Blue Giant
Add Blue Giant to that big long list of Japanese animes about jazz. Yes, precisely. It’s a “how we got the band together” story of good-looking Japanese dudes meeting and becoming a tight jazz outfit, but mostly it’s concerned with Dai Miyamoto, a passionate saxophone player who outgrows his small town and so heads for the bright lights of Tokyo once he hits 18. Though everyone tells him that jazz is doomed Dai remains fired up by its possibilities and is on a quest to become “the best jazz musician in the world”. Once in the big city Dai hooks up with Yukinori Sawabe, a talented pianist, and together they recruit Shunji Tamada … Read more