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Tsuyukusa · 2011-01-27, 14:50

All of the scans look great. I'm really looking forward to seeing a trailer.

Arabesque · 2011-01-28, 16:51

While I'm certainly looking forward to this project, I must say I'm more interested in how this bodes for the output of shows by BONES in the future.

Firstly, it looks like them opening the new D studio was mostly in preparation for it to take over B's role as I presume that it'll be completely focused on making this series (possibly for the rest of 2012) as so they don't fall back on productivity and maintain the same number of series produced.

This year at least is going to have them producing less anime (as all their 4 studios are already occupied, 2 with ongoing series and the other two with movies) so I think we might get one more new series out before the end of the year.

I can honestly say I'll look to that show more due to the more focus it'll receive compared to the uneven output in quality we had the past year.

duckroll · 2011-01-28, 22:41

I dunno if we can realistically say that this year will have BONES producing "less" anime.

2011 BONES anime:
Gosick (TV)
No.6 (TV)
FMA Milos (movie)
Towa no Quon (movie series)

And that's only what has been announced. If C Studio somehow gets another TV series going in Fall 2011, then that'll be 5 anime releases from BONES in 2011. 3 TV, 2 movies. How is that less?

Edit: In fact, it would be a pretty big increase from their 2010 line-up which only had Heroman, Star Driver, and Halo Legends (Prototype).

Arabesque · 2011-01-30, 02:36

They were also working on the Darker than Black Gaiden as well as continuing with FMA:Brotherhood so it's not a big increase.

What I meant to write was that they'd be producing less televised anime for this year (but for some reason dropped it from my post). Your right of course that the number of titles for this year matches their regular output, but in terms of content it's not the same.

I do get the feeling I'll end up being proven wrong on this though

duckroll · 2011-01-30, 04:36

Is it really much less though?

Televised anime in 2010:
FMA:B (26 eps in 2010)
Heroman (26 eps)
Star Driver (13 eps in 2010)

Right now based on what's announced we have:
Gosick (26 eps)
Star Driver (12 eps in 2010)
No.6 (probably 11 eps like most noitaminA shows)

So right now we're looking at... at most 16 episodes less of televised content. In exchange we get one full length theatrical movie (should be about 2 hours?), and at least one episode of a "theatrical" series (should be about an hour). Although with ep1 coming in June, we could actually get another episode by the end of the year.

Adding to this, you too feel that it's possible that they could have another show for Fall 2011. If this is true, then their TV output would be exactly the same as it was in 2010 in terms of episode count, and actually double what it was in 2010 in terms of actual titles. And on top of that we're getting a full length movie -and- a "movie" series. That's actually a huge increase in output this year, which is kind of scary!

_gallo_ · 2011-01-30, 05:29

Personally I don't think that expanding the number of their internal divisions had a really good payoff on the studio's outcome.
I'm not complaining about a specific series they've done recently (I'm liking Star Driver) but in general the larger the number of series produced the lower is their quality. It is not a trade off that perfectly matches reality, but I think it's true to a certain extent.
As an animation fan, I would prefer Bones to stick only to 2, maximum 3, projects per year, so that they could raise the quality by making their best staffers to work only on few things.

Clearly I'm avoiding economic reasons. It may well be that their strategy is to make more series in order to increase the likelihood of having at least one stream of revenue form one project. Still, I don't think it's a really successful strategy: making lots of average or forgettable shows, spoils the studio's pedigree in the long run. It would be better to establish an external division and outsource to it the anime which are more otaku-ish or (supposedly) profitable.

j0x · 2011-01-30, 06:01

i like anime movies because they got better visual quality and animation, gonna look forward to this

duckroll · 2011-02-26, 05:27

http://www.towanoquon.com

Major site update.

