Suisei no Gargantia
| Anime television series | |
|---|---|
| title | Suisei no Gargantia |
| Original title | 翠 星 の ガ ル ガ ン テ ィ ア |
| transcription | Suisei no Garugantia |
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| Country of production |
 Japan
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| original language | Japanese |
| year | 2013 |
| Studio | Production IG |
| length | 24 minutes |
| Episodes | 13 + 2 bonus |
| genre | Science fiction |
| Director | Kazuya Murata |
| idea | Oceanus |
| music | Taro Iwashiro |
| First broadcast | April 7th to June 30th, 2013 on Tokyo MX |
Suisei no Gargantia ( Japanese 翠 星 の ガ ル ガ ン テ ィ ア , Suisei no Garugantia , literally: "Gargantia of the green star", English subtitle: Gargantia on the Verdurous Planet ) is a Japanese anime television series.
action
In a distant future, humanity lives with around 500 million people in space, fighting in a seemingly never-ending battle against aliens called Hideauze. The 16-year-old Ledo ( レ ド , Redo ) is a mecha pilot and has been in the military for his entire life and is about to receive civil rights for his services. With a new weapon, the armed forces try again to get at the Hideauze, but it fails. When he retreats, Ledo does not make it into the carrier ship in time, which escapes through a wormhole . Instead, he is taken to an unknown location through the wormhole. After six months of cold sleep, he is woken up by his computer chamber and finds himself in his mecha on board an unknown ship, which is inhabited by people at about the technical level of the 20th century, whose language he does not know, whereupon he assumes they are one "Wandering tribe". When he leaves his mecha to explore, he is caught and takes 15-year-old Amy ( エ イ ミ ー , Eimī ) hostage. To his amazement, he notices that the ship has neither protection from radiation nor from the vacuum, until he finally realizes with horror that the ship is a watercraft and that he is on a habitable planet, which his computer calls earth, the place of his birth of humanity, which according to his records should be an uninhabitable ice planet.
He decides to enter into a dialogue, with Amy offering herself as a contact person. She tells him that although the earth used to be icy - and people fled to the stars - it thawed and is now completely covered by water. The people live in convoys of ships that are connected to form a unit - like the Gargantia they are on - and follow the “Milky Way”. This is the name given to the bands of microbes living in the ocean, stretching for thousands of kilometers, which emit electricity so strong that it can cause thunderstorms from the surface of the sea to the sky.
In the meantime, Ridget ( リ ジ ッ ト , Rijitto ), the right hand of the commander Fairlock ( フ ェ ア ロ ッ ク , Fearokku ) , sends the recovery specialist Bellows ( ベ ロ ー ズ , Berōzu ) to the place where they had previously recovered Ledo's mecha in order to search for more high technology . Bellows' ship is attacked by a group of pirate ships, and Amy asks Ledo for help. The Gargantia sees with horror how Ledo with his mecha causes an inferno with the pirates within seconds, just as he is used to from his fights against the Hideauze.
If he had hoped to improve relations with his help, what is to be done with Ledo is now being discussed on board the Gargantia, since he represents a great danger to the convoy in two respects: on the one hand because of his technical superiority and on the other hand because now the pirates under the pirate queen Lukkage ( ラ ケ ー ジ , Rakēji ) seek revenge. Through Bellows' mediation, who also explains that killing opponents should only be the last option, it is decided to trust Ledo. A battle ensues between the Gargantia and the superior pirate fleet, with Lukkage personally launching a surprise attack on the command center of the Gargantia with her mecha, which, however, can be repulsed by Ledo. The remaining pirates then flee as well. After this successfully conducted battle, Ledo Bellows' rescue team joins. During a rescue operation, Chamber signals to him that a Hideauze is approaching. In Ledo, his old habits immediately awaken and he kills the creature that Bellows calls the "whale squid" ( ク ジ ラ イ カ , Kujira-ika ). Back on the Gargantia people are upset because the whale squids are both adored and feared, which alienates Ledo even more from the crew. The salvage specialist Pinion ( ピ ニ オ ン ), on the other hand, is delighted that he still had an account of the whale squids that killed his brother and he can win over the ship owner Flange ( フ ラ ン ジ , Furanji ) for his cause, deep into that of Wal - To invade the squid controlled area, where Ledo can kill them, Pinion can find new technologies and earn money with it and Flange can use them for the civilization progress.
