Interview with Harukoshi Fukui of the series "Space Battleship Yamato 2202 Ai no Senshi" which has meaning to make in this era

In September 2016Announcement that "The Space Battleship Yamato 2202 Love's Warriors" will be shown in theaters in all seven chapters compositionIt was done. "Love warriors" attached as a subtitle are common to the theater movie "Farewell Space Battleship Yamato Ai no Senshi" published in 1978. "Space Battleship Yamato 2199"As a sequel to Harukoshi Fukui who is involved in the work as a series composition of what kind of work this" love warriors "will become, and the thought as a person touching Yamato as a child I asked.

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GIGAZINE (hereinafter, G):
"Space Battleship Yamato 2199" (hereinafter "2199") which is the previous work was broadcasted as a TV animation after screening in the theater in all seven chapters, and it became a hit series that Blu-ray and DVD exceeded 500,000 sheets. Fukui, who participates from the sequel "Space Battleship Yamato 2202 Ai no Senshi" (hereinafter referred to as "2202"), seems to be said to be "the 10 billion yen economic zone" when including the Plamo, How did you see it?

Harukoshi Fukui (hereinafter, Fukui):
Just at the same time "Mobile Suit Gundam UC"(From here on, Gundam UC), and from our generation there were parts that we could not get out of the mania layer quite easily, but the two works" Gundam "and" Yamato "jumped out there There was a feeling that it became possible to do business.

G:
When "2199" began, did you think that you would hit like this?

Fukui:
In this regard, the number of spectators mobilized has surpassed 4 million people since the farewell Space Battleship Yamato Ai no Senshi ("Farewell"), which was under the current "2202" .

G:
surely,It was second in Japanese movies released in the same yearWhen.

Fukui:
As I think of it, there is the idea that "in fact it is still not even a tenth of potential customers", so it is my work that I have to dig it.


G:
At the time of public disclosure, "This "love" breaks the universe ---I was told that the catch phrase "Mr. Fukui was written" was written as "put love on the subject" on the plan written by Mr. Fukui. Is this story saying that this word of "love" was a fashionable "Yamato", is it true?

Fukui:
Of course the word itself, "love" itself,Staring at love and deathThere was a book called "It's a classic movie," for example, "The theme is" Love "", and 24 hours TV "Love Saves the Earth" became the basis for thinking how to use it It was definitely Yamato.

G:
It is an unusual usage now.

Fukui:
It became popular to be used, but in the early 1980's the word "love" became obsolete, "feeling now" came out. So, like the "sorrow warrior" of "Gundam" which changed the word "love" to the word "sorrow", "To go a bit more dry with a changing ball, now it's time to do that" It was decided to switch to. Perhaps, "Yamato" also made reasons for that change. Originally it would have been nice to leave beautifully with "farewell", the word "love" legendized and would fit nicely, but in reality "Yamato" comes back after a year since then (laugh) ). Then there were those who thought that "What was it that impressed me so much", and that's why the term "love" began to be obsolete from that place. However, this is the story that the generation of the generation above me felt, I think that it is a generation that became to see in real time from "Yamato" after resurrection, so I think that there is another way to catch it a bit .

G:
I was told that the chance to learn about "Yamato" was that I saw the theater version (the first work), which is the compilation of the original TV series, watched terrestrial broadcasting. So I tried to go to see "Farewell", I asked my parents "The story of Kita foxPlease do it. " Did not you first know the existence of "Yamato" in this theater version, not reruns and the like?

Fukui:
Yes, at that time I was in the third grade of elementary school and was completely out of viewing subjects, so I first learned about the existence of "Space Battleship Yamato" in the movie version. When I saw it, "I saw something amazing, I thought that there is such a serious manga". At the time, the word "animation" itself was still dubious, it was said "TV comics".

G:
It looks like "Toei Manning Festival".

Fukui:
It was good until I received a shock at the movie version, but it was a defeat that I saw my relatives' house looking ... ....

G:
Defeat (lol)

Fukui:
In that case, if my parents were watching it together, I might have thought that "if you do, this is fine." However, my parents did not see it, as I saw at my relatives' house.

G:
It has become a form of listening.

Fukui:
That's right. If you say to a parent you are not watching, "I will go to see because the work" Space Battleship Yamato "is so funny" is what "it is, it is manga?" It was that kind of era at that time. So I said "I will take you to a movie that will serve you," and I went to see "the story of Kita fox". Every time "Yamato" is broadcast, the appearance that Kita fox rides on drift ice with "Kita fox story" flickers in the head (lol)

G:
It was such a thing as the impression was strong (lol). Even parents of those days, if you were watching the movie version, it might have been saying "Yamato, you can go".

