Seriously! o_o There's also one episode in particular in Cowboy Bebop (I think it's 5; the first one with Vicious) where the music completely makes the scene *twice.* If you've watched it, you probably know exactly which places I'm talking about. ^_^b
0:00 - Know Your Enemy 5:00 - 35.7c 6:40 - Fish ~ Silent Cruise 8:37 - Green Bird 10:29 - Sóra 12:41 - Moon 17:40 - Piano Black 20:27 - Rush 24:02 - Inner Universe 25:32 - Gonna Rice 27:33 - Surf 30:28 - Cyberbird 36:15 - Torukia 42:20 - Banquet Firewall 45:48 - The Garden of Everything 51:50 - Heaven's Not Enough 56:02 - Call me Call me 58:49 - Rain 1:02:12 - Kuro 1:05:07 - Joy 1:08:22 - Yin's Piano 1:11:26 - トライフルソング 1:13:22 - Voices 1:16:32 - Rise 1:18:13 - Exaelitus 1:22:08 - Crossing 1:25:27 - Kiseki No Umi 1:29:03 - Yakusoku wa Iranai 1:32:30 - Strangers 1:35:48 - shiro, long tail's 1:39:05 - Paradise Lost 1:41:24 - Tank! 1:42:54 - Mushroom Hunting 1:44:24 - What Planet Is This?! 1:48:55 - Waltz for Zizi 1:52:20 - Pot City 1:54:30 - Space Lion 1:59:14 - ELM 2:02:03 - Cats on Mars 2:04:50 - Go Go Cactus Man 2:07:24 - Chicken Bone 2:09:51 - Gotta Knock a Little Harder 2:15:09 - Ask DNA 2:20:01 - Lithium Flower 2:23:18 - Run Rabbit Junk 2:27:46 - Total Eclipse 2:31:03 - zero signal 2:34:33 - I Can't Be Cool 2:37:43 - Aqua 2:41:02 - Torch Song 2:42:28 - This EDEN 2:47:10 - Blaze (Take 2) 2:49:54 - Myung Theme 2:51:25 - Forgotten Hero (Reprise) 2:53:11 - The Tower of Babel 2:55:13 - EndTitle 2:57:39 - Melty Kiss 2:58:39 - Because 3:01:02 - I Do 3:04:52 - The Real Folk Blues
Yoko Kanno is my favorite composer hands down. I feel like her library is so huge too I'll never get through it all. I rarely ever call people geniuses but Yoko Kanno is a genius
@Mad I take it she's only taking a part of those songs and modify the rest. It could be just unintentional, just influenced with them. Namely, aoi hitomi / fanelia from that sigmund and garfunkel (a part of it). However there's also an exception with cloud 9 (taken from a french song). I assume she's just making a tribute/ japanese version. And i'm glad that my most favorite songs aren't in the list.
Yoko Kanno is one of the greatest composers of all time. her ability to create songs in ANY genera of music is amazing. this woman is a true treasure to the world :)
Wolf's Rain has my favorite soundtrack of any media. I'm so glad some of it is represented here (rip the copyright strike for Face On, though - that one's one of my favorite tracks). Honestly just about any track from Wolf's Rain could fit on this list easily - it's just that good. If you haven't seen it, go watch it. It's only like 30 eps, and that's including the 4 OVA/recap episodes.
My gosh, nostalgia kicks in. Reading your comment brought back early childhood memories when shows like Wolf's Rain in Animax aired. Those were the days of innocence and wonder.
@@BASEDHITLORLOVER14n88 A lot of her music is sampled or covered in her own style. She definitely throws her own spin on it and incorporates a lot of unique things, but base ideas are often borrowed. Still amazing music. That's just why some people discredit her.
@Tj is Trash everyone has influences this is absolute bullshit though she is not plagiarizing by drawing influence from predecessors it happens to any artist that comes after another
Yoko Kanno is my spirit animal. I am happy to incarnate the same time she is alive to create incredible work. Listening to her music is literally essential to my daily life. Coffee.
Thanks Yoko Kanno for your work for having accompanied so well as it should animes like Cowboy Bebop, Wolf's Rain, GITS SAC and more recently Zankyou no Terror. Thanks.
She's the first composer I ever listened to before getting really into soundtrack music. My first soundtrack is from my favorite anime which inspired the animation style for Cowboy Bebop. The Vision of Escaflowne.
i was about to complain about the lack of zankyou no terror's ost then i read the description, great mix nonethless!! yoko kanno is a musical genius !!
