Shinichiro Watanabe's anime projects have repeatedly exploded in popularity worldwide. Baby Blue, his short from the anthology film Genius Party, is not one of those projects. And that's a shame, so in this video, I want to talk about Baby Blue, and why I've loved it since first watching it over a decade ago.

Timecodes -

0:00 - Introduction to Shinichiro Watanabe
1:54 - Introduction to Baby Blue
4:44 - Baby Blue Analysis
21:21 - Ending Credits

Works Cited -

Andrew Osmond, “Interview: Shinichiro Watanabe,” https://blog.alltheanime.com/intervie...

Anime News Network, “Suggest your questions for the Shinichiro Watanabe interview,” https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/bbs/...

collegedept, “Shinichiro Watanabe and the Two Shot Dynamic,”    • Shinichiro Watanabe and The Two-Shot ...  

Ernest Hemingway, Death in the Afternoon

Otaquest, “Shinichiro Watanabe’s Overlooked Masterpiece: Baby Blue,” https://www.otaquest.com/baby-blue-sh...

Yahoo Japan 5 Centimeters Per Second Profile, https://web.archive.org/web/200607171...