Yoko Kanno - Know Your Enemy

[pokemonx55]

I somehow fall in love with everything that has a Yoko Kanno song incorporated into it.

This includes Bebop, Wolf's Rain, Trigun, anddd Ghost in the Shell :)

[lordseshomaru86]

sounds just like that song "Weather Storm", uncanny similarity

[Cinqulos]

this is my favorite song by Yoko, took me forever to find it through youtube

[7104012]

i'm OTAKU of The Vision of Escaflowne, but today i'm fan of Yoko Kanno.

This music is perfect to my imagination.

Thanks. I'm mexican girl. =3

[wize11]

This song really reminds me of a old video on youtube thats been gone for sometime I think it was called Soviet TV or Communist TV?Anyhow Great song and damn i miss that old vid

[manly427]

whether she copies or not i dont care. she is hands down the most prolific of any producer, songwriter, composer i have ever heard of

[245Trioxinated]

wow, i never knew there were so many of us.

[viciousclan]

Yokko Kanno, is a FRAKKIN musical genius! How the heck, does she come up with these dope beats and songs?

[Zagra160]

@viciousclan she copies a lot from other artists. look up "yoko kanno plagiarism" on google or youtube. as a fan, I felt kinda betrayed when I found that out. some of her stuff is still original though.

[StormTheEevee]

Some parts of the song from Wolf Quest or whatever that gsme is where you run around like a wolf.

[Elswind]

yes now days all anime is just about Fan Service .... I dont want to see god damn fan service or lovey dovey shallow story.

I want to see more deep complicated emotion and the irony inside it trough the art of 2d, thats the reason i watch anime .. not for some fan service bullshit ... we already have god damn enough of otaku ..

[MoarSugarcubes]

I miss the days when anime wasn't complete shit. I miss Toonami too. Screw all the new "kawaii dattebayo" bull shit. It gives anime a bad rep.

[vocanovathememegurl]

@MoarSugarcubes I agree. mainstream anime is getting out of hand.

[irritatedAssassin616]

@MoarSugarcubes I can't agree with you more

[spartanM116]

i love this piece. does any one know which episode it is where this piece is playing and motoko is explaining to kayabuki the existence of a central hub for the refugees

[TerrestrisVerita]

This is like porn for my ears.

[uredeadmeat]

you know, the complex emotions that were gathered through watching these series are triggered by this beautiful song, and you see the world through this prism. this makes song special enough.

[xomybrokendreamxo]

yoko kanno has just become my idol.

[TheRavenfamiliar]

if I could put a thousand thumbs up it wouldn't be enough.... the emotion in her music.......... gods I can't even say it. English sucks.

[yttikazyttikiz]

ohh i recognise the very end from jungle cruise!

[yodadejoda]

2.16

[VocaloidDTM]

Awesome psychological animes:

- Cowboy Bebop

- Ghost in the Shell

- Welcome to the N.H.K.

- Darker than Black

- Mnemosyne's Daughters

- Afro Samurai

- Escaflowne ( the Movie, the Anime less )

[andre7]

@VocaloidDTM Your missing Death Note :3

[Uptheirons6six6]

@VocaloidDTM Samurai Champloo

[Elswind]

@VocaloidDTM

U forgot The NGE, Death Note and Honey & Clover, Also Fruit Basket.

[ProuteurFou]

Total rip-off of Craig Armstrong's track: Weather Storm ("The Space Between Us" album in 1997)

[Fullmetalpizza]

@ProuteurFou I don't know what it is you're smoking, but I want some.

[fishfoodgeneral]

SUCH EMOTION IN THIS SONG. I feel like this music would go well to a day of exploring, especially a city.

[BucketXD]

I love wolf's rain 

[Cuphold3r]

how do u guys watch ghost in the shell is so boring

[RedEyePergo]

@Cuphold3r right. the funny thing is the movies were full of action but the show is all talk and puzzles. bebops story was actually compelling and amazing. ghost in the shell is just overcomplicated and boring

[shaalis]

@RedEyePergo one's for the theatre, one's for the content and thoufhtfullness. Can't like eveything, son.

[79898325]

@Cuphold3r I think the reason you can't watch it might have something to do with the fact that you didn't break that statement into two different sentences.

[dirtybone21]

@Cuphold3r ghost in the shell is an action packed law and order thts all thts y it seems boring but once you get passed all tht its good

[SolusRDM]

@dirtybone21 That's part of what makes it good... for me, anyway.

