I started watching this thinking, "come now, there can't be that many British bands in Anime. Can't be that frequent of a reference pojnt", and boy was I proven wrong 😆
Omg yes someone finally covered this topic. So many gems! Ergo proxy, Lain, musishi and the German opening of X1999 (mother Earth; you guys should definitely check it out)
7:37 "someone in the band" is most likely their lead guitarist/instrumentalist, jonny greenwood!! hes a ceritfied nerd and is a known fan of anime/videogames (having posted on radiohead's old 2000s/2010s blog, dead air space, and his personal twitter about them) so its likely he wouldve backed this from the start. the others (thom yorke, colin greenwood, ed o'brien and phil selway) were most likely brought on board by way of the studio giving them a copy of the script, which mustve piqued their interest enough to also agree!!!
@@theblan1k0neIt’s alright. I was listening to it as a kid when it came out and even then it was clear that Duvet was leagues above the rest of the track list.
@@networknomad5600@networknomad5600 but the title track is amazing since it stands out from the rest, being the most simple yet loud track from that album. Personally, I think that Twilight does go toe-to-toe with Duvet. And the drum work with the rest of the songs, especially Elephant, is amazing.
This video is a perfect blend of things I love: Brit Bands (seen Franz twice, Radio Head once, would love to see Pulp and Blur) and anime. While Brit bands I knew from living in the 90s and seeking bands that liked The Beatles (looking at Oasis & Blur specifically, later Gorillaz), the pleasant surprise of finding bands in a completely different medium helped endear me to many anime series. But I've also sought out Japanese musicians who did music for anime. Legit, Asian Kung Fu Generation's album Sol-Fa is one of my absolute favorite albums cover to cover and I ordered a hard copy CD of it so I could listen to it in my car. I also love just about every song on folk artists Yuzu's album Sumire, which I didn't realize my Japanese professor heard them from Doremon until years later (I ordered the CD from Japan when I lost my burnt copy. I still listen to it on long trips). I've also bought copies of the Cowboy Bebop sound track and it's still one of my favorites to this day (as well as songs by Do As Infinity: like I've found other songs not tied to anime I've watched that I absolutely love thanks to shows I enjoyed. I love how anime openings and closing sequences introduce new people to songs I love. So much of JoJo's is stuff I've been listening to either because of my parents or my own interests, and hearing them tied to a show I love...it's like when you're traveling in a new city you're unfamiliar with, but coincidentally run into someone you know from somewhere completely different. It's...an anchor point in an otherwise completely strange place that you're still learning about. I think that's how I'd liken the feeling. But certainly, this might not translate to others experience. I just really love music, and I really love anime, and I love the marriage of the two!
I always love it when artists (like Boa, or Ally Kerr) embrace the fans that their inclusion in anime bring them. Especially when their track was selected personally by a series creator. Besides the practical aspect (record labels being on the production committee - "here, we've got these artists you can use") if there was no 'thematic' reason for a particular song to be used for an anime, I typically saw it as a way for producers to make their series stand out (especially in the early days of anime).
DUDE thank you for bringing up Bôa's renewed interest and minor success. They are playing a few shows in London that I'm def considering traveling to from The Netherlands. I was unaware that this was happening.
I have never thought about it before this video but yeah, back in the late 90s and early 2000s you had a lot of anime with western music in its opening or ending. The ones I remember are Lain with bôa opening, Ergo Proxy with Radiohead ending but also the opening is in English with an original song, Monster, Texhnolyze with Juno Reactor making the opening, The Animatrix, Wolfs Rain also has an English opening song. Recently I noticed that some modern anime has English insert songs like Gundam Hathaway and Muv Luv Alternative
Man, usage of foreign language in anime is quite a rabbit hole to get into. I love to watch anime in the tongue that fits the settings. Shingeki no Kyojin in German, Porco Rosso in Italian, Berserk in French, etc. There's a certain immersion to it, even if you do it at the cost of dubbing stealing a bit of space you'd originally have for interpretation. Then again, I don't know Japanese anyway
Most of fantasy anime have a European setting but their pronunciation of Western names is horrendous. I prefer English dub of anime because how they butcher most the names in Japanese
About Texhnolyze and non-Japanese artists, I remember that two Italian artists worked on the anime soundtrack: one is the musician Adriano Martino and the other one is Francesco "Franco" Sansalone who composed the song "Spleen", appeared in the episode 19 (although the CD includes only a remixed version of the track)
I remember Yokoelf made a video about openings/endings/OST sung by Western artists. I love seeing a fresh version in your channel with more explanation. I even made a Spotify playlist about it just in case someone is interested.
Was waiting for the point when Jojo's got brought up. Also, you teased it with that tiny clip from Initial D, but I wonder if you could even make a whole video just on the confluence between anime and Eurobeat alone?
Great video! It's neat seeing some of the behind-the-scenes stuff regarding music choices in anime. I'm not sure if you were trying to find all the British songs used in anime but Black Heaven had a John Sykes song for the OP. Funnily enough, Juno Reactor also did the music for Koji Morimoto's short in Genius Party Beyond, which fits the whole cyberpunk theme he had going on.