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Bebop Endgame Summary In Session 1, Laughing Bull foretells of Spike's death being brought on by a woman. Laughing Bull: Swimming bird will meet a woman. The bird will be hunted by this woman. And then death. Spike: One more time. Laughing Bull: What's that? Spike: I was killed once before by a woman. Spike is speaking of Julia. Losing her love was so painful as to be considered a form of death. He was left in a detached dream-like purgatory from that day on. In Session 26, Julia is shot in front of Spike. White doves fly by in slow motion. Horror, shock, and agony are expressed in Spike's left eye. He screams her name, drops his weapon, and runs to her. He takes her in his arms. Hears her last words, which are inaudible to the audience. Spike looks down at his lost love and then up to the sky. The camera is now focused on Spike's right eye, which is shaking in a disturbing manner. The camera zooms into Spike's pupil and everything fades to black. The next scene is of Laughing Bull predicting Spike's imminent death. Holding Julia's coat, Vicious speaks of Spike. Vicious: A beast that has lost his place. He has nowhere to return to now. He will come. Vicious is both right and wrong. Spike will come, but he does have somewhere to return to one last time. Two rose petals are shown blowing away in the wind. Spike returns to the Bebop and tells Jet a story. An allegory about his life which he uses to explain why he will never return. Spike: There once was a tiger striped cat. This cat died a million deaths, revived and lived a million lives, and he was owned by various people who he didn't really care for. The cat wasn't afraid to die. Then one day the cat became a stray cat, which meant he was free. He met a white female cat, and the two of them spent their days together happily. Well, years passed, and the white cat grew weak and died of old age. The tiger striped cat cried a million times, and then he died too. Except this time, he didn't come back to life. Jet is keenly aware that Spike's death looms in the horizon. He is wary of the tale's implications. When Spike gets up to leave, Jet asks him one last question. Jet: Is it for the girl? Spike: [beat] She's dead. There's nothing I can do for her now. This is true. Julia is dead. There is nothing Spike can do for her. This does not lessen the impact she has on the events that are about to unfold. Jet understands this. Upon hearing of Julia's death, he has a resigned if devastated reaction. He knows exactly what this means for Spike. Faye confronts Spike while holding him at gunpoint. She knows that he is marching towards his death. Faye: Where are you going? Why, are you going? You told me once, to forget the past, ‘cause it doesn’t matter, but you’re the one still tied to the past, Spike! Spike does not deny this. Instead, he explains the truth about his eyes. The camera spans from his left eye to his right eye. Spike: Look at my eyes, Faye. One of them is a fake because I lost it in an accident. Since then, I've been seeing the past in one eye and the present in the other. So, I thought I could only see patches of reality, never the whole picture. Faye: Don’t tell me things like that; you’ve never told me anything about yourself, so don’t tell me now! Spike: I felt like I was watching a dream I could never wake up from. Before I knew it, the dream was all over. This is not the first time Spike has expressed this sentiment. One of his most revelatory quotes was said in the teaser for Ballad of Fallen Angels. Spike: The music box is broken, or is it? It starts to play, and a haunting tune fills the air. I wake suddenly from my dream. There is no music box! And yet there it is. A tiny one nestled in my hand. And I awaken from my dream again. As if I were peeling an onion. It’s a dream no matter how far I go. I can never reach reality. Trapped in an endless nightmare. Spike is so affected by the loss of the woman he loves that even an item she once possessed haunts him. It is her death that has finally woken him from his detached dream-like state. Faye shares with Spike that her memory has returned. She explains that there was nowhere for her to go back to. She pleads with him to stay. Spike ignores her please and instead leaves her with these parting words. Spike: I’m not going there to die; I’m going to find out if I’m really alive. I have to do it, Faye. Faye is not comforted by this statement. The audience should not be comforted either. Spike's words eerily echo what Jet said to him in session 25. Jet: Men only think about the past right before their death, as if they were searching frantically for proof that they were alive. Faye cries and shoots off her gun. An act reminiscent of the 21-gun salute that is used in the military to honor the fallen. Spike walks away from Faye without looking back. He is never shown thinking about anyone from the Bebop again. The song "See You Space Cowboy" plays as Spike leaves the Bebop. "Everything is already over", You say with closed ears The words only flow Towards a tomorrow without peace "There's nothing that won't change" Even if my life ends This love will not disappear It's something that will live forever Even if dreams are hidden in darkness I got a rainbow Rainbow in your hands... The camera focuses on Spike's left eye. The eye that sees Spike's past. The lyrics begin as Spike is recalling romantic memories of Julia. He thinks of the first time he saw Julia and was captivated by her beauty. He thinks of a time when he made love to Julia and she cradled him in her arms. Given that Spike confided to Jet just the previous session that Julia was a part of him, the image shows a moment in Spike's life when he felt whole. Spike: She was a piece of me I had lost. She is my other half that I had longed for. The song continues to play as Spike attacks the syndicate. It is a ballad of undying love alluding to lovers being reunited in the afterlife. When Spike faces off against his hated rival, Vicious makes a proclamation. Vicious: So, you're finally awake. I told you before, Spike. I'm the only one who can kill you and set you free. Spike does not deny this. But makes a proclamation of his own. Spike: Those words apply to you as well, Vicious. During their fight, there comes a moment where the two disarm each other by swapping weapons. Vicious getting Spike's gun and Spike getting Vicious's