Eureka Seven

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Eureka Seven
Original title 交響 詩篇 エ ウ レ カ セ ブ ン
transcription Kōkyōshihen Eureka Sebun
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genre Romance , Shōnen , adventure , mecha , science fiction
Anime television series
Country of production JapanJapan Japan
original language Japanese
Year (s) 2005-2006
Studio Bones
length 23 minutes
Episodes 50 + 1 special
Director Tomoki Kyōda
idea Bones
music Naoki Sato
First broadcast April 17, 2005 - April 2, 2006 on MBS , TBS
German-language
first broadcast		 June 5, 2007 on Animax
Anime movie
title Eureka Seven - Good Night, Sleep Tight, Young Lovers
Original title 交響 詩篇 エ ウ レ カ セ ブ ン ポ ケ ッ ト が 虹 で い っ ぱ い
transcription Kōkyōshihen Eureka Sebun: Poketto ga Niji de Ippai
Country of production JapanJapan Japan
original language Japanese
Publishing year 2009
Studio Kinema Citrus
length 115 minutes
Director Tomoki Kyōda
script Tomoki Kyōda, Gichi Ōtsuka
music Naoki Sato
synchronization
Anime
► Eureka Seven AO (2012)

Eureka Seven ( Japanese 交響 詩篇 エ ウ レ カ セ ブ ン , Kōkyōshihen Eureka Sebun , literally: " symphonic book of the Psalms Eureka Seven"; in the subtitle also: Psalms of Planets Eureka seveN ) is an anime - television series from the studio Bones from 2005, the 50 There are episodes to which a follow-up episode occurred in 2012. A movie was also released for the series in 2009, and from 2017 a cinema trilogy, a manga , three video games and a series of novels. With the series Eureka Seven AO a sequel appeared in 2012 about a successor generation based on the series up to episode 50.

In the distant future, the series is about a planet shaped by unusual conditions, and about the 14-year-old boy Renton Thurston, who joins a group of mecha- surfer rebels with the airship and spaceship Gekkostate and takes part in their missions , while at the same time developing a relationship with the strikingly different, young woman Eureka, who is also a permanent member of the crew and controls a special Mach called Nirvash Type Zero . The work can be assigned to the genre of romance , science fiction and shōnen .

content

world

10,000 years after people left Earth, they settle on a planet they call the "Promised Land". Much of the surface is rock-like. This mass, also called Scub Coral, probably makes up the entire planet and was recognized as a living being by the military technician Adroc Thurston. This discovery is kept secret from the population. This mass has several manifestations called Coralians. One forms the central organ of thought, another, the Kute-class Coralian, which consists of energy concentrated in the atmosphere. This can also ward off attacks on the body of the living being. Other forms act as humanoids to learn more about humans.

Through this living being, the atmosphere is permeated with energy particles and currents, which are called trapar. These are used in particular to drive on them with airships or to "surf" on them with LFOs. LFO, "Light Finding Operation", refers to mechas, huge humanoid robots that are controlled by humans inside them. Military LFOs are also called KLFs, "Force Light Fighters".

On the planet there are the Vodarac among the religious groups who see the Trapar as thoughts of the living being in the planet. You want to protect the planet as it is also a living being. Because of some extremist factions of the religion this is classified by the government as a dangerous group and is combated. An important city for the Vodarac is Ciudades del Cielo.

In addition to the Vodarac, there is also the rebel group Gekkostate around Holland Novak. This is a group of LFO pilots who roam the planet on the battleship Gekko-Go.

action

Renton Thurston, 14, lives with his grandfather in an LFO workshop in Bellforest, where Renton is bored. He is enthusiastic about Holland's Gekkostate and their magazine ray = out . His grandfather doesn't like to see it as his father died in the adventure and his sister Diane disappeared. One day when the young Eureka flies into the workshop with her LFO Nirvash, Renton's grandfather asks her never to come back. But Renton has fallen in love with her, rushes to her aid and brings her the Amita-Drive, an extension for the Nirvash that he received from his grandfather. In the cockpit of the Nirvash, the Amita Drive surprisingly releases a great destructive force, the Seven Swell Effect. When he is brought back to his grandfather from Holland and Eureka, he learns that the Nirvash was once built by his father. He then accepts Eureka's offer and joins the Gekkostate who live on board the battleship Gekko.

But Renton is also tormented by boredom on the Gekko, as he has not yet found the right place in the team. He doesn't get along with all parts of the team and his love for Eureka remains unrequited. The crew is also mostly busy getting money, as there is often a shortage of it. Your children, in turn, see it as a nuisance. That only changes when Renton steals the Nirvash to shut down the army's radar. For this, however, he was given ten days of solitary confinement. By feigning extradition of an anti-government Vodarac to the army, the team can raise money from the military. When the Vodarac are safe after Ciudades del Cielo, Renton learns of Eureka's past, in which she went through a lot. Because of his commitment to protecting Ciudades del Cielo, Renton is now a full member of the team.

