Author: Liar/Anitama Cover Source: Mobile Suit Gundam Thunderbolt special
Mobile Suit Gundam thunderbolt ("Thunder Battle Line" is a series of Manga series created by Yasuo Otagaki and serialized in big comic superior, a youth manga magazine in elementary school since 2012. With Yasuo Otagaki's hardcore, meticulous mechanism, and story composition that ignores the rich history of the universe century, "Thunder Domain" also appears to be more polarized among the Gundam audience. Due to the excessive complexity of its mechanism, it was even once considered to be impossible to animate.
However, on the occasion of the release of volume 6 (October 30, 2015), Mobile Suit Gundam thunderbolt was announced to be animated. Under our general understanding, an animation of a newly published work needs to be tormented for a period of time to wait for follow-up. The production of the first episode of "Thunder Domain" was basically completed at the same time as the animation was released, and after only two months of "electric shock war", the animation began to be officially released at noon on December 25 in the form of paid distribution letters, and tokyo mx TV also broadcast a special program on December 27 while the iron was hot, telling the secret story of the birth of the original manga and the stage behind the stage of the animation version, and another 7 minutes of unredacted broadcasting.
"Thunder Domain" and the original Gundam protagonist lineup is mainly from the "child", the characters appearing in this work are biased towards adults, the theme is "real war" and another indispensable element in the play "jazz (jazz)", positioning high age, the so-called "Gundam for adults", there are also many kissing, smoking and other adult-oriented scenes in the play, and there are many depictions of prosthetic limbs, which show the tragic and cruel pictures of war to the fullest.
The way this time it was made public is also different from previous works, not TV broadcasting, nor is it a new broadcast form similar to uc and the origin of the theater - est with letters, downloading animation in the form of "purchase". Take episode 1 of "Thunder Domain", the first episode contains ed for 18 minutes, plus 18 minutes of special image purchased at a low price of 500 yen, and there is no broadcast period limit, which is different from the previous 250 yen period limited letter form tvod.
The difference between est and tvod, est is to buy downloads, tvod is to pay for a limited time online
The show uses 4 keywords to interpret the secret story of the birth of the original manga and the stage behind the stage of the animation version, and we follow the show into this battlefield full of lightning and thunder.
Keyword (1) "Zagu"
"Thunder Domain" is such a "Gundam" series of works that is different from the previous "Gundam" and has "Zagu" as the main campaign. The original author of the manga is Yasuo Otagaki, who is famous for his works such as "Moonlight Mile".
The stage of this work takes place in .c. In December 0079, at the end of the "One Year War", the important supply of the space fortress "A.Bawa Kong", the remnants of the Gion Army, had to pass through the "Thunder Front Domain". It tells the story of the ace pilot of the Earth Federation Army, Lieutenant Io Freming, and the captain of the Guildhall Army's Living Dead Division Cao (later promoted to lieutenant) Dalilu Lorenz, who had lost both feet in the past war.
As for why it is not "Gundam" but "Zaku" as the protagonist, Otagaki Sensei said, "I like Zaku's design from the bottom of my heart, more than Gundam, more than tigers and demons." I especially like the moment when Zagu's one-eyed eyes glow. It was this willfulness of Otagaki Sensei that we saw that fa Gundam had become a bad servant of this game, "If you take Gundam as an enemy, it must be the strongest!" We all know that the rx-78-2 piloted by Amro Ray is called the "White Devil", which is exactly what Otagaki sensed, reversing the thinking of the previous Gundam works, and because of this fresh angle and its mechanism, it was the old body painter Nakamori Fumiyoshi who was still making uc at the time and recommended to the Sunrise1 group of small shape p, and after the discussion of small shape p, it was decided to start making this work at the end of g-reco.
Keyword (2) "One Year's War"
Just mentioned that the stage of the story takes place at the end of the "One Year War", about the theme of "One Year War", the related animation in addition to the original muji, including two ova works "Mobile Suit Gundam 0080 Pocket War" and "Mobile Suit Gundam 08ms Squad".
※ "ms igloo" is not mentioned in the program, which is not missed by the author
The entire worldview is based on the premise of "One Year War", but although the background of "Thunder Domain" is "One Year War", it is indeed a parallel world story, so it cannot be counted in the "One Year War" chronology. The same goes for Mobile Suit Gundam the Origin.
The story of the first generation mainly revolves around teenage girls, and Otagaki sensei believes that as a forty-something uncle, he cannot feel the same way as these children. Therefore, the age of the characters in the play (the specific age is not publicly available at present, Io is about 24 years old, from the captain's tombstone, the rest is unknown but is the age that Otagaki Sensei can recognize), set as a warrior with the consciousness of killing.