If the loss of Flange's ships weren't bad enough for the Gargantia, the aging commander died of a heart attack, but first gave his key and command to Ridget. Meanwhile, Ledo takes part in a Pinion rescue operation in a whale squid nest, where he kills all whale squids, including their larvae that resemble human fetuses. In the Nest, an "ancient" research facility, he finds fragmentary historical news broadcasts. Chamber refuses to play these at first because they contain information classified as secret by the alliance, which contradicts the official alliance historiography, until Ledo points out to him that he is the highest-ranking, because the only alliance soldier in the region. When mankind was heading for a new ice age and lost its habitat in the process, it planned to move into space. A movement emerged that advocated self-evolution, i. H. the adaptation of the human genome to life in water and in space without technical aids. The followers of this movement were called Evolver ( イ ボ ル バ ー , Iborubā ). Opposite it stood that part of humanity who rejected such human experiments as bioethically irresponsible, so that the nations essentially fell into two camps. The Continental Union emerged as the most prominent opponent of the Evolver, also because it operated its own advanced space program. All of this eventually led to a bitter war between the two parties. The modified humans remaining on earth form the whale squids, while those who emigrated into space and continued to transform to face the weapons of the Continental Union / Alliance became the Hideauze. When Ledo found out about this, he fell into a crisis of meaning.
At this moment he receives a message from his superior Kugel ( ク ー ゲ ル , Kūgeru ), who asks him to join him, which Ledo accepts. Ball also landed on earth through the wormhole. However, instead of trying to integrate himself like Ledo, he used his superiority, let himself be worshiped as god by a convoy of ships and transformed his society into one that corresponds to the alliance and that is based only on cost-benefit considerations and in which old people are Sea to be disposed. His goal is to militarily unite humanity on earth as an ally against the Hideauze. First Kugel lets Flanges take over ships and set course for the Gargantia he attacks. Lukkage also had to submit to Kugel and now sees her opportunity to regain her freedom by initiating Pinion, whose assignment gives him access to recovered weapons, and Ledo to plan a rebellion. During the fight between Ledo and Kugel, Ledo discovers that Kugel is already dead and instead Mecha Striker is responsible for everything. A battle ensues between Ledo or Chamber and Striker, where Striker Chamber tries to convince, but Chamber rejects Striker's views as illogical, since they were created to support and not to rule the people. Ledo realizes that he can only defeat Striker by self-sacrifice and by overloading the reactor. Without further ado, Chamber declares him mentally unfit to continue fighting, triggers the ejection seat and overloads his reactor. The battle between Gargantia and Kugel's convoy is also going well for the time being, on the one hand thanks to Lukkage's support and on the other hand because Ridget learns that Gargantia is actually the name of an orbital mass accelerator that was mistaken for the observation tower of the fleet and which is now used to bombard Kugels Fleet is used. She finally gives up when they see that their "god" ball has exploded.
The series ends with Ledo living with Amy on the Gargantia from now on.
publication
The production of the series was announced in the magazine Newtype Ace Vol. 16 on December 10, 2012. The concept for the series comes from the director Kazuya Murata and the script writer Gen Urobuchi , with the animations being carried out by Production IG . The animation director Masako Tashiro also created the final character design based on the drafts of Hanaharu Naruko .
The 13 episodes were first broadcast from April 7 to June 30, 2013 on Tokyo MX in the Tokyo area , followed by Yomiuri TV in the Kinki region , Chūkyō TV in the Nagoya area , and nationwide via satellite on BS11 with an offset of up to three days .
Parallel to the broadcast, the bonus film series Petit Gargantia ( ぷ ち っ と が る が ん て ぃ あ , Puchitto Garugantia ), directed by Minoru Ashina, will be published on the website. After the television broadcast, a new episode with the characters will be published in SD style, which provides background information on the series plot.
Suisei no Gargantia was streamed with English subtitles around the same time as the Japanese premiere on Crunchyroll in the USA, Canada, UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Scandinavia, Denmark, Spain, Portugal, Brazil and Turkey.
At the Anime Contents Expo from 30./31. March 2013 8000 copies of a Blu-Ray with the first two episodes were distributed. The series will be released from July 26, 2013 on Blu-Ray with four episodes per disc and one bonus episode. The episodes were released on three Blu-rays from August 28 to October 25, with two additional episodes on the first and third. The first Blu-ray sold 8956 times in the first week, making it 7th in the anime charts, the second 8,129 times in the first week (8th place) and the third 7,823 times (6th place).