Fukui:
I felt like that. But at the time, it was impossible for "adults to watch anime", there was no reason other than seeing with their children. This is because I think that adults are also watching cartoons in the animation scene after "Yamato", and it is a difficult situation to imagine because it is natural that there are fans who chase the work.

G:
It is exactly the same, I feel completely different thing.

Fukui:
For example ... If you are doing a mini drama that even adults can cry even for adults, which is a program for small children, when such information comes to your ears by listening, at first it seems like "that, no way" You do. Even if it says a mini drama, it is a mini drama of a puppet that puts his hands in motion, and it is adults in their 40s and 50s that are impressed. If it is spread as news, "I think it is what?", And at the same time, it seems that "Is not it something wrong with the people looking at ...?"

G:
It seems like I'm going to hear it in the conversation part with "feeling like joke again".

Fukui:
"To do a drama in anime" is about that special thing. Of course, I think that it is not that it was not at all so far, but such things can not be discerned in the eyes of children, and it seems that animation fans have been idly taken from before Yamato, It was a feeling like "a world I do not know at all".

G:
I see…….

Fukui:
"Creating stories with animation" is a matter of course now, is not it? "I will make a story, so express it with animation." But at that time it was not the case. The reason is that "the selling toy" is the purpose or "When selling chewing gum, the kids are more likely to have the manga character doing on television rather than just selling with chewing gum" because the company owes money Because it was the world that I was making a work, extreme stories, contents are all right. But I thought that it was the opposite side, I did a proper story in such an environment. Moreover, the content stretched out to the place where it was untouched including the live-action of Japan at that time, and it was a great place of "Yamato" that I made it well.

G:
That 's why there was only that reason for "animation that became a social phenomenon".

Fukui:
I think that the previous paragraph said that I was good. If you are told that a puppet play mini drama is based on a 2 hour and 30 minute puppet movie, "Well ... really ..." I guess. Moreover, it teenagers went to see it, everyone cried and came back. That's right, what do you think has happened? It was such a shock.

G:
Prior to the production release of "2202", a message on production was announced in March 2016. So Mr. Fukui said that "When you speak, you can speak again the message that you broke, you will be confident that the true restoration of" Yamato "will be done. I think that "2199" was a huge hit as a recent animation work, but do you think that being restored is not being written that "true restoration" is written in the message?

Fukui:
Also, as a matter of fact ... let's say you went to a gangbang. It can be something like a street car that is done in the local community, which has nothing to do with animation. Can you talk about "Space Battleship Yamato" on the spot?

G:
...... Well, it might be another if my hobbies match well ... ....

Fukui:
Of course there are ways to catch only people who are talking about that topic, but you can not do that. But, at that time, "Space Battleship Yamato" was a feeling that if you know, "You saw?" "I saw it!" That is the "social phenomenon" and the number of spectators mobilized "Farewell" of 4 million people.

G:
Is not it "Nori like" Did you read today's jump? "

Fukui:
When I think about it, is there restoration, including the completion edition that was made after "Farewell?" I have to climb again to the height that I once went up to and cross it. At least, if you do not reach the same point, you can not say "revival".

G:
You have to take it to the level of "You saw it saw it! It was good!"

Fukui:
Yes Yes. Just "What is your name?There is a nice example that is called. I think that you think that it is a state comparable to that.

G:
"People are not looking at 'real' yet, 'it seems that some people will sneak out and see it ... ....

Fukui:
And, "How was it when you watched it?" It was a level that we could provide topics that couplings would naturally be able to provide in the gongs.

G:
Well, what power ... ....

Fukui:
Even though it is reborn at "2199", I think that there are not a few people who think that "Yamato is an old work". But, "When I heard that a movie of" Yamato "was a big hit like" Your name is ", you will feel like seeing a little bit? Indeed, I would like young people to see the origin "Farewell". I hope to see how you feel when you see it now, and what kind of significance it has in reworking now looking at it, again seeing "2202".

G:
I see.

Fukui:
Of course, because I was watching "2199", I can affirm that expectation will never be disappointed with the feeling that "Welcome! But, other than that, I thought that those who said "It's just as unfamiliar" or "I watched" Gundam UC ", but until" Yamato "until now is fooled," Farewell " If you look at a little bit and then look at "2202", I think that you can see that "I see, there is a reason to make this right now."

G:
I heard that the number "2" of "2202" implied the meaning of "Space Battleship Yamato 2" (hereinafter "2"), but the subtitle has the same "love warriors" as "Farewell" It is. Basically, is "Farewell" made on the base?

