Naru appears to be a sickly girl, as she needs an oxygen mask at times, and curses how “inconvenient” her body is. Ao rendezvous with best friend Naru for a trip to the wooded hills above town, where they pick up a sloth Naru calls Noah (that’s the second sloth I’ve seen in an anime today). The scene soon shifts to Okinawa, where 13 year-old Ao is racing through the skies in what looks like a flying VW microbus.
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We begin in a ruined Tokyo in 2025, in a world divided into super-nations where private security companies seem to have a pretty free reign, including “ Pied Piper”. Notably absent is writer Satou Dai, though veteran Aikawa Shou (who adapted Oh! Edo Rocket) has signed on, and brilliant composer Sato Naoki is sadly gone, but I’m happy to report that well-known guitarist and songwriter Nakamura Kouji has done an admirable job with the BGM.Īs to the plot, there’s some controversy in the fanbase as to whether this is a direct sequel to the original E7 – but BONES says it is and I’ll take their word for it. Character designer Yoshida Kenichi appears to have contributed designs for main characters Ao (14 year-old Honjou Yuutaro) and Naru ( Miyamoto Kanako) while stepping back from day-do-day involvement, and most of the army of mecha designers is back, too. This is BONES’ A Studio, and most of the staff is back from the original, including director Kyoda Tomoki. This doesn’t feet like an E7 cover band – it feels like the real thing. Eureka Seven AO signals to me that BONES is (perhaps a little desperately) trying to reconnect with their roots, and thus far, they’ve succeeded.
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They’ve hard some good shows in the last couple of years, but nothing in their classic mold – UN-GO is my favorite of the recent batch and it’s about as un-BONES as any BONES series could be. E7 was BONES and anime in its pure form – a grand boy’s adventure with metaphysical overtones and superb production values.īONES has been in a bit of a slump lately. it also encapsulated everything that was BONES in its glory days – huge and sometimes indecipherable hard sci-fi plot, iconic characters, an earnest and even naïve world view, gorgeous visuals, and very sugoi mecha. There was just something about E7 that captured everything “anime” to me – when I was first becoming interested in this art form, E7 was somehow exactly what was in my imagination when someone mentioned the word.
That said, though, I have a love for E7 that transcends the serious flaws the series had (and trust me, it did). Of course part of that might be that I hold Last Exile to be a true masterpiece, a half-step above E7 to begin with. I can’t say why, exactly, but there was something in the promo art and the manga chapters and the short descriptions that felt more true to the spirit of the original to me than “Fam” did. I can’t say I’m surprised, because I never felt the same unease about this sequel that I did in the lead up to Last Exile: Ginyoku no Fam.
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It looked, sounded and felt like Eureka Seven – much more than the “Pocket Full of Rainbows” movie did. In fact, it decidedly did a lot better than that – it was excellent. To what I’m sure will be the great disappointment of the throngs who declared this series a disaster before they’d seen a single frame (I’m sure they’ll say they predicted this all along – that, or insist it actually did suck), Eureka Seven Astral Ocean didn’t suck. If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, then it’s probably a duck.
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