Cool video. Love that this has come up, blah blah blah. I LOVE THE YUNO SHIRT. (But seriously, I have always thought about this kind of thing since I first saw Ergo Proxy with Radiohead and just seeing the thumbnail unlocked a bunch of memories of Lain and Mushishi.)
I literally just watched a video two days ago that was explaining that one clip of the Serial Experiments Lain opening that aired after 9/11, had never heard of this anime before that point, and now here it is again. Gonna have to watch it.
This is the first video of yours I see and I have to say it's a really entertaining and well researched video. You even mentioned my favorite UK/JP music factoid of having 2 music legends work together in Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence. Arguably Ryuuichi Sakamoto is also partly responsible for the genesis of techno and various other music genres with the works of YMO. Funnily enough there's another appearance of Franz Ferdinand in anime other than the 2 you mentioned. Although you have to be really deep in the rabbit hole to know about this one. Katherine ~Girls Never Know~ is used as the ending theme of the movie version of Pyuu to Fuku! Jaguar (a rather unknown music gag manga which ran in Shounen Jump from 2000 to 2010). It's not even credited on the MAL page because pretty much no one has seen the movie. In terms of music I also think it's fascinating when you can tell that someone really passionate about a certain type of (niche) music is involved in the production of a show. Without spoiling too many plot details Concrete Revolutio (as the anime itself is fantastic) plays in an alternate post-war Japan with numerous references to real life events and the soundtrack (other than OP&ED) are actually (almost) all covers of songs from the time periods portrayed. My favorite being a cover of Sawada Kenji's Toki no Sugiyuku Mama ni from 1975 by Demon Kakka. (That guy is a real character, I can recommend looking at his wikipedia page)
Mushishi continued the trend by featuring another song by an English musician in it's second season opening. "Shiver" by Lucy Rose is just perfect for that show!
My favorite example of this is Black Heaven's OP, which features Cautionary Warning by John Sykes, and is one of the least anime looking anime OP of all time. The show's soundtrack also features Into the Arena by Michael Schenker Group. Michael Schenker is most famous for playing lead guitar in the British band UFO and he is mentioned alot by the show's main character.
@@kekbin1697 I really wanted to repeat the bad answers but... German influence comes from the early years of the Meiji State. When the government was reforming the military the Franco-Prussian war happened so they decided to copy Germany in a lot of ways.
maybe not to you but that's the general answer ive seen from people in those areas i dont think it's very deep. Okomoto of elfen lied especially made this point that he didnt know much about germany but like to use words from the language etc
This was awesome! I've had almost all of the OPs/EDs mentioned here in my favorite anisongs playlists at some point during high school, some of which actually got me into the bands who made them (Yes, The Delgados, Juno Reactor, Ally Kerr, Duran Duran, Radiohead, Oasis, Franz Ferdinand, and Boa all being examples). There are a few other singers I can recall like Lucy Rose who sang the opening for Mushishi's 2nd season and Delta Goodrem who sang the 3rd OP for Deltora Quest (the former is British, the latter is Australian). Always wondered what the stories were behind how all these English-speaking bands/artists got involved in anime and whether or not there was some sort of correlation.
Technically not an Anime, but the video game Xenogears featured singer Joanne Hogg of the Irish band IONA singing the end them "Two Small Pieces". It was released as a fully animated music video on MTV Japan using FMV from the game. It's available on youtube and was a wonderful prize for finishing the game.
It took me way longer than 22 minutes to watch this video because I kept having to pause and go listen to the mentioned songs. So many memories with them.
This is such an interesting topic and a creative take for content creation. You always come out with interesting stuff. You’ve also replied to almost everybody commenting here, fantastic job. Nice drip as well.
A show that really got me thinking how all this licensing stuff even works is Heart Cocktail. Both with its music and visually, it is packed full of licensed properties: Beatles, Bach, whatever the episode calls for, mostly 60s rock; a Coke bottle, a brand of liquor or three, a page in a Moebius comic, all pre-existing intellectual properties. The show is aimed at salarymen, made in the late 80s, financed by a tobacco company, so it kind of makes sense, but its still a LOT of licensing. They even namedrop stuff like clothes manufacturers like in frigging American Psycho!
well it might have been more of a production committee with a music label partner as well, generally though if you have an ad agency on your side you can just get it, like bach is public domain so no issue there
Honestly, I am heavily biased to FF's "This FFire" as it fits narratively so well, especially when it skips the chorus of the song (Night City always wins). That said, Roundabout and Duvet are also other of my favorites.
I've been watching Ergo Proxy for the first time on streaming services. I had no idea Paranoid Alien played in the ED. I guess this is a sign to find the show somewhere else with the original ending song.
I dont know of it has already been said or not but Naoki Urasawa who created monster also had another manga called "20th century Boy" in which some british and american rock and punk really show off how rebellion and fighting against the system is shown through music :)
This technically doesnt count as its not a needledrop, but in Evangelion, Shinji is wearing a t-shirt with the logo of the british band XTC in one scene
Great video, butI'm surprised you didn't mention Blood Blockade Battlefront- the ost is the most varied soundtrack I've ever heard. Have you heard it before?