Fukui:
When "Farewell" is the base, it will naturally decide what the end will be, but I do not know yet! (Laugh) "Farewell" and "2", Whoever saw which ... I do not think anyone who sees only one (laugh), Whichever you saw, "I know this painting, There is perfect reproduction of the part called "There!

G:
"2199" and the movie released in 2009 "Space Battleship Yamato Revival HenI think that there are also new generation fans who do not know "Farewell" or "2" as they came from, but how about appealing to such fans?

Fukui:
As people of the new generation, you are no longer interested in the word "warriors of love" simply? (Haha) But at the time, as a work honored with the same subtitle as that title was a huge hit like "Your name is ...", I thought that it would be better to create "a present work not ashamed of this title" I am doing it. Because changing the "warriors of love" means that there is no reason to do this work in the first place.

G:
Is not it merely "Space Battleship Yamato 2202" alone?

Fukui:
There is no point, then I think that it is only 80% of the "Space Battleship Yamato 2199". If 50 years later, if you remade "Your name is", the title is surely to be as close as possible to "Your name is". I do not think anyone will change it to a completely different name I will. It is the same thing. "It's a title you can not possess" Your name is ... ... let's make it more like now "if it is" Do not make it if it is it "is a story. Even words that I think is impossible now is the meaning to do for the first time only if I can switch to "I need it because I am now."

G:
When "Gundam UC" was produced, Mr. Fukui says that "content is gaining ground" and was touched in the work material even at "2202". "2202" is not a porridge, is it a work with a chewy response?

Fukui:
The current animation is violent when it is enclosed with a single person, but it seems that there are many works that "I drank to slippery" without thinking anything. However, for people who think "There is something else to eat and respond to", or for those who have something to worry about now, apart from the animation fans who are now I think that it is a work that seems to be able to see some pathway. "Farewell" Because customers at the time had asked for it. Fiction has the aspect of "to forget reality", but at the same time, I also want to have time to cultivate the idea of ​​"how to get along with reality, overcome".

In the current animation, there is a part where emphasis is placed on "escape from reality". However, since it is a medium that expresses what is supposed to be a hell picture if it is done with live-action photography, and that the horn is too stiff, including the criticism spirit well, I really want to use that function properly. This was also the case at "Gundam", and since "Yamato" was originally such a work, I would like to inherit its spirit firmly.

G:
I see.

Fukui:
Things that you must bite may get stuck in your throat, so you can not talk about what to talk about making things corresponding to it. Therefore, we will do it firmly about "Gundam" and "Yamato" which are contents that customers can chew to a certain extent and it is expected that they will come. Now, many overseas dramas are distributed online. That is premised on the assumption that customers will pay the money "I will consume this at this time" I am watching. Layers with these people are different from those who say "Let's see if there is something interesting on YouTube." Perhaps people who are just watching YouTube are not in the habit of sending out money and buying content, so it is useless to think "Let me see, buy it". But, on the other hand, some people say "I would like to see more interesting things, but spare no time or investment to see it." If so, I thought that I could make a firm appeal to those people. When doing this, people on the opposite side will be avoided as "I do not need such things".

G:
Hmm ...

Fukui:
However, animation which is doing such thing is surprisingly small, trying to hit the ball firmly at the place of "this person who will surely buy". Everyone inevitably wants to "appeal to young people", "I have to respond to the Internet era", "I'm here", but there is a desire that I will not return even if I hit a ball. Better to bring it to the person who intends to pay money than that. In the information propagation ability, so-called "buzzing power", it is more exciting to make a moment, but it does not rise so much as sales. If you are on the other side, it will not grow suddenly, but there is a certain accumulation of sales. You mentioned that "2199" sells 500,000 BD / DVDs, is not it?

G:
Yes.

Fukui:
"Gundam UC" was 1.9 million. On the other hand, the movie trilogy of "Mobile Suit Gundam", the so-called "First Gundam", could not win against "Yamato" until the end. That means that "Yamato" means that the pie is big. "Gundam UC" selling nearly 2 million books means that "It is not enough for 500,000 books of" 2199 ", is not it that we have more growth?" That's it.

G:
Certainly, as you said, if you consider the "Farewell" number etc., the possible pie should be a terrible size. Where the story that the movie trilogy of "Gundam" did not match "Yamato" just came out, I would like to ask you what kind of treatment was handled around Mr. Fukui around these two works, but "Yamato" Have you often been talked about?

Fukui:
This may be different from generation to generation, but it is the impression that if it is around me it is completely "in order". In terms of numbers, there are certainly times when the two are running at the same time, but as a child's boom, there is firstly "Yamato", then when "Gundam" came, "Yamato" finished cleanly . It was a feeling that it really shifted to the next.

