Someone mentioned that it's Chica Umino's drawing, but there's no info about the animation/studio behind it. While the band mainly stuck to their upbeat guns, they began blending EDM into their alt-rock on 2016s Butterflies three of the album’s tracks eventually embellished popular anime series. Regarding the MV, there's not much info (if, at all) about the production on the internet. Bump of Chicken could do no wrong the following decade, and 2010s Cosmonaut became the first of four chart-topping albums in a row. In 2016, the song was also chosen as one of the ending songs for the anime.
#BUMP OF CHICKEN ANIME SERIAL NUMBER#
The limited edition of the manga's volume 10 included the single's CD and the limited digital delivery from Toy's Factory (BUMP OF CHICKEN's record label) included a serial number for the digital spin-off manga. One of the sickest and hypest things the Pokemon Company has gotten made in YEARS. Thus, BUMP OF CHICKEN wrote a single, Fighter, and Chica Umino drew a spin-off manga.Īs it has been mentioned on the question, the single and the manga was released on 28 November 2014. Between Bump of Chicken, Rie Matsumoto, Yukata Nakamura and the rest of the all stars at Studio Bones, it felt like I was watching another episode of Kekkai Sensen all over again. Well, let's do something!Īfter thinking for a while, the only thing that Chica Umino can do is drawing a manga, and BUMP OF CHICKEN is writing a song. They are respecting each other, they like each other's product. In the beginning, Chica Umino likes BUMP OF CHICKEN, and BUMP OF CHICKEN's members like March Comes in like a Lion. The background of this project, as mentioned on both Young Animal (the publisher of the manga) and BUMP OF CHICKEN's official site, It's a collaboration project between Chica Umino, the author of March Comes in like a Lion and BUMP OF CHICKEN, a Japanese music band. I can't even drag over and copy text from it. It is somehow protected and won't translate (not that a translation would be very accurate). The section of the YouTube video has a link to a Japanese site or page apparently dedicated to the music video: 3月のライオン meets BUMP OF CHICKEN|白泉社. Also was the music video made in Flash? Parts of it have that mechanistic feel, but I do not know enough about Flash video capability to know if it would have been up to the task. Much of the art in the music video looks like it may have come from the anime (and a lot does not), but that could just be that they both share the manga as source material.
#BUMP OF CHICKEN ANIME TV#
If the music video pre-dated the anime, who animated it? Studio Shaft (producing the TV show) may not have even been involved.Īdd: The music video definitely predates the anime. From what I can gather, a DVD with the video accompanied special copies of the 10th volume of the manga, released. The video may have pre-dated the anime by over a year, making the closing song a condensed version of the music video.
#BUMP OF CHICKEN ANIME SERIES#
The music video follows the series of One Piece-themed 'Hungry Days: Aoharu ka yo.
It expands the closing song of the anime, Fighter, into a 6-minute music video, produced by the manga's author Chika Umino and the band BUMP OF CHICKEN. A collaboration between Nissin Cup Noodles HUNGRY DAYS campaign x rock group BUMP OF CHICKEN: a full-fledged music video directed by Kyotarou Hayashi for the song Kinen Satsuei by BUMP OF CHICKEN. Track listing No.There is a promotional video for March Comes in like a Lion (aka 3gatsu no Lion) called March Comes in like a Lion meets BUMP OF CHICKEN. Acclaim was reserved for the tracks "Hello, World!" and "Parade", with the former noted for its "complicated melody" on which vocalist Motoo Fujiwara "really shine", and the latter for its "captivating piano melody" with an "explosive climax". Taylor also wrote that with the track "Butterfly", the band "blending" EDM into their sound 2016 feels "dated", and that other Japanese bands "are getting better results" when doing so. Writing for The Japan Times, Ronald Taylor called Butterflies "nothing new", comparing it to the sound of the band's previous album, 2014's Ray, in that it is "like a giant retread of its usual alternative rock".