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New 'Eureka Seven' Movie Trilogy Announced!!

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New trailers! First movie is definitely a prequel, showing Human/Corallian conflict and the "summer of love".

Trailer 1
Slightly shorter version
Features new(?) song:
Ozaki Yuya "Glory Days"
Will be Adrock(Renton's Dad) theme song, shown in the trailers.

Confirms title is "Hi Evolution"
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http://eurekaseven.jp/

The official website has also been updated with loads of information. Special tickets for premiere showing.
 
Neat. I don't tend to enjoy film adaptation of shows, but the prequel flick might be cool at least. I'm actually watching this show for the first time. Up to episode 41. The terminology is atrocious, and I don't care for the villain, but everything else is groovy. It's a very feel-good show with lots of sentimental emotional whiplash and a heck of a musical score. It's unique, at least to me.
 
It looks really good, but I hope no one is expecting the movie to be a complete prequel or whatever. They're definitely spending a chunk of the budget on animating the First Summer of Love, which i super cool, but these are still rearranged compilation films with the intent of remastering the original show in a way they didn't manage to before. I'm surprised they're keeping the aspect ratio of the old scenes too. It'll be interesting to see how they compress the story without making it feel incoherent. From the looks of things, the first film has to cover not just the First Summer of Love, but also Renton's journey all the way until the end of the Ray and Charles storyline? That's..... a lot. Hopefully this means the next films will focus on different POVs. Movie 2 should be about Dominic and Anemonie, then they can finally fully animate all the pre-E7 stuff about the human experiments and whatnot.
 
The movies are the original series remastered and remixed into a new trilogy of films with new footage and a completely new script/recordings.

I wasn't sure if they were showing it would cover all that content, I thought it might of been a "hey, remember Ray and Charles? Here they are!"
 
It looks really good, but I hope no one is expecting the movie to be a complete prequel or whatever. They're definitely spending a chunk of the budget on animating the First Summer of Love, which i super cool, but these are still rearranged compilation films with the intent of remastering the original show in a way they didn't manage to before. I'm surprised they're keeping the aspect ratio of the old scenes too. It'll be interesting to see how they compress the story without making it feel incoherent. From the looks of things, the first film has to cover not just the First Summer of Love, but also Renton's journey all the way until the end of the Ray and Charles storyline? That's..... a lot. Hopefully this means the next films will focus on different POVs. Movie 2 should be about Dominic and Anemonie, then they can finally fully animate all the pre-E7 stuff about the human experiments and whatnot.
The movies are the original series remastered and remixed into a new trilogy of films with new footage and a completely new script/recordings.
Goddamn it. Just remake the series proper or focus on original content and not this half-assed shit.

The worst part is they are going to drag this shit out over three years.
 
Weren't they recompositing the shows animation to fit with the movie btw? What's with the 4Ă—3 footage...

PFOR was all 16Ă—9
 
Weren't they recompositing the shows animation to fit with the movie btw? What's with the 4Ă—3 footage...

PFOR was all 16Ă—9

What's PFOR and why does it sound like you're shouting some obscenity at me? I thought we were friends... :(
 
Woah super late on this. Seems cool, but hopefully they bring back the amazing electronic music from the original series. The original soundtrack is super underrated imo
 
Different ending again? They're lucky their characters are actually interesting or else they wouldn't be able to get away with re-using them for a 3rd new story.
 
Why did I not know about this? Second favorite anime, only bested by FLCL. Thankfully I never watched AO, so I have yet to be burned by the franchise. Although the movie was really messy.

Can't wait for this to take two years to be released stateside and have the finale delayed by a Godzilla film.
The Evangelion Rebuild still hurts.
 
So AO retconned right..RIGHT?

Given how AO introduced alternate timelines, it should be easy for them to retcon it in an in-universe style, e.g. the heroes do something to prevent the timeline from ever coming about.

I liked AO, but the concluding segments were a real knife in the gut.
 
You know, I just realized that I never watched AO. I don't exactly know why but something felt off to me about the plot and how the characters were being handled when I first heard about it.

Maybe it was for the best.
 
Can't wait for this to take two years to be released stateside and have the finale delayed by a Godzilla film.
The Evangelion Rebuild still hurts.

They alraedy annouced that funimation will release the movie in theather this fall so no long wait it seem.
 
Wait, they're actually just reusing footage from the original series in this? I was under the impression that it would be all new footage, with scenes from the series "redone" so to speak. Having the old scenes together with the newer ones just seems jarring.

I'm hoping the reused footage is just for promotional purposes and not in the final movie.
 
...Are they actually just straight up editing clips from 2005 show into the movie?

I hope that's for the trailer.

If it's actually the movie with TV footage lazily edited in I will not even touch it.
AO was enough.
 
crazy to see so many shows i stayed up late to watch on adult swim/toonami saturday nights during my teen years coming back in some form or another. E7 , DBSuper , Lupin , Code Geass, etc

Was told by the entire world to avoid AO like the plague.

I remember watching Pocketful of Rainbows under the assumption it was a movie sequel to the original series. Oh boy what a shock I had lol

I remember reading the manga and thinking "why all these dumb changes?"

Now you're telling me that this movie series adaptation might be reusing footage from the original show when said show iirc was before the era of universal widescreen?

