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wao · 2006-11-05, 23:18

Official website NHK Moribito site

Why isn't there a thread about this? Well, I searched for one and couldn't find it, so shoot me if there's one.

Anyway, this anime, Seirei no Moribito 精霊の守り人 (Guardian of the Spirits?) was annoucned some time back but today I just checked it up and it's got a helluva lot more info than the last time I checked (which was, admittedly, months ago).

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Airing: It is slated to air for 26 episodes starting next spring, according to the site.

It's based off a series of fantasy novels by Shihoko Uehashi (Uehashi not Kamihashi right?), set in an Asian sort of background. I think it's Korean-inspired or is set in ancient Korea or something (you can tell I haven't read up much about this anime).

It'll be produced by the famous Production I.G., under Kenji Kamiyama, the director of the Ghost In The Shell: Stand Alone Complex TV series, and will air on what is probably Japan's most watched network (?), NHK.

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Spoiler for me squeeing over production values:

I'm really really excited to see if I.G. will flex its production muscle here. After all I think this is going to be a nationwide broadcast, and I heard some things about it possibly being broadcast overseas, too... From what it seems, getting to be broadcast on NHK is a relatively big thing.
Of course, it's not NHK's public broadcast channel or education channel (in which case that's just gobsmacking) but its Broadcast Satellite 2 channel (NHK BS-2), but still! NHK! BS-2 airs a lot of other stuff too and I think it would receive a higher viewership than many other broadcast-satellite channels out there...
Currently, Saiunkoku Monogatari is airing on it.
My faith in I.G. was restored when watching Chevalier D'Eon - despite it seeming low-key it's amazing how stable they've kept most ofthe show in terms of production, and that was for a show on a paid cable channel (WOWOW scramble, iirc?).

Now if you take that effort and multiply it by the fact that they're going to be on something more widely known than WOWOW, one could assume that they would put in more effort. And frankly speaking I'm rather excited to see if that would really happen.

When I watched the trailer on the old site, the music was actually really quite nice (Kenji Kawai in a good mood?), and the animation was genuinely good too (I will die happily if they call in their l33t animators like Kazuchika Kise and Tetsuya Nishio and will die on the spot if they get Norio Matsumoto or HIROYUKI OKIURA)
But more than anything else, you will realise when you go to that site is that the BACKGROUNDS ARE !@#$ING AMAZING.
Yes, it warrants all-caps, seriously: I'm totally awed by them. In my opinion, it's movie-level quality.
Now that is the power of a good art director (Yusuke Takeda, art director for GITS:SAC, Blood (not Blood+), Gankutsuou), a top-class background art company (I believe it'll be Studio Biho?); and Kenji Kamiyama, having come from that background (he used to be an art director), would know how to use them very well and get exactly what he asks for.

And furthermore, the story seems quite interesting. I like fantasy sort of things and a Korean-inspired kind of background would be quite intriguing, and I have faith they will do a beautiful rendition of it both visually and conceptually. I am quite interested by the premise of a female bodyguard (Parza?) protecting a royal heir (Chagum), who is burdened with the role of "Seirei no Moribito" (which comes about every 100 years?). Seems like Chagum's father wants to get rid of him but his mother recognizes Parza's abilities and asks her to become Chagum's bodyguard.

Anyway, let's hope my expectations for this series are at least partially justified. I'll definitely be checking this out!

(Oh, and strangely, if you google the name of the character designer 麻生我等 you get some ero-kind of manga o_O)

2006-11-05, 23:18	Link #1
wao OK. Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: The Fields of High Attus Age: 34	Seirei no Moribito (Guardian of the Sacred Spirit) Official website NHK Moribito site Why isn't there a thread about this? Well, I searched for one and couldn't find it, so shoot me if there's one. Anyway, this anime, Seirei no Moribito 精霊の守り人 (Guardian of the Spirits?) was annoucned some time back but today I just checked it up and it's got a helluva lot more info than the last time I checked (which was, admittedly, months ago). ----- Airing: It is slated to air for 26 episodes starting next spring, according to the site. It's based off a series of fantasy novels by Shihoko Uehashi (Uehashi not Kamihashi right?), set in an Asian sort of background. I think it's Korean-inspired or is set in ancient Korea or something (you can tell I haven't read up much about this anime). It'll be produced by the famous Production I.G., under Kenji Kamiyama, the director of the Ghost In The Shell: Stand Alone Complex TV series, and will air on what is probably Japan's most watched network (?), NHK. ------- Spoiler for me squeeing over production values: I'm really really excited to see if I.G. will flex its production muscle here. After all I think this is going to be a nationwide broadcast, and I heard some things about it possibly being broadcast overseas, too... From what it seems, getting to be broadcast on NHK is a relatively big thing. Of course, it's not NHK's public broadcast channel or education channel (in which case that's just gobsmacking) but its Broadcast Satellite 2 channel (NHK BS-2), but still! NHK! BS-2 airs a lot of other stuff too and I think it would receive a higher viewership than many other broadcast-satellite channels out there... Currently, Saiunkoku Monogatari is airing on it. My faith in I.G. was restored when watching Chevalier D'Eon - despite it seeming low-key it's amazing how stable they've kept most ofthe show in terms of production, and that was for a show on a paid cable channel (WOWOW scramble, iirc?). Now if you take that effort and multiply it by the fact that they're going to be on something more widely known than WOWOW, one could assume that they would put in more effort. And frankly speaking I'm rather excited to see if that would really happen. When I watched the trailer on the old site, the music was actually really quite nice (Kenji Kawai in a good mood?), and the animation was genuinely good too (I will die happily if they call in their l33t animators like Kazuchika Kise and Tetsuya Nishio and will die on the spot if they get Norio Matsumoto or HIROYUKI OKIURA) But more than anything else, you will realise when you go to that site is that the BACKGROUNDS ARE !@#$ING AMAZING. Yes, it warrants all-caps, seriously: I'm totally awed by them. In my opinion, it's movie-level quality. Now that is the power of a good art director (Yusuke Takeda, art director for GITS:SAC, Blood (not Blood+), Gankutsuou), a top-class background art company (I believe it'll be Studio Biho?); and Kenji Kamiyama, having come from that background (he used to be an art director), would know how to use them very well and get exactly what he asks for. And furthermore, the story seems quite interesting. I like fantasy sort of things and a Korean-inspired kind of background would be quite intriguing, and I have faith they will do a beautiful rendition of it both visually and conceptually. I am quite interested by the premise of a female bodyguard (Parza?) protecting a royal heir (Chagum), who is burdened with the role of "Seirei no Moribito" (which comes about every 100 years?). Seems like Chagum's father wants to get rid of him but his mother recognizes Parza's abilities and asks her to become Chagum's bodyguard. Anyway, let's hope my expectations for this series are at least partially justified. I'll definitely be checking this out! (Oh, and strangely, if you google the name of the character designer 麻生我等 you get some ero-kind of manga o_O) __________________ Thanks for the fish