Interstella 5555 | KYOTO VIDEO 

There really aren't enough music-based movies like this. Before this, I watched Michael Jackson's Moonwalker and Pink Floyd: The Wall. It was interesting to hear their music tell the story rather than just actions and words like in most movies. These were the two movies that led me to watch Interstella 5555. And, thankfully, I was not disappointed! It was a unique sci-fi tale which combined catchy electronic music with vibrant visuals. I'm glad to have it in my DVD collection!

I never really appreciated how good Discovery was until I saw this movie.

Daft Punk's Discovery and ELO's Time were two albums that anime took to higher levels.

In a kinda meta narrative the kid dreaming encapsulated how we usually experience the things that inspire us when we grow old. There's a simplicity and a innocence in waiting to listen to a song or watching a cartoon we love, in certain ages we barely grasp deeper aspects, but we sparks a curiosity that is hard to have when we are older. When we look back we are able to appreciate even more the things we loved and understand why we liked what we liked. Even is just for nostalgia, what we hold dear is usually what leaves a bigger impact on us moving forward.

This was such an amazing way to celebrate 50 episodes of KV! I actually started to tear up a little when you were talking about how influential this film was on your childhood and music taste, as it had a similar effect on mine. Super excited for your video on Harlock as well!

Will keep watching for fifty more episodes!

Interstella 5555 holds a very special place in my heart. It was the first anime I ever rented from Netflix back when it was just a mail-order subscription (That and Full Metal Panic!) And once I got it, I immediately watched on a Friday night in my basement. I loved every single second of it, but more importantly, it introduced me to a world of anime beyond what was on Adult Swim, and motivated me to explore the more obscure/lesser known parts of medium. On top of that, me watching this movie was me making peace with Daft Punk, as I had heard their music back when I was in 4th Grade and didn't like it (looking back, I don't know why), but I had softened my stance in my teens, and after I finished the movie, I downloaded ALL of Daft Punk's albums from iTunes and have been a fan for life! Interstella 5555 is a movie I'll happily show to my friends whether they like anime or not. I feel it's one of those films that showcases what anime is capable of from a visual storytelling perspective, and one I wish was still in print.

UPDATE: it was GREAT, Discovery is my favorite album of that time so this hit different

I grew up in 70's 80's France and Matsumoto's Harlock/Albator was my childhood hero, a dark, melancholic, poetic creation that I will never forget. It taught me that even if a fight seems hopeless, it's better to stand up than bow on your knees.

People keep calling this off-brand anime, and to that I say, no one asked. I love this anime way too much. I listen to Daft Punk’s music everyday, Discovery being my favorite album. Ever since I first saw this movie, I’ve been re-watching it over and over. Arpegius is also my favorite character...he’s so cute...😅

I've really been enjoying you dive into the old anime as you cover so much of what I was watching in the late 80's early 90's when I was in my teens. My own first exposure to anime was Star Blazers (Space Battleship Yamato) around 1980 when I was 6 years old and already a sci-fi junkie, my first exposure being Star Wars. Star Blazers was on cable tv and I became quietly obsessed with animation and the Leijiverse in particular (Harlock / GE999). Discovery when it came out was like a twin pronged attack of Leiji Matsumoto and my own discovery of Daft Punk. The experience was like coming home. In that year the videos were everywhere and I remember everything about where and when I was, it was a golden time. Thank you again for such wonderful coverage of anime.

This video almost brought me to tears like when I first saw this movie. Good work you earned a sub

Loved the review. I have very much the same relationship with this film. It's one of the best music films I know of.

I love this video so much. Interstella 5555 is, as the cool internet kids say nowadays, a core memory for me, and your video perfectly summarizes how I feel about it.

And here in the wild, we spot an incredibly rare GOOD application of "it was all a dream!" (I have the anime queued up here on RU-vid, I should watch it soon.)

Good lord, someone else actually remembers the Mystical Ninja 64 soundtrack. Also, congrats on the 50th vid!

The Greatest Collaboration between Anime and Music. Congrats on the 50th vid.

so I was referred to you by the guy doing 'nick knacks' after the looney tunes episode. (there were other episodes where he talked about 'euro-centric anime' so I can only assume that helped Guy and Thomas get into anime when they were growing up. ) anyway I started watching the anime side stuff here, I was gonna start with area 88 but I saw a snippet of this in the intro, so I had to wonder if you'd covered it yet. so glad I did! my wife reintroduced me to it when we started dating in 2011. I was blown away! I did eventually pick up the DVD and the vinyl LP! I fell in love with the anime and we would watch a google video rip over long distance as close to synchronized as we could, we must've watched that movie a hundred times! so it was definitely pretty special for the two of us. and yeah shep, I totally get it, hehe.