katana. It is at this moment that Spike makes a statement of great significance to both men. Spike: Julia passed away. Let's end it all. Vicious: If that's your wish. The rivals return their weapons. Spike shoots Vicious but gets sliced across the abdomen. Vicious's death comes quickly, while Spike lingers as was foreshadowed. Vicious: Don't forget, a snake's venom poisons slowly after the bite. Spike watches Vicious's body fall to the ground, spends but a few seconds looking at him, then looks up to the night's sky. The camera is focused on Spike's right eye. Now calm. Spike sees Julia. This is the first time in the entire series that Spike is shown seeing Julia with his right eye. In session 13, during an auditory flashback, Spike and Julia discuss his eyes. Spike: My left eye sees the past. Julia: What about your right eye? We do not hear his response. In the penultimate scene of the series, we are specifically shown what Spike sees with his eye that sees his present. He sees her. In Spike's vision, Julia is cast in a white light. She says her last words to Spike, this time they are audible to the audience. Spike is shown reflected back in Julia's eye. He glumly concurs with her. Spike is then completely engulfed by a blinding white light. The scene fades to white. This light is reminiscent of the divine light that is cast upon a soul that is ready to ascend to heaven. Julia: It's all a dream. Spike: Yeah. Just a bad dream. From white we transition to the final scene of the series. It is now day. A white light is now cast over the entire syndicate. Spike smiles, points a finger gun at the remaining syndicate goons and says "bang". This is a callback to Wen from session 6. As Wen was dying he asked Spike if he understood the relief that came with one's own death. In response, Spike threw Wen's harmonica up in the air, pretended to shoot it while saying "bang". When Spike says "bang" this time he is acknowledging that he now understands that relief. Spike falls to the ground. He is never shown moving again. White doves are shown flying over Spike's body. White doves also flew by Julia when she died. The camera follows an ascension into the heavens, while the song "Blue" plays. The song's lyrics allude to a soul ascending to heaven. Free Wanna be free Gonna be free And move among the stars You know, they really aren't so far Feels so free Gotta know free Please Don't wake me from the dream It's really everything it seems I'm so free No black and white in the blue Everything is clearer now Life is just a dream, you know That's never-ending I'm ascending At the end of the credits a star goes out but never falls. In session 13, Laughing Bull informs the audience to what a falling star truly is. Child: A star just fell from the sky. Laughing Bull: That is not an ordinary star, my son. That star is the tear of a warrior. A lost soul who has finished his battles somewhere on this planet. Child: What warrior is it? Laughing Bull: A pitiful soul who could not find his way to the lofty realm. Where the great spirit awaits us all. Given that the star we are shown does not fall, it is reasonable to infer that the soul the star belonged to did make its way to the great spirit that awaits us all. That soul has broken away from the cycle of death and rebirth and is never coming back. As was foreshadowed to happen to Spike in the fable of the tiger striped cat, who followed his love into death and never returned.
TRACKS THAT DIDN'T MAKE IT DUE TO COPYRIGHT: Von, hanna (Terror in Resonance) Dance of Curse (Escaflowne) Face on (Wolf's Rain) Velveteen, Some Other Time, Be Human (GitS: SAC) Road to West, Blue, Clutch (Bebop) those who can read are at a clear advantage
Without separated this list isn't complete. Could be top 10 or 20 songs by Kanno sensei that one. Vocal or instrumental. It's already a big feat in reaching top 10 or 20. Tells you how magnificent her discography is.
@@ShadowShiranui For real. Wolfs Rain and Zankyou no Terror music especially have gotten removed from UA-cam. Please Save My Earth (she composed it with her husband) would get pulled a bunch in the past but I see it a lot less now.
kusuri, i am a huge fan and am really appreciative you put this together. see the work involved in this compilation, and you made it 1080 for better audio. just wanted to say, thanks.
We don’t deserve yoko kanno. It’s insane how much anime she’s composed and I grew up watching. Also it’s a shame the song blue got dmca’d. I wish we could redo our dmca laws.
Fun fact: 1:46:45 - What Planet Is This?! The voice which speaks is italian and says: "E' una cosa strana"... (It is a strange thing) "Attenzione" (attention) "Ora partiamo apro io...(indistinguable phrases)" (Now we depart, I open....) This same song was used in 2009 from the italian Radio 105 to explain the Chuck Norris Facts!!!
Way too heavy on Cowboy Bebop and Ghost in the Shell. Yoko Kanno has done so much more than these two shows. Also, a lot of songs fade out too early. Coincidently, usually my favorite ones
Yeah, the fade outs are a bummer, but I think it's best to just take this list as a guide and check out the individual songs themselves. Then just make your own YT playlist out of them. CB and GitS SAC are probably Kanno's most wellknown works, so that may be why they are featured so heavily. However, A also added some more of my personal favourites in another post, featuring songs from Arjuna, Darker than Black, Marcoss Plus, Wolf's Rain and Escaflowne, as well as the magnificent Song to Fly album.
i cant believe i found this woman through the song von, even then to find out she made the best songs from darker than black and cowboy bebop on top of that
@MetàVersé there are more than 40 songs actually. I won't call it plagiarism cus those songs that she took from are in fact copies of other songs. And even composers like john williams do this. It's better to make remixes of songs than to make mediocre new ones. And she doesn't get much money from it anyways. As someone who is learning music, i can understand how impossible it is to create a new tune. But she still made a lot of great original music. Most osts only have one main theme song and the whole ost revolves aroung it i.e. all the tracks are its various interpretations. But what yoko kanno did is phnenomenal, every track is well thought and different from the other, not just a "slow or sad version" of the main theme.