I don't see any British bands in here maybe some of their session musicians are British idk didn't really talk about session musicians in the video, which is an interesting area
Awesome video man, just wanted to give you a heads up that some of your shelves are overloaded and that bowing will get worse over time. Flipping the bowed ones over and moving the heavier books to the sides will help but consider getting solid wood shelf boards that can handle the weight.
and now yesterday another British artist (Yungblud) got announced for the opening of Kaiju No.8 that's starting this April. (Also even more insane is that OneRepublic is doing the ending for the same anime)
I ended up listening to all of the Delgados’ music through that theme for gunslinger girl and I have to say they have a ton of incredibly underrated music, they were pretty ahead of their time. The level of praise OK Computer gets is the way I feel about their album Hate
It's less common than I thought. But then again Japan's music industry is huge and diverse so it's probably easier to settle with local music, and reserve English songs for special needs. If you're planning to do more OP/ED stuffs in the future, it'd be fun to know about when did anime started using more songs directly from the music industry. I remember hearing it started from a show but I forgot what was it. I've always found the cross-promotion of popular music with anime interesting. Nowadays you have groups that primarily aim to produce singles for anime as well, like the group who made Dorohedoro's OP and ED. Who approach who first. Which side gains more. How they budget it. What's the relationship between labels and studios and that one time Pop Team Epic smoke on King Record. Oh and the idea of elusive Insert songs too. I assume it's most likely case-by-case but it'd be fun to know some common specifics across these processes.
There's more example than just here of course, I know someone asked me if i planned to do more on OPs & EDs which maybe but i need to find an angle i like i guess, something that could go for a full video. I imagine the idea of using more JP music industry stuff could be traced back to at least Macross. Although if you have a production committee that happens to have a music label on it, it's not hard to see the connection.
something that caught me off guard was the soundtrack for the Dragonball Z Cooler movie's english dub, it was just full disturbed, drowning pool, poison and even deftones
One of my lecturers in college worked with the drummer of the Delgados in a recording studio and I wish I had realised the gunslinger girl used one of their songs because I would’ve got him to ask about it. Since I watched gunslinger girl when I was like 14/15? But 20 year old me never realised that’s who did that song haha
Superb video. Really enjoyed this one. I didn't know about the case with Ergo Proxy. I originally watched it on Hulu back in 2016 and I remember it still had the Radio Head ED. I'm glad i've got a local copy of the Blu-Ray. Sucks that's how things are these days.
cant believe you didnt mention the anime: BECK! The Mongolian Chop Squad" where the whole anime revolves around the british rock influence with some punk mixed in. they mention bands like the beatles, the rocket boys and many more
I am dumping several thoughts here. Paranoid Android was so perfect as an ending song for Ergo Proxy, have they chosen something ELSE, I would raise an eyebrow. Also, the OP is by a japanese band who are Radiohead fans, and interviewed them on japanese MTV. I believe OP was written for the show originally, if I don't misunderstand the OST's notes. OK Computer is the only 2CD reissue from 2008-2010 era that I own so far, I went for that release because the remaster sounds WORSE (lazily mixed for a higher resolution then squished for CD standard....... weak and lazy). By the way, do you own Cardcaptor Sakura on Bluray? I imported volume 1 from your neck of the woods, and there is a sound glitch in the ice skating episode. While I can live with it, it is super unprofessional for them to leave it in. If you own that last year's release too, can you test it? I'll tell you the exact moment if you have it.
Didn't the US version of Ergo Proxy use Paranoid Android by Radiohead as the ending theme. Quite sure it did. Oh, you covered it 😂. But it was the perfect song
Good video, but I want to add one thing, I always am intrigued and interested on international artists in anime, specifically in the Anime OPs and EDs, and I still am not sure how the hell did Hanada Shounen-shi got the fucking BACKSTREET BOYS on their ending and opening.
Armitage polymatrix came before dual matrix Also missed was hellsing's end theme. The big tie in, if you ask me, is that the companies in anime distro and in music overlapped, and the artists were probably under the same companies just different divisions. (Sony, pioneer, virgin, etc). You still see these monopolies in releases of japanese anime soundtracks today. Also missed is that just generally a lot of japanese writers love old american and british rock. Jojo's wears it on its sleeve but reading boogiepop phantom, the author gushes over international bands as well. The us was also well into its love of franz ferdinand and oasis around the time of their use in anime and as discordant as it feels, it's not really surprising when you consider this was THE defade for globlization and a global anime market
I'm aware the order of armitage, Mr Big is American, and i didnt miss it im pretty sure i said they were one of the biggest music markets in the world they have international tastes, its very common in Japan and not a big deal. Hence why i was bringing up irish artists from the 70s who were charting number 1 in the country.
While it's not exactly linked with the subject of British bands in anime, I think my favourite usage of english music (specifically of a canadian band) was in the Catman series.
Damn, I never hear about Speed Grapher anymore 😅we had a TV channel called *AniMax* in the last decade until they stopped playing new shows & flooded the channel with reality shows
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Thumbnail got that "I AM BALLIN'! I AM FADED!" energy
truuuu!