In the early 2000's I first saw the music videos and was deeply captured by the animation of blue aliens and the funky music (I was a child then but sci-phi was always something I loved). It's been a few long years until I knew there's a full movie (remember those days when you had no google at your hand?). One day I saw in a tv magazine(!!!!) that's it will be broadcasted on a specific channel (I think it was ca 2004)...I had to stay at a friends house to watch it, but it was worth it I knew it will be good and it was! I've been forever inspired by the sci-phi, the blue beautiful aliens and the futuristic music

after nearly 20 years of feeling this way, i can say for sure that digital love is my favorite song of all time.

Both Guy manuel and Thomas grew up , like myself, in France where so much anime was on kids TV they literally had to put a law in place to limit its take over ...this quota law funnily enough drove daft punk popularity as later in the 2000 s , at least 50% of radio and music on TV had to be French ... Albator and Goldorak but also Jayce and Ulysse 31 as well as some early Bioman and X-Or

This video is really well done and I love a bunch of the aspects you’ve touched on. I love Interstella5555, and have watched quite a few videos that talk about it. You definitely contributed a lot by talking about moral philosophy and the impact on children. Good video, this made my day. Keep up the good work.

the euro disneyland story finally explains the whole tron reboot thing to me

It was Starblazers that I remember getting up at 6 am to see in 1979 when they played on Chicago TV. Another Miyazaki title.

Good sound design (both composition and foley work) are really important to me. That's not something I realized until my fiancée pointed out to me during these plague times as we watched The Mandalorian. Any time something was particularly good in part because of the sounds and music that accompany the visuals and dialogue, I'd comment on how well it was done. And I'd often complement the work of seiyu she'd know when I heard them in places she didn't. (She's the world's second biggest Disney nerd, so…) And yeah, seiyu because I happen to know more than a few screen actors _still_ view it as "just voice acting" as it if were a lesser talent. Having said that, the fact I'm legally blind may not be much of a shock, but I doubt it has much to do with it actually. What it does have a lot to do with is the anime that made *ME* realize I wasn't going to "grow out of" animation: Bubblegum Crisis. Being legally blind, I watch most anime dubbed. For most anime dubbed before 2000 … the quality isn't always there. That makes some anime a little tough to watch unless the dub is bad enough to be comedic, but it's often easier than trying to follow subtitles and constantly stopping to read. The BGC dub voices … they're okay. The butchering of Yoko Kanno's music … is not. So … I watch it subbed then? No. I last saw it a few months ago. Somehow it'd been … five years since I'd seen it. I watched it raw, as I had back then, and have been watching it since I got my own copies of it on DVD back when y2k was a looming threat. Funny thing about that though-the DVDs I had must have been bootlegs because they weren't from AnimEgo, and the Internet tells me that AnimEgo didn't release them on DVD until 2004. A bootleg anime distribution in the 1990s? Say it ain't so! A big part of why that series was so great was the music. It's also a cyberpunk series and I'm particularly fond of those. But the music just made the series special. (And the music is the thing that BGC 2040 didn't have-oh, if you haven't looked into the story behind BGC yet, you totally should. It's WILD.)

I love this anime film. It’s has gorgeous visuals and the soundtrack oh the soundtrack, it’s has the discovery album as it’s music. ❤

I worry you may have missed out on the pun that is the band's name, based on how you pronounced it, it sounded like you were going with crescent. Their name is a play on the musical term Crescendo (pronounced kresh-endo). Apologies if I'm just misunderstanding you, I just wouldn't want you to miss out on the great pun.

Hell yeah! I love this movie! Oh yeah, and happy 50th review! Here’s to 50 more and beyond!

I love this film! The fact that it got me into Daft Punk doesn't hurt either.

This wasn't my first intro to anime but it cemented it for sure

An hour+ music video by masters.

Top favorite anime and music video and soundtrack of all time.

Thank you for your commentary! I love it and Interstella 5555! It's well put and explained in a wonderful way! BUt, I just wish Interstella 5555 was made into a anime series and also, knowing the backstory of the Crescendolls of how they've met and such.

Funny how the description of the joy children feel when discovering their favorite music for the first time is preceded immediately by you flat out saying that my favorite music from my childhood is so objectively bad that people today should be ANGRY at it.

Bro I love the channel !!! I am like 40 and like 80 anime is my anime ! have been saying this video become holy hell this broke my mind when it happened dude your rule !!!!