@Jordan Peterson cucked my dad yep i know about craig armstrong. You know what that can also be said about his discography. For example, the song "weather storm" sounds similar to this: ua-cam.com/video/o5NzL5G7UiA/v-deo.html
Shedding tears at 12:40 because Turn A Gundam is my favorite series. ;;u;; And Loran is the best protag, being a neutral party in the series with the power to pilot the Gundam known as "Mustache".
With exception of the ones I'm ignorant of, these are all things I love. Seriously about to cry when moon's cocoon kicked in immediately after Escaflone. T-T
@@runsbuns3675 Honestly, at this point, she's sort of a genre. >grin< (She also sings as Gabriela Robin on a few of these, so it's "all of the above," really.)
People tend to overlook the importance of music in movies, anime, games etc. GITS would not have been the same without Yoko Kanno
Crazy we are all still coming back. And we prolly will be until the day we die. It's wild stuff.
Absolutely...music sets the scene.
Seriously! o_o There's also one episode in particular in Cowboy Bebop (I think it's 5; the first one with Vicious) where the music completely makes the scene *twice.* If you've watched it, you probably know exactly which places I'm talking about. ^_^b
She’s definitely a legend. I’ve seen her name on countless anime movies and series. She’s like the Hans Zimmer of anime.
I can't even enjoy a show if it doesn't have at least a decent soundtrack
Seeing Yoko perform at Otakon 2013 was one of the best live music experiences I've been lucky to have.
So true
0:00 - Know Your Enemy
5:00 - 35.7c
6:40 - Fish ~ Silent Cruise
8:37 - Green Bird
10:29 - Sóra
12:41 - Moon
17:40 - Piano Black
20:27 - Rush
24:02 - Inner Universe
25:32 - Gonna Rice
27:33 - Surf
30:28 - Cyberbird
36:15 - Torukia
42:20 - Banquet Firewall
45:48 - The Garden of Everything
51:50 - Heaven's Not Enough
56:02 - Call me Call me
58:49 - Rain
1:02:12 - Kuro
1:05:07 - Joy
1:08:22 - Yin's Piano
1:11:26 - トライフルソング
1:13:22 - Voices
1:16:32 - Rise
1:18:13 - Exaelitus
1:22:08 - Crossing
1:25:27 - Kiseki No Umi
1:29:03 - Yakusoku wa Iranai
1:32:30 - Strangers
1:35:48 - shiro, long tail's
1:39:05 - Paradise Lost
1:41:24 - Tank!
1:42:54 - Mushroom Hunting
1:44:24 - What Planet Is This?!
1:48:55 - Waltz for Zizi
1:52:20 - Pot City
1:54:30 - Space Lion
1:59:14 - ELM
2:02:03 - Cats on Mars
2:04:50 - Go Go Cactus Man
2:07:24 - Chicken Bone
2:09:51 - Gotta Knock a Little Harder
2:15:09 - Ask DNA
2:20:01 - Lithium Flower
2:23:18 - Run Rabbit Junk
2:27:46 - Total Eclipse
2:31:03 - zero signal
2:34:33 - I Can't Be Cool
2:37:43 - Aqua
2:41:02 - Torch Song
2:42:28 - This EDEN
2:47:10 - Blaze (Take 2)
2:49:54 - Myung Theme
2:51:25 - Forgotten Hero (Reprise)
2:53:11 - The Tower of Babel
2:55:13 - EndTitle
2:57:39 - Melty Kiss
2:58:39 - Because
3:01:02 - I Do
3:04:52 - The Real Folk Blues
After 8 months, thank you
Yoko Kanno is my favorite composer hands down. I feel like her library is so huge too I'll never get through it all. I rarely ever call people geniuses but Yoko Kanno is a genius
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Shame she plagiarised a lot of her songs
@Mad
I take it she's only taking a part of those songs and modify the rest. It could be just unintentional, just influenced with them. Namely, aoi hitomi / fanelia from that sigmund and garfunkel (a part of it).
However there's also an exception with cloud 9 (taken from a french song). I assume she's just making a tribute/ japanese version.
And i'm glad that my most favorite songs aren't in the list.
@@quickmax4648 plagiarizes or does she sample? there's a difference
@@quickmax4648 Prove it. Plagiarism=/=sounds similar to.
Yoko Kanno is a genius, I can't think of a better way to describe her.
All are great but Cyberbird is giving me an indescribable inner strength, joy of life, hope, warmth..
