I Didn't Care About Anime Music Before THIS

homie got sucked into Howls moving castle and spirited away so hard making this video he just let it play lol

love it when someone finds music and just goes "YOOOOOOOOOO" for 19 minutes and 01 seconds

I'm a drummer and always laugh/point out how what is being heard isn't being played, but they captured Every! Single! Hit! And it's not just that the sticks are hitting the right drum/cymbal, but they animated the proper technique to hit them. Feels so much more real

I love it when people who have never seen anime before and think it's something so simple truly experience it and are just blown away.

They're called The Seatbelts because they have to be belted in to wail that hard in zero gravity without floating away from the mics. Yoko Kanno is Queen

It's hilarious. People who never got in touch with video games and Anime slowly realise, that this is a Rabbithole full of masterful music.

The Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex soundtrack is insane!!!

Akira from 1988 has some very unique music and sounds that blend with the movie into an insane experience.

Nujabes: samurai champloo ost - This is THE album that created the whole genre of chillhop. Aside from Bebop, this might be the most influential OST ever made. Nujabes created a laidback quirky style of hip hop and then died straight after, his work completed. Kevin Penkin: Made in Abyss OST (fourth layer) --- Eerie atmospheric. Does incredible work building the fantastic and strange world they travel through. They start on the surface and gradually descend through layers and the music reflects this as they get further and further from normal. Yuki Kajiura: .hack OST (the world, fake wings) - Heavy strings of all sorts, high paced violin sections, heavy drones, crisp classical guitar. Tribal voices to gentle melodic songs. Kenji Kawai - Mob Psycho 100 OST 2 (Explosion of Mob) - This anime goes wild with a character powered by emotions, and as he loses his mind the music does too. Susumu Hirasawa - Paprika - This is by far the strangest yet beautiful ost I've ever heard. I have no idea how to describe it. Yoshiaki Fujisawa - Houseki no Kuni - Ghibli vibes. Simple instrument choices. Often just 2 or 3 instruments working together. Just sit and enjoy. Cutting it down to this is actual torture. :( If anyone listens to these or has any to add please do! I tried to keep it to popular anime for the youtube algorithm but I should also mention: Ikoku Meiro no Croisée and Ristorante Paradiso - both have the whole OST played by the same small (3 person) jazz band called Ko-ko-ya with no extra effects or tweaking. The direct connection with the music is wonderful. "Ikoku no Choro" is insanely good! But wouldn't do much for the algorithm :/ Edit: He has reacted to Lupin3 right? That's literally a jazz standard in Japan now. It is likely the most recognizable jazz in the country.

Samurai Champloo, the music is part of the story and the characters, absolutely fantastic.

The anime music that has been most impactful for me is Space Lion from Cowboy Bebop. Ever since I first heard it as the end credits of the episodes Jupiter Jazz, a remarkable example of story telling of any kind, it has been the most soothing, meditative, and relaxing and healing theme I’ve ever heard. Any time I feel depressed or are on the edge of an anxiety attack Space Lion has helped me through those times in ways that are difficult to describe. But I have an iTunes play list with just Space Lion on it and according to the play list count I’ve listed to to in almost 9000 times and that’s not including the number of plays on the various iPods and iPhones over the years. It’s the music I love the most and I hope you find it as healing as I have.

I heard a quote once, I forget exactly how it goes, but it was something along the lines of "Western shows write the music to fit the scene, while anime writes the music to fit the story." There are a lot of good recommendations in these comments, so here are a couple I haven't seen mentioned yet: - The "Haruhi Suzumiya" series. It's not a "these are all bangers" kind of soundtrack, but there are some really good ones. "Oi Oi" in particular has a very clear influence from Fatboy Slim's "Everybody Loves A Carnival". - Solty Rei. I only watched the series once, long ago, but I recall the soundtrack was big into the "big band jazz" style. - Record of Lodoss War. Often called "The Lord of the Rings of Anime", and considered foundational to the Fantasy anime genre. The ending themes of the original 13-episode OVA and the "Chronicles of the Heroic Knight" TV series are both great, and the theme of "Chronicles", Kiseki no Umi (Sea of Miracles) really sells the "epic fantasy" feel. Other than those, though, the soundtrack is fairly standard fantasy fare, as I recall. - Azumanga Daioh. The majority of the music was specifically written to fade into the background and blend into the scenes without intruding on the dialogue, but it ranges in style from jazz, to surf rock, to chill Bossa Nova, to polka, to waltz, to orchestral pieces. The title theme "Soramimi Cake" is a goofy, slightly nonsensical and unhinged song that really sets the tone of the show, the end credit theme "Raspberry Heaven" is a lovely song that still has a bit of the title theme's goofiness, "Nice desu yo" is a jazzy little background piece that shifts into soft surf rock in the middle and then a bluegrass harmonica over jazz piano near the end, "Bakuhatsu Bonkuraazu" is a discordant mess that suits the antics of those three lovable idiots, and "Chiyo-chan Runs!" is taken straight out of an orchestral piece whose name I forget at the moment. (Can you tell I really like Azumanga Daioh?)

The method of animation for Kids on the Slope is called rotoscoping, where you film someone and draw over the film to capture exact movements. What you're seeing is an animated version of someone's actual movements, and this is probably one of the best uses of rotoscoping I've ever seen.

As Japanese,I will recommend "Lupin the 3rd" composed by Yuji Ohno.

Kill La Kill also has amazing music. Their use of leitmotifs in the backing music to represent the different characters and factions is really good.

You wanted some recommendations so get ready =D: Sadness and Sorrow from Naruto Erza's Theme from Fairy Tail Requiem from Death Note Brothers from Full Metal Alchemist To the Grand Line from One Piece For the Princess from Sailor Moon Sailor Stars Man of the World from Naruto Shippuden The Musician (14th's song) from D.Gray-man You Say Run from Boku no Hero Academia (My Hero Academy) Flying Light from Naruto Shippuden the Movie 3: Inheritors of the Will of Fire Gamestart from Rising Shield Hero Only I am Missing from Erased Goshintai from Kimi No Na Wa (Your Name) Last Lie from Death Parade Escanor's Theme from Nanatsu no Taizai (The Seven Deadly Sins) The Wars of the Last Wolves from Rorouni Kenshin There are so many amazing soundtracks in anime. I tried to limit myself and only suggest one per anime/movie so hopefully it isn't too much. I tend to like the more emotional tracks, but I think I got a good balance in the list. I hope you enjoy!

The piano works of Joe Hisaishi are the stuff of legend. His compositions for the Miyazaki films are simply god tier.

The ghost in the shell soundtrack was really otherworldly gorgeous with those choir parts.

One of my favorites is in an older anime 1979- Lupin the 3rd: The Castle of Cagliostro During the car chase in the beginning area of the film has some smoking hot vibraphone!

Would highly recommend taking a listen to the soundtrack of Mushishi. A lot of the songs there just perfectly capture the essence of the show. They are beautifully haunting, but still hold something I would describe as curiosity within them. Beyond that the two other big ones I can think of would be Samurai Champloo and Jormungand. Samurai Champloo put a great deal of effort and focus on the music of the series despite it being a more action based show. Fun fact it was the same director who made Cowboy Bebop. Jormungand isn't necessarily ground breaking with it's music, but it has such a wide variety of songs depending on the situation. Oh, I'd also say you had Sawano Hiroyuki here who's know for his work with Attack on Titan. Definitely should give some of his other stuff a listen. Worked on a lot of anime with great soundtracks.