2nd Eureka Seven: Hi - Evolution Film's Video Previews
Insert Song
The official website for the Eureka
Seven: Hi - Evolution film trilogy began streaming a video featuring the insert
song "Ballet Mécanique" on Wednesday.
Etsuko
Yakushimaru sings this song produced by Yoshinori
Sunahara. (The pair previously collaborated on "Kami-sama no Iu
Tōri," the ending theme song for The Tatami Galaxy.) The song
plays in the climactic battle in Anemone: Kōkyōshihen
Eureka Seven Hi-Evolution (Anemone: Eureka Seven:
Hi - Evolution), the second film in the trilogy. The song's title comes
from the 48th episode of the original Eureka Seven series.
For the first time in the Eureka Seven franchise, the
film is set in Tokyo.
The
film centers on Anemone, a girl who lost her father in a battle in Tokyo seven
years prior to the film's story, leaving her with only her stuffed toy
Gulliver, and the AI concierge Dominikids for emotional support. Now she is a
key part of a strategy by the experimental unit "Acid" to combat the
seventh Eureka, "Eureka Seven," an enemy of humanity that has killed
2.6 billion people. Driven to the brink, all of humanity entrusts its hope to
Anemone as she dives deep into the interior of Eureka Seven.
The staff
remained mostly the same as the first film, but added Takuhito Kusanagi and Fumihiro Katagai as designers. Shigeru Fujita and Ayumi Kurashima remain credited as
character animation director, but were also credited as sub-character designers. Kenta Yokoya was credited as mechanical animation director and design
works, while previous mechanical animation director Shingo Abe was credited as one of the main animators, alongside Hideki Kakita, Shuichi Kaneko, Ken Ootsuka,
and Nobuaki
Nagano.
The
"Nirvash X" mecha appears in
the film. Shoji Kawamori (Macross, Last Hope) designed this new version
of the franchise's
main mecha,
and it is the largest of its kind in the franchise's history.
The film replaces voice actor Kouji Tsujitani with Keiji Fujiwara in the role of Dewey Novak, after the former's
recent passing on October 17. Tsujitani had voiced the character
since the original 2005 series.
The film opened
in Japan on November 10, and it ranked #9 in its opening weekend. Funimation will debut the film in theaters in 2019.
The first film
opened in September 2017, and the third film is slated to open in 2019.
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