Crunchyroll announced that it will start streaming a four-part documentary on Studio Bones to commemorate the 25th Anniversary of the studio starting Feb 13, 2024.
The four parts include The History of Bones, Style and Originality, Successful Adaptation and Metallic Rouge: The Future of Bones.
Titled Bones 25: Dreaming Forward, each episodes of the documentary will be 24-minutes long. It is produced by Crunchyroll along with a French production company DeltaRocket.
A trailer and visual were revealed along with the announcement.
Bones 25: Dreaming Forward is directed by DeltaRocket founder Jace.
The documentary will feature interviews of 30 personalities from the industry including the president Masahiko Minami, Mob Psycho 100 author One, director Shinichiro Watanabe, Bungo Stray Dogs creator Kafka Asagiri and Metallic Rouge staff members Motonobu Hori (director) and Yutaka Izubuchi (conceptual author and series composition writer).
Bones president Masahiko Minami expressed his enthusiasm on the documentary, stating, “We wanted to build a...
The four parts include The History of Bones, Style and Originality, Successful Adaptation and Metallic Rouge: The Future of Bones.
Titled Bones 25: Dreaming Forward, each episodes of the documentary will be 24-minutes long. It is produced by Crunchyroll along with a French production company DeltaRocket.
A trailer and visual were revealed along with the announcement.
Bones 25: Dreaming Forward is directed by DeltaRocket founder Jace.
The documentary will feature interviews of 30 personalities from the industry including the president Masahiko Minami, Mob Psycho 100 author One, director Shinichiro Watanabe, Bungo Stray Dogs creator Kafka Asagiri and Metallic Rouge staff members Motonobu Hori (director) and Yutaka Izubuchi (conceptual author and series composition writer).
Bones president Masahiko Minami expressed his enthusiasm on the documentary, stating, “We wanted to build a...
- 2/13/2024
- by Ami Nazru
- AnimeHunch
Watch the first episode of the documentary Bones 25: Dreaming Forward right here ! This season's Metallic Rouge anime is just one part of the big celebration of the 25th anniversary of anime production house Studio Bones. Crunchyroll announced that it has produced a brand-new, four-part documentary series titled Bones 25: Dreaming Forward , which will start streaming on the service on February 13, 2024. The Bones 25: Dreaming Forward documentary — produced by Crunchyroll and French production company DeltaRocket — will consist of four 24-minute episodes. The series will explore the creation of Studio Bones, which has spent the past 25 years working on some of the most iconic anime out there, from the Cowboy Bebop: Knockin' on Heaven's Door anime film to Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood , My Hero Academia and more. Shot entirely in Japan, the four parts include "The History of Bones," Style and Originality," "Successful Adaptation" and "Metallic Rouge: The Future of Bones." Over...
- 2/12/2024
- by Joseph Luster
- Crunchyroll
Exclusive: Anime streamer Crunchyroll is dropping a doc-series on renowned Japanese animation maker Studio Bones.
The platform has been quietly working on Bones 25: Dreaming Forwards, which will drop tomorrow (February 13), timed with the release of the studio’s latest series, Metallic Rouge, and its 25th anniversary.
Bones 25 will comprise four 24-minute episodes about the studio, which is behind anime titles such as Cowboy Bebop: Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door, My Hero Academia and Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood. The studio currently has more than 30 specials and series on Crunchyroll, including Bungo Stray Dogs, The Case Study of Vanitas, Eureka Seven and SK8 the Infinity.
Sony-owned Crunchyroll and French producer DeltaRocket have teamed for the series. DeltaRocket’s founder Jace, who is behind more than 40 docs for French TV, is the director.
Shot entirely in Japan, Bones 25 will divide into four parts: ‘The History of Bones’, ‘Style and Originality’, ‘Successful Adaptation’ and...
The platform has been quietly working on Bones 25: Dreaming Forwards, which will drop tomorrow (February 13), timed with the release of the studio’s latest series, Metallic Rouge, and its 25th anniversary.
Bones 25 will comprise four 24-minute episodes about the studio, which is behind anime titles such as Cowboy Bebop: Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door, My Hero Academia and Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood. The studio currently has more than 30 specials and series on Crunchyroll, including Bungo Stray Dogs, The Case Study of Vanitas, Eureka Seven and SK8 the Infinity.