It's a wonderful spectacle to watch!

20:15 For stella, you could have just as well say "every Leiji Matsumoto female character ever". No disrepsect for the master, but he clearly had a waifu.

So that's what that Draft Punk music video came from. So it on Toonami years ago back in highschool along side the gorilaz.

Something that just occurred to me--it seems like Interstella's a better-executed take on the story presented by the ill-fated 1978 film Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (with Peter Frampton and the Bee Gees).

Thank you for this-I remember recording this on VHS tapes when it premiered on Toonami and I worn this tape out when I was sad. Keep up the good work!

God, just watching the review gives me that "gonna cry face". Ah. Is this what anime is doing to me now?

Wow you're one of few people who clarify that Leji Matsumoto did NOT direct or design for Interstellar 55555. Even now some fans still assume that so thanks!

It is basically a sin that i missed this one.

I remember watching this anime music video 3 years ago in 2019

Man, I recently found this channel and I feel it's so underrated! Your spin on analysis of the works (and in this case, your own personal story with them) and detailed description of production backstory of anime you review is really cool. If I had to leave my footprint in your comment section, I would like to hear your thoughts on -Royal Space Force: The Wings of Honneamise (1987) -Urusei Yatsura 2 (1984) -Escaflowne (movie, 2000 or series, 1996) -Revolutionary Girl Utena (series, 1995 or movie, 1999) -Penguin's Memory: A tale of happiness (1985) - Area 88 OVA (1985-1986)

I remember that music video One More Time, I think it was in 99, 2000 or 2001 around those years. I certainly remember Pokemon and Dragon Ball Z being huge at the time and the One More Time music video was one that was huge in my country at the time too as a party anthem especially around the millennium,

Daft Punk are Legendary as well as Gorillaz. Why do Virtual / Mask Wearing Bands appeal to me so much? Also, Great Anime and Great Soundtrack.

"And his most recognizable creation... Captain Harlock" Queen Millenia: Am I a joke to you?

I already know this is going to be good, Daft Punk fucking rules and so do you dude.

Hell yes. That is all.

For me thee, interstellar555, was amaizing, i have the entire thing and i love it showing you can make something intresting with music only

Great video essay!

Fantastic video.

Interesting to see the creator who made Captain harlock is alive at an old age

Insightful. 👍🏾

Awesome video and awesome channel, I've been watching a lot of your videos and while it was the merrie melody/Looney Tunes retrospectives that brought me to you, i'm happy I checked out your other videos and see how much love and dedication you've given to talking about anime from days long ago. But I especially love this video because you shared one anime that is closest to you that connects with you on a personal level, which I think is safe to say we all have that 1 anime that is that special one that helped us come to love what Japanese animation has brought to us over the decades. Here's to your 50th and your 50 future videos and beyond

You ending reflection made me cry. You mentioned how this movie does not feel cheap and manipulative. One thing thta gebuinly irks me is when RU-vidrs select to do a video on media with some kind of emotional message just so they can do a finishing speach on how much it meant and deep it was just for the manipulative factor. It is so honestly infuriating and makes me want to scream "WHAT YOU WANT AN EMMY OR SOMETHING FUCKER!" at the screen these days for how oversaturated the platform is with it. You can always tell when the are just hamming it up, saying what they feel is the best dramatic thing expected for them to say and hoping we'll all gasp and quietly dab out eyes at their genius while they don't actually care. Again, you can tell when this is the case and that's what seperates it from a genuine outro written with emotional investment. You kept mentioning how much this meant to you early on, nearly causing me to roll my eyes but you PROVED it by the end. I believe you gebuinly came up with everything yoy said in heartfelt expression. Thank you SO much for this. It's so hard not to see youtube in a jaded lense these days as just another version of cable but less regulated and more xapitolism driven with how it formats things. The little bits of genuine heart and vulnerability like this is what makes it worthwhile. Thank you for making this video one of those moments as this movie deserves it. Thank you for being more than a dumb Tuberbot and sharing some of your joy with us. One more time. 💛✌️🤟

also, I used to listen to Jock Jams Vol 3 on my brother's CD player and act out an elaborate concept album using stuffed animals and toys, and eventually created a detailed map of their journey across a varied landscape with numbered keys specifying which song correlated with which location and the story at that point, so yeah Insterstella 5555 is one of my absolute faves of all time

I've grown up with a lot of cartoons that had a japanese origin, never fully aware of that either. It was by the time this aired on early MTV that i think it was one of my first real encounters with anime. Have to thank it for that. "One more time" remains one of my favorites to this day, the colorful alien visuals, just perfect.

