It also tackles period-relevant issues like poverty and the rather unique experience of being Catholic in post-war Japan. Each of them finds a unique way of dealing with these revelations. As they mature, they realize that life more complicated than they could ever have expected, and that they're not always going to have the answers to the problems they encounter. Together, they learn to channel their angst and find peace with their emotions through some rough and rowdy jazz. It's a short but effective story, using just 12 episodes to follow an anxiety-ridden boy named Kaoru who forms an unlikely relationship with a delinquent named Sentaro and the daughter of a music shop owner named Ritsuko. So it shouldn't be too surprising that he took to the task of adapting Yuki Kodama's 2007 manga Kids on the Slope, a coming-of-age tale about Japanese teens in the 60s who bond over their collective love of all things jazz. Cowboy Bebop is named and styled after a form of jazz, Samurai Champloo uses hip hop to accentuate its anachronistic alternate Edo-era Japan setting, and when he's not directing his own titles, Watanabe is often acting in a music advisory role on shows like Michiko & Hatchin and Sonny Boy. It's pretty easy to tell that Watanabe is a big fan of music in many forms.

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