While Waiting for the Red Spectacles

While Waiting for the Red Spectacles
Studio album by Kenji Kawai
Released Japan September 28, 2000
Recorded January 1987
Genre drama
Length 37:32
Label Kadokawa Shoten
Producer Kadokawa Shoten

While Waiting for the Red Spectacles (紅い眼鏡を待ちつつ Akai Megane Omachi Tsutsu) is a 1987 radio drama written and directed by Mamoru Oshii. The music is composed and performed by Kenji Kawai.

It was released in 2000 as a limited CD drama bundled with Kerberos Panzer Cop: Complete Book [Zen] edition.

Kerberos saga

Kerberos

For more details on this topic, see Kerberos saga § Kerberos.

Primarily, the term kerberos is a reference to Hades' three-headed watchdog of hell in the Greek mythology. It is also used to designate the Panzer Cops.

Tachiguishi

For more details on this topic, see Tachiguishi.

As tachigui professionals, the legendary Fast Food Grifters have the privilege to eat in stand-and-eat street restaurants without paying.

Live-action film sequel (1987)

For more details on this topic, see The Red Spectacles.

The Red Spectacles was released in Japanese theaters the following month.

Manga adaptation (1999)

For more details on this topic, see Kerberos Panzer Cop: Conclusion.

The Fast Food Grifter assassination episode (立喰師撲殺事件) which led to both the Metropolitan Police's dismantlement order and the Kerberos Riot is portrayed in Kerberos Panzer Cop: Conclusion's Act 6.

Novel spin-off (2004)

For more details on this topic, see Tachiguishi-Retsuden.

Tachiguishi-Retsuden was written by Mamoru Oshii in 2004. It extends the Tachigui arc introduced in While Waiting for the Red Spectacles.

Story

Chronicles

For more details on this topic, see Kerberos saga chronicles.

Kerberos saga historical background and significant dates in both the real and fictitious history.

Plot

The narration is about events happening to Koichi Todome while exiled from Japan after the Kerberos Riot, before Inui came to Taiwan seeking for him. The portrayed events can be localized in the saga's timeline between the prologue of The Red Spectacles and StrayDog.

In 1999, 3rd night: Story of the incident of Fast Food Grifter Cold Badger Masa's clubbing to death was adapted in comic to become Kerberos Panzer Cop Act 6.

Track listing

(第一夜 ケルベロスの夜-機甲刑事の栄光と没落)
(第二夜 ケルベロスの夜-犬の名は都々目紅一)
(第三夜 立食師たちの夜-マッハ軒立食師撲殺事件・異聞)
(第四夜 立食師たちの夜-師よ神話の人となるか)
(第五夜 立食師たちの夜-犬は戦いの闇に舞い降りるか)

Releases

The drama was broadcast on Radio Nihon in January 1987, one month before the release of The Red Spectacles. In September 2000, it was released as a CD drama bundled with the Kerberos Panzer Cop: Complete Book manga.

The two musical themes were released, in 2003, in Kenji Kawai's "Cinema Anthology" audio CD boxset.

Production

Cast

Staff

External links

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