Let us all love Lain
I have lost it all
I love thom yorke of the Radiohead’s
originally i was going to draw an anime-esc thom yorke for the thumbnail
A silent voice is definitely the only one that really caught me off guard, that was nuts when I first watched it
it's very outt of left field
It slaps me across the face every time I rewatch it cause I always forget it's in there.
I started watching this thinking, "come now, there can't be that many British bands in Anime. Can't be that frequent of a reference pojnt", and boy was I proven wrong 😆
This isn't even all of them
do the sence in beck when he sings Ive Got A Felling by the beatles
@@Stevem
Omg yes someone finally covered this topic. So many gems! Ergo proxy, Lain, musishi and the German opening of X1999 (mother Earth; you guys should definitely check it out)
Wait, you mean the opening to X1999 wasn't "X gon' give it to ya"? AMV Hell lied to me!
Can't believe it @@EsShinkai02
Gunslinger girl
7:37 "someone in the band" is most likely their lead guitarist/instrumentalist, jonny greenwood!! hes a ceritfied nerd and is a known fan of anime/videogames (having posted on radiohead's old 2000s/2010s blog, dead air space, and his personal twitter about them) so its likely he wouldve backed this from the start. the others (thom yorke, colin greenwood, ed o'brien and phil selway) were most likely brought on board by way of the studio giving them a copy of the script, which mustve piqued their interest enough to also agree!!!
Yes I literally say this
@@Stevem i just wanted to infodump abt radiohead sorry,, i commented this when i got to that timestamp
god duvet in lain and sore feet song in mushishi became two of my favorite songs of all time
shiver too
Well ain't this video just for you huh
Did you listen to Boa’s album Twilight? It’s so good
@@theblan1k0neIt’s alright. I was listening to it as a kid when it came out and even then it was clear that Duvet was leagues above the rest of the track list.
@@networknomad5600@networknomad5600 but the title track is amazing since it stands out from the rest, being the most simple yet loud track from that album. Personally, I think that Twilight does go toe-to-toe with Duvet. And the drum work with the rest of the songs, especially Elephant, is amazing.
This video is a perfect blend of things I love: Brit Bands (seen Franz twice, Radio Head once, would love to see Pulp and Blur) and anime. While Brit bands I knew from living in the 90s and seeking bands that liked The Beatles (looking at Oasis & Blur specifically, later Gorillaz), the pleasant surprise of finding bands in a completely different medium helped endear me to many anime series. But I've also sought out Japanese musicians who did music for anime. Legit, Asian Kung Fu Generation's album Sol-Fa is one of my absolute favorite albums cover to cover and I ordered a hard copy CD of it so I could listen to it in my car. I also love just about every song on folk artists Yuzu's album Sumire, which I didn't realize my Japanese professor heard them from Doremon until years later (I ordered the CD from Japan when I lost my burnt copy. I still listen to it on long trips). I've also bought copies of the Cowboy Bebop sound track and it's still one of my favorites to this day (as well as songs by Do As Infinity: like I've found other songs not tied to anime I've watched that I absolutely love thanks to shows I enjoyed.
I love how anime openings and closing sequences introduce new people to songs I love. So much of JoJo's is stuff I've been listening to either because of my parents or my own interests, and hearing them tied to a show I love...it's like when you're traveling in a new city you're unfamiliar with, but coincidentally run into someone you know from somewhere completely different. It's...an anchor point in an otherwise completely strange place that you're still learning about. I think that's how I'd liken the feeling. But certainly, this might not translate to others experience. I just really love music, and I really love anime, and I love the marriage of the two!
there's a lot of cool examples all over, I'm reminded of easy breazy by chelmico for example
@@StevemOh yeah, that's another good one.
I always love it when artists (like Boa, or Ally Kerr) embrace the fans that their inclusion in anime bring them. Especially when their track was selected personally by a series creator.
Besides the practical aspect (record labels being on the production committee - "here, we've got these artists you can use") if there was no 'thematic' reason for a particular song to be used for an anime, I typically saw it as a way for producers to make their series stand out (especially in the early days of anime).
well it seems in a lot of the successful cases at least it was a creative staff decision
they/their? Just say their
DUDE thank you for bringing up Bôa's renewed interest and minor success. They are playing a few shows in London that I'm def considering traveling to from The Netherlands. I was unaware that this was happening.
I'm not sure how far they plan to tour but I hope you enjoy if you do see them
im lucky enough to go to their gig in july ToT
I have never thought about it before this video but yeah, back in the late 90s and early 2000s you had a lot of anime with western music in its opening or ending. The ones I remember are Lain with bôa opening, Ergo Proxy with Radiohead ending but also the opening is in English with an original song, Monster, Texhnolyze with Juno Reactor making the opening, The Animatrix, Wolfs Rain also has an English opening song. Recently I noticed that some modern anime has English insert songs like Gundam Hathaway and Muv Luv Alternative
Man, usage of foreign language in anime is quite a rabbit hole to get into. I love to watch anime in the tongue that fits the settings. Shingeki no Kyojin in German, Porco Rosso in Italian, Berserk in French, etc. There's a certain immersion to it, even if you do it at the cost of dubbing stealing a bit of space you'd originally have for interpretation. Then again, I don't know Japanese anyway
Most of fantasy anime have a European setting but their pronunciation of Western names is horrendous.
