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Ether
Apr 4, 2007, 04:20 AM
Last week, Akira Toriyama (Creator of Dragonball) and Hironobu Sakaguchi (Final Fantasy) appeared at Tokyo Anime Fair to discuss the Blue Dragon anime, which is based off of the XBox360 game of the same name. During an interview with Anime Supervisor Yukihiro Matsushita, Toriyama made the remark "This may be my final anime."

Toriyama said the following regarding Blue Dragon: "The offer to direct an animated version of Blue Dragon came in February of last year. Studio Pierrot approached me regarding it. I knew that Sakaguchi had been working on assembling staff to produce a game, although at the time Blue Dragon hadn't yet been formally announced. According to the materials, it was to be a fantasy world like "Lord of the Rings", with a detailed world view and story."

"This may be my final anime, I'm a little worried (about it). There's incredible pressure, but at the same time, there's a sense of accomplishment -- that it's worth doing. Blue Dragon will be a masterpiece, not simply because I'm working hard on it, but because the staff is expecting nothing less."

Blue Dragon will begin airing on TV Tokyo on April 7th.

Nani-chan
Apr 4, 2007, 04:37 AM
*comfort Ether*

http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k117/PullTheTricker/Blue%20Dragon/BlueDragon7.jpg
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k117/PullTheTricker/Blue%20Dragon/BlueDragon1.jpg
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k117/PullTheTricker/Blue%20Dragon/BlueDragon3.jpg

I really hope this isn't his last anime. Many people say things they don't mean while under pressure.

We all remember his great work on Dragon Ball Z, Chrono Trigger, Dragon Quest, etc.

omegapirate2k
Apr 4, 2007, 07:29 AM
On 2007-04-04 02:37, Nani-chan wrote:
Many people say things they don't mean while under pressure.


Just like the guy who made resident evil 4 said he'd cut off his own head if resident evil 4 came to the PS2.

He still has his head, btw.

Dhylec
Apr 4, 2007, 08:54 AM
he's old now
he worked hard, peepz should let him rest >.<

DizzyDi
Apr 4, 2007, 09:56 AM
Finally.
His character designs are worse than Tetsuya Nomura's
'Cept the Nameks. They're pretty hardxcore... TO THE MAX!

Solstis
Apr 4, 2007, 11:53 AM
On 2007-04-04 07:56, DizzyDi wrote:
Finally.
His character designs are worse than Tetsuya Nomura's
'Cept the Nameks. They're pretty hardxcore... TO THE MAX!


What's that? Did you say something about Mamoru Oshii being an awesome director?

Toriyama is a pretty sweet dude, but his character designs are totally meh/Blue Dragon characters have old DBZ and DB costumes.

Like that green thing on the right? Totally Gohan's Saiyaman thing.


More on Oshii:

"This desire to include quotes by other authors came from Godard. The text is very important for a film, that I learned from him. It gives a certain richness to cinema because the visual is not all there is. Thanks to Godard, the spectator can concoct his own interpretation. [...] The image associated to the text corresponds to a unifying act that aims at renewing cinema, that lets it take on new dimensions.”

Anyone that references Godard knows his stuff.


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Nani-chan
Apr 4, 2007, 12:50 PM
I guess skull bandana gal is similiar to android 18 too.

http://i103.photobucket.com/albums/m132/xx-razor-blade-kiss-xx/Android%2018/android18---2.jpg
I'm still looking forward to see how Blue Dragon scores this summer.