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Although it's a bit early to start speculating on the nature of the project, this is probably the most asked question is whatever it will be a series, an OVA or a movie.
There are many factors to take into consideration up to this point, length of the project being determinant. From what we've seen so far, it's pretty safe to assume the Golden Age Arc will be animated and like I said in an early post, that is no surprise. There is no way a production company would do a sequel that another company started, in this case Studio 4°C and OLM (studio responsible of Berserk 1997). It wouldn't have been impossible to make a canon sequel from what they did back then as the missing key plot elements like the Skull Knight and Puck aren't that hard to introduce storyboard-wise.
Now we have the Golden Age Arc and then there's the clip from the first commercial showing Griffith wearing his after Eclipse armor... which is from the beginning of the Hawk of the Millennium Arc. This stretch the project and make things confusing; A single season series would be impossible to cover all the material between, we would need at least 2 seasons a.k.a 51 episodes to get a decent coverage of what happened. Following this model, 26 episodes for Golden Age and 26 for the Black Swordman/Retribution Arc looks realistic; with a cliffhanging ending with the return of Griffith. It would be pretty ironic to have the last scene of the series being the first footage officially released.
On the other hand, the Griffith part from the commercial could also have been made solely for the promotion of the project and has nothing to do with the rest (although I doubt it). It could also be an OVA series à la Legend of the Galactic Heroes covering the same event than mentioned above. A single movie wouldn't be enough too, but a movie series à la Kara no Kyoukai is not impossible.
Another factor to take into consideration is the budget ! According to the pretty much true rumor that it would be in full CG. This also involve unusually high production prices, at least from the other anime productions. On his Twitter, Kitakubo also mentioned something about an in-house motion capture studio, which can only hint a long production. Shall it has been a short production, rental would probably has been the choice for a motion capture studio, but attempting to do this in-house means they're expecting that move to pay itself. In either case, this would probably be one of the highest anime production budget seen in a long time (among Kara no Kyoukai, which was also pretty high I believe).
For now this is pretty much the most we can deduce from the commercials. I'll be looking forward the next clips and hopefully we'll see some Blacksword man or even Retribution (and Puck who I guess is goig to be in one of the remaining trailers.
On that, I'm going to bed... Be sure to check out here tomorrow for more updates !
Friday, October 1, 2010
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For awhile I thought it would be "new story with frequent flashbacks". But CM #3 changed my mind. I don't think that's a flashback. I think they're going to spend substantial time re-telling the Golden Age story. And they wouldn't be able to fit that into a movie. You might be able to compress Golden Age into a 13-episode series if you take out all of the backstory, maybe. It would be uncomfortable.
ReplyDeleteThe quality of animation is incredible. CG w/ mocap and cel shading?? Could they actually make a full 26-episode series with that quality? I can't imagine how many man-hours it takes to make all that or what kind of budget they're using. How long have they been working on this already?
Whatever it will be, it's a dream come true for me. I can't wait!
It's amazing indeed. And since the 2009 pictures were true in the end, it shows they were working on this for at least 1 year and a few months. I can't wait to have ore information on the matter.
ReplyDeleteHey man added your blog to my feed to get all the latest news on this anime series! Huge fan of the series watched the anime bunch of times and read the whole manga!
ReplyDeleteAs for the blog post, I think it's up in the air at the moment. The commercials are showing clips from all over the place and we can't really pinpoint where it's going to be, though comment sense in terms of advertising of berserk as a whole they would go with the latest arc.
As one who is a college student in media and mass communications I can safely tell you a movie company doesn't release commercials like these until they are at least half way done with it, most of the time it being 75% done with the movie/tv show when they release commercials for it.
If they follow the manga this will be epic..
ReplyDeleteLooking at the videos it seems it is a new series focusing more on the story of the manga .... something like fullmetal alchemist brotherhood.
ReplyDelete* Sorry ... I do not speak English very well *
Keep in mind that those old, leaked photos were released a year and a month ago, but the person that leaked them claimed that the shots themselves were over a year old by then. And considering they looked not too far off from what we have now, you can assume that quite a bit of time was already put in at that point. So long as this project has been continually worked on, I'd say we're looking at something that has been worked on for 2 and a half years. Thats a lot of time.
ReplyDelete@ Anon : Good point. It's already a longer production time than your average anime production, which strengthen my point we'Re getting a long series, shall it be OVA or TV series. CGI movies can also take a long time to produce, but considering the chronological events featured in the pictures/CM, i'd highly doubt it. Not to mention the Zodd flyin gscene in CM 2 looked a bit odd, someting they'd clearly take time to arrange if this was a movie production in the works since 2 and a half year.
ReplyDeleteI had a thought -- 3D TVs are supposed to be the next big thing. And these commercials are using CG, with full 3D models being used as the basis for a cel-shaded style. What if...
ReplyDelete...Naaaah, that would be crazy-expensive, right?
...but a 3D Berserk would be so cool... :^)
Awsume Page and awsume things to speculate.
ReplyDeleteGiven the potential that this has been going on for sometime, could it be possible this could explain the slower releases of new manga chapters. With such a massive undertaking and if he is involved with the production it would seem to make sense. For much of Miura's carear in berserk he has averaged around 2 volumes worth of material per year. Since vol 32 which was published back at the end of 2007 till now he has been averaging 1 volume worth of new material each year.
Its either just correlated or since sometime in late 2007 or more likely early 2008 he has been working as part of the team of this production and still working on the manga as well.
Just figured its interesting to note. As many seem to complain things have been slow in berserk world. Well all I can say is certainly not anymore.