This must be one of the most cliché story I’ve ever encountered that even the pacing felt so ridiculously fast that it didn’t make that much sense at all to put it in just one chapter in 60 pages. The story centers on a foreign boy named “Ao.” He seems to be a good kid [...]
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This week was particularly rife with great posts and articles relating to anime and religion, mythology, or spirituality.  Let’s get to them! Anime News Network posted a report on mangaka Kazuo Koike’s interview with Madoka Magica writer, Gen Urobochi.  Among the things they discussed was Madoka’s ultimate status and the role she and Homura played [...]
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Eureka Seven Ao is the new sequel of the 2005-2006 mecha hit Eureka Seven. The character designs and the plot of the series have been posted online although no more thorough details who that kid (Fukai Ao) is? He definitely looks like Eureka. The story is set on Okinawa’s isolated island of Iwado, which has [...]
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According the official website of Eureka 7, an anime sequel of it is going to be aired on April 2012. The sequel is entitled Eureka 7: AO (Astral Ocean). Bones is going to animate this anime. The previous anime was also animated by Bones. Not only is there is a sequel in anime, a manga sequel [...]
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BONES the creator of Eureka Seven announced on Friday that there will be a sequel for the mecha anime. Eureka Seven Ao is the title for the new anime: The “real mecha epic” will center around a boy named Ao who set ‘destiny’ in motion again when he held the ‘power.’ Artist Yuichi Kato is drawing the [...]
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Eureka Seven gets a squeal titled, Eureka Seven AO. Eureka Seven is one of the better mecha anime that started in the last decade~ Too me at least~ It’s also one of the first to embrace digital distribution. And now … Continue reading → Related posts: KI–TA–!! Gundam: The Origin Anime Announced! ACE: Portable AKB0048:
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It has been announced on the official website for the television anime series Eureka Seven: Astral Ocean (Eureka Seven Ao) that the anime will air in Japan on April 2012. In addition, a manga sequel to the Eureka Seven television anime series, titled Eureka Seven Ao, was revealed on the Monthly Shonen Ace magazine with
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According to the official website, a TV anime sequel to Eureka 7, entitled ｢Eureka 7: AO (Astral Ocean)｣ , will premiere in April 2012. BONES will once again be the animation studio behind the project. In addition, the new series will also have a companion manga that will premiere in the next issue of Monthly [...]
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This is the script-writers desperate attempt of letting the movie have an emotional impact on the audience: By letting Renton piss himself as he realizes how helpless he is. I really want to know what the writers thought making this scene. Was it something like “Oh, let’s have the hero piss himself in the first [...]
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Can they redraft this story? Born by the famous researcher Adroc Thurston, Renton Thurston grew up without his father, who mysteriously died trying to save the world. Renton then grew up together with Eureka, a girl who must stay out … Continue reading →
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Can they redraft this story? Born by the famous researcher [...]
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Psalms of Planets Eureka Seven – 交響詩篇エウレカセブン (Koukyoushihen Eureka Sebun) Well, this series turned out to be rather surprising. I had somewhat expected a standard shounen series, and to an extent that is the case. However, the rather well developed cast of characters plays a huge role in this series, and the focus on their [...]
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I can see why Manga UK went with Eureka Seven: the Movie for this one. The full title - Psalm of Planets Eureka Seven: Pocket Full of Rainbows (Good Night, Sleep Tight, Young Lovers) - is a tad on the long side. An alternate world retelling of the TV series, this one's had at best a mixed response, but personally, I reckon it's pretty damned good... Read more...
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Lord Shmeckie's back from his holiday vacation, and already he's trying to convince us he celebrates Kwanzaa for some more time off! This time he's reviewing the hipster-tastic Eureka Seven. It's like a college campus in the future, just without all the guys sitting under trees singing John Lennon songs! So that's something...  
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Due to the high demand on mecha anime series recommendation, I'll write some highly recommended mecha anime introduction post (btw, I'm not that good in writing reviews). My recommendation will mainly focus on less popular / older anime, like Eureka Seven is one of the anime that emphasized more on "love" and "youth growth" in a realistic way. You might want to read:Eureka Seven – Pocket Full Of Rainbows Review SD Poison Part 2: Bandai SD Infinity series & SD Unicorn Gundam Nirvash Type 0 (Eureka Seven) – The First Surf Board Mecha?
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While it can't claim to have the same buzz about it as its TV counterpart does, I've been quite looking forward to the UK release of the Eureka Seven movie. Unfortunately, word from Manga UK's Twitter feed is that the movie has been delayed until early 2011 due to "production issues". Boo. UPDATE: Manga's Jerome Mazandarani has updated their blog with the reasons for the delay: So, why have we pushed the release date back? As with most decisions we make that are unpopular, it is pure economics. The cost of authoring the Blu-ray and DVD off the HD master supplied by Bandai Visual is quite prohibitive. We would prefer to co-author the release with a number of other distributors in other territories to bring these costs down. We cannot move forward until the other parties we are in discussions with finalize their agreements with the licensor. Hence, the postponement of the UK release.I cannot apologise enough to the many patient and loyal anime fans we have disappointed with this news. The good news is Manga has signed its contract with Bandai Visual for the Eureka Seven the Movie and paid the advance and material costs. We are definitely releasing this title. I just beg you all to be a little more patient.
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So, I finally caved in and completed the romantic journey of Eureka Seven. What can I say about it that hasn’t already been said since it started airing five years ago? Not much probably, but I’ll just ramble on anyway. It may be a fairly obvious observation, but coral reefs seem to be the motif [...]
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Even after six months, I still can’t believe how good a series Eureka Seven is. If there’s any one show that breaks the boundaries of genres, Eureka Seven would be it. A generic mecha show escalates the action until it becomes unbelievable (and in TTGL’s case, even higher), and ends with a bang. Eureka [...]
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I often wonder if the problem I have with alternate retelling-type stories is shared by other people: that of my difficulty in holding onto and drawing meaning from what’s retained in case it’s indended to be taken in a different context, while at the same time trying to ‘un-learn’ what I knew in order to [...]
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