What is the best Shinichiro Watanabe anime?

One director, eight very different shows: jazz bounty hunters, hip-hop samurai, Martian pop duos and a 2025 drug-hunt thriller. Pick the one that still holds up best.

1. 1
   Cowboy Bebop

   Watanabe's 1998 space-western about a crew of broke bounty hunters, scored by Yoko Kanno.
   1000pts
2. 2
   Carole & Tuesday

   A 2019 music drama about two young songwriters on a terraformed Mars.
   590pts
3. 3
   Samurai Champloo

   A 2004 Edo-period road trip that sets sword fights to hip-hop beats by Nujabes and Fat Jon.
   500pts
4. 4
   Kids on the Slope

   A 2012 drama about two teenagers in 1960s Kyushu who bond over jazz.
   389pts
5. 5
   Terror in Resonance

   A 2014 thriller about two teenage bombers leaving riddles for the Tokyo police.
   389pts
6. 6
   Lazarus

   Watanabe's 2025 action series about a team hunting the creator of a deadly miracle drug, with action by the John Wick team.
   389pts
7. 7
   Macross Plus

   A 1994 OVA about two rival test pilots and a virtual idol, co-directed by Watanabe and Shoji Kawamori.
   0pts
8. 8
   Space Dandy

   A 2014 episodic sci-fi comedy about an alien hunter with a pompadour, which premiered on Toonami before Japan.
   0pts

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