Complete staff listing:

Director: Umanosuke Iida
Assistant Director: Takeshi Mori
Series Composition: Saizo Nemoto

Character Design/Animation Director: Toshihiro Kawamoto
Conceptual Design: Shingo Takeba, Yutaka Izubuchi
Bestia Design: Kenji Mizuhata
Art Design: Iho Narita, Takashi Aoi
Design Works: Tsunenori Saito, Takeshi Yoshioka, Fumihiro Katagai, Makoto Kamata
Action Supervisor: Yutaka Nakamura

Color Setting: Nobuko Mizuta
Art Director: Kuniaki Nemoto
Director of Photography: Toru Fukushi, Toshiya Kimura
3DCG Production/Monitor Graphics: SANZIGEN

Music: Kenji Kawai

Sound Director: Kazuhiro Wakabayashi
Sound Effects: Shizuo Kurahashi
Editing: Kengo Shigemura

j0x · 2011-02-26, 05:33

Quote:

Originally Posted by duckroll

Action Supervisor: Yutaka Nakamura

awesome

Seihai · 2011-02-27, 11:38

Quote:

Originally Posted by duckroll

Music: Kenji Kawai

Beautiful!

duckroll · 2011-03-07, 10:14

Seems Tei is voiced by Kaori Nazuka, and Yuri is voiced by Ryoko Shiraishi. The main character Quon does not have a voice actor announced yet.

duckroll · 2011-03-13, 08:57

http://www.towanoquon.com/cast.html
http://www.towanoquon.com/character.html
http://www.towanoquon.com/movie.html

A trailer is apparently out, but it's region blocked, so I haven't seen it yet. Trying to get a friend to rip it for me. They revealed the rest of the cast today as well. Quon is played by Hiroshi Kamiya, and Cyborg Epsilon is played by Kousuke Toriumi. The character design for Cyborg Epsilon can be seen on the characters page.

Spoiler for Epsilon design:

Other cast members without designs yet include:

Kiri: Saori Hayami
Miu: Chiaki Omigawa (Noooooooooooo!)
Ryou: Tatsuhisa Suzuki
Takao: Miyu Irino
Yuuma: Mikako Komatsu
神無月星志: Toru Ohkawa
Cyborg Delta: Minako Kotobuki
Cyborg Alpha: Jouji Nakata
上代源治: Shinichiro Miki

I'm not going to try and translate the two kanji names because it'll probably end up wrong anyway. Better to wait for an official pronunciation.

j0x · 2011-03-13, 09:27

ho so its not giant mecha that will be piloted this time around but metal battle suits

waiting for a youtube trailer

duckroll · 2011-03-13, 09:48

I uploaded the trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JV4cAAIdVGI

j0x · 2011-03-13, 09:52

Quote:

Originally Posted by duckroll

I uploaded the trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JV4cAAIdVGI

thanks a lot!!! the animation is not great but smooth none the less for a movie and ye artwork is clean like any BONES studio character designs

their looks on armor suits is that they remind me of casshern sins

kyouray · 2011-03-13, 10:17

Thanks duckroll

So battle suits...I'm expecting great fights with Yutaka Nakamura as action supervisor !

Quote:

Originally Posted by ckmox

their looks on armor suits is that they remind me of casshern sins

yeah and Zetman.

Shiroth · 2011-03-13, 13:35

That Armour suit reminds me more of the original Casshern then Casshern Sins.

& that is one classic Kawai Kenji piece in the trailer. I am pleased.

Tsuyukusa · 2011-03-13, 14:29

The trailer looks great!

ars89 · 2011-03-13, 17:42

Quote:

Originally Posted by duckroll

I uploaded the trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JV4cAAIdVGI

thanks for the upload.

like the designs for the battle suits

Haohmaru · 2011-03-14, 12:42

So far it's looking good. But damn I was expecting at least one action scene in the trailer.. I want my Nakamura fix.