Kogata also said, "Although the entry point of this work is different from previous works, it still maintains the view of Otagaki Sensei, otherwise "Thunder Domain" would not be established. ”
Sunrise Group 1 Producer: Naohiro Kogata
After the animation production was determined, Kogata immediately summoned the producers. Supervising the game is Matsuo Hiroshi, who oversees the performances of Perfect Blue, Millennium Actress, the theatrical version of Mobile Suit Z Gundam a new translation, and Hiroshi Matsuo, who oversees Revolution Machine Valvrave and Rose Maiden. Matsuo was appreciated by Komogame for his grasp of the worldview of his work, as well as jim's battle scenes in the PS3 game Mobile Suit Gundam Battle Record's special anime, UC's storyboarding, and the spatial stereoscopic performance shown in G-Reco's 12th episode (mark knight return).
Supervision: Hiroshi Matsuo
A spatial stereoscopic scene in which Xiao Zhi p is very satisfied with the play is that the time flowing before the attack and the space in the battleship explain the background of the whole story very deeply and without dragging mud and water, clean and neat.
Keyword (3) "Jazz"
Music: Kikuchi into a hole
The protagonist, Io, is a full-fledged jazz maniac, and his attack must have been accompanied by jazz, as he said in his first encounter with Dalilu, "If you hear jazz, it means that I am coming." It can even be said that there is no jazz, and there is no "Thunder Domain". The original manga used songs that already existed, and the one who wrote the colorful jazz music for the anime was Kikuchi Nariko, a very representative musician in the Japanese jazz industry, who played saxophone herself, and in 2012, she also played the music of "Lupin III's Woman Named Mine Fujiko"; the piano was played by the jazz female pianist Junko Ohnishi, who reopened the event in September this year. I believe that anyone who has heard it will feel the magic of jazz. Jazz and animation are not deeply related, but are occasionally used in some bar scenes, and the whole work is a small number of jazz works, which is also a very fresh point in this work. It is also worth noting that because there are more songs used in the play, the bgm of the play companion is relatively less common.
Piano: Junko Ohnishi
It is this combination of sound and picture that is more suitable for Matsuo's very special way of performing , プレスコ, "pre-recorded". Pre-recording is to record the lines and music first, and then combine the sound to make a painting performance, and then add the effect sound, so that it is easier to grasp on the timeline, but from a certain point of view, the drawing fit is increased. Often we think that this way of painting will increase the burden on the original painting, but in Matsuo's view, this way of painting can provide inspiration for painting. American animation is often produced in this way. The drumming scene of Io, with this drum beat, used more than 100 pieces of eryuan, this picture is also taken in advance as a reference and then painted, I believe that friends who have seen it will not help but applaud and praise.
Incidentally, in terms of effect sound, the Federation is biased towards the modern and near-future feeling, jean is more primitive, and the engine is closer to the feeling of the internal combustion engine.
Keyword (4) "Hand-drawn"
The author believes that a large number of friends who like "Gundam" more than other robot animations must be attracted by the exquisite hand-drawn robots, and this is also the biggest attraction of "Thunder Domain"! The painting of sunrise group 1 is naturally the highest level in the industry.
Gnaku's scene is modeled by cg and then hand-drawn, the interior of the cockpit is cg, and the rest of the mechanical parts are all hand-drawn.
In addition, in this special and est album, we are even more fortunate to see the original hand-drawn painting of ms-06r high-mobility Zagu that will appear in Episode 2 (see below).
Komot thinks that after all, the part of the body is very complete in the manga, but it is still difficult to make an animation, especially in terms of action, and even thought that the ms part is all done with cg, for some reason (or persistence?). All of them were changed to hand-drawn paintings, and I was sorry for the painting class.
In addition to the original painting lineup of the first episode of this work, in addition to 1 group of well-known old-name original painters, such as (in no particular order, honorific titles) Takatani Hiroshi, Nakatani Seiichi, Nakamori Fumi, Yoshihito Ryoma, Hideyoshi Komatsu, Kuwame Ikuro, Genma Nobuhiko, Marie Tato, Tetsuya Matsukawa, etc., the newcomers also use Maigo Tamagawa, Katayama Gaku and Yan AiGugu, who should be familiar to everyone on Weibo, etc., the storyboard of the second episode will be played by Teraoka Iwa, and Shingo Tamaki and Katayama Gaku are promoted to character and body painting supervision, etc. Every oak has been an acorn.
Episode 1 Drawing Supervisor, Original Painting, Second Original Painting, Animation Lineup
Matsuo's very persistent scene is the final battle scene against Fa Gundam from Jim's main perspective, and the scene that was originally scheduled to be 20 seconds has been expanded to 28 seconds, and more than 10,000 original paintings were used in the first episode, and more than 900 pictures were used in that scene. I also took a screenshot of the full clip released in the special fan (only 26 seconds here, but it should actually be 28 seconds):
Faced with various challenges and new ideas, and for these is the love of the staff for gundam! Mobile Suit Gundam thunderbolt, dedicated to you who love the original and all gundam series!
Finally, mg fa gundam (Thunder Domain Edition) will be released next year, is your wallet ready (crying and laughing)...
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