For some reason, the soundtrack for the show on both Spotify and Apple Music was region locked recently, meaning that people in the U.S. and most likely many other countries can no longer listen to the soundtrack on those services. Anyone know why this happened?

Does anyone know what is the literal title translation referring to? “Apollo on the slope”? Is that literally and plainly correlating to the god of music, Apollo? If so, why did the western publishing team translate it into “kids on the slope”?

I dont know if this sub is still active, but I just binged this anime, and it was like nothing I have ever seen before.

First, it felt like I was watching a biography book. It did not feel like an anime to me. It felt like a well-told story from a book.

Second, like I said above, it was something unique that I have never felt before from an anime. It felt like a unique experience.

Third, I feel like even though I loved the series, I still have many questions (that arent important to the plot, but just appeared in my head) and would love to know the answer.

Its kinda hard for me to express how I feel about it, but am I romanticizing it? Is it just because modern anime is told differently somehow? This is one of the oldest animes I have watched to be fair.

The OST and Plus version are now available on Spotify <3. Wanted to post this in case any of you guys use Spotify as ur main music platform.

I’ve looked everywhere for this and i can’t even find the scene online. I’m starting to think it’s an original soundtrack from the show. It’s the scene in the first episode where the two main characters meet on the rooftop and buff dude fights off classmates to get the rooftop key. Song is fire any idea who plays it?

is it?

I find the Sakamichi version of this song so dreamy and melodic, and I've never heard anything like it- but I feel like I did more than a decade ago (I'm 21). Can anyone recommend a song like this one? A song so soft and romantic that feels like you're waltzing with someone alone in a giant ballroom?

Edit:Sorry if this is hard to understand.

Kaoru and Sen. A friendship for the ages. Modern life is so gray sometimes...but a friendship like that would be the light of my life. Christ is my best friend, but that's at a different level. And I can't even. Just man. Oh God wao...bring me a Sen to my Kaoru or vice versa! I have more Kaoru in me than Sen, I'm nerdly, I'm nerdisch, but I have a little more meat on my bones sometimes. Not as much as Sen, but a little bit. But I'm really quiet mostly. I do also have a dramatic side, sort of big shakespearean declarations, Space Pirate Harlock type of stuff, but yeah, that doesn't come out much really. I made a fanfic of SnA once, and it's not the greatest thing ever but it was deeply felt. Maybe someday I'll post it here. Sayonara friends.

So, I'm a big fan of Cowboy Bebop because it reminded me about jazz- music I listened to when I was much younger, but hadn't heard for a long time (adolescence brought new genres). I was just becoming a man when I watched Bebop for the first time- and it brought me back.

But Kids on the Slope did something else for me- while with Bebop I listened to its soundtrack over and over again (it's that good), Slope made me expand a bit- I learned what some of the jazz standards were, I listened to artists I'd not heard of, and I learned to dance the Charleston (well, I suppose my Charleston is still a work in progress).

Nonetheless, Kids on the Slope helped me grow musically, and I really love it.