Sony-owned Crunchyroll and French producer DeltaRocket have teamed for the series. DeltaRocket’s founder Jace, who is behind more than 40 docs for French TV, is the director.
Shot entirely in Japan, Bones 25 will divide into four parts: ‘The History of Bones’, ‘Style and Originality’, ‘Successful Adaptation’ and...
- 2/12/2024
- by Jesse Whittock
- Deadline Film + TV
Studio Bones, known for producing shows like Fullmetal Alchemist and My Hero Academia, celebrates 25 years with a new original sci-fi anime for Crunchyroll. Metallic Rouge takes place in a world where humans and androids coexist. The story follows Rouge, an android girl (aka a Nean), who is on a mission on Mars with her investigative partner Naomi. The mission is to murder nine artificial humans who are hostile to the government called Alters. “If you like Blade Runner, you’ll love Metallic Rouge,” producer and president of Bones Masahiko Minami told TV Insider while talking to members of the press. Although the series uses the youth of its two leads to bring about a budding relationship and some humor, the heart of the story is delving into what makes a living being human and our relationship with technology. Metallic Rouge has been in production for over six years at Studio Bones,...
- 1/10/2024
- TV Insider
No one expected "Cowboy Bebop" to be a major success — especially not the people that were bankrolling the production. The series creators actually stretched their budget so thin that they angered executives and shareholders. The studio was concerned that "Bebop" wouldn't resonate with enough viewers, and even the show's animator and director Shin'ichirô Watanabe didn't expect it to take off. Despite the lack of faith in the project, it would become one of the most globally beloved animes of all time.
"Cowboy Bebop" was born from a meeting between Watanabe and Masahiko Minami, who would later become the show's producer. "[Minami] approached me to ask if I had any good ideas for a new project," Watanabe recalled to Otaquest. "After about 2-3 days of deliberating, something I had thrown together over the course of an hour known only as 'Bebop' surfaced."
The series originally got its funding from an unexpected source — the Japanese toy company,...
"Cowboy Bebop" was born from a meeting between Watanabe and Masahiko Minami, who would later become the show's producer. "[Minami] approached me to ask if I had any good ideas for a new project," Watanabe recalled to Otaquest. "After about 2-3 days of deliberating, something I had thrown together over the course of an hour known only as 'Bebop' surfaced."
The series originally got its funding from an unexpected source — the Japanese toy company,...
- 10/1/2022
- by Shae Sennett
- Slash Film
Part of the tragedy of "Cowboy Bebop" is how the main characters are so weighed down by their pasts that they're unable to live in the present. The creative team behind the classic anime series didn't share this attitude though. When making the series, "Hajime Yatate" (their collective pseudonym) were all focused on the present, not what lay behind or ahead of them.
Series director Shinichirō Watanabe and producer Masahiko Minami discussed their episode-by-episode attitude at a roundtable for the show's 20th anniversary, held at French convention Japan Expo 2018. Watannabe recounted (transcribed by SakuraBlog):
"I had an episodic series in mind from the get-go. I wanted every episode to feel fresh. And all the aforementioned problems we encountered only reinforced that vision of the series I had... But we still needed a thread, albeit thin, common to all episodes for the setting, world elements, characters, etc."
Those thin threads wound up being (a.
Series director Shinichirō Watanabe and producer Masahiko Minami discussed their episode-by-episode attitude at a roundtable for the show's 20th anniversary, held at French convention Japan Expo 2018. Watannabe recounted (transcribed by SakuraBlog):
"I had an episodic series in mind from the get-go. I wanted every episode to feel fresh. And all the aforementioned problems we encountered only reinforced that vision of the series I had... But we still needed a thread, albeit thin, common to all episodes for the setting, world elements, characters, etc."
Those thin threads wound up being (a.
- 9/26/2022
- by Devin Meenan
- Slash Film
Anime Limited are delighted to announce that Screen Anime, their curated channel dedicated to showcasing the pinnacle of Japanese animated films past and present, can now be enjoyed on the big screen at home or on the go with apps for Android and Amazon Fire TV devices available to download and watch now, with apps for iOS and Apple tvOS coming soon.
