(CR) Thunderbolt Fantasy (Anticipation)

[ukulelembo]

New Key Visual:


Confirmed Staff:
Original Work: Thunderbolt Fantasy Project
Original Plan / Screenplay / Chief Supervision: Gen Urobuchi
Physical Effects / Photography: Pili International Multimedia
Character Design: Nitroplus (Shinobu Mimori, Minamoto Satoru, Nishii, Higashiguchi Chuuou)
Modeling Advisor: Good Smile Company
Music: Hiroyuki Sawano
Sound Direction: Yoshikazu Iwanami
Theme Song: "RAIMEI" by T.M.Revolution

New Trailer:

[Iby]

Originally Posted by ukulelembo

Genkaku

1) It's Minamoto Satoru, not Genkaku.

[ukulelembo]

Corrected.

[Beobachter]

Intrigued and am looking forward to this one. Puppet wuxia with Yoshitaka Amano-esque character design seems like my kind of jam.

[ukulelembo]

Another new short trailer:

[OkamiNoKaze]

Will this show up at the usual anime places?

[ukulelembo]

Originally Posted by OkamiNoKaze

Will this show up at the usual anime places?

It depends on which places you mean. For example if you mean profiles on anime databases, then there is already profile on AniDB, or if you mean TV stations, then series will be aired on TOKYO MX, BS11 and AT-X.

[Dop]

^ or maybe whether any of the anime streaming services will pick it up.

How likely would it be for Crunchyroll or Funimation, or Netflix or even Amazon Prime to pick something like this up, I wonder.

[ukulelembo]

Originally Posted by Dop

^ or maybe whether any of the anime streaming services will pick it up.

How likely would it be for Crunchyroll or Funimation, or Netflix or even Amazon Prime to pick something like this up, I wonder.

If I remember Crunchyroll picked even Aku no Hana that was similarly untraditional thing. So chances there definitely are. Whether it will really happen is question. You can ask them for it.

[ukulelembo]

Special preview:

Preview of first episode starts at 16:14.

[LKK]

Crunchyroll has the stream.

Right now, we only have the announcement that Thunderbolt Fantasy has been acquired – launch date and times will be confirmed later – but it will be available in English for Crunchyroll members in all territories except Asia.

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[ukulelembo]

Opening: https://a.pomf.cat/etjbwd.mp4
No Ending for now.

[Dop]

Intriguing, though some of the characters do look like they fell out of an 80s pop video, and Gerry Anderson did the whole puppet lipsync thing better in the 60s, but yeah. I'll watch more of this.
Bit campy and overblown, perhaps, but that's the style, I guess.

If nothing else it's a curiosity, but one i'm finding intriguing so far.

[Vallen Chaos Valiant]

The puppet Lpsync is problematic because the script was in Taiwanese, and was filmed that way. But then the Japanese script is basically twice as long because Japanese is a much wordier language. The Japanese voice actors basically struggles to finish their lines before the scene changes.

As an example, when they tried to dub Hellsing Ultimate into English, the director struggle to expand the script so the English actors have something to say while the character is still talking.

EDIT: Also, it seems Crunchy Roll used the Chinese pronunciations of the names. This is a BAD idea, as if you are watching the Japanese dub the names wouldn't match. Hope they fix that.

Dan Fei is the main girl's Chinese name, but the Japanese dub clearly call her Tanhi/Taihi. This applies even worse for all the specialised terms on the magic weapons, the old Demon war, and others that just shouldn't be in Chinese unless you are watching the actual Chinese/Taiwanese dub.

[Kenju of the Right]

that was fucking incredible

[jeroz]

Originally Posted by Vallen Chaos Valiant

EDIT: Also, it seems Crunchy Roll used the Chinese pronunciations of the names. This is a BAD idea, as if you are watching the Japanese dub the names wouldn't match. Hope they fix that.

Dan Fei is the main girl's Chinese name, but the Japanese dub clearly call her Tanhi/Taihi. This applies even worse for all the specialised terms on the magic weapons, the old Demon war, and others that just shouldn't be in Chinese unless you are watching the actual Chinese/Taiwanese dub.

they most likely used the Taiwanese footage for it. In Taiwan the first episode was part of the bonus special for the disc of another series which went on sale roughly 5 hours before this aired

And then forgot or don't know to check the official site for translation.