Matsumoto’s Koshika Meets Queen
Veteran manga/anime creator Leiji Matsumoto’s current manga serial Out of Galaxy Koshika will debut in anime form as a music video for Queen’s classic 1975 song “Bohemian Rhapsody.” Queen has previously used animation in its music videos, most noteably in the promotional video for the 1986 song “A Kind of Magic.” Reportedly the present members of Queen specifically requested Japanese creators to produce a new music video for “Bohemian Rhapsody.” Yamato, Galaxy Express 999, and Captain Harlock creator Leiji Matsumoto developed the Interstella 5555 musical anime project for French musical group Daft Punk in 2003. Digital distribution company Sunsoft, which is serializing Matsumoto’s Koshika manga series on the Nintendo Wii Shopping Channel, announced plans to adapt Koshika into anime last April.
Footage of the “Bohemian Rhapsody ~feat. Leiji Matsumoto” video will premiere tomorrow, November 24, at events in Tokyo and Osaka commemorating the 18th anniversary of the death of Queen’s original vocalist and “Bohemian Rhapsody” songwriter Freddie Mercury. The completed video will be distributed on Japanese mobile phones by year’s end.
Source: Anime News Network
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And if some of you are too old to not get the Queen references in Cromartie, the remaining members of the band finally set up their own Youtube channel where you can watch their old videos @ http://www.youtube.com/user/queenofficial#p/u/4/4QM7LjyvHqE .
Er, too young.