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Zero Century Anonymous 03/18/19 (Mon) 05:14:22 No.913520

Back in 2017 Gainax announced they would be animating 3 movies based on the Leiji Matsumoto universe. The first one will be based Queen Emeraldas for 2020, the second will be Harlock for 2023, and the third will be 999 for 2026. It's called the Zero Seiki Movie trilogy.

Official Twitter: https://twitter.com/zerocenturynet

Official website: http://zero-century.net/

We haven't heard a peep from them since, except this January the Twitter wished Matsumoto a happy birthday.

At this point, all we know is it's Sadamoto with the character designs and Yamaga as "director".

>It's Modern Gainax, who cares!?

Studio name doesn't really matter. What matters is the people they hire.

It's very possible that when Gainax announces they'll be animating something at this point, that means they'll probably be drawing on a lot of their old talent, especially for something as big as adapting the Leiji Matsumoto universe, which they all loved growing up. Remember that their last anime was in 2015, so the simple name of the studio coming back is bound to cause some waves.

The thing is, though, that 4.0 is due to be out by 2020 as well, and much of the old crew are helping Khara with that in the same way. This means they're probably going to push the production of this back a few years, so it's likely to become another Aoki Uru. However, with both Aoki Uru and this, we can expect a return of the gang. The only thing keeping them all apart is 4.0.

Just making this thread to see if anyone knows anything more about this, or 4.0 for that matter, and to remind us of Gainax promises. Remember they promised 4.0 will be out by next year, so we can only hope that roadblock will be gone soon for all these projects these old friends want to get back together to do.

Anonymous 03/18/19 (Mon) 17:07:18 No.913598

I had only heard about Aoki Uru. Not very excited about this, I'd prefer a new original series.

Anonymous 03/18/19 (Mon) 19:36:34 No.913639

>>913520

I completely forgot about this. They sure announced this far ahead of time.

Anonymous 03/18/19 (Mon) 19:51:21 No.913644

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Seems like it will probably be another universe again since Matael is in all the promotional material and the third movie is 999.

Anonymous 03/18/19 (Mon) 22:21:25 No.913673

The absolute devastation of the cosmo gun is still ringing in my head.

Anonymous 03/23/19 (Sat) 17:09:46 No.914794

>>913520

Arcadia of my youth is so janky. The first lupin the third series (green jacket) was better.

Anonymous 03/24/19 (Sun) 09:09:25 No.914930

https://fullfrontal.moe/notenki-talk-interview-with-yasuhiro-takeda/

<Can you tell us more about the Zero Century project about the Matsumoto Leiji characters? Will it be three feature films?

>Y. Takeda: Yes exactly. The first one is named Emeraldas… Well, let’s rather say it focuses on Emeraldas, but Maetel, who is her sister, and Harlock appear too. So it will be three movies each one focusing on an iconic character from Matsumoto Leiji’s universe Emeraldas, Maetel, and Harlock. Matsumoto Leiji himself being old he thinks it will be the last anime about his work he will get to see. His will is to have these movies to serve as a testament of his universe. He has written the foundation to the story himself, and we are writing the script keeping that in mind. Each movie is named after one of the main characters, but all characters appear in each film. Naturally, other characters are present too, such as Tochiro.

<Will the movie be in CGI?

>Y. Takeda: We are still thinking about it. It will all depend on the budget. The mechas will probably be CGI. We’ll probably do a combination of 2D and 3D, but the characters won’t be in 3D, I don’t think so. I like traditional animation better.

<How far in the production are you?

>Y. Takeda: We are writing the script and are working on the Character Design at the same time.

<Do you have any sponsors?

>Y. Takeda: We’re still looking. We are also looking for sponsors in France and Europe, but just as I said yesterday, I don’t think we’ll be able to get a lot of funding in France. However, in France and Italy Matsumoto Leiji’s characters are quite popular, that motivates us to do these films. We are not looking for a lot of money, but having some promotion means already a lot to us. We are looking for sponsors in Japan, China as well as in Europe. We’ll probably also go to the USA and the Middle East. Actually, the budget isn’t that high, but when we take into consideration the production costs as well as advertising, at an international level, that makes 600 million yen. If we compare that to the costs of a Hollywood animated production that’s more a less a twentieth. We’re doing everything we can to gather the necessary budget.