The official website for the Eureka
Seven: Hi - Evolution film trilogy began streaming an animation music video
on Thursday for the song "There's No Ending" by Ruann, a middle
school student who is making her major debut with the song. The song is the
theme song for Anemone: Kōkyōshihen Eureka
Seven Hi-Evolution (Anemone: Eureka
Seven: Hi - Evolution), the second film in the trilogy. The video shows scenes
from the film.
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 will
open in Japan on Saturday. Funimation will debut the
film in theaters in 2019.
For
the first time in the Eureka Seven franchise, the film will be 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 remains mostly the same as the first film, but adds Takuhito Kusanagi and Fumihiro Katagai as designers. Shigeru Fujita and Ayumi Kurashima remain credited as
character animation director, but are now also credited as sub-character
designers. Kenta Yokoya is now credited as
mechanical animation director and design works, while previous mechanical
animation director Shingo Abe is now credited as one of
the main animators, alongside Hideki Kakita, Shuichi Kaneko, Ken Ootsuka, and Nobuaki
Nagano.
The "Nirvash X" mecha will appear 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 first film
opened in September 2017, and the third film is slated to open in 2019.
Sources: Eureka Seven: Hi -
Evolution anime's official website, Ruann's YouTube channel, Animate Times
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