[dirtybone21]

@SolusRDM for me too it has more action than people think

[midnightsun5857]

4 people need to have there hearing checked. (badly)

[MyFoodIsBad]

I consider this my theme song....but why?

[Folowne]

@MyFoodIsBad You're that awesome. That's why.

[standalonesolid]

Something must be done

About vengeance, a badge and a gun

so rip the mic, rip the stage, rip the system

I was born to rage against 'em

when i saw this vid i was praying kanno was covering the rage song... because i cant imagine it but im sure she would make that song beautiful

[retrograderenegades]

@standalonesolid lolol @ this, I cant see Yoko covering rage.

[yellowsupra7]

it's like a thinking song

[yannesereine]

witch hunter robin

[dysonwolf]

sounds like the theme for 'enter the dragon'

[philymouskawitz]

Yoko truly understands the ebb and flow of this world, with all it's rhythm and beauty. You couldn't know what a friend was without knowing of what an enemy is, or is it that to truly "know" your enemy, to understand them and see how they hide their hurt behind an self created illusion of hatred, then, do they not become less than "evil". To know your inner universe while understanding the realities of the outer...we are all just ghost, living within a shell....

[jetherwing]

@philymouskawitz

To go further, many theories have stated that the real trick to like if realizing that the enemy is the illusion itself...but once you realize that, it isn't an illusion anymore, nor an enemy.

[allthatishere]

@philymouskawitz That was deep. Thank you for sharing your outlook with us.

[PzVIE43]

This song is so perfect, especially when played to the scenes of Sec9 arriving in Bertarve and that street rat getting beat with like golf clubs

[Minroud]

True talent!

[mintyoreo]

That's what it is, right? Everyone's saying it, her music's got substance.... it's got soul

[XIIIAnthology]

this opening is so.... nostalgic

[Twycross]

I've been looking for this since SAC came out

[starloft3]

Best part is definitely from 2:41 to 3:04. what a sick song.

[peach55]

The cellist in this song blows my mind. YK is such a great composer!

[iAsian12]

absolutely beautiful... it almost makes me want to cry. there is so emotion is this song even without lyrics.

[Skip2MyShu]

There's something about her songs that I can't describe in words.....it's like a feeling or something.

[BfeoAdmin]

*his songs. I'm pretty sure a guy writes them.

[noodle16]

wrong, its a guy

[noodle16]

i meant girl lolz

[OptimumPointDesign8]

@Skip2MyShu ..I wholeheartedly agree....Like noneother!!!

[allthatishere]

@Skip2MyShu So true. I've stopped trying to put these feelings into words. I'll just let it wash over me as i listen to this amazing track.

[Metzgermeist]

It has an awesome warm, relaxing feeling to it.

[ironmonkey982]

Which one is the music that plays in episode 19 "Chain Reaction" where they are checking all the boats and then a firefight ensues?

[theclockspider]

Wow, this is gorgeous. I've had a song by this artist on my iPod for ages--had no idea who it even was or where it came from. I'm glad I decided to finally look her up.

[daswandern]

its not... what about it?

[Wheeeeeeee24]

how do know she rips people off. she might have permission.

[KuroiNeko05]

Err, doesn't sound like a rip-off to me. Both songs have the same beat and musical instruments, but the actual melody is different. I supposed if you weren't really paying attention, they would sound alike.

[ertyqwer]

If anything, they're both "ripoffs" of a generic melodramatic noir theme. And YK's piece feels a lot less generic at that. She might have borrowed the overall structure, but that hardly constitutes ripoff imo.

[Renmachi]

yoko kanno is a genius. that's all I can say about this.

[TBCMOBB]

T B C

[Aceville285]

Looking for this song since i first heard in 07 this and Spotter are mt Favorite Songs from GITS

[Chestsplitter]

U know the song wich comes on in the end of season 1.

where Aramaki si talking to the Prime minister about dispanding Section 9

then some song comes on like really dark, electronic track u know it???

[cerberuskid]

I remember that what ever happened to ghost in the shell i liked that show... well stupid question i guess it obviously got cancelled

[iluvzanimeboyz]

dude no! they show it on Adult Swim EVERY saturday!

[angelapalmones]

breathtaking

[postafflatus]

One of my favoirites... The only other Anime soundtrack by Yoko Kanno - Cowbow Bebop can match the greatness of the soundtrack of Ghost in the Shell SAC :)

[peach55]

dont forget wolf's rain!