And they're adding new story shit with this prequel 1st movie and then going to change the ending while cramming to cram 50 episodes in the last two movies?

Poor Eureka. She has suffered enough lol
 
I doubt the impact from numerous episodes of growth and character development between eureka and Renton, Ray and Charles, anemone and that guy, Holland and eureka/Renton can be done justice by condensing it in three movies. The way they'd say tsuzuku at the end of each episode was such a huge thing in itself. If it ended on a sad note you could hear it. I think if they were separated just one would say it. And if things were going well you'd hear upbeat voices. I loved that show. The emotions you felt watching the characters that had grown on you change (or die) was what made it great. I'm not sure movies can create the attachment to the characters the series was able to develop, but I hope I'm wrong.
 
So I'm looking over in the character section on the official site, and apparently in these movies, Renton has been living as the adopted son of Charles and Ray for 9 years?
 
So I'm looking over in the character section on the official site, and apparently in these movies, Renton has been living as the adopted son of Charles and Ray for 9 years?

Yeah I haven't really been paying attention to the details of what they're rewriting, and I just took a look at the actual synopsis on the site and it's kinda wild. There's like... no GekkoState at all. After the Summer of Love, Renton was adopted by Ray and Charles, who work for a PMC as pilots. Meanwhile Holland and Talho are members of the Facility Guard, which is like a military department under the Council? It's pretty odd. I really don't know how to feel about a E7 without GekkoState....
 
Yeah I haven't really been paying attention to the details of what they're rewriting, and I just took a look at the actual synopsis on the site and it's kinda wild. There's like... no GekkoState at all. After the Summer of Love, Renton was adopted by Ray and Charles, who work for a PMC as pilots. Meanwhile Holland and Talho are members of the Facility Guard, which is like a military department under the Council? It's pretty odd. I really don't know how to feel about a E7 without GekkoState....

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Yeah I haven't really been paying attention to the details of what they're rewriting, and I just took a look at the actual synopsis on the site and it's kinda wild. There's like... no GekkoState at all. After the Summer of Love, Renton was adopted by Ray and Charles, who work for a PMC as pilots. Meanwhile Holland and Talho are members of the Facility Guard, which is like a military department under the Council? It's pretty odd. I really don't know how to feel about a E7 without GekkoState....

Just why...
 
Yeah I haven't really been paying attention to the details of what they're rewriting, and I just took a look at the actual synopsis on the site and it's kinda wild. There's like... no GekkoState at all. After the Summer of Love, Renton was adopted by Ray and Charles, who work for a PMC as pilots. Meanwhile Holland and Talho are members of the Facility Guard, which is like a military department under the Council? It's pretty odd. I really don't know how to feel about a E7 without GekkoState....

Fuckin' BONES. Can't do anything right.
 
E7 is good? The first few eps were really bad I couldn't keep watching do all the main characters DIE or change dramatically because I really hated all of them.
 
The Beams change seems like a change that works better for the movies in regards to economically paring down the basic story elements without really giving them up. The basic story remains, but is introduced earlier rather than a mid series beat.

Ultimately, this seems to be more of a reboot that is keeping the original base story and themes of the series but tweaking and reworking it into a new fresh narrative. This is unlike Pocket Full of Rainbows which was literally different characters and themes wearing the names of the original...its why that movie didn't work.

Im more concerned about them keeping the 4x3 AR of the show. I swear they said they were recompositing it....really disappointing.
 
The Beams change seems like a change that works better for the movies in regards to economically paring down the basic story elements without really giving them up. The basic story remains, but is introduced earlier rather than a mid series beat.

Ultimately, this seems to be more of a reboot that is keeping the original base story and themes of the series but tweaking and reworking it into a new fresh narrative. This is unlike Pocket Full of Rainbows which was literally different characters and themes wearing the names of the original...its why that movie didn't work.

Im more concerned about them keeping the 4x3 AR of the show. I swear they said they were recompositing it....really disappointing.

No GekkoState tho? :(
 
The Beams change seems like a change that works better for the movies in regards to economically paring down the basic story elements without really giving them up. The basic story remains, but is introduced earlier rather than a mid series beat.

On one hand they can't use Axel anymore because his VA is dead.
But on the other hand he could be a non-speaking appearance.

Anyway, this is giving up quite a lot.
The original development was that Renton didn't really have anything that he could perceive as love coming from adults, and at a particular uncomfortable time the Beams looked like they could be there for him, and he could be the kid they never could have. It was a big matching story that was set up in a very particular way. What's going to happen now just can't be that way anymore at all, it's gonna be something different.

Of course the real point that grinds my nuts is that Renton's now Renton Beams. This may not seem important, but it is. Last name is an indication of a family and a family was a big theme. When they show you the registration list at the end and it has Eureka Thurston on it - that's very important. In AO, Eureka shows up and... does not introduce herself as Thurston at any point. This means that whoever wrote AO did not understand the importance of that little detail.

Changing this does not simply "pair up" two plot points, it changes them completely and introduces completely new implications.

But of course all of this pales before the fact that they called Nirvash "AΩ". That's a red flag the size of the moon. I'm not touching this pile until somebody who values E7 tells me it's not AO/PFR-tier utter garbage like it's shaping up to be and respects the original themes.

If you're gonna change so much just make something new, like Xamd!
 
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