Bringing back the bebop! This sensational new release unites the famous pair Sinichiro Watanabe and Yoko Kanno from the beloved Cowboy Bebop series in a coming of age drama where friendship and music reigns above all! At the beginning of summer in 1966 Kaoru moves yet again this time to a sunny part of Kyushu Japan. For him it's a never-ending cycle of trying to adjust. An A star student as well as a classically trained pianist Kaoru would sooner be left alone to play or to study. But local bad-boy Sentaro Kawabuchi has a taste for confrontation and feels... no need to leave Kaoru alone. He demands Kaoru's attention and at first their friendship is precarious at best. But upon discovering Sentaro's immense talent as a jazz drummer neither of them can ignore each other and through music a friendship beyond words emerges. Master director Shinichiro Watanabe (Cowboy Beebop) handles this brilliant Manga adaptation with care and along with an amazing soundtrack from Yoko Kanno (Macross Ghost in the Shell) Kids on the Slope is one of the most accomplished anime programs in recent memory. [show more]
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All 12 episodes of the Japanese coming-of-age anime. In the summer of 1966, high school student Kaoru Nishimi (voice of Ryouhei Kimura) moves to stay with his relatives in Kyushu. A remote, withdrawn figure at his last school, Kaoru starts to change when he falls into the orbit of the school's infamous bad boy Sentaro Kawabuchi (Yoshimasa Hosoya). After discovering a shared passion for jazz music, the pair's fledgling friendship is soon tested to the limits, however, when Kaoru is smitten by Ritsuko (Yuuka Nanri), Sentaro's oldest childhood friend. The episodes are: 'Moanin', 'Summertime', 'Someday My Prince Will Come', 'But Not for Me', 'Lullaby of Birdland', 'You Don't Know What Love Is', 'Now's the Time', 'These Foolish Things', 'Love Me Or Leave Me', 'In a Sentimental Mood', 'Left Alone' and 'All Blues'.
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