[SocraticApostle]

COWBOW BEBOP FTW!!!!!!!

[cerberuskid]

YES YES YES!!!~

[connor69077]

yeah ghost in the shell and cowboy bebop are the best anime out there arguably.

[SoapyMurder]

Don't forget about Ergo Proxy. :D

[DeftJay]

and Samurai Champloo and Wolfs Rain <_<

:D

[jakiner]

@connor69077 i won't disagree totally with that but i would really recommend escaflowne and evangelion if you want to see some truly truly epic anime! anyways yoko did the soundtrack for escaflowne too and she is a genius in my book!

[fuddlovin]

@jakiner escaflowne is another great, great series \m/

[Ander01SE]

@connor69077

Except that cowboy bebop is just about slightly above average with good music. O_o

[fankinatorlol]

@connor69077 i agree but dont forget the animes lupin 3rd and golden boy ... that was a good old past time on mtv

[fuddlovin]

@connor69077 i would throw neon genesis: evangelion into that mix. it predates both ;)

[LeonRFpoa]

@connor69077 a man with taste I see.

[connor69077]

@LeonRFpoa thanks, you make me sound like the rolling stones' song "sympathy for the devil".

[LeonRFpoa]

@connor69077 pleased to meet you, hope you gues maaaaah name!

[connor69077]

@LeonRFpoa is it possible that you've stuck around st. petersburg for any length of time?

[Jarydashcroft]

@connor69077 I'm still amazed no one here who's heard Yoko Kanno's work has heard or mentioned Wolf's Rain besides me.

[Parkourpurist89]

@Jarydashcroft Actually I've heard her composition for Wolf's Rain

[rujikin]

@connor69077 Voted up due to GITS, cowboy bebop sucked.

[avalonpreen]

@connor69077 I did not like Cowboy Bepop.

[natalieann4]

@connor69077 what about Wolf's Rain....now that,is arguably one of the greatest animes. Still one of Kano's many great peices of work.

[connor69077]

@natalieann4 It's nice to see you aren't one of the (apparently) large number of people who have to tell me how wrong I am for my choice of shows while you voice your dissent. Oh, and I like Wolf's Rain as well, It's right up there on my list. Just not my favorite soundtrack of hers. I prefer that somber sound of hers that( I think) she perfected in the two shows I mentioned previously.

[natalieann4]

@connor69077 hahaha everyone deserves an opinion(:

[BAD187]

@connor69077 akira, macross plus and a whole lot of older titles of the 80's and 90's, the millenium has the weakest shit so far. in fact i think it went from adult and intelligent to pop and stupid.

[XMRWIGGLEZX]

@connor69077 Hell yeah

[Bahriel]

@connor69077 Darker than black, witch hunter robyn and Black lagoon keep up fairly well though.

[expetriat]

@connor69077 anime are for nerds

[TheRavenfamiliar]

@expetriat

HAHAHAHAHAHA good sir, if anime is for nerds, then I'm glad I am one!!!!!

[BfeoAdmin]

@TheRavenfamiliar .. richest man in the world is a nerd.

[expetriat]

@TheRavenfamiliar right on, now that is a good reply, no need to deny it, *sigh* if only everyone on the internet was like u.

[MoarSugarcubes]

@expetriat And jock straps are for YOUR mouth. Have at it.

[expetriat]

@MoarSugarcubes ummmm so what you'r trying to say is that you'r retarded?? i agree.

[MoarSugarcubes]

@expetriat That sounds like an insult a preteen would come up with. Pitiful.

[expetriat]

@MoarSugarcubes you'r the one that insulted yourself. so i guess you'r the preteen.

[MoarSugarcubes]

@expetriat Troll fail. I'm done.

[expetriat]

@MoarSugarcubes what u scared, run along now little pussy....dork haha

[TehAuroraWolf]

@connor69077 you forgot wolf's rain.

[Elswind]

@connor69077

yes ... include NGE

[PurpleMoonYef]

@connor69077 FAIL if there is no Wolf's Rain there is no anime. ANYWAY almost every anime with yoko kanno as composer is a masterpiece.

[takeda155]

so awesome

[wildadapte]

all of yoko kanno works are masterpieces!!!

[peach55]

very ambient

[daswandern]

beautiful music ;p