Fireball (Anime)
| Anime television series | |
|---|---|
| title | Fireball Fireball Charming Fireball Humorous |
| Original title | フ ァ イ ア ボ ー ル フ ァ イ ア ボ ー ル チ ャ ー ミ ン グ フ ァ イ ア ボ ボ ー ル ユ ー モ ラ ス |
| transcription | Faiabōru Faiabōru Chāmingu Faiabōru Yūmorasu |
| Country of production |
 Japan
|
| original language | Japanese |
| Year (s) | 2008, 2011, 2017 |
| Studio |
Walt Disney Television International Japan Jinni's TMS Jinni's |
| length | 2 minutes |
| Episodes | 29 in 3 seasons |
| Director | Wataru Arakawa |
| production | Wataru Arakawa |
| music | Yoshiyuki Usui |
| First broadcast | April 7, 2008 on Disney Channel |
Fireball ( Japanese フ ァ イ ア ボ ー ル , Faiabōru ) is an anime television series from the studios Walt Disney Television International Japan and Jinni's. The first season ran in 2008, a second followed in 2011 and a third in 2017. The series, which can be classified as science fiction and comedy, is about the experiences of two robots in the distant future.
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The series shows short episodes from a distant future in which the robots throttle and memory live among their own kind in a high-tech city and wage war against humanity. Memory is the omniscient servant of the youthful, aristocratic thrush. Her late father asked him to always accompany her. The episodes are spread over a period of over 100 years, the two robots themselves are at least 2,800 years old.
Production and publication
The two-minute long episodes, produced as computer animation , were created in the first season at Walt Disney Television International Japan , in season 2 at Jinni's and most recently at TMS Jinni's . Directed by Wataru Arakawa , who also acted as producer and wrote the script. The character design comes from Hitoshi Fukuchi and Shigeyuki Watanabe was responsible for the implementation of the animations . For the second season, the character and mecha design switched to Takayuki Yanase . The music for the series was composed by Yoshiyuki Usui .
The series was first announced in March 2008 and at the end of the month the first scenes were shown at the Tōkyō Kokusai Anime Fair . The motivation for the production was mentioned that Disney wanted to gain a stronger foothold in the important Japanese market and therefore wanted to create a product tailored to the market together with local artists.
The first season of the series with 13 episodes aired from April 7 to June 30, 2008 on the Japanese Disney Channel . A second season entitled Fireball Charming ( フ ァ イ ア ボ ー ル チ ャ ー ミ ン グ ) and a further 13 episodes followed from April 4 to June 27, 2011 on Tokyo MX and a few days apart on Disney Channel, BS Japan and Sun Television . The third season of Fireball Humorous ( フ ァ イ ア ボ ー ル ユ ー モ ラ ス ) with three episodes was broadcast in Japan from October 6 to December 8, 2017. As early as August 2017, Disney's channel Dlife showed two 10-second short episodes. The series was reissued after so many years on the occasion of the station's fifth birthday.
| role | Japanese speaker ( seiyū ) |
|---|---|
| Thrush from wing | Miyuki Kawasho |
| memory | Toru Ōkawa |
Web links
- Anime Official Website (Japanese)
- Entry at Anime News Network (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hirako Nakata: Disney to work with two local animators. Japan Times, March 7, 2008, accessed November 26, 2017 .
- ↑ Disney's Fireball CG Anime Shorts Get 3rd Season After 6 Years. Anime News Network, August 22, 2017, accessed November 26, 2017 .