Word: shinichiro
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...informed by anim?, the cerebral, ultraviolent, consciously cinematic style of animation pioneered by the Japanese. After the original Matrix opened in Japan in September 1999, the Wachowskis floated the possibility of producing an anim? homage, based on the Matrix world, as an appendix to the films. Top directors?including Shinichiro Watanabe, creator of the hip Cowboy Bebop, and Koji Morimoto, who worked on the seminal Akira?signed on immediately. The brothers wrote four of the nine shorts themselves; the rest were penned by the directors under Wachowski supervision. "The Animatrix was like being invited to the brothers' house," says Watanabe...
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