I prefer English dub of anime because how they butcher most the names in Japanese
Oh man, I try doing this whenever I can too. Watched JoJo's like that but unfortunately couldn't watch Part 5 in Italian like I wanted
JoJo would be one hell of a ride in language switching
About Texhnolyze and non-Japanese artists, I remember that two Italian artists worked on the anime soundtrack: one is the musician Adriano Martino and the other one is Francesco "Franco" Sansalone who composed the song "Spleen", appeared in the episode 19 (although the CD includes only a remixed version of the track)
yeah you certainly see session musicians from all over in anime
A ton of my faves covered here, bless
I remember Yokoelf made a video about openings/endings/OST sung by Western artists.
I love seeing a fresh version in your channel with more explanation.
I even made a Spotify playlist about it just in case someone is interested.
I'm sure someone would like the link hopefully RUclips doesn't eat it as spam
i forgot about ELO!
(though it was a bootleg use in DAicon)
And the densha otaku anime intro to the dorama that flips it.
Densha isn't anime @@jamesrockin7950
Was waiting for the point when Jojo's got brought up. Also, you teased it with that tiny clip from Initial D, but I wonder if you could even make a whole video just on the confluence between anime and Eurobeat alone?
I've already talked about this years ago
@@Stevem Holy crap! you did! I didn't see that you had a video about this exact thing. Wow!
well enjoy
@@Stevem I did. Thank you.
Great video! It's neat seeing some of the behind-the-scenes stuff regarding music choices in anime. I'm not sure if you were trying to find all the British songs used in anime but Black Heaven had a John Sykes song for the OP. Funnily enough, Juno Reactor also did the music for Koji Morimoto's short in Genius Party Beyond, which fits the whole cyberpunk theme he had going on.
there's more for sure but I didnt want to just wiki post the whole time i tried to keep it on task to the topic and how the songs related to it
Cool video. Love that this has come up, blah blah blah. I LOVE THE YUNO SHIRT.
(But seriously, I have always thought about this kind of thing since I first saw Ergo Proxy with Radiohead and just seeing the thumbnail unlocked a bunch of memories of Lain and Mushishi.)
its been in the back of my mind for a while
Thank you for introducing me to Boa, awesome band
Oh shit well yeah enjoy
I saw the delgados as a support band singing the light before we land, bought the album right away what a choooon!
verycool
Goddamn that's good, when was that?
GUNSLINGER GIRL
I literally just watched a video two days ago that was explaining that one clip of the Serial Experiments Lain opening that aired after 9/11, had never heard of this anime before that point, and now here it is again. Gonna have to watch it.
My first thought as I pressed play on this video was Ergo Proxy outro - Paranoid Android by Radiohead.
You'd be right
Love Speed Grapher, thanks for shouting the series out.
I was curious what your thoughts on Gankutsuo. The opening sticks in my head.
I'm a fan of novel and the fan of maedas anime too
This is the first video of yours I see and I have to say it's a really entertaining and well researched video. You even mentioned my favorite UK/JP music factoid of having 2 music legends work together in Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence. Arguably Ryuuichi Sakamoto is also partly responsible for the genesis of techno and various other music genres with the works of YMO.
Funnily enough there's another appearance of Franz Ferdinand in anime other than the 2 you mentioned. Although you have to be really deep in the rabbit hole to know about this one.
Katherine ~Girls Never Know~ is used as the ending theme of the movie version of Pyuu to Fuku! Jaguar (a rather unknown music gag manga which ran in Shounen Jump from 2000 to 2010). It's not even credited on the MAL page because pretty much no one has seen the movie.
In terms of music I also think it's fascinating when you can tell that someone really passionate about a certain type of (niche) music is involved in the production of a show. Without spoiling too many plot details Concrete Revolutio (as the anime itself is fantastic) plays in an alternate post-war Japan with numerous references to real life events and the soundtrack (other than OP&ED) are actually (almost) all covers of songs from the time periods portrayed. My favorite being a cover of Sawada Kenji's Toki no Sugiyuku Mama ni from 1975 by Demon Kakka.
(That guy is a real character, I can recommend looking at his wikipedia page)
i didnt know about the third franz ferdinand track, that's cool!
Mushishi continued the trend by featuring another song by an English musician in it's second season opening. "Shiver" by Lucy Rose is just perfect for that show!
Yeah I think that song also has a cult following now
I absolutely love David Sylvian's music from both his solo work and with Japan. His stuff needs to be heard more.
absolutely!
My favorite example of this is Black Heaven's OP, which features Cautionary Warning by John Sykes, and is one of the least anime looking anime OP of all time. The show's soundtrack also features Into the Arena by Michael Schenker Group. Michael Schenker is most famous for playing lead guitar in the British band UFO and he is mentioned alot by the show's main character.