In October 2013, the production of a second season was announced. This should appear in autumn 2014 as a two-part OVA.
music
The soundtrack for the series comes from Tarō Iwashiro . Kono Sekai wa Bokura o Matte Ita ( こ の 世界 は 僕 ら を 待 っ て い た , “this world has been waiting for us”) is used for the opening credits , composed by Tomohiro Nakatsuchi of the band Remark Spirits , texted by Aki Hata and sung by Minori Chihara . Sora to Kimi no Message ( 空 と キ ミ の メ ッ セ ー ジ , Sora to Kimi no Messēji , “heaven and your message”) was used for the end credits , composed by Kana Yabuki , texted by Saori Kodama and sung by ChouCho .
synchronization
| role | Japanese speaker ( seiyū ) |
|---|---|
| Ledo | Kaito Ishikawa |
| Amy | Hisako Kanemoto |
| Chamber | Tomokazu Sugita |
| Bellows | Shizuka Itō |
| Ridget | Sayaka Ohara |
| Pinion | Katsuyuki Konishi |
| Lukkage | Ayumi Tsunematsu |
| Bullet | Yūki Ono |
| Striker | Ayumi Fujimura |
| Saaya | Ai Kayano |
| Melty | Kana Asumi |
Adaptations
Manga
In the magazine Newtype Ace Vol. 16 on December 10, 2012, a pilot chapter called Suisei no Gargantia appeared with the announcement of the anime series : Uchū kara no Hōmonsha ( 翠 星 の ガ ル ガ ン テ ィ ィ ア 宇宙 か ら の 訪問者 ) drawn by Taishirō Tanimura . In the follow-up edition on January 10, 2013, the first chapter of the regular manga adaptation appeared. This is drawn by Wataru Mitogawa. The chapters have been in so far (as of March 2014) three anthologies ( tankōbon combined), which on April 10, 2013 ( ISBN 978-4-04-120677-5 ), September 10, 2013 ( ISBN 978-4-04-120850 -2 ) and published March 10, 2014 ( ISBN 978-4-04-121068-0 ).
The spin-off Suisei no Gargantia: Mizuhana no Bellows ( 翠 星 の ガ ル ガ ン テ ィ ア 水 水 端 の ベ ロ ー ズ ) with the character Bellows as the protagonist appears in Kadokawa's web manga magazine Famitsū Comic Clear . This is drawn by Shū. The first anthology was published on February 15, 2014 ( ISBN 978-4-04-729409-7 ).
Novels
Likewise , a novel called Suisei no Gargantia: Shōnen to Kyōjin ( 翠 星 の ガ ル ガ ン テ ィ ア ア 少年 と 巨人 ) was published by Nitroplus , the employer Gen Urobuchis, on May 20, 2013, which was written by Norimitsu Kaihō. A new edition called Suisei no Gargantia Gaiden: Shōnen to Kyōjin ( 翠 星 の ガ ル ガ ン テ ィ ア 外 伝 ・ 少年 と 巨人 ), which is also available in regular bookshops, was published on November 30, 2013 ( ISBN 978-4-04-729298-7 ) at Kadokawa's imprint Famitsū Bunko .
In Famitsu Bunko also a novel series of Daishirō Tanimura with illustrations by Akiko Murayama appeared. The three volumes were published on May 30, 2013 ( ISBN 978-4-04-728918-5 ), June 29, 2013 ( ISBN 978-4-04-728979-6 ) and September 30, 2013 ( ISBN 978-4-04 -729098-3 ).
Artbooks
Nitroplus also published the 32-page artbook Suisei no Gargantia: First Fan Book ( 翠 星 の ガ ル ガ ン テ ィ ア フ ァ ー ー ス ト フ ァ ン ブ ッ ク ) at Comiket 84 (December 29–31 , 2012 ) with the design illustrations by Hanaharu Naruko.
An extensive collection in three volumes of sketches and illustrations under the title Suisei no Gargantia: Progress Files ( 翠 星 の ガ ル ガ ン テ ィ ア PROGRESS FILES) was published on November 20, 2013 ( ISBN 978-4-89457-105-1 ) by Bandai Visual . The first volume with around 400 pages in B4 format contains illustrations for the characters, the second volume with the same number of pages contains illustrations for the machines and background graphics, and the third volume with around 300 pages in B5 format contains the scenario graphics and the script for all 15 episodes.
On January 22, 2014. Ichijinsha the 190-page art book published World Creation: Gargantia on the Verdurous Planet ( 翠星のガルガンティアワールドクリエイション, Suisei no Garugantia: Warudo Kurieishon ; ISBN 978-4-7580-1351-2 ) as a making-of of the anime.
Web links
- Anime website (Japanese)
- Entry in the Anime News Network (English)
Individual evidence
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- ↑ Patrick Macias: Crunchyroll to Stream "Gargantia on the Verdurous Planet" Anime. In: Crunchyroll. April 5, 2013, accessed April 7, 2013 .
- ↑ 1st 2 Gargantia Episodes Offered on 8,000 Blu-rays Before Airing. In: Anime News Network. March 15, 2013, accessed April 7, 2013 .
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