When the Gekko enters a mysterious Coralian cloud, Eureka is barely able to control her LFO. She moves out with Renton and in the cloud they meet an army KLF. When the cloud clears, Renton still manages to supply Eureka with medicine and to disappear with her and the Nirvash before the area is shelled by the army and Holland. Eureka is slow to recover. While they are procuring raw materials for the repair of the Gekko, Eureka is doing worse again. She is dismissive of Renton and they argue. When the crew is attacked by the army, Eureka disappears with the Nirvash and Renton follows her. He finds her, can barely save her and uses an unusual force again. But then both get into an argument again.

Since he is now no longer allowed to approach Eureka in order not to burden her any further, and the rest of the team also stay away from him, he leaves the Gekkostate. For a short time he finds accommodation with the couple Charles and Ray Beam, but soon learns that they work for the government and that their goal is to destroy Gekkostate. Although Ray and Charles were like real parents to him, Renton also leaves their ship to return to the Gekkostate, as he realizes again how important Eureka is to him. When Eureka learns that Renton has left the team, she blames herself and the others realize that she has fallen in love with him. Holland therefore starts looking for Renton. At the same time he meets the farmer William, who rescued him after he was stranded at his farm when he had left the beams and wandered aimlessly through the wilderness. Williams' wife suffers from the so-called desperate illness, in which the sick person sits around frozen the whole time and stares at a Compac Drive. So when Renton asks William what was wrong with his wife, William tells him his and her life story. After Renton recovers, he leaves Williams Farm to continue searching for the Gekkostate. Meanwhile, Holland does not get any further with his search for Renton, as the whole airspace near the Gekko is occupied by the military. Therefore, he returns to the Gekko without Renton and now has to tell Eureka that he has not found Renton, whereupon she is devastated and therefore goes to look for him herself.

After traveling with her reffboard for a while, Eureka is discovered by the military and said to be captured. Eureka and Holland are both former members of a military special task force, the SOF, and Holland had kidnapped Eureka from the military at the time to protect her from being used in further atrocities. Renton has already reached the Gekko and learns that Eureka has gone to look for him. He then uses the Nirvash to save her from the military KLFs. After both of them sit in the cockpit of the Nirvash, they use the Amita Drive to disable all KLFs of the military, whereupon the military finally withdraws and they can return to the Gekko.

Anime

In 2005, the studio produced Bones the Anime - TV series with 50 episodes. Directed by Tomoki Kyoda, the character design is by Ken'ichi Yoshida . Kazuo Nagai and Atsushi Morikawa took over the artistic direction. Bandai Entertainment was involved in the production. It was first broadcast in Japan from April 17, 2005 to April 2, 2006 on the Mainichi Broadcasting System and Tokyo Broadcasting System .

There is also a special episode called New Order with an alternative version of the end of the series. This was shown in 2006 at the SonyMusic Anime Fes.06 event and then on April 6, 2012 (on the previous TV day ) on TV on MBS and one day later on TBS on the occasion of the upcoming series Eureka Seven AO ; however, has no special relationship with this.

The series was released on April 26, 2006 by Bandai Entertainment in the USA on DVD. From April 2006 to 2007, the series ran on Cartoon Network in Adult Swim format. In Canada, Eureka Seven was broadcast intermittently on YTV from September 2006 to November 2007. Madman Entertainment released the anime on August 16, 2006 in Australia and September 20, 2006 in New Zealand on DVD. Beez Entertainment released the series in France and ABS-CBN aired the anime on Tagalog .

Beez Entertainment, distributed by Al! Ve, released the series in German from 2007 to 2008 on 10 DVDs. It was broadcast on Animax on June 5, 2007 . On November 19, 2010, there was a new German edition as two box sets.

synchronization

role Japanese speaker ( seiyū ) German speaker
Renton Thurston Yuko Sanpei Raúl Richter
Axl Thurston Aono Takeshi Ernst Meincke
Eureka Kaori Nazuka Julia Meynen
Holland Keiji Fujiwara Olaf Reichmann
Matthieu Akio Nakamura Viktor Neumann
Ken-Goh Tamio Ōki Tilo Schmitz
Dominic Sorel Yamazaki Shigenori Robin Kahnmeyer
anemone Koshimizu Ami Isabelle Schmidt

The German synchronization was carried out by the Circle of Arts.

music

The music composed by Naoki Sato was produced by Aniplex .

