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Originally Posted by wao
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--Please tell us about this character "Yin". What relation does she have to Hei? [/B]
Okamura: The details of exactly what changes Yin might go through, I'm afraid, can't be released yet. Right now she's a character with no personality, but the stories about her will probably be about how she somehow or another manages to start returning to being human.
--About Iwahara Yuji-san who's doing his first job as original character designer for an anime here, tell us about the charm of his characters.
Okamura: Previously he had drawn this manga for a game called Koudelka (nb: Iwahara did the designs for the original game too), and when I read it for the first time I was left with the impression that this person's drawings are pretty interesting. It's like manga, but the characters can be animated realistically and I thought they were extremely suited as characters for an anime, so I thought someday I'd like to work with him.
--Please tell us your intentions behind making this have a bi-episodic structure.
Okamura: Please think of it as a 1-hour drama spread over two episodes. If you're forced to finish one story in 30 minutes the episode finishes before you're really able to delve into the character, so I made it into a bi-episodic structure. There's hilarious stories and detective tales and so on, so each episode can end up being about completely different things.
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Thank you for the interview.
Ooh, the Yin stuff and how secretive he wants to be about her definitely peaked my interest even more about her. Even without much screen time at all I was already drawn in by her. I love the various colors they've chosen for her design.
Cool, no wonder i like the designs, I didn't realize Iwahara Yuji had worked on Koudelka, I loved everything about that game, especially the art, except the horrible battle system. I agree, they are really well suited designs and adapt really well to Bones' animation.
I am really glad to hear the approach Okamura is taking with the bi-episodic structure, it sounds like he really means to take advantage of it's benefits. I'm glad there will be some hilarious stories spread into this as I'd love to see what these serious characters can do with it. And detective tales should be great given this cast of characters so that should be addictive too.