The Sky Crawlers
 

It is also directed by Oshii if you care about that. :heh:

Well, Nishio did wonders in Jin Roh and Oshii is a good director even if he has been a little bit, yeah right, too pretentious lately. Who am I kidding? I would watch it for Nishio alone.

Website is up with a trailer, courtesy of ANN. :)

http://wwws.warnerbros.co.jp/skycrawlers/

I had a hearty laugh at the title of this thread. Actually, I preparing to laugh at 7Th, but then realized the sarcasm.

Anyway, sounds like "Last Exile, Oshii-style". Lots of quotes, lots of character exposition.

Hmm, Production I.G animation, Oshii directing and Kawai Kenji on music? I'm won over. Though the story genuinely does sound interesting. Will have to keep an eye out for this.

I'm probably the only one who thinks this, but I find Production I.G's character/mecha designs to be very bland with a runny look to it, and their overall frame to frame consistency to be very dodgy and somewhat ugly(Going off Reideen, Ghost In The Shell [which is unique enough to not qualify for this category overall and only get a mention], The Kill Bill Segment, Kai Do Maru, King of Fighters Another Day, IGPX and some of the sequences in the Tri-Ace games that they worked on). This is my type of series, but I don't usually like Production I.G's overall style (When I first saw Gigantic Formula announced I thought it was Production I.G). I'm going to wait for a trailer, but right now based on the website it's likely to slip through my viewership crack.

I'm just hoping that it's not being turned into a sappy love story given that the screenplay is by Chiriho Ito.

You can read the rest of the press release which gives some info on the source material here.

I'm more interested in this involving Tetsuya Nishio than Oshii myself, but I sure hope he is going in a "new direction" with this. Well, we can only wait and see - the trailer has absolutely no animation (only 2 quotes or something right now), and this could be good.

The impression I get is that Production I.G. tends to lean towards projects that get presented in a way such that... that the animation is trying to emulate live-action stuff. Possibly because that seems to automatically make their works look more refined and "mature" and "well-done" on first glance = more interest (especially overseas, I think I.G.'s one of the first studios that got widespread recognition overseas in the last decade).

Downside to this is - at least from how I see it - it doesn't always work, and sometimes the product can end up very stuffy, boring or even bland in terms of presentation/direction. Refined and conventionally "gorgeous", but nothing that feels quite captivating.

So let's hope this doesn't go that way. Although it's not fair to burden it with so much doubting when we haven't even seen a shred of the actual animation or designs yet anyway, it's not like these are godawful staff members by any stretch.
....but hey, I do it all the time :p

Another small description from Oshii, courtesy of ANN.

http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news...ess-conference

Didn't know that Oshii had a family. Still, it begins to sounds like a very interesting personal film to look forward to...

Yay for synopsis, thanks to Mr. P! I'm now interested.

Haven't seen the kid in 20 years huh? Standards must be different in Japan. That would not be something to mention in R1. I won't go there. :heh:

With this type of a scenario, "love" would have nothing to do with "it" imo. This guy looked a little twisted from the book exerpt too imo via Google translation.

It looks like this may be "tweaked" to attempt to compete with Miyazaki. The guy should give it up already. Miyazaki always lands on top. :)

Howl versus Innocence? Miyazaki's weakest film against the best thing to come out in this decade? Are you kidding me? It was a no contest in Oshii's favour.

3 Hayao Miyazaki films took GitS and Gits 2: Innocence to the cleaners, Spirited Away, Howl's Moving Castle and Princess Mononoke. :)

Hayao Miyazaki is a force of nature imo. :heh:

That's a very peculiar measurement tool, money. One that neither I, nor anyone I know, would subscribe to. Since, for one thing, it ascribes Pokemon and Yu-gi-oh higher artistic value.

But, in any case, Jedem das Seine.

Box office measurements do not measure artistic quality per se. It simply measures what was popular and made money and what didn't.

This is one of the indices that Oshii is looking at when he wants to compete with Miyazaki and what is reported in the media. The other thing being awards received probably. In the end, box office receipts count more imo since Oscar can be elusive.

The bills have to be paid, after all. :)

Oshii is looking at the box office?

He wants to compete with Miyazaki?

WTF?

Perhaps you should re-read that article, since it appears to me that you misunderstood some parts of it.

No misunderstanding. I just read between the lines. ;)

Everybody looks at the box office results nowadays, especially the press. It's a part of a film's prestige and selling power. Theaters won't place films that do poorly at their establishement and it becomes a vicious cycle imo.

Now combining this quote from the press release that I provided earlier....


with the quote from the press release that you provided...

Sure you can say that he is "creating a more entertaining work" to make it a better film but it goes hand in hand with increasing the box office sales. That is why Chihiro Ito was probably bought on board imo and why the source is being "tweaked" into a love story. Try as he might to brush it off to the press, he knows that on some level he is in competition with Miyazaki since those 2 films will be releasing around the same time imo.

If these 2 films were not competing, then The Sky Crawlers would delay or advance its release date to get out of the way of Miyazaki's film imo.

Countdown of The Sky Crawlers count 3 Navigate DVD to be released on March nineteenth http://www.production-ig.co.jp/conte...70_/index.html

Movie is slated for a summer premier So as the title implies they will be releasing two more DVDS for the countdown

the sound track from the teaser and trailer on youtube is amazing, as expect from Kawai Kenji.

New trailer from the Tokyo Anime Show looks good..... (it is not even on their website yet)



AND DOGFIGHT RASUTO EGUZAIRU-ish YES YES YES :D, not many people do dog fight nowaday :( .. it is all about laser guided beam heat seeking infrared weapon :(

Yeah looks really good, I saw that the same time the Real Drive trailer was posted.

Here be some full-length trailer, courtesy of Manuloz and his great blog.



Looks very good too.

You know, Oshii once said that Spitfire was a third-rate plane and that he was just sick of Messerschmitts, but, apparently, not sick enough. 8)