Four different titles were used for the opening credits :

  • Days from Flow
  • A Young Boy's Heart ( 少年 ハ ー ト , Shōnen Hāto ) by Home Made Kazoku
  • To the Center of the Sun ( 太陽 の 真 ん 中 へ , Taiyō no Mannaka e ) by Bivattchee
  • Sakura of Nirgilis

The following were also used for the end credits :

  • Secret Base ( 秘密 基地 , Himitsu Kichi ) by Kozue Takada
  • Fly Away by Izawa Asami
  • Tip Taps Tip from Halcali
  • Canvas by Coolon

In addition, several songs are played during the episodes:

  • Storywriter from Supercar
  • Trance Ruined by Newdeal
  • Draft Any Funk by Newdeal
  • Get It By Your Hands by Hiroshi Watanabe
  • Rainbow ( 虹 , Niji ) by Denki Groove

The soundtrack was also released on three CDs.

Movies

On 25 April 2009, a movie was released to the series entitled Kōkyōshihen Eureka Seven: Pocket ga Niji de Ippai ( 交響詩篇エウレカセブンポケットが虹でいっぱい, Kōkyōshihen Eureka Sebun: Poketto ga Niji de Ippai ) with the English Nebentitel Psalms of Planets Eureka seveN good night, sleep tight, young lovers . The film was animated by Kinema Citrus , but directed again by Tomoki Kyōda, character designer was Kenichi Yoshida and special effects director was Yasushi Muraki. The film was released on June 24, 2011 in Germany on the anime label Kazé under the title Eureka Seven - Good Night, Sleep Tight, Young Lovers on DVD.

For the years of publication 2017, 2018 and (provisionally) 2019, a part of a trilogy was produced, which are identified by the addition Hi-Evolution and the number of the part and include the story of the first "Summer of Love" and other periods which were only hinted at or left blank in the series. The claim to uncover the “beginning of everything” is realized, for example, by explicitly mentioning the figure Anemone in the title of the second part.

more publishments

Manga

Based on the anime, a manga designed by Jinsei Kataoka and Kazuma Kondou was published in Monthly Shōnen Ace magazine from Kadokawa Shoten from July 2005 to January 2007. The 23 chapters were summarized in six volumes. The manga was distributed in English by Madman Entertainment and also translated into Russian and Korean, among others. Carlsen Comics publishes the volumes in German in a translation by Antje Bockel. Six volumes have appeared so far.

From November 2005 Kadokawa Shoten released another manga entitled Eureka Seven: Gravity Boys & Lifting Girl ( エ ウ レ カ セ ブ ン グ ラ ヴ ィ テ ィ ボ ー イ ズ & リ フ テ ィ ン グ ガ ー ル ). The two volumes were also published in English. The second manga deals with the history of the video games, which in turn precede the anime series. The plot therefore revolves around two characters from the games, Sumner Sturgeon and Ruri. In 2012 and 2013, 4-Koma Nano Ace also published an adaptation as a Yonkoma manga under the title Eureka Seven nAnO.

Novels

Four novels by Tomonori Sugihara were published on Eureka Seven under the titles Blue Monday , Unknown Pleasures , New World Order and Here to Stay .

Video games

Three video games have been developed for Eureka Seven. In October 2005, Eureka Seven vol.1: New Wave was released for the PlayStation 2 , which was also released in North America in 2006. In May 2006 followed Eureka Seven: New Vision , also for the PlayStation 2, which was released in North America in 2007. The PlayStation Portable game Eureka Seven V.2: Psalms of Planets was released in April 2006.

The games were all produced by Bandai .

reception

At the fifth Tokyo Anime Awards 2006, the series won the award for best television series along with Mushishi and Black Jack . Dai Sato also received the award for best screenplay and Kenichi Yoshida for best character design. Kenichi Yoshida was also recognized for his work on Eureka Seven at the 10th Animation Kobe Awards in 2005. The series also won an award at the 20th Digital Content Grand Prix in Japan in 2006.

In a 2006 survey by TV Asahi , Eureka Seven ranked 14th in Japan's most popular anime series.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ AnimePRO on the first German DVD
  2. ↑ AnimePRO on the second German DVD
  3. ↑ AnimePRO on the third German DVD
  4. ↑ AnimePRO on the fourth German DVD
  5. ↑ AnimePRO on the fifth German DVD
  6. ↑ Eureka Seven. (No longer available online.) Al! Ve, archived from the original on September 13, 2011 ; Retrieved December 12, 2010 .
  7. ↑ anime-planet.com
  8. ↑ animenewsnetwork on the winners of the fifth Tokyo Anime Awards
  9. ↑ animenewsnetwork on the 10th Animation Kobe Awards
  10. ↑ animenewsnetwork about the 20th Digital Content Grand Prix
  11. ↑ animenewsnetwork about the survey by TV Asahi

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