It's All Over Now - A Look at Shinichiro Watanabe's "Baby Blue"
Shinichiro Watanabe's anime projects have repeatedly exploded in popularity worldwide. Baby Blue, his short from the anthology film Genius Party, is not one of those projects. And that's a shame, so in this video, I want to talk about Baby Blue, and why I've loved it since first watching it over a decade ago.
Timecodes -
0:00 - Introduction to Shinichiro Watanabe
1:54 - Introduction to Baby Blue
4:44 - Baby Blue Analysis
21:21 - Ending Credits
Works Cited -
Andrew Osmond, “Interview: Shinichiro Watanabe,” https://blog.alltheanime.com/intervie...
Anime News Network, “Suggest your questions for the Shinichiro Watanabe interview,” https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/bbs/...
collegedept, “Shinichiro Watanabe and the Two Shot Dynamic,” • Shinichiro Watanabe and The Two-Shot Dynamic
Ernest Hemingway, Death in the Afternoon
Otaquest, “Shinichiro Watanabe’s Overlooked Masterpiece: Baby Blue,” https://www.otaquest.com/baby-blue-sh...
Yahoo Japan 5 Centimeters Per Second Profile, https://web.archive.org/web/200607171...