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Yamanaka thinks the song fitted FLCL because each of them lacked a throughline their eccentricities meant they went together.
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As it happened, the director did like it, and changed his plan for the end theme so he could use the song in the anime. The band reasoned they could pass on FLCL if Tsurumaki didn’t like the song. The Pillows gave the FLCL director a completely different song from ‘One Life’ – ‘Ride On Shooting Star,’ which fans of the anime will know as FLCL’s end theme.
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It usually comes with restrictions, you know?” So a tie-in, where our work would be used as a theme song or in a commercial, was pretty much a turn off. I think that we were probably kind of rude to him… For us, our musical activities basically consisted of write music, make a CD, do a tour, and repeat every year. “But we weren’t very familiar with the world of anime. We had this song called ‘One Life.’” The 1997 single was included on The Pillows’ sixth album, Little Busters, which was especially popular fans of The Pillows are called “Little Busters” in its honour.Īccording to Yamanaka, Tsurumaki asked The Pillows if the band could provide songs similar to ‘One Life’ for FLCL. In a 2018 video interview given to Adult Swim, vocalist Sawao Yamanaka was clear that FLCL’s director Kazuya Tsurumaki did all the running. And it’s easy to think everyone in Japanese entertainment must know that, and be savvy to the opportunities in cross-media. If you read about Japanese pop-culture, you learn about its obsession with the “media mix,” how a property can be an anime and a manga and a music album and a toy line, and much more besides. One interesting thing about The Pillows, the alt-rock band which provided all the music for FLCL, is that its members didn’t think anime and music had much to do with each other.