Huh that's an interesting choice of musicians
Now still remains the question of why german words are so popular in anime.
Cus they sound cool is basically the answer you'll get when you ask artists
because they are axis powers buddy?
@@kekbin1697 I really wanted to repeat the bad answers but... German influence comes from the early years of the Meiji State.
When the government was reforming the military the Franco-Prussian war happened so they decided to copy Germany in a lot of ways.
@@Stevem But it doesn't ...
maybe not to you but that's the general answer ive seen from people in those areas i dont think it's very deep. Okomoto of elfen lied especially made this point that he didnt know much about germany but like to use words from the language etc
This was awesome! I've had almost all of the OPs/EDs mentioned here in my favorite anisongs playlists at some point during high school, some of which actually got me into the bands who made them (Yes, The Delgados, Juno Reactor, Ally Kerr, Duran Duran, Radiohead, Oasis, Franz Ferdinand, and Boa all being examples). There are a few other singers I can recall like Lucy Rose who sang the opening for Mushishi's 2nd season and Delta Goodrem who sang the 3rd OP for Deltora Quest (the former is British, the latter is Australian). Always wondered what the stories were behind how all these English-speaking bands/artists got involved in anime and whether or not there was some sort of correlation.
Seems a lot of them are just approach by a Japanese label or they approach the japanese label that's distributing them
Technically not an Anime, but the video game Xenogears featured singer Joanne Hogg of the Irish band IONA singing the end them "Two Small Pieces". It was released as a fully animated music video on MTV Japan using FMV from the game. It's available on youtube and was a wonderful prize for finishing the game.
Also just want to clarify Irish bands are not British
And she returned to sing "Future Awaits" as the credits song of Xenoblade Chronicles 3 DLC Future Redeemed
It took me way longer than 22 minutes to watch this video because I kept having to pause and go listen to the mentioned songs.
So many memories with them.
Unfortunately I couldn't quite show them without getting 20 copyright claims I still managed to get one
I only found your videos yesterday, but I'm enjoying this stuff. Keep up the good work man
i am balling i am faded
Enjoy bowling
Got another one for you
Basement Jaxx - Good Luck, used in Appleseeds Opening
Ironically another cyberpunk work huh
This is such a well made video
I want more oasis used in anime
Haha probs unlikely but you never know
What oasis songs would you use in openings
@@bavarianplaguedoctorI do think having wonderwall for the meme would be pretty funny, though I guess Champaign supernova could work
@@Stevem I would say dyou know what I mean or supersonic would be great choices
@@Stevem champagne supernova would be a perfect ed
20:53 idk if its by purpose but skating theme makes me think about this particular song as soundtrack for orginal tony hawks pro skater 1
i think its on purpose
This is such an interesting topic and a creative take for content creation. You always come out with interesting stuff. You’ve also replied to almost everybody commenting here, fantastic job. Nice drip as well.
thanks hahha
I still remember when I first watched Eden of the east and being giddily excited when I heard falling down as the OP
It fits pretty well
David Silvian mentioned aghhhhhhh. Fucking LOVE Secret of the Beehive
David is king
speed grapher is such a trip
i cant really check now after i threw the discc at the wall
Favourite non Japanese Band featured in an anime?
lukas graham 7 years anime music video
Delgados maybe
Oasis band is in Eden of the East anime
Radiohead duuuuuuh
Either of Franz Ferdinand's unexpected OPs.
If I remember, Ive seen and read somewhere abt ELO's 'Twilight' being in the Daicon iv opening around the 80's :00
this is true i left a comment about it since i blanked on it and tthough elo were american, it was an illegal use but still iconic
A show that really got me thinking how all this licensing stuff even works is Heart Cocktail. Both with its music and visually, it is packed full of licensed properties: Beatles, Bach, whatever the episode calls for, mostly 60s rock; a Coke bottle, a brand of liquor or three, a page in a Moebius comic, all pre-existing intellectual properties. The show is aimed at salarymen, made in the late 80s, financed by a tobacco company, so it kind of makes sense, but its still a LOT of licensing. They even namedrop stuff like clothes manufacturers like in frigging American Psycho!
well it might have been more of a production committee with a music label partner as well, generally though if you have an ad agency on your side you can just get it, like bach is public domain so no issue there
Honestly, I am heavily biased to FF's "This FFire" as it fits narratively so well, especially when it skips the chorus of the song (Night City always wins). That said, Roundabout and Duvet are also other of my favorites.
theyre all solid choices
alright!!!! im in for another treat!! thank you for the video!!!
Hope you enjoy!
I've been watching Ergo Proxy for the first time on streaming services. I had no idea Paranoid Alien played in the ED. I guess this is a sign to find the show somewhere else with the original ending song.
Physical release or pirated yeah
i'm new here and already in love with the stuff you make
I dont know of it has already been said or not but Naoki Urasawa who created monster also had another manga called "20th century Boy" in which some british and american rock and punk really show off how rebellion and fighting against the system is shown through music :)
welll if it ever gets an anime adaptation maybe theyll get one of those bands on the soundtrack
another wild one to note is for the dub release of "eden of the east" they used "falling down" by oasis as the opening theme.
it was for the sub, not the dub & I do mention the song in the video
This technically doesnt count as its not a needledrop, but in Evangelion, Shinji is wearing a t-shirt with the logo of the british band XTC in one scene
Never took shinji for a fan lol
Great video, butI'm surprised you didn't mention Blood Blockade Battlefront- the ost is the most varied soundtrack I've ever heard. Have you heard it before?
