2006-04-06, 17:10 | Link #1 |
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Mardock Scramble - GONZO's 15th Anniversary Series
Well, there is no independant thread for this anime, and I don't feel like discussing this in random GONZO threads, so why not make a new one?
For those unaware... Mardock Scramble is a new anime being made by the GONZO Digimation. It is their 15th anniversary project. For the record, their 10th anniversary project was Last Exile (which was unbelievable good). Another good thing Mardock Scramble shares with Last Exile is the famous illustrator and designer Renji "Range" Murata, who once again does the character designs for the show. What else do we know about it? Director: Yasufumi Soejima (previously done some various 3DCG work on Le Comte de Monte-Cristo and Last Exile). Story: Tou Ubukata (who is actually the original author of "Mardock Scramble", as the anime is based on his novel of the same name) Animation director: Junichi Takaoka (previously done various work on BGC 2040, Parakiss, Slayers, etc.) Mahiro Maeda once again does the mecha design, so YAY! The format: Currently unknown (TV? OVA? Feature film?) The date: Currently unknown (most likely - 2007, since GONZO was found in 1992) The website: http://mardock.jp/ The promo: http://mardock.jp/special.html Actually, the promo is the reason why I decided to start this thread, as it came out just today. And it looks exceedingly good in my opinion. Highly professional and reeks of quality work, despite being short and uneventful. There seems to be a girl, and that girl seems to be holding a gun, but that does not necessarily mean it's a dreaded "girls with guns" genre that GONZO is so infamous for these days. So, suspend your disbelief and pessimism for a second there. Why not give GONZO a chance? They didn't screw up Last Exile, why not give 'em a break once in 5 years, eh? 8) |
2006-04-06, 17:25 | Link #3 |
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According to GONZO's own record (http://www.gonzo.co.jp/studio/02gaiyou.html), the studio began its life on 1992年9月11日. So, there...
If Mardock Scramble is an OVA series, then it will take them several years to roll it out anyway, so they can start this year and procede onwards toward the actual anniversary. |
2006-04-10, 14:25 | Link #4 | |
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Found these images of the covers to the three books on my travels...
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And some blurb about the story leeched from anime-days.com: Quote:
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2006-08-08, 05:17 | Link #6 |
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More info here on Mardock Scramble. Some of the seiyuus have been revealed.
Megumi Hayashibara as Ballot George Nakata as Boiled Goda Hozumi as Doctor Great news! With Hayashibara coming out of the retirement and Nakata being one of my favourite voice-actors. Also, the website got the face-life: http://mardock.jp/ The not so good news is that according to several sources, the anime will be fully 3DCG. Last edited by MrProphet; 2006-08-09 at 08:35. |
2006-08-08, 06:51 | Link #7 |
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I don't particularly like all of Murata's girl-pedo characters, my biggest complaint is that after some time they all look way too similar... but a full-3DCG anime?! NOOOOOOO.
...NOOOOOOOO. Shit. But it's possible since the person who seems like the leader of Gonzo's CG team, Yasufumi Soejima, is directing this so... Oh well. Good luck to them then...
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2006-08-08, 09:42 | Link #8 |
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i talked with murahama and murata 9 days ago (believe it or not but its true^^)
and everything they showed were the promo -.- they say that they wont leave the normal animation to make only full full 3DCG-anime but after they were the first to make a hybrid anime (last exile and yukikaze for example) they want to be the first to make a full 3DCG-anime
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2006-08-08, 15:58 | Link #15 |
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Cell-shading is just one of the 3DCG techniques, AFAIR.
If GONZO is going with some other method to make computer-rendered animation look photo-realistic, then that's all right, but that wouldn't make it "the first fully 3DCG" anime. And even if we discount Appleseed (although I see no reason why), Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within and Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children certainly qualify as "fully 3DCG". |
2006-08-09, 08:04 | Link #18 |
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Hmm... I can't say I've enjoyed any "CG anime" to date. But, I liked Last Exile a lot, so I'm willing to give Gonzo the benefit of the doubt.
Looking at the promo, it's hard to say much. I got a vague feeling the visual style they're going for would be closer to a "visual novel" than normal cell shading. I did a google image search, and one place said the thing was an OVA series. However, since the original is a novel, unless the compress the original story a heck of a lot, then either it'd have to be a long OVA series or a TV series. Last edited by kari-no-sugata; 2006-08-09 at 10:08. |
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