Since its launch in May 2020, Screen Anime has offered fans of the growing medium and film at large the opportunity to enjoy a rotating, curated monthly line-up of 4 films and 1 TV series that have ranged from recent smash-hits, to vintage classics, and cult curiosities, from only £3.98 a month.
Until 25th November, Screen Anime is hosting the expanded online line-up of Scotland Loves Anime, an annual film festival that had to scale back its physical events this year due to the coronavirus pandemic. In addition, two-thirds of all membership...
Since its launch in May 2020, Screen Anime has offered fans of the growing medium and film at large the opportunity to enjoy a rotating, curated monthly line-up of 4 films and 1 TV series that have ranged from recent smash-hits, to vintage classics, and cult curiosities, from only £3.98 a month.
Until 25th November, Screen Anime is hosting the expanded online line-up of Scotland Loves Anime, an annual film festival that had to scale back its physical events this year due to the coronavirus pandemic. In addition, two-thirds of all membership...
- 11/14/2020
- by Rouven Linnarz
- AsianMoviePulse
In a year that has proven challenging for films and the venues that show them, the Screen Anime channel is delighted to announce that it will host the digital line-up of Scotland Loves Anime, a celebration of Japanese animation that has attracted tens of thousands of visitors over 11 years, and help to support the local cinemas that host it.
Andrew Partridge, CEO of Anime Ltd and founder of Scotland Loves Animation explains, “Supporting cinemas through what has been a tough year is something really important to all of us at Anime Limited and Scotland Loves Animation. We can’t wait to show off what the festival has to offer on Screen Anime and help out our friends at both the Filmhouse and the Glasgow Film Theatre as much as we can.”
From 25th October until 25th November 2020, enjoy a celebration of two iconic franchises – Monkey Punch’s charismatic master thief Lupin III,...
Andrew Partridge, CEO of Anime Ltd and founder of Scotland Loves Animation explains, “Supporting cinemas through what has been a tough year is something really important to all of us at Anime Limited and Scotland Loves Animation. We can’t wait to show off what the festival has to offer on Screen Anime and help out our friends at both the Filmhouse and the Glasgow Film Theatre as much as we can.”
From 25th October until 25th November 2020, enjoy a celebration of two iconic franchises – Monkey Punch’s charismatic master thief Lupin III,...
- 10/21/2020
- by Rhythm Zaveri
- AsianMoviePulse
So everyone’s inbox should have had the news this morning. Fox is going to go ahead with a live action adaptation of the much loved anime from Shinichiro Watanabe, Cowboy Bebop. And yes, Keanu Reeves will take the role of Spike Spiegel. You’ll remember our collective gnashing of teeth in December.
As far as Hollywood people involved there is no director set for the project but Reeves’ manager, Erwin Stoff, will be producing with 3 Arts. The script is in the hands of a short film director Peter Craig.
Now, here is where our hope lies folks. Sunrise president Kenji Uchida, the TV series’ director of animation, Shinichiro Watanabe, and series writer Keiko Nobumoto will serve as associate producers. Series producer Masahiko Minami will serve as production consultant. This doesn’t mean that I, myself, am breathing any easier but I’m not doing it into a paper bag anymore.
As far as Hollywood people involved there is no director set for the project but Reeves’ manager, Erwin Stoff, will be producing with 3 Arts. The script is in the hands of a short film director Peter Craig.
Now, here is where our hope lies folks. Sunrise president Kenji Uchida, the TV series’ director of animation, Shinichiro Watanabe, and series writer Keiko Nobumoto will serve as associate producers. Series producer Masahiko Minami will serve as production consultant. This doesn’t mean that I, myself, am breathing any easier but I’m not doing it into a paper bag anymore.
- 1/18/2009
- by Mack
- Screen Anarchy
Keanu Reeves has been talking up his planned adaptation of the Japanese anime Cowboy Bebop since last summer. Who knew we were actually supposed to believe he has the pull to get his obscure passion projects made? Variety has made all the rumors official, announcing that Reeves will star in the live-action adaptation. Reeves will play Spike Spiegel, a bounty hunter living in the year 2071 and traveling through space as part of a gang of bounty hunters. Series writer Keiko Nobumoto and producer Masahiko Minami will be part of the production, but Peter Craig, a screenwriter with pretty much no high-profile credits to his name, will take care of writing the screenplay. I know literally nothing about Cowboy Bebop other than a poster my friend Nicole used to have on her wall in college, and I would call her for details but she's definitely asleep. So I'll have to leave...
