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6/19/2025, 4:02:41 AM
>first of all how did you get involved with the series?
>katayama: keichii sato asked me for help planning a robot anime and that's how I got involved. initially the plan was based on making toys and I presented it to the toy company bandai but the hurdle of making toys was high and it took a while to get it approved. In the meantime work on another anime project started and a year passed after that I changed the plan to prioritize video and took it to bandai visual (now bandai namco filmworks) which gave me the OK so the actual production started from there and I contracted both konaka and sahashi
>konaka: when I first saw the proposal the world view, characters and mecha were already complete.
>katayama: Being katayama, I asked konaka to write the scenario and he suddenly suggested in the scenario "this world has no memories" which surprised me but it had an overwhelming impact and that was the deciding factor, that setting became the default (laughs).
>konaka: when I joined the show the plan had already been worked out and katayama-san and sato-san had already formed an iron clad image for the character so I was feeling my way around wondering how to approach the character (bitter smile). the only thing I can be proud of is that I made dorothy a regular character. dorothy was originally a guest character in the first episode but I turned it all upside down by splitting the episode into two parts (bitter smile).
>sahashi: I didn't know.
>konaka: dorothy was a guest character so there wasn't much of a setting for her so it was easy for us to move her around. Also I thought using that character like that would draw the audience more into the story.
>katayama: keichii sato asked me for help planning a robot anime and that's how I got involved. initially the plan was based on making toys and I presented it to the toy company bandai but the hurdle of making toys was high and it took a while to get it approved. In the meantime work on another anime project started and a year passed after that I changed the plan to prioritize video and took it to bandai visual (now bandai namco filmworks) which gave me the OK so the actual production started from there and I contracted both konaka and sahashi
>konaka: when I first saw the proposal the world view, characters and mecha were already complete.
>katayama: Being katayama, I asked konaka to write the scenario and he suddenly suggested in the scenario "this world has no memories" which surprised me but it had an overwhelming impact and that was the deciding factor, that setting became the default (laughs).
>konaka: when I joined the show the plan had already been worked out and katayama-san and sato-san had already formed an iron clad image for the character so I was feeling my way around wondering how to approach the character (bitter smile). the only thing I can be proud of is that I made dorothy a regular character. dorothy was originally a guest character in the first episode but I turned it all upside down by splitting the episode into two parts (bitter smile).
>sahashi: I didn't know.
>konaka: dorothy was a guest character so there wasn't much of a setting for her so it was easy for us to move her around. Also I thought using that character like that would draw the audience more into the story.
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