Yoko Kanno is one of the greatest composers of all time. her ability to create songs in ANY genera of music is amazing. this woman is a true treasure to the world :)
Kiseki no Umi for Life. Thanks for the share 💪🏻
Yoko Kanno is such a talented compositor! Each song gives me peace, and other emotions I cant begin to explain. Such beautiful music. 🍊
Wolf's Rain has my favorite soundtrack of any media. I'm so glad some of it is represented here (rip the copyright strike for Face On, though - that one's one of my favorite tracks). Honestly just about any track from Wolf's Rain could fit on this list easily - it's just that good. If you haven't seen it, go watch it. It's only like 30 eps, and that's including the 4 OVA/recap episodes.
Wolf's Rain was the first anime my partner and I watched together. All of the OST is lovely!!
@@Digisoulwings did you watch eureka7? cause thats another one with great ost and good to watch together
My gosh, nostalgia kicks in. Reading your comment brought back early childhood memories when shows like Wolf's Rain in Animax aired. Those were the days of innocence and wonder.
She is beyond incredible...simply astounding. Some of her tracks have the ability to stop me in my tracks and make me ponder about life.
I thank God for allowing me to live in the same era as Yoko Kano.
Please Save My Earth, beautiful
Best composer of anime OST of all time.
Agreed
@Tj is Trash elaborate 🤨
@@BASEDHITLORLOVER14n88 A lot of her music is sampled or covered in her own style. She definitely throws her own spin on it and incorporates a lot of unique things, but base ideas are often borrowed. Still amazing music. That's just why some people discredit her.
@Tj is Trash everyone has influences this is absolute bullshit though she is not plagiarizing by drawing influence from predecessors it happens to any artist that comes after another
Susumu Hirasawa is definitely up there as well
I just can not get enough. Masterful.
Yoko Kanno is my spirit animal. I am happy to incarnate the same time she is alive to create incredible work. Listening to her music is literally essential to my daily life. Coffee.
Im sure Yoko would be happy to be called an animal.
spirit animal bruh
@@floki479 she would
Thanks Yoko Kanno for your work for having accompanied so well as it should animes like Cowboy Bebop, Wolf's Rain, GITS SAC and more recently Zankyou no Terror. Thanks.
Thank you.
Inner Universe is my best song -- in my country people don't know this track greetings from Poland im you big fan Yoko Kanno
awww man i forgot about Wolf's Rain....man what a great anime...sudden tears
the fact this starts with Know Your Enemy made me respect the entire list.
Fantastic collection. Thanks so much.
@8:37 Greenbird :'( Makes me cry everytime!!
I've literally had dreams with that song in it
of course real folk blues is the last song. also i so sad i didn’t know about this music sooner it’s beautiful
so honoured to be able to listen to her music.
Yoko Kanno takes you places man
She's the first composer I ever listened to before getting really into soundtrack music. My first soundtrack is from my favorite anime which inspired the animation style for Cowboy Bebop. The Vision of Escaflowne.
i was about to complain about the lack of zankyou no terror's ost then i read the description, great mix nonethless!! yoko kanno is a musical genius !!
One of my favorite playlists, great study music!
Awesome collection!!!!
Every song reminds me of those great memories with anime masterpieces
so glad i came across this. what bliss
Simply, just a great mix! Thank you very much. :)
if you ever smoke a note, make sure its a Kanno. "Kanno Lights" A flavor of melody that is smooth and refreshing to the ear.
Merci, c'est très bien fait !
Awesome collection! Thanks for sharing and perfect for my work from home.
Thank you for this compilation, this composition is beautiful!
I'm shocked too!! Just too great! Yay! ;)
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Thanks!
This is amazing, thanks for the compilation.
Cyberbird...just hits different.
Bebop Endgame Summary
In Session 1, Laughing Bull foretells of Spike's death being brought on by a woman.
Laughing Bull: Swimming bird will meet a woman. The bird will be hunted by this woman. And then death.
Spike: One more time.
Laughing Bull: What's that?
Spike: I was killed once before by a woman.
Spike is speaking of Julia. Losing her love was so painful as to be considered a form of death. He was left in a detached dream-like purgatory from that day on.
In Session 26, Julia is shot in front of Spike. White doves fly by in slow motion. Horror, shock, and agony are expressed in Spike's left eye. He screams her name, drops his weapon, and runs to her. He takes her in his arms. Hears her last words, which are inaudible to the audience.
Spike looks down at his lost love and then up to the sky. The camera is now focused on Spike's right eye, which is shaking in a disturbing manner. The camera zooms into Spike's pupil and everything fades to black.
The next scene is of Laughing Bull predicting Spike's imminent death.
Holding Julia's coat, Vicious speaks of Spike.
Vicious: A beast that has lost his place. He has nowhere to return to now. He will come.
Vicious is both right and wrong. Spike will come, but he does have somewhere to return to one last time.
Two rose petals are shown blowing away in the wind.
Spike returns to the Bebop and tells Jet a story. An allegory about his life which he uses to explain why he will never return.