All I know this as is a long Daft Punk music video 😂.

True, the music industry itself is not all bad, it is just the Hollywood focused music industry that is bad.

1:56 dude, i feel called out. i'm 45 and i still watch power rangers.

The songs really fit what's happening on screen.. Hmm it's almost like they had the music to listen to while they were making the anime. Lol Cre[SH]endolls Like Cre[SH]endo

It's a great film with a good soundtrack (though DF's "Tron Legacy" score will always be their best), though it's shame your love for anime didn't start with any of Hayao Miyazaki's classics. That's definitely were I started in the early 80s, as well as with "Bubblegum Crisis", "Akira", "Outlanders", "Dirty Pair", "Riding Bean", "Dominion Tank Police", "Roujin Z", "The W.I.N.G.S of Honneamise" and "Vampire Hunter D". As for the music from the 2000s, I totally agree that it mostly sucked, unless you were into the music module scene, then you had tons of fantastic songs. Same for the 90s. That's why I prefer, and have collected a massive archive of, 80's era tunes. That was my teen years and the music from then is still the best around. Not sure how you feel in love with that mutant "Prodigy". That's very chaotic music and totally opposite to that of Daft Punk.

I didn't expect to hear vaporwave in this video (I'm new to the channel), but your taste in vaporwave and music in general is top notch. That waifu joke you made used a track from Floral Shoppe, right? "Chill Divin' With ECCO"? And also hearing some Saint Pepsi later on. I love how obscure your references are too. The censored original fire temple music from Ocarina of Time being used to represent Darkwood's cult is perfect and had me in stitches when I heard it. I'm not enough into anime to binge the channel, but I will be sticking around. Subbed!

Something about us + voyager is the best

I did not know it was pronounced "interstella four five", thank you..

keep killin it my guy!

First discovered the one more time vid randomly at a food court. I honestly thought they were playing Cartoon Network there for a moment which ironically parts of this film did air on Toonami. Also I didn’t know it was on Nickelodeon one time.

Watch Phantom of the Paradise. You'll appreciate their inspiration.

💗💗💗💗

Music isn't about becoming famous Or for the money music is about being free to yourself it's about being true to yourself music is for everyone music is for life and you give life back to music🎤🎼🎹🎶

One of those shows where you don't need to watch the dub to enjoy it. :P

dude the Mystical Ninja 64 soundtrack is not just "pretty good" it is INCREDIBLE

Right after watching this video came the news that Daft Punk is over.

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Hory sheet I'm the 555th like of this video; get it? 🙃 Anyway, sucks that Daft Punk is done though. 😔

So i don't know if anyone knows this but " crescendolls" is actually a play on the word crescendo (I'm probably spelling it wrong and whats more saying it wrong..but..i always thought it was said like "creshendo"/"creshendolls" but i could be wrong. Being that I don't really play music and was never in a band but always wanted to be. I didn't know that it was pronounced interstellar 4 5 i always called it 5555 lol

Can you talk about more works from this creator?

Galaxy Railways

19:24 me wondering who the other people are in the background

I love Leiji Matsumoto’s work. I wish I liked Daft Punk. Maybe I’ll try to watch this One More Time.

11:46 Uh, what's Steven Seagal doing in this anime?🤨

I hate to bust your balloon about the record exec, Kaiser, but that doesn't reflect reality on the ground. The record industry really does suck. One aspect of this reality is the growth of indie platforms such as Bandcamp, in which artists, after securing all rights to their works through copyright (Library of Congress; $49 per song), can sell their own works online, bypassing the recording industry entirely. And with the plethora of "how-to" videos on RU-vid showing how to not only record, edit, mix and master your own works, but copyright and secure your rights to your own music, and sell it online, the need for signing with a big record label is no longer feasible for the sensible, savvy artist. The record industry continues to ensnare young artists into signing 360 contracts, in which all costs, including the costs of playing venues, meals, and radio airplay are deducted from the artists' advance before they see a single penny, reducing many to the status of indentured servants, literally. So, yeah, not a realistic portrayal of the record industry in this one.

0:54 Lol...On purpose!

Should do aeon flux

you're supposed grow out of power rangers?

I don't get it when video editors drop a giant block of quote text on the screen and allow nothing else to occupy the visual feed until they have finished reading the text aloud.

*HOW DARE YOU SAY THAT BLUE (DA BA DEE) IS GARBAGE!!!*

RIP Daft Punk...

4:53 so that is how the Daft Punk guys look without their masks

...I always viewed the goons as terminators...

I love anime bc it is silent (the characters don't talk)...