splendid character designs are from Nobuteru Yuki, whose other credits include Record of Lodoss War<\/em>, Vison of Escaflowne <\/em>and Star Blazers 2199<\/em>. If the show feels wobbly in the middle, that\u2019s less to do with cost-cutting than the story seemingly slacking, after rapid-fire relationship crises which other shows would hold back for the last act. There\u2019s a queasy moment where an effeminate boy is seemingly introduced as a cheap joke, while two other love-interests (a girl and boy) feel like thin-sketched distractions from Nishimi, Sentaro and Ritsuko. Yet the shadow players have increasingly important roles; they\u2019re understudies with greater story destinies than the main players. Their stories also bring in anti-establishment politics; this isn\u2019t 1960s for nothing.<\/p>\n

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Kids on the Slope <\/em>was broadcast in 2012, eight years after Watanabe\u2019s previous series, Samurai Champloo<\/em>. According to Masao Maruyama, whose MAPPA studio made Kids, <\/em>the reason for the gap between Watanabe\u2019s projects was because he\u2019d wanted to work on his own original project, but hadn\u2019t found funding. \u201cFor various reasons, he hadn\u2019t been able to make what he wanted,\u201d Maruyama said. \u201cThen the source material for Kids on the Slope <\/em>came along\u201d \u2013 a manga by the artist Yuki Kodama. (Kids <\/em>is unusual among Watanabe projects in that it was adapted from an existing source \u2013 the manga would later become a live-action film in 2018.)<\/p>\n

Maruyama: \u201cI approached Watanabe and said he couldn\u2019t just keep waiting, he needed to direct something even if he didn\u2019t like it. And the fact is Watanabe loves music as much as he loves anime, and Kids on the Slope <\/em>is a story about music. So I said it was a really good chance for him to show off what he could do. So we made it together.\u201d Indeed Watanabe, who has worked as a music producer as well as a director, is a self-styled \u201cmusic freak,\u201d hurling himself into one style after another, as you\u2019ll know if you\u2019ve seen Cowboy Bebop<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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Interviewed by Anime News Network<\/em>, Watanabe indicated how he found his way into the material. \u201cKids on the Slope<\/em> is about a good boy and a bad boy coming together\u2026 In my case, I was the good boy, and I found friendship with the baddest boy in my school.\u201d Rather than jazz, Watanabe and his delinquent friend bonded over the group KISS.<\/p>\n

When I originally reviewed Kids<\/em>, I wrote, \u201cThere\u2019s a smouldering homoeroticism between Nishimi and Sentaro, hardly concealed by their hetero love stories. The boys may be smitten with girls, but they\u2019re very <\/em>happy with each other\u2019s company and physicality, while Ritsuko rejoices to see them jamming together.\u201d<\/p>\n

Years later, I interviewed<\/a> Watanabe for this blog and asked him directly if the anime was a \u201cBoys Love\u201d series. He answered, \u201c<\/strong>First of all, because Kids on the Slope <\/em>is based on a manga, I didn\u2019t create the characters. But I have spoken to the manga artist, Yuki Kodama. Kodama said she didn\u2019t really see it as BL. However, she was very particular about those two male characters having a very close relationship. In the first episode, there is a scene with them linking their hands [probably referring to their very first meeting, when Kaoru finds Sentaro napping under a sheet]. I actually cut that scene initially but Kodama specifically asked, \u2018No, this scene is important, so you have to keep it in.\u2019<\/p>\n

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\u201cSo I think as the original creator, she was probably aware on the subconscious level of two men having a very close relationship together, caring for each other. But as a point of view on sexuality, I personally feel that whether it\u2019s between two men or two women, or a man and a woman, it really doesn\u2019t matter so much in terms of what category they see themselves in. What\u2019s more important is the love itself, the contents of love that they have within the relationship. So it really doesn\u2019t matter whether they\u2019re homosexual or heterosexual, that\u2019s less important.\u201d<\/p>\n

Andrew Osmond is the author of 100 Animated Feature Films<\/a><\/em>. Kids on the Slope<\/em> is released by Anime Limited.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n

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