#mamoru kanbe

[fullscoreshenanigans]

there are sometimes who is strange in all the side-information that we have about TPN.

In a interview, the author told that Grandma was the one to choose the names of the babies.

But in a bonus comic, Isabella tells Ray, Emma and Norman how she choose their name.

So either she lied...

Either that's a incoherence.

Either Grandma didn't name the kids who were going to Isabella to let her "daugther" names them as she want.

....either Grandma had given other names to kids who were going to the Grace Field House 3 an Isabella deliberally changed the names in a way to say "f*** you" to her former guardian (since the demons didn't care about the names) and claim the kids as her own. Carol is the only one to not have had a change of name because of Krone presence.

I don't know why but the last idea is hilarous to me ^^"

I default to the bonus comic being the most accurate to simultaneously keep any sisters in HQ from potentially getting attached to the infants by giving them official names and to make the moms more endeared and caring toward the children they named themselves (for reference for anyone who hasn't seen it; a reward for scoring high on the official site's IQ test:)

(Reprinted in The Promised Neverland Art Book World; one of the few times we get to see them with their short sleeves for warmer weather.)

Unless Shirai meant Sarah named them literally right before handing them off to the moms in the plants, but I don't believe she'd care enough then or at any point after becoming Grandma.

That last one is funny though dlkfjsd

The little petty ways you get back at your mom when you're both victims and perpetrators of a violent system.

But you're right; Shirai's said some conflicting things over the course of the series' run that I think come from being run ragged by a hellish production schedule and a work just naturally evolving as opposed to being antagonistically contrarian to spite fans he views as obnoxious.

The other two that readily come to mind are Shirai saying the series could range anywhere from 10 to 30 volumes long…

(Mystic Code Book Chapter 1 | Chapter 2 | October 2018 Franceinfo Interview | October 2020 Series Completion Interview)

…before his health took a nosedive and saying it was always going to be 20 volumes at most, with him wanting to maintain his sense of artistic integrity by completing the series on his own terms (the similarities between this and the way Yoshihiro Togashi ended Yu Yu Hakusho, one of TPN's biggest inspirations, is sadly staggering).

(Mystic Code Book Chapter 5 | October 2020 Series Completion Interview | TPN Wiki's Chapter 134 Page | WSJ Editorial Department 9/5/19 Update)

And him (and Sugita) being purposely mum about how he felt about Noremma when speaking with Cloverworks staff during the production of season 1 in 2018 compared to what he mentioned to Kendo Kobayashi in an earlier January 2018 interview, assuming he ultimately wanted to leave it up to the audience's interpretation rather than imposing his own (Demizu notably interprets all the relationships in the series as platonic).

(Minerva Confidential Report from the S1 Blu-ray | Mystic Code Book Chapter 1)

[curiousrentals]

Ninja Ryūkenden | 忍者龍剣伝, 1991

“Did you get lost? Or are you a stray?”

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エルフェンリート requested by: anon  オディオ  O D I O

[rhade-zapan]

Psycho Diver: Soul Siren ~ Mamoru Kanbe ~ 1997

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[sakugabooru]

The Promised Neverland Production Notes 07-12 And Final Impressions

The Promised Neverland’s come to an end… for now. With the production of season 2 already in sight, it’s time to examine the consequences of the director’s vision, various product…

[animewithairplanewings]

ソ・ラ・ノ・ヲ・ト

Sound of the Sky is an original military/slice of life drama-comedy.  It was directed by Mamoru Kanbe, written by Hiroyuki Yoshino, scored by Michiru Ooshima, and animated by A-1 Pictures for the winter 2010 season.  Private Kanata Sorami joins the military as a bugler and is stationed in the city of Seize with the 1121st Platoon.

Throughout the normal run of the anime there are exactly zero airplanes, or indeed flying machines of any kind.  The world itself is post-apocalyptic where technology has regressed to roughly that of the 1930s or 40s.  The heavy machinery of choice in this world are the tanks, which are quadrupedal and based off a highly-advanced pre-war design.

For its complete lack of airplanes, especially in a setting that seems so ripe for them, Sound of the Sky earns itself 0 out of 5 Airplanes.

But wait, I said “normal run.”  That means there must be more to it.  In addition to the twelve episode series there were two OVAs released, episodes 7.5 and 13.  We can safely ignore 7.5 to focus entirely on 13.

Kanata realizes that she doesn’t know what her dream for the future is, and goes around asking the other cast members what their dreams are, for reference.  The dream that we are interested in is that of Lieutenant Rio Kazumiya.  Through her we learn that aviation is one of the lost technologies and, while she has built a hot air balloon that she lets Kanata ride in, her real dream is reinventing the airplane and using it to explore beyond the wastelands in search of a way to keep the world from ending.

In the end, the OVA gets a Participation Ribbon, and Lieutenant Kazumiya gets a Gold Star.

[fullscoreshenanigans]

(Minerva Confidential Report from the S1 Blu-ray)

Glad they ended up changing it to what it became because shit does this scene hit with the visuals set to Àlainn’s dulcet yet heartbreaking mournful vocals.