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Yu Yu Hakusho 4ever
I always find new references every time I read the manga, so I’ll probably edit this post in the future with new ones. If anyone knows more refs, please leave a comment or a message and I’ll add in the post giving the credits.
1. International artists: most of the bands and artists are from the rock/metal scene.
- Keiko reading UDO in her English Class (v.2, p.98)
UDO is a German heavy metal band founded by the lead vocalist Udo Dirkschneider (ex-Accept) in 1987.
Keiko is reading an adapted version of the lyrics of “Unspoken Words”:
My thoughts are going back - back to the time
When I was young to live a life
A life of lies - full of liesThen you came into my life
And you’ve changed so many things
That I’ve done before - that I’ve done before…
Togashi commented on the Table of Contents in 1991 that he was listening to UDO and Led Zeppelin as BGM. (WSJ issue 6, 1991)
- Kuwabara’s “Moter-head” T-shirt (v.3-4, Genkai’s Tournament)
A reference to “Motörhead”, English rock band formed in 1975 by bassist, singer, and songwriter Lemmy (RIP, 2015). We can also see the names of two famous Motörhead‘s albums on his shirt: &ld
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Jim Jarmusch
American film director and screenwriter (born 1953)
James Robert Jarmusch (JAR-məsh;[1] born January 22, 1953) is an American film director, screenwriter and musician.
He has been a major proponent of independent cinema since the 1980s, directing films such as Stranger Than Paradise (1984), Down by Law (1986), Mystery Train (1989), Dead Man (1995), Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (1999), Coffee and Cigarettes (2003), Broken Flowers (2005), Only Lovers Left Alive (2013), and Paterson (2016). Stranger Than Paradise was added to the National Film Registry in December 2002.[2] As a musician, he has been part of the no wave band The Del-Byzanteens and in addition composed music for some of his films. He has released three musical albums with Jozef van Wissem.
Early life
[edit]Jarmusch was born in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, the second of three children of middle-class suburbanites.[3][4][5][6] His mother, of German and Irish descent, was a reviewer of film and theatre for the Akron Beacon Journal before marrying his father, a businessman of Czech and German descent who worked for the B.F. Goodrich Company.[5][7][8] She introduced Jarmusch to cinema