2011-01-28, 16:51	Link #22
Arabesque Licensed Hunter-a-holic Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: United Kingdom Age: 35	While I'm certainly looking forward to this project, I must say I'm more interested in how this bodes for the output of shows by BONES in the future. Firstly, it looks like them opening the new D studio was mostly in preparation for it to take over B's role as I presume that it'll be completely focused on making this series (possibly for the rest of 2012) as so they don't fall back on productivity and maintain the same number of series produced. This year at least is going to have them producing less anime (as all their 4 studios are already occupied, 2 with ongoing series and the other two with movies) so I think we might get one more new series out before the end of the year. I can honestly say I'll look to that show more due to the more focus it'll receive compared to the uneven output in quality we had the past year. __________________

2011-01-30, 02:36	Link #24
Arabesque Licensed Hunter-a-holic Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: United Kingdom Age: 35	They were also working on the Darker than Black Gaiden as well as continuing with FMA:Brotherhood so it's not a big increase. What I meant to write was that they'd be producing less televised anime for this year (but for some reason dropped it from my post). Your right of course that the number of titles for this year matches their regular output, but in terms of content it's not the same. I do get the feeling I'll end up being proven wrong on this though __________________

2011-01-30, 05:29	Link #26
_gallo_ Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Italy Age: 37	Personally I don't think that expanding the number of their internal divisions had a really good payoff on the studio's outcome. I'm not complaining about a specific series they've done recently (I'm liking Star Driver) but in general the larger the number of series produced the lower is their quality. It is not a trade off that perfectly matches reality, but I think it's true to a certain extent. As an animation fan, I would prefer Bones to stick only to 2, maximum 3, projects per year, so that they could raise the quality by making their best staffers to work only on few things. Clearly I'm avoiding economic reasons. It may well be that their strategy is to make more series in order to increase the likelihood of having at least one stream of revenue form one project. Still, I don't think it's a really successful strategy: making lots of average or forgettable shows, spoils the studio's pedigree in the long run. It would be better to establish an external division and outsource to it the anime which are more otaku-ish or (supposedly) profitable. __________________ Animelist :: Lastfm :: Library(incomplete) :: Twitter(italian only) -Sorry if my english is not really good [... the secret of the Great Stories is that they have no secrets. The Great Stories are the ones you have heard and want to hear again. The ones you can enter anywhere and inhabit comfortably. They don't deceive you with thrills and trick endings. They don't surprise you with the unforeseen.. They are as familiar as the house you live in. Or the smell of your lover's skin. You know how they end yet you listen as though you don't. In the way that you know that one day you will die, you live as though you won't. In the Great Stories you know who lives, who dies, who finds love, who doesn't. And yet you want to know again. That is their mystery and their magic. ...] Arundhati Roy

2011-03-13, 13:35	Link #37
Shiroth Beautiful fighter. Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: England, UK Age: 37	That Armour suit reminds me more of the original Casshern then Casshern Sins. & that is one classic Kawai Kenji piece in the trailer. I am pleased. __________________ MyAnimeList Twitter

2011-01-27, 14:50	Link #21
Tsuyukusa King of Carrot Flowers Join Date: Jan 2011 Location: New Jersey Age: 32	All of the scans look great. I'm really looking forward to seeing a trailer.

2011-01-28, 22:41	Link #23
duckroll 綺羅星★！ Join Date: Jan 2004 Age: 42	I dunno if we can realistically say that this year will have BONES producing "less" anime. 2011 BONES anime: Gosick (TV) No.6 (TV) FMA Milos (movie) Towa no Quon (movie series) And that's only what has been announced. If C Studio somehow gets another TV series going in Fall 2011, then that'll be 5 anime releases from BONES in 2011. 3 TV, 2 movies. How is that less? Edit: In fact, it would be a pretty big increase from their 2010 line-up which only had Heroman, Star Driver, and Halo Legends (Prototype).

