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Studio Trigger Christmas Stream: Q and A Highlights

Merry Christmas, y’all!

Trigger just finished up their holiday live-drawing stream with Hiroyuki Imaishi; you can view the VOD here.

I composed a non-verbatim transcript of the stream that might never be properly cleaned up, but here are some highlights! Promare spoilers!

❊ So, in the original storyboard, when Lio and his gangs are escaping from prison, there was a scene where Vulcan confronted Lio. It would progress to an aerial combat scene! It was even cleaned up by Yoshinari, but it was never used. It's unfortunate! I hope that was a satisfying answer, ymzk [sp?].

So, for folks who have seen Promare multiple times, that might have been a fine addition to the film. However, if you're watching Promare for the first time, adding another fight scene would have probably tipped off the balance of the film entirely. It would have been too overwhelming. It was a balance issue that they omitted the scene for.

For those folks who are interested in checking out the storyboard for the aerial combat scene, Wakabayashi says that it will likely be included in the storyboard book that is planned to be released in the future. Check that out!

❊ Okay, so, the question was, “How do you work with the posing for the characters?” The question was obviously for Imaishi. Imaishi says that he tries to pose himself. He doesn't really look at the mirror, but he tries to hold a toy gun or reenact the scene that he's drawing. That usually helps him provide the character with a more dynamic pose.

I was curious, too. I wanted to add on to this question. I took Imaishi out to a shooting range a while ago. It was his first time shooting a pistol. I wondered if that helped how he animates guns shooting. He said no, but it gave him a new perspective on the weight of the gun, the recoil, etc. The tl;dr is that Imaishi tries to reenact the scenes himself, though.

So, the next question was, “What was the thought process on the 4DX with the smells?” So, I'm not sure if it applies to the overseas 4DX. I don't even know if 4DX was available out of Japan. But there was a smell when Lio's Burnish armor came off. For that scene, it was a scene where they wanted to make it a surprise that the person under the armor was such an attractive young man. You would expect someone more intimidating, not pleasing, so they wanted to emphasize the surprise aspect of the situation with the smell.

So, apparently the dubbed version that is apparently being screened in Japan is a screening exclusive and will not be on the Blu-ray/DVD package. So, if you haven't seen the dub yet, now is your chance!

We at Trigger were pretty involved in the voice-dubbing procedure. We made a lot of revisions and a lot of requests. Specifically, with Galo's voice actor, we went through a lot. Originally, Hiromi wanted a very kabuki-esque vocal personality for Galo. That would be near impossible to explain to an American voice actor, I said. I said, “I don't think it's possible!” We changed our approach. We said, “How about 21 Jump Street? How about Channing Tatum?” That was more understandable to people in the US! After we said we wanted someone like Channing Tatum, we got what you saw in the theaters! That's a bit of backstory on the dubbing process!

So, the question was if it is possible to get the dubbed version of Promrae in local theaters. Hiromi says that you have to let the local theaters know that there are demands. That's easier than Trigger telling the particular theater that there's demand.

So, this question was about the part near the climax in Promare. The scene is about Lio and Galo. The questioner notes how dramatic this scene was and asks about how many revisions had to happen.

The answer is that the last bits of the film were done by Yoh Yoshinari. No revisions had to happen. It doesn't get much better than Yoshinari's frames. The answer is no.

The Blu-ray package retake, or the upgrade, doesn't have any particular scenes redrawn. It's just refined. It's a straight-up upgrade. There are no scenes that were altered. A lot of the changes consist of the colors.

❊ Surprisingly, the characters of Meis and Gueira were actually added from the initial version of the storyboard! They were initially a little more like the mob/background-ish characters. In the initial version, Meis and Gueira... they probably had as much screentime as the old geezer Burnish who betrays and backstabs Lio.

There was a question about the secretary. Was her screentime fiddled with? The answer is no. That character wasn't really fiddled with.

The next question was, “Will the edited version of the track used in the 'Gallant Ones' scene be included on the soundtrack?” The answer is unfortunately no.

Next, “Is Lio ambidextrous because he uses both arms?” Hiromi says, “I guess so!”

Our next question is about Lio de Galon, Matoi Tech, etc. Will any of those mechanical units be developed into toys? Hiromi says that if there are any official modelmakers or toy makers who would like to make those toys for us, we are waiting for the offer!

I guess there's potential talk of the Matoi Tech as a plush toy, for whoever is interested in the action figure!

This question is from jetpotato [sp?]. This person was curious on what Krayzor X's actual name is! If you've seen Promare, Krayzor X is just the name that Galo provides. I myself was curious about this as well. Hiromi seems very hesitant to provide this information. He says that someday, he hopes they will provide that information.

❊There is a request from our viewers to have a comic or manga adaptation of Promare. Hiromi says that's probably impossible to do. What is Promare without its colors? If they were to adapt Promare into a comic/publishing medium, whoever does that adaptation will have to see hell. They will have to color each page and panel to the standards of Koyama! That's a crapload of work for sure!

Imaishi says that if he were allowed, he would like to do the comic book adaptation. However, if he did it, it would probably take ten years for it to be completed. That wouldn't be helpful for the fans! Perhaps they could make it a two-page comic! But that would be closer to an illustration, perhaps.

The initial plan for Promare was to make it visually pleasing for the viewers as an animated series or medium. It's very hard to adapt that to a non-motion comic or manga type of presentation.

There's an illustration that Sushio did, I guess. There are “mystery food” that the characters are eating. A person was curious about what foods the characters are eating. Hiromi and Imaishi don't know, either! When Sushio asked for an idea, he wanted to draw an illustration of the characters eating something. Imaishi said that they could eat anything as long as it's kind of squares. They got literal squares! The characters are eating squares, and we can't tell what they are! We thought it was a typical Sushio deal, but we don't know what they're eating!

Sushio is so good at drawing illustration. Even if they're just eating square objects, it kind of looks convincing, which is weird!

There's another question regarding if there's going to be a novel adaptation of the film. There's a short novel done by Nakashima that will be included in the limited edition of the Blu-ray package. I think that's the closest that we're going to get for a novel!

There's a plan for a scenario script book. We just lay out that, you know, it's very different from the finished product, which is the film that you're familiar with. We just want to say that it's different, and any occurrence or alteration apparent in the scenario book is . . . uh, I guess, not official?

So, yeah, it's just... please take it with a grain of salt. It's an asset used for the pre-production of Promare. So, there are a lot of things that are different from the finished product. In no way does it represent what Promare “should” be.

#promare #studio trigger #hiroyuki imaishi #hiromi wakabayashi #tattun #tatsuru tatemoto #sorry for any mistakes and the ugly double spaces my typing program does i am so tired rn ahaha #but merry christmas these are just a few parts that stood out to me!#promare spoilers

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