- 1/16/2009
- cinemablend.com
Twentieth Century Fox is bringing the Japanese anime TV series "Cowboy Bebop" to the big screen, with Keanu Reeves attached to star as a bounty hunter traveling through space in 2071.
One of the big titles in anime, "Bebop" is set in a time where "astral gates" make interstellar travel possible. Humanity, decimated by a lunar explosion resulting from a gate accident, spread out across the solar system, as did crime, which gave rise to the use of bounty hunters.
Reeves would play Spike Spiegel, a bounty hunter and former member of a crime syndicate. Spiegel, along with Jet Black, a fellow bounty hunter and former cop, are the two pilots of the spaceship Bebop.
Peter Craig is writing the script.
The show, which first aired on Tokyo TV and satcaster Wowow during the late 1990s, was strongly influenced by American music, even featuring action sequences -- both space battles and...
One of the big titles in anime, "Bebop" is set in a time where "astral gates" make interstellar travel possible. Humanity, decimated by a lunar explosion resulting from a gate accident, spread out across the solar system, as did crime, which gave rise to the use of bounty hunters.
Reeves would play Spike Spiegel, a bounty hunter and former member of a crime syndicate. Spiegel, along with Jet Black, a fellow bounty hunter and former cop, are the two pilots of the spaceship Bebop.
Peter Craig is writing the script.
The show, which first aired on Tokyo TV and satcaster Wowow during the late 1990s, was strongly influenced by American music, even featuring action sequences -- both space battles and...
- 1/15/2009
- by By Borys Kit
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Officially bowing Aug. 30 at the Big Apple Anime Fest 2002 -- but sneaking in Aug. 11 for Los Angeles fans at the American Cinematheque's third annual fest of fantasy/sci-fi/horror films -- "Cowboy Bebop: The Movie" is an expanded version of the Cartoon Network hit and should find target-audience acceptance when it's released by TriStar Pictures in January.
Set on Mars in the year 2071 and residing firmly in the practice of recent Japanese animation that takes a less-than-positive attitude toward the future but stops short of being pessimistic, "Cowboy" finds interesting angles and visual details to complement its overall design.
Relying on evocative cityscape and planetscape backgrounds and coming to life most memorably in the action sequences, the film is serious in its approach. But those not dazzled by its handful of all-too-human principal characters may feel -- like with a lot of anime -- that's there's plenty of neat things to look at but little to hold onto in the way of original drama, comedy and storytelling coherence.
The picture's fast-moving two hours still manages to be confusing. (One major issue that only occurs late in the movie is how similar the lead hero and main villain sound.) The film, originally in Japanese with subtitles, has been revoiced in English. The sound effects (nonenveloping) and musical choices (contrasty TV commercial fodder) will underwhelm some, but those previously tuned in with the TV series will be happy to see the team of bounty hunters back in action.
Working together but often critical of each other and usually finding stuff to quarrel over, the heroes in question are slacker Spike Spiegel (voiced by Steven Jay Blum), grouchy Jet Black (Beau Billingslea), maverick Faye Valentine (Wendee Lee) and their Welsh corgi, who doesn't speak and acts like such a regular canine that some of the team don't seem to be aware he's a "data dog." These four fly around in the Bebop and stumble into a plot to bring down the Martian government.
A seemingly invulnerable creep named Vincent (Daran Norris) sets off a biological weapon in a large tanker-truck explosion on a freeway. Faye is about to nab him when this deadly event occurs, and she and Spike compete to finish the job. The mystery deepens to include a large pharmaceutical company's experimentation in applying nanotechnology to warfare and a fetching company enforcer, Elektra Ovirowa (Jennifer Hale), who is instructed to terminate Vincent.
