Seriously. Anyway. Studio Ghibli + Eureka Seven = Xam’d: Lost Memories. A new BONES production. As we all know, those are very very good. And Xam’d is some pretty funky stuff. We’ve got people that can turn into robots or something, we’ve got the damn ship with the dysfunctional bunch on board ala Gekkostate, and there’s this [...]
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This is a guest article written by lelangir in response to the July 2008 Minimum Tempo article, “[Dinner Discussion] Manga aisle freeloaders.” I buy most of my music. Anime OST’s I usually don’t buy unless they really warrant a purchase – i.e. Honey & Clover insert songs by Shikao Suga; Eureka 7 OST, anything by Joe [...]
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Mizuki Nana and Hirano Aya will star together in White Album, an idol anime to air beginning in January 2009.The anime is based on a PC game of which a PS3 version will also come out next year. The story involves Yuki (Hirano, in red), a new idol whose career increases the distance between her and her boyfriend. Rina (Mizuki, in white) is already a top idol, and the show will follow the evolution of the relationship between the two.The story is set in 1986, during the Japanese "bubble" period. The economy was about to reach its peak for a while and then crash.This is being billed as a "dream battle" between the two seiyuus. Here's hoping it brings their fans closer together, rather than driving them even further apart. No doubt the producers expect a bonanza from character CDs.Since their singing styles are so different -- Nana's is much more polished and Aya's rocks more -- I look forward to seeing whether the music producers can make this combination work. The same goes for their acting styles, with Nana's more conventional and Aya's more idiosyncratic and harder for other seiyuus to blend in with. Here's hoping this will be a fruitful combination rather than a disastrous one.Seven Arcs (Nanoha, Sekirei) will be the company in charge of animation production. Director will be Yoshida Taizou 吉田泰三, who did key animation on Eureka Seven and other shows, and storyboarded and directed several episodes each of Nanoha StrikerS and Otogijushi Akazukin, but who is a first-time director here. Music by Elements Garden.Here is a Japanese site describing both the game and the anime.
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I love giant robots, I really do, and since I finished 3 mecha series over the past 2 weeks I’m going to review 4 mecha shows as a bundle. This includes eureka seven, gundam 00, gurren lagann, and rahxephon. Eureka seven Plot in a sentence: Renton joins the outlaw group Gekko state and falls in love with [...]
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OP Theme: 「SHUT UP AND EXPLODE」by BOOM BOOM SATELLITES Download: AVI version (72.1MB, correct ratio/no black-bars) | PSP version (16.3MB) Otherwise known as Bounen no Xamdou, this series is an absolute delight in this otherwise dry summer anime season. I'd have paid the $2.99 for SD version or $3.99 for HD version, if only I can actually access the US movie store on PS3. See Sony, this is why you keep getting screwed by other companies. Stop doing this stupid zone restriction. I appreciate that you allow everyone to access any PSN game store. But ideally, it'd also be nice if I can access any PSN movie store as well. Otherwise, then please provide similar contents across PSN stores in different countries. I have enough credits on my European, Japanese, and US PSN account so if you want money, then let me see the show in HD. Anyway, at a first glance, this show looks like a combination of Rahxephon, Eureka 7, Nausicaa, Escaflowne and Last Exile. It's a pretty exciting series that deserves to be the highlight of Bones' 20th Anniversary.
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As you might know, I have been looking forward to Bounen no Xamdou, now known as “Xam’d: Lost Memories,” ever since it was announced. I’m a big fan of Eureka Seven to the extent that I bought all the DVDs individually as special editions (when those editions were available) as a show of support, and [...]
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In a town where nothing happens, Renton Thurston dreams of taking to the skies and surfing the Trapar waves with his hero Holland and the rogue nation of Gekko State. And then one day his dream comes true, when a member of Gekko State quite literally crashes into his home, sparking off a chain [...]
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And so we reach the end of the road for Renton, Eureka, the Gekkostate and the others as the final confrontation with the true nature of the Coralians looms: Dewey swings his plan into action while our heroes make a desperate final attempt to find a peaceful solution. Of all the expectations I had of [...]
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How cow, I can’t believe that it’s been almost two years since I last blogged this series! Where has the time passed? I didn’t think it was that long ago since I posted something about this amazing series, but the computer does not lie unless I program it to. Not much has [...]
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During the New Year months ago, Eureka Seven character designer Yoshida Kenichi posted an Eureka-themed New Year’s Card on his personal site. I looked at it back in January, not thinking much of it, only noticing that Eureka looked kind of young in it. Recently, I revisited the image and realized that I’ve seen this Eureka somewhere [...]
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