Spike: There once was a tiger striped cat. This cat died a million deaths, revived and lived a million lives, and he was owned by various people who he didn't really care for. The cat wasn't afraid to die. Then one day the cat became a stray cat, which meant he was free. He met a white female cat, and the two of them spent their days together happily. Well, years passed, and the white cat grew weak and died of old age. The tiger striped cat cried a million times, and then he died too. Except this time, he didn't come back to life.
Jet is keenly aware that Spike's death looms in the horizon. He is wary of the tale's implications.
When Spike gets up to leave, Jet asks him one last question.
Jet: Is it for the girl?
Spike: [beat] She's dead. There's nothing I can do for her now.
This is true. Julia is dead. There is nothing Spike can do for her. This does not lessen the impact she has on the events that are about to unfold. Jet understands this. Upon hearing of Julia's death, he has a resigned if devastated reaction. He knows exactly what this means for Spike.
Faye confronts Spike while holding him at gunpoint. She knows that he is marching towards his death.
Faye: Where are you going? Why, are you going? You told me once, to forget the past, ‘cause it doesn’t matter, but you’re the one still tied to the past, Spike!
Spike does not deny this. Instead, he explains the truth about his eyes. The camera spans from his left eye to his right eye.
Spike: Look at my eyes, Faye. One of them is a fake because I lost it in an accident. Since then, I've been seeing the past in one eye and the present in the other. So, I thought I could only see patches of reality, never the whole picture.
Faye: Don’t tell me things like that; you’ve never told me anything about yourself, so don’t tell me now!
Spike: I felt like I was watching a dream I could never wake up from. Before I knew it, the dream was all over.
This is not the first time Spike has expressed this sentiment. One of his most revelatory quotes was said in the teaser for Ballad of Fallen Angels.
Spike: The music box is broken, or is it? It starts to play, and a haunting tune fills the air. I wake suddenly from my dream. There is no music box! And yet there it is. A tiny one nestled in my hand. And I awaken from my dream again. As if I were peeling an onion. It’s a dream no matter how far I go. I can never reach reality. Trapped in an endless nightmare.
Spike is so affected by the loss of the woman he loves that even an item she once possessed haunts him. It is her death that has finally woken him from his detached dream-like state.
Faye shares with Spike that her memory has returned. She explains that there was nowhere for her to go back to. She pleads with him to stay.
Spike ignores her please and instead leaves her with these parting words.
Spike: I’m not going there to die; I’m going to find out if I’m really alive. I have to do it, Faye.
Faye is not comforted by this statement. The audience should not be comforted either. Spike's words eerily echo what Jet said to him in session 25.
Jet: Men only think about the past right before their death, as if they were searching frantically for proof that they were alive.
Faye cries and shoots off her gun. An act reminiscent of the 21-gun salute that is used in the military to honor the fallen.
Spike walks away from Faye without looking back. He is never shown thinking about anyone from the Bebop again.
The song "See You Space Cowboy" plays as Spike leaves the Bebop.
"Everything is already over",
You say with closed ears
The words only flow
Towards a tomorrow without peace
"There's nothing that won't change"
Even if my life ends
This love will not disappear
It's something that will live forever
Even if dreams are hidden in darkness
I got a rainbow
Rainbow in your hands...
The camera focuses on Spike's left eye. The eye that sees Spike's past. The lyrics begin as Spike is recalling romantic memories of Julia. He thinks of the first time he saw Julia and was captivated by her beauty. He thinks of a time when he made love to Julia and she cradled him in her arms.
Given that Spike confided to Jet just the previous session that Julia was a part of him, the image shows a moment in Spike's life when he felt whole.
Spike: She was a piece of me I had lost. She is my other half that I had longed for.
The song continues to play as Spike attacks the syndicate. It is a ballad of undying love alluding to lovers being reunited in the afterlife.
When Spike faces off against his hated rival, Vicious makes a proclamation.
Vicious: So, you're finally awake. I told you before, Spike. I'm the only one who can kill you and set you free.
Spike does not deny this. But makes a proclamation of his own.
Spike: Those words apply to you as well, Vicious.
During their fight, there comes a moment where the two disarm each other by swapping weapons. Vicious getting Spike's gun and Spike getting Vicious's katana. It is at this moment that Spike makes a statement of great significance to both men.
Spike: Julia passed away. Let's end it all.
Vicious: If that's your wish.
The rivals return their weapons. Spike shoots Vicious but gets sliced across the abdomen.
Vicious's death comes quickly, while Spike lingers as was foreshadowed.
Vicious: Don't forget, a snake's venom poisons slowly after the bite.
Spike watches Vicious's body fall to the ground, spends but a few seconds looking at him, then looks up to the night's sky. The camera is focused on Spike's right eye. Now calm.
Spike sees Julia. This is the first time in the entire series that Spike is shown seeing Julia with his right eye.
In session 13, during an auditory flashback, Spike and Julia discuss his eyes.
Spike: My left eye sees the past.
Julia: What about your right eye?
We do not hear his response.
In the penultimate scene of the series, we are specifically shown what Spike sees with his eye that sees his present. He sees her.
