Now here is a sentence that no one should read in 2025: Once upon a time, we might have been able to see the Spice Girls and the Wu-Tang clan in the form of an anime.
In a recent interview with animeigo, Lawrence Guinness, senior vice-president at Manga Entertainment, anime distributor such as Perfect blue And Street Fighter Alpha (and a subsidiary of Island Records), revealed that the company had planned to co -produce its own works. Two projects he mentioned would have played the aforementioned groups, and the Spice Girls idea went far enough for him to have fixed production images to show. If it had happened, it would have been a film called Girl power: anime, With the kind authorization of IG production, the studio behind Ghost in the shell.
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According to Guinness, Manga had “very advanced talks” with the management of the British pop group at the time, it was presented and hoped that anime fans of the time like the Ghibli studio. Even now, Guinness is confident of teenage girls “could have gone to the cinema to see this. In fact, I think you should have been in a line for a long time to enter it. It was vision. Look, if it is not a girl’s power in action, I don’t know what it is. “
As for the Wu-Tang project never carried out, a series that would have been called The imperial warrior, He said that everything was in place for the project, except that some members of the Hip-Hop group did not disconnect there. The founder of his argument in Island Records, Chris Blackwell, saw Wu-Tang “challenge the forces of evil through their skills in music and martial arts”. The soundtrack and the drawings of the characters (he mentioned Rza and Ghostface Killah specifically) were “brilliant,” said Guinness, and that would have been “revolutionary. It was the project of which I had been the most proud that never happened. “
During the decades, Japanese creators were opened on their love for Western music, and artists like the late Prince and Aaliyah inspired characters Michiko & Hatchin And My university hero. Making musicians or other celebrities in fictitious versions of themselves for cinema and television is another story as old as time, and Guinness wanted these two projects to take off both to put the manga on the map and succeed “synthesize the anime with the best of Western culture”. Regarding the Wu-Tang clan, he has somehow obtained his wish, thanks to the involvement of RZA in Afro Samurai and the future action game of the developer Brass Lion Entertainment Wu-Tang: Rise of the December.
As for the Spice Girls, it is a pity that they have never obtained their animated – there are worse means for a group to be commented only as an anime film with original songs and a cheesy action which still holds years after the fact.
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