"Mardock Scramble: The First Compression" trailer

[chloes_fork]

Search yielded no thread for this, so thought I would share this little item (http://www.nipponcinema.com/trailers/mardock-scramble-the-first-compression-trailer/) I ran across. NSFW, BTW, thanks to a good bit of nudity. Looks pretty sweet, though.

[HitokiriShadow]

I've been interested in Mardock Scramble ever since it was announced. I groaned the other day when I read that Go Hands was the studio in charge of this now, as the only other show they've done as the main studio was Princess Lover, which was not exactly an impressive way to start things off.

This trailer, however, looks great. I'm really looking forward to this again. And after several years of "it's coming... its canceled.... it's coming under a different studio someday..." we finally have a concrete trailer and a rough date for it. Looks like it should hit Japanese theaters this fall.

[something]

I groaned the other day when I read that Go Hands was the studio in charge of this now, as the only other show they've done as the main studio was Princess Lover, which was not exactly an impressive way to start things off.
Hopefully they've got a much much better director and other critical staff on this one. :sd: And better source material, one hopes. Princess Lover certainly wasn't badly animated, it was just... well a clusterfuck in almost every other way.

[HitokiriShadow]

I groaned the other day when I read that Go Hands was the studio in charge of this now, as the only other show they've done as the main studio was Princess Lover, which was not exactly an impressive way to start things off.
Hopefully they've got a much much better director and other critical staff on this one. :sd: And better source material, one hopes. Princess Lover certainly wasn't badly animated, it was just... well a clusterfuck in almost every other way.

Mardock Scramble clearly has the advantage of a much, much higher budget, so that helps. As for source materal, its hard to say for certain since I have no familiarity with Mardock Scramble's novels, but Princess Lover looks like it was low end Erogame and Mardock Scramble is written by a fairly well-known and at least moderately respected author, I think its safe to say Mardock Scramble has a huge advantage in source materal. Looking at Tow Ubukata's wiki entry, he was heavily involved with Le Chevalier D'Eon (which I haven't seen, but have heard lots of good reviews for), Fafner, and.... oh, he did the series composition for Heroic Age, so he had a significant role in that too.

Anyway, yes, Princess Lover's problems were largely ones that had less to do with the studio itself than the source material and certain staff involved in the creative process. Their animation was decent, and occasionally good, it was usually pretty average and just didn't leave exactly looking forward to more from them.

[SleepyDog]

I groaned the other day when I read that Go Hands was the studio in charge of this now, as the only other show they've done as the main studio was Princess Lover, which was not exactly an impressive way to start things off.
Hopefully they've got a much much better director and other critical staff on this one. :sd: And better source material, one hopes. Princess Lover certainly wasn't badly animated, it was just... well a clusterfuck in almost every other way.

Mardock Scramble clearly has the advantage of a much, much higher budget, so that helps. As for source materal, its hard to say for certain since I have no familiarity with Mardock Scramble's novels, but Princess Lover looks like it was low end Erogame and Mardock Scramble is written by a fairly well-known and at least moderately respected author, I think its safe to say Mardock Scramble has a huge advantage in source materal. Looking at Tow Ubukata's wiki entry, he was heavily involved with Le Chevalier D'Eon (which I haven't seen, but have heard lots of good reviews for), Fafner, and.... oh, he did the series composition for Heroic Age, so he had a significant role in that too. . . .

This is the first I've heard of this project's revival (I believe Gonzo was first working on it), and I am cautiously thrilled. Tow Ubukata won Japan's Science Fiction Grand Prize with Mardock Scramble, so while I also have not read the novels, I have faith in the quality of the source material. The trailer looks good, but I don't see too much influence (http://naimoka.free.fr/forum/mardock.jpg) of the character designer first associated with the earlier production attempt, Range Murata, and that I miss.

[HitokiriShadow]

This is the first I've heard of this project's revival (I believe Gonzo was first working on it), and I am cautiously thrilled. Tow Ubukata won Japan's Science Fiction Grand Prize with Mardock Scramble, so while I also have not read the novels, I have faith in the quality of the source material. The trailer looks good, but I don't see too much influence (http://naimoka.free.fr/forum/mardock.jpg) of the character designer first associated with the earlier production attempt, Range Murata, and that I miss.

Yep, Gonzo had it first. I think it was supposed to be one of their anniversary projects, and Range Murata seems to be involved in all of those. He also seems pretty heavily attached to Gonzo, as most his anime involvement seems to be through them*, but I wouldn't think that Gonzo's removal from the project would prevent him from continuing to work on it. I wonder if he has some sort of personal connections with Gonzo, and he simply didn't want to a project that was taken away from his friend's (or friends') company.

*Of the 7 shows he was involved with, 5 were with Gonzo and that includes Mardock Scramble. The other 2 were artsy OVA projects that Studio 4°C seems to have been in charge of, along with some other collaborators that didn't include Gonzo.

[strangefour]

Huh cyberpunk. Interesting. It had me at Megumi Hayashibara.