In Spike's vision, Julia is cast in a white light. She says her last words to Spike, this time they are audible to the audience. Spike is shown reflected back in Julia's eye. He glumly concurs with her. Spike is then completely engulfed by a blinding white light. The scene fades to white. This light is reminiscent of the divine light that is cast upon a soul that is ready to ascend to heaven.
Julia: It's all a dream.
Spike: Yeah. Just a bad dream.
From white we transition to the final scene of the series. It is now day. A white light is now cast over the entire syndicate.
Spike smiles, points a finger gun at the remaining syndicate goons and says "bang".
This is a callback to Wen from session 6. As Wen was dying he asked Spike if he understood the relief that came with one's own death. In response, Spike threw Wen's harmonica up in the air, pretended to shoot it while saying "bang". When Spike says "bang" this time he is acknowledging that he now understands that relief.
Spike falls to the ground. He is never shown moving again. White doves are shown flying over Spike's body. White doves also flew by Julia when she died.
The camera follows an ascension into the heavens, while the song "Blue" plays. The song's lyrics allude to a soul ascending to heaven.
Free
Wanna be free
Gonna be free
And move among the stars
You know, they really aren't so far
Feels so free
Gotta know free
Please
Don't wake me from the dream
It's really everything it seems
I'm so free
No black and white in the blue
Everything is clearer now
Life is just a dream, you know
That's never-ending
I'm ascending
At the end of the credits a star goes out but never falls.
In session 13, Laughing Bull informs the audience to what a falling star truly is.
Child: A star just fell from the sky.
Laughing Bull: That is not an ordinary star, my son. That star is the tear of a warrior. A lost soul who has finished his battles somewhere on this planet.
Child: What warrior is it?
Laughing Bull: A pitiful soul who could not find his way to the lofty realm. Where the great spirit awaits us all.
Given that the star we are shown does not fall, it is reasonable to infer that the soul the star belonged to did make its way to the great spirit that awaits us all.
That soul has broken away from the cycle of death and rebirth and is never coming back. As was foreshadowed to happen to Spike in the fable of the tiger striped cat, who followed his love into death and never returned.
way too much to read ngl
@@Simping tl;dr He finally sees Julia with his eye that sees his present. He leaves this world with a smile.
I read that all very well put! I enjoyed it a lot :) Cowboy bebop is one of my favorite shows ever
spoiler alert?????
@@spokeydoke I mean... I put "endgame summary" as the title and the first line is about something that is shown early in the first episode.
Please let this stay
masterpiece
waw I didn't rly know Kanno except for Bebop, and it's amazing, as your long mix!!! and thx for the few Bebop songs in a row :)
@Jeremiah Alexander Schäfer so de we need to watch stand alone complex after the movie?? Or how does it go chronologically
@Jeremiah Alexander Schäfer okay I see
Space Lion and The Real Folk Blues... that is all.
Such a beautiful mix, putting "Because" towards the end was a good choice
'Best of' includes over 3 hours of music?
Yes... yes it does
It really hurts when all the songs cut short, but, yes thank you. Beautiful
Killer collection! I love it!
so hard to chose a favourite of Kannos work!
60 songs and many are missing among the best: Escaflowne alone would fit a minimum of 20.
TRACKS THAT DIDN'T MAKE IT DUE TO COPYRIGHT:
Von, hanna (Terror in Resonance)
Dance of Curse (Escaflowne)
Face on (Wolf's Rain)
Velveteen, Some Other Time, Be Human (GitS: SAC)
Road to West, Blue, Clutch (Bebop)
those who can read are at a clear advantage
Without separated this list isn't complete. Could be top 10 or 20 songs by Kanno sensei that one. Vocal or instrumental.
It's already a big feat in reaching top 10 or 20. Tells you how magnificent her discography is.
@@kzero9714 nothing special.i mean look at sawano etc.
@@ShadowShiranui For real. Wolfs Rain and Zankyou no Terror music especially have gotten removed from UA-cam. Please Save My Earth (she composed it with her husband) would get pulled a bunch in the past but I see it a lot less now.
@@ghintz2156 zankyou no terror has not removed from youtube
here are a ton of videos from every song available.
but it is still under copyright
Every track is great but Waltz for Zizi is just perfect.
This needs more Escaflowne
kusuri, i am a huge fan and am really appreciative you put this together. see the work involved in this compilation, and you made it 1080 for better audio. just wanted to say, thanks.
Look at these bots lmao
@@Fightanddie they appeared everywhere for a day or two, then never saw them post again
@@Fightanddie they're talking to each other even
1080 is a screen resolution
Superawesome.
из-за таких людей еще теплится надежда на людской род
This is fantastic. Thank you
Cool
We don’t deserve yoko kanno. It’s insane how much anime she’s composed and I grew up watching. Also it’s a shame the song blue got dmca’d. I wish we could redo our dmca laws.
@Jordan Peterson cucked my dad welcome to music
Yeah, of course Blue got DMCA'd.
