The TV anime “SSSS.GRIDMAN”, which was launched on October 6th, is based on the special drama “Electric Light Superman Gulit” produced by Round Valley Production in 1993. It is a heroic story of a brand new young girl. The animation was played by TRIGGER, who was known as “Kill la Kill” and “Little Witch Academy”. At a time when network technology and computer viruses were not well known in the world, the concept of introducing these concepts into film and television works was the “Electric Light Superman Gulit”, and in today’s computer network has been popularized in 2018, this The work is awakened in the form of animation. .
On the occasion of the animation, Comic Natalie interviewed Yu Gongzhe, the performer of the “SSSS.GRIDMAN”, who belongs to TRIGGER, and wrote “Nexus Altman” and “Galaxy” The script of the “Heisei Auto” series, the parent of the “Heisei Otto series”, is also the first collaboration between the two, to see how this work was born, and how to look forward to this work for the special audience. .
The original “Electric Light Superman Gulit” was a big surprise for the audience who had seen or knew the work in the past when it announced the new animation. It was completely unexpected that the work would be in the form of animation. Reappear in front of us. There may be friends who haven’t seen it yet. In fact, in 2015, Yuki Miyazawa brought a short animation of “Electric Light Superman Gulit” at the “Japan Animation (ー人ー) Exhibition”. Gullit boys invent great hero. .
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“Guangguang Superman Gulette boys invent great hero”.
Initially, Rain Palace requested the animation project of Altman from Round Valley. However, the idea was unsuccessful at the time, and the reply was that I hope to be able to adapt other works. At that time, the rain palace was asked to make a short article for “Japan Animation (ー人ー) Exhibition, so I found the Valley again, hoping to get “Electric Light Superman Gulit” or “Anduru Melos” The adaptation permission of the book, so the round valley agreed, and the “Angut” animation task was given to the rain palace. .
“Guangguang Superman Gulette boys invent great hero” is a prerequisite for the production of “SSSS.GRIDMAN”. “Japan Animation (ー人ー) Exhibition” is a plan initiated to express “how much an independent animator can achieve”, so before being supervised, first an animator, how to shoot More concerned about how to draw. At that time, the story of “Electrical Superman Gullet Boys invent great hero” was good. Rain Palace liked the design of Gullit, and the key point was how to paint Gulit. So the short story at the time can be said to be no story. Then, if you cooperate with the Valley, you will have to tell the story interestingly, and take the whole film, so you will start the “SSSS.GRIDMAN” project seriously. .
There is no such thing as “Anduru Melos” inherits the works of the Otto series worldview, but does not choose “Anduru Melos”, the rain palace has also considered the adaptation of “Andulu Meimei” Lose, mainly because “Electric Light Superman Gulit” is a work that I was chasing after I was a child, so I feel more about this. However, Yuki said that the impression of watching the replay will be more profound than the live broadcast of the primary school students. The reason is that when I was replaying, I was in the middle school like the protagonist in the work, and I was more impressed. The content is very new at the time, this is also a great charm of this work, and for the rain palace, he is more addicted to the fact that the monsters in the play are caused by people, not only the Gullit side, but also the monsters. The story of the enemy side is also very interesting. .
Hasegawa Keiichi was engaged in art-related work at that time. From props to decorations, he often went to Dongbao’s studio. Although he did not watch the live broadcast of “Electric Light Superman Gulit”, he often heard “Ancient The filming scene of Lit is not allowed.” Similar rumors.
At the beginning of the preparation of “SSSS.GRIDMAN”, although there is no plan to make a toy, I have already thought about strengthening it in the ○th word and taking out new equipment in the ○th word. So in terms of scripting, Yugong hopes to find someone who has written a children’s film. Although the rain palace feels that it is like a special photo, it is better to say that it likes toys, but when it comes to the valley, I want to call Hasegawa Keiichi, the rain palace is still scared. The rain palace likes the “Heisei Otto series”, and Hasegawa, who has participated in many “Heisei Otto series”, is simply unattainable to the rain palace. Rain Palace’s impression of Hasegawa’s “Galaxy Altman” was very deep. The monster was changed from human beings, nostalgic feelings, a sense of occlusion of the relationship between characters, and no budget. They are very similar to “Electric Light Superman Gulit”. .
Also because of the lack of budget for “Electric Light Superman Gulit”, other novel ideas such as the simple computer world in the drama can stand out in the same special works. Hasegawa said that, like “Galaxy Altman”, because it has already been decided, the defensive organization familiar to everyone in the “Ottoman” series does not appear in the drama. Helped the children of Gullit. This is also the result of considering the distinction with Altman. Rain Palace is very interested in Hasegawa’s thinking, “If this road does not work, then how to change the way” thinking conversion can often drive this studio. Therefore, after discussing with the Round Valley, I decided to ask Hasegawa to take up the series of “SSSS.GRIDMAN”. .
Hasegawa has not seen the “Electric Light Superman Gulit”, but it still knows that the computer virus and the online world are used in the drama. In the past, Hasegawa also participated in a work like this, which is “Locke EXE”. Animation, so when I received this job, there was a similar feeling. However, when I got the initial plan of SSSS.GRIDMAN, I found that this is not the same thing as “Electric Light Superman Gulit”. Of course, it is not “Locke EXE”, and it can even be said to be closer to “ The Evangelion is full of sci-fi works of great mystery. However, it is only the original story and the outline of the setting, and the finished product is two different things. When I heard about this project, Hasegawa learned that it was “not only those works that people who have seen this work in the past can enjoy it better, but do not want to make a copy of the past”, but see this At the time of the plan, Hasegawa said, “This is too new!” But the time was very good, and Hasegawa decided to exchange ideas with everyone and re-conceive the work. .
Rain Palace said that in fact, it was hoped that the audience who liked the animation would be able to see it more easily, and this has not changed. Now, viewers who like special photos will naturally go to see the animation. On the contrary, people who watch animations don’t necessarily go to see special photos. Therefore, I hope that this animation can become an entry point and expand to see the special audience. .
In order to make a work that can be easily seen by an audience who likes animation, the first thing is to deal with the character design. Of course, the special drama also pays attention to the appearance of the actor. However, the audience who likes the special photo is more like the image before the transformation. It is not only the person who looks at it, but also the person who does it. In terms of animation, what needs to be paid attention to is the relationship between the characters and digging deeper. Then there is the character design. If the characters published in the animated magazine are not natural, they will not be seen by the audience. Therefore, the first visual map of “SSSS.GRIDMAN” deliberately excluded Gullit. .
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“SSSS.GRIDMAN” first bullet main visual map
For the animated audience, when you see “Animation: TRIGGER”, you will basically have expectations, which is also a focus of attention. At the symposium of “Altman Carnival 2018” “SSSS.GRIDMAN”, even the seiyuu also enthusiastically praised the production of TRIGGER, and even went to the studio to study. TRIGGER said that there are generally seiyuu who want to visit, and they will actively invite them to visit. Basically, every work will be like this. “SSSS.GRIDMAN” is almost all the voice actors have come. Yu Gongzhe is also very happy about this, because the animation production and painting are almost separate, so the seiyuu have little time to observe the animation production site. There are also people who paint, don’t listen to the sound, but the rain palace said that if you can listen to the seiyuu’s acting while painting, it is also helpful for painting, and the two complement each other. Rain Palace said that TRIGGER’s animators can do this, and it is already very valuable. .
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