2011-01-30, 04:36	Link #25
duckroll 綺羅星★！ Join Date: Jan 2004 Age: 42	Is it really much less though? Televised anime in 2010: FMA:B (26 eps in 2010) Heroman (26 eps) Star Driver (13 eps in 2010) Right now based on what's announced we have: Gosick (26 eps) Star Driver (12 eps in 2010) No.6 (probably 11 eps like most noitaminA shows) So right now we're looking at... at most 16 episodes less of televised content. In exchange we get one full length theatrical movie (should be about 2 hours?), and at least one episode of a "theatrical" series (should be about an hour). Although with ep1 coming in June, we could actually get another episode by the end of the year. Adding to this, you too feel that it's possible that they could have another show for Fall 2011. If this is true, then their TV output would be exactly the same as it was in 2010 in terms of episode count, and actually double what it was in 2010 in terms of actual titles. And on top of that we're getting a full length movie -and- a "movie" series. That's actually a huge increase in output this year, which is kind of scary!

2011-01-30, 06:01	Link #27
j0x Giga Drill Breaker Join Date: Jan 2009	i like anime movies because they got better visual quality and animation, gonna look forward to this

2011-02-26, 05:27	Link #28
duckroll 綺羅星★！ Join Date: Jan 2004 Age: 42	http://www.towanoquon.com Major site update. Complete staff listing: Director: Umanosuke Iida Assistant Director: Takeshi Mori Series Composition: Saizo Nemoto Character Design/Animation Director: Toshihiro Kawamoto Conceptual Design: Shingo Takeba, Yutaka Izubuchi Bestia Design: Kenji Mizuhata Art Design: Iho Narita, Takashi Aoi Design Works: Tsunenori Saito, Takeshi Yoshioka, Fumihiro Katagai, Makoto Kamata Action Supervisor: Yutaka Nakamura Color Setting: Nobuko Mizuta Art Director: Kuniaki Nemoto Director of Photography: Toru Fukushi, Toshiya Kimura 3DCG Production/Monitor Graphics: SANZIGEN Music: Kenji Kawai Sound Director: Kazuhiro Wakabayashi Sound Effects: Shizuo Kurahashi Editing: Kengo Shigemura

2011-03-07, 10:14	Link #31
duckroll 綺羅星★！ Join Date: Jan 2004 Age: 42	Seems Tei is voiced by Kaori Nazuka, and Yuri is voiced by Ryoko Shiraishi. The main character Quon does not have a voice actor announced yet.

2011-03-13, 08:57	Link #32
duckroll 綺羅星★！ Join Date: Jan 2004 Age: 42	http://www.towanoquon.com/cast.html http://www.towanoquon.com/character.html http://www.towanoquon.com/movie.html A trailer is apparently out, but it's region blocked, so I haven't seen it yet. Trying to get a friend to rip it for me. They revealed the rest of the cast today as well. Quon is played by Hiroshi Kamiya, and Cyborg Epsilon is played by Kousuke Toriumi. The character design for Cyborg Epsilon can be seen on the characters page. Spoiler for Epsilon design: Other cast members without designs yet include: Kiri: Saori Hayami Miu: Chiaki Omigawa (Noooooooooooo!) Ryou: Tatsuhisa Suzuki Takao: Miyu Irino Yuuma: Mikako Komatsu 神無月星志: Toru Ohkawa Cyborg Delta: Minako Kotobuki Cyborg Alpha: Jouji Nakata 上代源治: Shinichiro Miki I'm not going to try and translate the two kanji names because it'll probably end up wrong anyway. Better to wait for an official pronunciation.

2011-03-13, 09:27	Link #33
j0x Giga Drill Breaker Join Date: Jan 2009	ho so its not giant mecha that will be piloted this time around but metal battle suits waiting for a youtube trailer

2011-03-13, 09:48	Link #34
duckroll 綺羅星★！ Join Date: Jan 2004 Age: 42	I uploaded the trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JV4cAAIdVGI

2011-03-13, 14:29	Link #38
Tsuyukusa King of Carrot Flowers Join Date: Jan 2011 Location: New Jersey Age: 32	The trailer looks great!

2011-03-14, 12:42	Link #40
Haohmaru The Invincible Samurai Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Gairyu Isle, Japan Age: 37	So far it's looking good. But damn I was expecting at least one action scene in the trailer.. I want my Nakamura fix.