Along with such down-to-earth sequences of surprising resonance as Spike's visit to a "Moroccan Street" informant and over-the-top confrontations like that between Vincent and two pursuers on a monorail train, "Cowboy" has enough style, wit and speculative ideas that an adult can be reasonably entertained, while many younger viewers will undoubtedly have no problem resolving its minor inconsistencies -- and probably happily have nightmares afterward.
COWBOY BEBOP: THE MOVIE
Sony Pictures Entertainment
TriStar Pictures presents
Sunrise, Bones, Bandai Visual
Credits:
Director: Shinichiro Watanabe
Screenwriter: Keiko Nobumoto
Producers: Masuo Ueda, Masahiko Minami, Minoru Takanashi
Executive producers: Takayuki Yoshii, Ryohei Tsunoda
Character designer/animation director: Toshihiro Kawamoto
Mechanical designer: Kimitoshi Yamane
Editor: Shuichi Kakesu
Music: Yoko Kanno
Voices:
Spike Spiegel: Steven Jay Blum
Jet Black: Beau Billingslea
Faye Valentine: Wendee Lee
Vincent: Daran Norris
Elektra Ovirowa: Jennifer Hale
Running time -- 113 minutes
No MPAA rating...
Set on Mars in the year 2071 and residing firmly in the practice of recent Japanese animation that takes a less-than-positive attitude toward the future but stops short of being pessimistic, "Cowboy" finds interesting angles and visual details to complement its overall design.
Relying on evocative cityscape and planetscape backgrounds and coming to life most memorably in the action sequences, the film is serious in its approach. But those not dazzled by its handful of all-too-human principal characters may feel -- like with a lot of anime -- that's there's plenty of neat things to look at but little to hold onto in the way of original drama, comedy and storytelling coherence.
The picture's fast-moving two hours still manages to be confusing. (One major issue that only occurs late in the movie is how similar the lead hero and main villain sound.) The film, originally in Japanese with subtitles, has been revoiced in English. The sound effects (nonenveloping) and musical choices (contrasty TV commercial fodder) will underwhelm some, but those previously tuned in with the TV series will be happy to see the team of bounty hunters back in action.
Working together but often critical of each other and usually finding stuff to quarrel over, the heroes in question are slacker Spike Spiegel (voiced by Steven Jay Blum), grouchy Jet Black (Beau Billingslea), maverick Faye Valentine (Wendee Lee) and their Welsh corgi, who doesn't speak and acts like such a regular canine that some of the team don't seem to be aware he's a "data dog." These four fly around in the Bebop and stumble into a plot to bring down the Martian government.
A seemingly invulnerable creep named Vincent (Daran Norris) sets off a biological weapon in a large tanker-truck explosion on a freeway. Faye is about to nab him when this deadly event occurs, and she and Spike compete to finish the job. The mystery deepens to include a large pharmaceutical company's experimentation in applying nanotechnology to warfare and a fetching company enforcer, Elektra Ovirowa (Jennifer Hale), who is instructed to terminate Vincent.
Along with such down-to-earth sequences of surprising resonance as Spike's visit to a "Moroccan Street" informant and over-the-top confrontations like that between Vincent and two pursuers on a monorail train, "Cowboy" has enough style, wit and speculative ideas that an adult can be reasonably entertained, while many younger viewers will undoubtedly have no problem resolving its minor inconsistencies -- and probably happily have nightmares afterward.
COWBOY BEBOP: THE MOVIE
Sony Pictures Entertainment
TriStar Pictures presents
Sunrise, Bones, Bandai Visual
Credits:
Director: Shinichiro Watanabe
Screenwriter: Keiko Nobumoto
Producers: Masuo Ueda, Masahiko Minami, Minoru Takanashi
Executive producers: Takayuki Yoshii, Ryohei Tsunoda
Character designer/animation director: Toshihiro Kawamoto
Mechanical designer: Kimitoshi Yamane
Editor: Shuichi Kakesu
Music: Yoko Kanno
Voices:
Spike Spiegel: Steven Jay Blum
Jet Black: Beau Billingslea
Faye Valentine: Wendee Lee
Vincent: Daran Norris
Elektra Ovirowa: Jennifer Hale
Running time -- 113 minutes
No MPAA rating...
- 8/22/2002
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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