Goddess
So many good tracks on here. Sad no Digging My Potato, for real my fav. tune, but thank you for this. Going to get a lot of listens from me!
And!! Spokey Dokey, can't believe I left my boy out in the cold.
Buena, excelente selección 👍
where does this ocean go is a good one also
*Cyberbird ^^ not cybermind. nice compilation !
CyberBird gives me the energy to run a marathon
I feel the Songs should have segued out quietly and into each other not abruptly cut off
Yea i learned mixing songs a few weeks ago. Wish i knew sooner
Fun fact:
1:46:45 - What Planet Is This?!
The voice which speaks is italian and says:
"E' una cosa strana"... (It is a strange thing)
"Attenzione" (attention)
"Ora partiamo apro io...(indistinguable phrases)" (Now we depart, I open....)
This same song was used in 2009 from the italian Radio 105 to explain the Chuck Norris Facts!!!
omg i just discovered she did ghost in the shell ost too, niceee. and the best for the end. grettings from colombia.
Trés Bien! Amazing
Suprised Von didn't make the list or the songs she made for zankyo no terror
Looks like the playlist creator wasn't able to, due to copyright issues. :-( (It's mentioned in the video description.)
Keiiche Okabe's NieR composing had to have been influenced from Yoko Kanno
I don't know if he does but Hiroyuki Sawano has stated that Yoko Kanno was one biggest influence in his music
*When Inner Universe comes on*
My Brain: D O P A M I N E
Way too heavy on Cowboy Bebop and Ghost in the Shell. Yoko Kanno has done so much more than these two shows. Also, a lot of songs fade out too early. Coincidently, usually my favorite ones
Yeah, the fade outs are a bummer, but I think it's best to just take this list as a guide and check out the individual songs themselves. Then just make your own YT playlist out of them. CB and GitS SAC are probably Kanno's most wellknown works, so that may be why they are featured so heavily. However, A also added some more of my personal favourites in another post, featuring songs from Arjuna, Darker than Black, Marcoss Plus, Wolf's Rain and Escaflowne, as well as the magnificent Song to Fly album.
It's Green Bird from Bebop that makes me happysadangrylonging
i cant believe i found this woman through the song von, even then to find out she made the best songs from darker than black and cowboy bebop on top of that
And GITS Stand Alone Complex and ... and ... and ...
Look her up on IMDB. Her CV just goes on and on and on.
And its all gold.
@MetàVersé and? If you're going to criticize someone's work give examples or links.
@MetàVersé there are more than 40 songs actually. I won't call it plagiarism cus those songs that she took from are in fact copies of other songs. And even composers like john williams do this. It's better to make remixes of songs than to make mediocre new ones. And she doesn't get much money from it anyways. As someone who is learning music, i can understand how impossible it is to create a new tune. But she still made a lot of great original music.
Most osts only have one main theme song and the whole ost revolves aroung it i.e. all the tracks are its various interpretations. But what yoko kanno did is phnenomenal, every track is well thought and different from the other, not just a "slow or sad version" of the main theme.
@Jordan Peterson cucked my dad yep i know about craig armstrong. You know what that can also be said about his discography. For example, the song "weather storm" sounds similar to this:
ua-cam.com/video/o5NzL5G7UiA/v-deo.html
Inner universe (origa and yoko kano)❤❤ and cyber bird!! Those are the best for me!!!!!
Shedding tears at 12:40 because Turn A Gundam is my favorite series. ;;u;; And Loran is the best protag, being a neutral party in the series with the power to pilot the Gundam known as "Mustache".
Yoko Kanno and Kevin Penkin should get along
Орига всегда великолепна.
Отличная музыка.
Wikipedia article: No life partner.
Me: So there's a chance
I want them to do the Berserk soundtrack
With exception of the ones I'm ignorant of, these are all things I love. Seriously about to cry when moon's cocoon kicked in immediately after Escaflone. T-T
Can you add: Christmas In The Silent Forest?
All pretty good so hard to choose.
tank and total eclipse are my faves
does this woman score everything?
Yes! And it's still not quite enough. XD
❤️🔥🌹
Where did you manage to get a high quality version of paradise lost (it's not on the OST from my copy)... am I missing something?
Too bad some of them are cut in half...
Had to or else the video would have been 5 hours long
@@saeedahmad8361 Would have been worth it, though. :/
come to brazil
この瞳で過去を見ているのサ、、、
Yo vine por Tank! y me quede con Yoko Kanno
My favorite anime is cowboy bebop.
>Best of Yoko Kanno
>no Sangokushi bgm
Shittaste westerner confirmed
is yoko kanno a genre of music or is it a singer in these many different bands?
oh looked it up its a composer
@@runsbuns3675 Honestly, at this point, she's sort of a genre. >grin< (She also sings as Gabriela Robin on a few of these, so it's "all of the above," really.)
Andaba buscando oro y encontré diamantes.
What are you, allergic to the last 40 seconds of every song?
信長の野望がない･･･(´；ω；`)
The Kiseki No Umi one remember me of Brother Bear soundtrack! x )