I don't see any British bands in here maybe some of their session musicians are British idk didn't really talk about session musicians in the video, which is an interesting area
Awesome video man, just wanted to give you a heads up that some of your shelves are overloaded and that bowing will get worse over time. Flipping the bowed ones over and moving the heavier books to the sides will help but consider getting solid wood shelf boards that can handle the weight.
the angle makes it look worse its fine
Hearing "DIstant Dreamer" by Duffy was a pleasant surprise. Used in the outro for Stone Ocean (Jojo's Bizarre Adventure)
I love watching steves glasses rotate about his face like a clock
I need a spotify playlist with all the songs mentioned here
there's defo spotify playlists like that for sure
Much respect for having a speed grapher dvd.
EDIT. I said that before you threw the DVD lol
LOL TOO LATE
and now yesterday another British artist (Yungblud) got announced for the opening of Kaiju No.8 that's starting this April. (Also even more insane is that OneRepublic is doing the ending for the same anime)
It keeps happening
Where did you get that red and white jacket? It looks soo good
a gift from a friend think its from insert coin
An Oasis track was used for Eden of the East too, can’t remember if it was the opening or the ending but remember being surprised hearing it
What do you mean too?
It's in the video
Must’ve missed it 😅 great vid though
it's about 14 mins in or so
I ended up listening to all of the Delgados’ music through that theme for gunslinger girl and I have to say they have a ton of incredibly underrated music, they were pretty ahead of their time. The level of praise OK Computer gets is the way I feel about their album Hate
Yeah they're back touring now I think but that's how the game is unfortunately for many maybe they'd have had a better chance if they kept going
It's less common than I thought. But then again Japan's music industry is huge and diverse so it's probably easier to settle with local music, and reserve English songs for special needs.
If you're planning to do more OP/ED stuffs in the future, it'd be fun to know about when did anime started using more songs directly from the music industry.
I remember hearing it started from a show but I forgot what was it.
I've always found the cross-promotion of popular music with anime interesting. Nowadays you have groups that primarily aim to produce singles for anime as well, like the group who made Dorohedoro's OP and ED. Who approach who first. Which side gains more. How they budget it. What's the relationship between labels and studios and that one time Pop Team Epic smoke on King Record. Oh and the idea of elusive Insert songs too. I assume it's most likely case-by-case but it'd be fun to know some common specifics across these processes.
There's more example than just here of course,
I know someone asked me if i planned to do more on OPs & EDs which maybe but i need to find an angle i like i guess, something that could go for a full video. I imagine the idea of using more JP music industry stuff could be traced back to at least Macross. Although if you have a production committee that happens to have a music label on it, it's not hard to see the connection.
Cracks me up how Zebrahead became huge in Japan. I still love that band.
You never really know who will get big
yooo thats exactly what i was thinking about lol i mean look at lain opening or mushi-shi opening both by british singers wich were great
And many more
something that caught me off guard was the soundtrack for the Dragonball Z Cooler movie's english dub, it was just full disturbed, drowning pool, poison and even deftones
The “Princess Mononoke” book on the bookshelf behind you is upside down.
Now I feel the urge to watch all of these. Even the ones I've already did
Theres a ton of great shows
i recently finished watching monster. i never there were supposed to be lyrics for the ED.
It was always so weird for an episode of Paradise Kiss to end, only to be followed by Franz Ferdinand's Do You Want To lol
Even more surreal in 2005 I guess when it was everywhere in England
One of my lecturers in college worked with the drummer of the Delgados in a recording studio and I wish I had realised the gunslinger girl used one of their songs because I would’ve got him to ask about it. Since I watched gunslinger girl when I was like 14/15? But 20 year old me never realised that’s who did that song haha
oh that's cool he might not have much to say since the song was made without any knowledge of the anime
Superb video. Really enjoyed this one. I didn't know about the case with Ergo Proxy. I originally watched it on Hulu back in 2016 and I remember it still had the Radio Head ED. I'm glad i've got a local copy of the Blu-Ray. Sucks that's how things are these days.
I'm guessing their license ran out or something I first heard of the issue on Netflix
>Lain skateboarding
I love you man
I love your videos so much
Thank you!
@@Stevem You’re welcome
No mention of Lucy Rose "Shiver" from Mushishi?
It didn't fit in the script, I was not aware of any situation where she talked about the experience neither
One of my personal favorites is the opening for the legend of black heaven "Cautionary Warning" by John Sykes, also that anime was a fever dream.
Some people have brought this one up it sounds pretty whacky
Very true, my dad is part of a Ska band that does normal gigs at festivals in the UK but in japan they were able to go on a fully funded tour. Crazy.
yeah wild how that happens
Indie Japanese band Uchōten actually covered Gilbert O’Sullivan’s “Alone Again” in 1990
thats cool
Hanada Shounen Shi by Madhouse had Backstreetboys for the OP and ED. In my eyes, the craziest foreign song rights deal in anime.
