The Weeknd Presents Anime Awards, Influenced by Samurai Champloo

0:00On April 9th, the weekend is stepping up to present the anime of the year award at the 10th Crunchyroll anime awards. This Saturday, May 23rd, right in Tokyo. Anime has been a huge part of his creative DNA from the jump, blending with his music in ways that shaped his early hits. He got hooked young with stuff like Sailor Moon and Dragon Balls Goku, but it was Shinituro Watanabe Samurai Champloo in his teens that really flipped the script. That mix of Samurai vibes, hip-hop beats from Nujave's and others hit him hard and influenced how he sees film and sound. That energy carried straight into his debut project, House of Balloons, where he built tracks like The Morning and Laugh Music over those same. Instrumentals. Without anime masters like Watanabe, Satoshi Kahn, and others, his whole visual and sound style might not exist today. RZA from Wu-Tang Klan is also presenting, joining a lineup that's had stars like Megan Thee Stallion and Casey Musgray's before.

1:00Fans worldwide are voting now across 32 categories through April 15th at 11.59pm, Pacific Time on the Anime Awards site. Crunchyroll, or My Anime List, this shows live stream globally with backing from Sony and others, celebrating the creator's fueling anime's worldwide fire. This has been Music News Today, powered by AI.