The original theatrical animation “PROMARE” produced by XFLAG and TIGGER was released in Japan on May 24th. As a commemorative release, the video game magazine Famitsu, released on May 16th, published the topic of TRIGGER on May 30, 2019. Directors and producers・ 舛本和也, planning script and producer・若林广海 interviewed, from the establishment of TRIGGER to the birth of the famous work of Ishihiko
About the establishment of TRIGGER, Anitama used to write in the book “Production” (アニメを仕% に!——トリガー流アニメ制作本読)) The Chinese version was interviewed separately.. The establishment of
TRIGGER is the result of today’s Shi Yangzhi. After GAINAX directed “Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt”, Ishihiko and TRIGGER’s representative Otsuka Yahiko discussed the future route. The result of the discussion was to challenge the “animated animation of responsibility in the future” and decided to separate from GAINAX and form your own company
舛 was invited by the two at the time, hoping that he would be responsible for the company’s business management, Sakamoto was very honored, but to set up a new company is the purpose of Da Yu and Ishi, and for himself to do animation, There is no need to set up a new company, so I hope they can give themselves some time to consider. A week later, Sakamoto gave an unexpected reply. “If the new company can make a two-hour movie that Ishii supervised, then I will participate!” Da Yu and Ishii made a promise, and jointly created TRIGGER towards this goal. Today, this goal has finally been achieved
Looking back at the GAINAX period, the most important work for Ruolin is that he set up the production of “Tianyuan Breakthrough Honglian Luo Rock”. After more than 10 years in the Evangelion, GAINAX hopes to create an original robot animation again and create more glory. In fact, the plan was in progress at the same time to produce TV series and theatrical version of the film at the same time, but not as smooth as expected, including the content of the plan and the production lineup are constantly changing, eventually abolished this program, cut back and redo
If I’m hoping to ask the troupe ☆ new line of playwright Nakajimaかずき(Nakajima Ikee) to write a new script, then I’m here to take the initiative to supervise this burden. This time point is determined by the style of the armored warrior robot, using the narrative of road movies to describe the brotherhood between a brother without blood relationship, this time has not appeared to symbolize the “Red Lotus Rock” The bit element of the 》
The plan with “Red Lotus Rock” is also “Leaping Peak 2! “At the time, the main participants in the “Red Lotus Rock” were newcomers. “Leaping Peak 2! “” and “Lianlian Luoyan” are GAINAX’s first separate animation projects, one is OVA, the other is TV animation, and at the same time, GAINAX at that time can be said to be caught in the “Sura field”, and every week The deadline for the goods is a fierce struggle. If Lin said that everyone was still young at the time, the most important thing was the exuberant energy. At the age of 35, Ishihara was already older in the entire crew, and most of them were in their 20s
About Ruolin Guanghai has such a small episode. If Lin started from the arcade version, he liked the game of “Idol Master”. Later, in the production of “Kill la Kill”, he ran to A-1 Pictures and participated in “Idol”. The production of the animated version of the Master is the first performance and the 13th. At the time of GAINAX, Ruolin strongly recommended the game “Idol Master Live For You!” to the brocade history of the role of “Honglian Luo Rock”. The result is that Jin Zhi is more addicted to “Idol Master” than Ruolin. Later, it was upgraded to the supervision of the animated version of “Idol Master”
The red and purple of “Honglian Luoyan” brought a lot of pressure to Ruolin and others. After leaving GAINAX, in order to make TRIGGER’s first work “Kill la Kill”, it cost from the design to the script. It took quite a long time and effort. Nakajima Ikei continued to play the series, and in addition to the 4th words of Johor Bahru and the 5th written by Sugako, the rest of the scripting work was arranged by Nakajima
舛本 says that “Honglian Luo Rock” is, to a certain extent, a work written by Nakajima who realizes the audience’s preferences. “Kill la Kill” is a story about a group of people who want to do whatever they want. They don’t care about the target audience and they are completely free to play. This is no small challenge for Nakajima. From the results, it did attract a new audience, and Ishigawa and Nakajima found a “feel”
Compared with the period of “Honglian Luoyan”, it has accumulated a lot of experience on the production level, and it is more convenient for the production of the screen and the shaping of the character. It takes longer to design a character than in the past. In addition, the overall picture performance, color, background art style, performance techniques, etc. are the results of meditation and repeated research, which is one of the important reasons why Jolin thinks “Kill la Kill” is popular
“Kill la Kill” pays tribute to the juvenile comics of the 70s and 80s. Even Jolin and Yu Gongzhe, who served as the deputy supervisor, did not fully understand these tribute points. This is exactly what Ishihara and Nakajima are older than they can play, and the elements that the younger generation and even the smaller audience can accept
“Kill la Kill” was originally a simple school battle animation, featuring battles between women wearing sailor suits. At that time, there was no morphing element of “one person in one”, but the design team hoped to have a shocking visual effect like “Red Lotus Rock”. In order to make the performance of the battle more exaggerated, it was proposed that the heroes would change. The battle setting of the body, but obviously put on the war suit should be a double-strength setting, but in the design, it increases the exposed area. It is such a ridiculous setting that I hope that Nakajima can make a reasonable reason to put it in the story
Speaking of TRIGGER’s initial work, I have to mention the short story of Hell Interpol, which is supervised by Shi Yang. Sakamoto said that every time a masterpiece is produced, it takes a long time, and it is necessary to do a training of “animing in a short time.” Therefore, the production schedule is specifically limited to one hour per week
At that time, the regulation of the TV station became more demanding, so the TV was abandoned and the platform was chosen. “If you just laugh, you don’t need to add any action. The story doesn’t need logic…” What Ruolin couldn’t think of was that such a “problem work” was actually invited by the North American exhibition as a guest. The response from overseas audiences centered on North America is not to be underestimated, and Ruolin is naturally satisfied.After
, TRIGGER also created the same “no moving” Flash animation “Ninja Killer”. At the time, Sakamoto received an invitation to animate and handed the job to Yu Gongzhe. I hope that this work can shine under his hand. Yu Gongzhe understands the process of birth and the context of the article. The result is to make such an animation. Please take a look at the role of this work by Ishihara. If Lin was shocked at the time, he did not expect such an “unreasonable trouble” to get the customs’ clearance of the original party
The subsequent short works are again the “Cosmic Patrol Luluzi” supervised by Shih Yang, and Ruo Lin recalled that the main force of TRIGGER was assigned to “Kiznaiver”, leaving only Luluzi. A total of 10 people are working on the team. The limited budget, limited manpower, and limited time to produce interesting stories are the challenges that Ishii faced at the time
At that time, I wanted to hold the ticketing mentality. I didn’t expect this stone to put a lot of energy into this work, and I was able to create such a very high-profile short piece. This is the work of the crew. The crystallization of love. Luluzi is also one of the works that TRIGGER has been hoping to make a sequel
For this release of “PROMARE”, Ruolin said that this is a work that viewers who have not touched this stone work in the past can appreciate, and it was originally intended. On the other hand, “PROMARE” can be said to be the “big set” of this stone work, so I have seen “Tianyuan breaks through the red lotus rock” “Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt” “Kill la Kill” “Cosmic patrol Lulu” For the audience members of the works, this work can fully appreciate the charm of this stone work, both in the plot and on the screen
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- “Fami通” May 30, 2019