I know is not Anime... Way to Fall by Starsailor used in Metal Gear Solid 3 is a great example and hope this song will feature on the remake MGS Delta
Games dont tend to have a problem with licensing as much unless it's an entire soundtrack of songs
cant believe you didnt mention the anime: BECK! The Mongolian Chop Squad" where the whole anime revolves around the british rock influence with some punk mixed in. they mention bands like the beatles, the rocket boys and many more
I hear the broadcast apparently had a cover, but that's not exactly what I'm going for here.
great vid. great topic
Glad you think so!
the princess mononoke book in the back being upside down bothers me more than it should somehow
It's a trap
Ergo Proxy Heroine kinda looks a lil bit like Amy Lee (Evanescence) on the _Fallen_ Album Cover..
people have asked the director about that I think he mentioned that there was some influence but other stuff were a factor also
I am dumping several thoughts here. Paranoid Android was so perfect as an ending song for Ergo Proxy, have they chosen something ELSE, I would raise an eyebrow. Also, the OP is by a japanese band who are Radiohead fans, and interviewed them on japanese MTV. I believe OP was written for the show originally, if I don't misunderstand the OST's notes. OK Computer is the only 2CD reissue from 2008-2010 era that I own so far, I went for that release because the remaster sounds WORSE (lazily mixed for a higher resolution then squished for CD standard....... weak and lazy).
By the way, do you own Cardcaptor Sakura on Bluray? I imported volume 1 from your neck of the woods, and there is a sound glitch in the ice skating episode. While I can live with it, it is super unprofessional for them to leave it in. If you own that last year's release too, can you test it? I'll tell you the exact moment if you have it.
What happened to the glasses?
I think I sat on them but they got worse in transit
@@Stevem After getting used to it, I kinda like the "Coraline's Dad" disheveled energy it gives your character lol
not a band, but british.. aphex twins selected ambient works had a bus stop advert in an anime which is dope lool
also they didnt us any of his songs.. but yeah
thats cool which anime
Your anime knowledge is impressive.
Not only in anime but also variety shows like Terrace House use a lot of UK bands such as Snow Patrol, Radiohead, and Chvrches
Japanese shows might also have a history with it but I cant say for sure
What about Sea Power in Disco Elysium?
I was unaware of disco elysiums anime adaptation
bro i remember when i heard paranoid android in ergo proxy.. omogsh.. i need to finish that anime
Didn't the US version of Ergo Proxy use Paranoid Android by Radiohead as the ending theme. Quite sure it did. Oh, you covered it 😂. But it was the perfect song
all versions did until certain streaming versions cut it
Good video, but I want to add one thing, I always am intrigued and interested on international artists in anime, specifically in the Anime OPs and EDs, and I still am not sure how the hell did Hanada Shounen-shi got the fucking BACKSTREET BOYS on their ending and opening.
Likely whoever was on the production committee made it so, usually there's a music label
Great video, only missing ELO’s Twilight from Daicon IV!
I did leave a comment remarking yeah i cmpletely forgot to mention that one but i guess its more a pirate track use
@@Stevem ah yeah so you did, my bad!
Armitage polymatrix came before dual matrix
Also missed was hellsing's end theme.
The big tie in, if you ask me, is that the companies in anime distro and in music overlapped, and the artists were probably under the same companies just different divisions. (Sony, pioneer, virgin, etc). You still see these monopolies in releases of japanese anime soundtracks today.
Also missed is that just generally a lot of japanese writers love old american and british rock. Jojo's wears it on its sleeve but reading boogiepop phantom, the author gushes over international bands as well.
The us was also well into its love of franz ferdinand and oasis around the time of their use in anime and as discordant as it feels, it's not really surprising when you consider this was THE defade for globlization and a global anime market
Also armitage polymatrix/dual matrix were a pioneer project and twice they tried doing weird stuff with American actors and it's... Weird...
I'm aware the order of armitage,
Mr Big is American, and i didnt miss it im pretty sure i said they were one of the biggest music markets in the world they have international tastes, its very common in Japan and not a big deal. Hence why i was bringing up irish artists from the 70s who were charting number 1 in the country.
Super insightful video!
Glad you think so!
While it's not exactly linked with the subject of British bands in anime, I think my favourite usage of english music (specifically of a canadian band) was in the Catman series.
is this the anime catman?
@@Stevem
Yep.
Omg my dad obstensibly has a similar story of being in a punk band that got a lot of downloads in Japan haha
yeah i imagine there are many such cases
great video!
Thanks!
Having radiohead in ergo proxy ending caught me off guard
In retrospect it seems out there now I guess haha
Damn, I never hear about Speed Grapher anymore 😅we had a TV channel called *AniMax* in the last decade until they stopped playing new shows & flooded the channel with reality shows
Yeah gonzo died and revived so I don't know if anyone is pushing they're old titles nowadays
Im sure you would like BECK: Mongolian Chop Squad.