G:
It is not a battle that "is" Yamato "" "It is not" Gundam "" It seems that the position in the children has been taken over.

Fukui:
Well, it was not a discussion "Which is better" but it was like "Next is this?" For "Gundam" I think that my generation is the upper limit. "Gundam" boom began at the time of elementary school 5 or 6 years, and probably I was a junior high school student, I think that I was not on the "Gundam" boom. Elementary school students and junior high school students differ in one year's consciousness, are not they? On the contrary, "Kinnikuman" was a junior high school student, so I thought, "It is not in truth".

G:
It was an exquisite time.

Fukui:
"Gundam" grazed at exquisite times, it caught up with it (laugh). When I become one year older than me, people start to increase rapidly "I have not seen" Gundam "". On the contrary, they graduated with "Yamato" and ended.

G:
"Graduation"?

Fukui:
Back then, people of a certain age had a sense of "there was no robot", so people who were the core of "Yamato" fans graduated cleanly with a clear robot animation "Gundam" and animation I have stopped even seeing.

G:
Ha, I see.

Fukui; After those Yamato, the animation that I saw soon was a work of Studio Ghibli, "Listen to the story that" My Neighbor Totoro "has entered the best 10 of Kinema Jumpo", he said "What?" I think that it is such a generation that I thought and looked at it. If you graduate here, you probably do not see the "Space Battleship Yamato Completion" published in 1983 in theaters.

G:
There is such a thing.

Fukui:
That is, there are quite a number of diapause layers that are stopping at "Farewell." These people are tears in this work which was driven as the last wedge saying "There must not be so" when it is going to be in the 1980 age of lightweight in the future, so it is natural that there are chewy answers You should be seeking a story. However, even those people are quite different from the slightly lower generations like ours, even though it depends on the frequency of use of PC, it is quite difficult to see how to spread the existence of the work, but first, "2199" It is lightly powdered, so I think that it will reach even a little.

G:
You can also see the middle-aged and mature people who said "It's your name is out" whose name comes out against "farewell" a while ago, "I came to see it because it is a topic of great interest."

Fukui:
Some people say that it will go to see if there is such a fuss. Those people started to do so because in the near future Mr. Hayao Miyazaki was the first to publish Studio Ghibli pieces regularly and there was no resistance to seeing animation at the cinema It is said that the origin is indeed "Yamato". One of the enthusiastic times was "Yamato" when they were teenagers, those days were being enclosed with words such as "Young".

G:
Listening to such stories, I feel the weight of having the word "warriors of love" in this way. That 's that "love warriors".

Fukui:
That's right, it is completely different. However, it is true that there are people who think that the second "farewell" is betrayal against the first "Yamato", and "It is true that only" that love is important ", eventually There is also an opinion that whether it is a contradiction by exercising with a life as a weapon. Of course, that opinion is certainly the case, but "Farewell" was a story trying to depict a bigger thing, taking off such prejudice, so I planned to have aimed it well this time.

G:
People who showed a rejection reaction also want to see it for a while.

Fukui:
"Young people" are now in their 50s, so retirement comes into view soon, but I do not know well the retiree, I do not know if they can get pensions. There is a word "winning escape generation", but I think that the bottom from there is the "Yamato generation" that will win and escape in front of us. "2202" is totally different from the future I was thinking about, how to get back from it, will you go back to the future? Although I had such hardships before I got out, I think that it was a story of whether there was a meaning to overcome that hardship, so I think that it is a resonant story to people of "Yamato generation", and at the same time, It seems that people in their twenties and teenagers who seem to feel that the flow of an aging society will not stop for a while but feel that only a dark future is prepared think.

G:
When I heard the story like this, I feel that the timing of the production was just right now. There are many works that will be talked about in anime movies such as "Your name is", "Shape of voice", "In one corner of this world", CG but "GANTZ: O", the wave comes in 2016 I will.

Fukui:
While I was making it I did not expect to be in such a situation (lol), it may be said that waves are coming about watching animation.

G:
The remake of "Space Battleship Yamato" is "2199", and the base part of "2202" which is the sequel will be two pieces of "Farewell" and "2", but is this also a good call of remake .

Fukui:
To the last remake is a remake. However, there is no guarantee that you will follow the same path and go to the same conclusion. Since I am reading it making a way to understand how people felt at that time at the time, I feel that those who touched "farewell" are not "nostalgic" but "I will experience again."

G:
It is fresh one.

Fukui:
It is like being fresh and reconfirming that "It was such a meaning that I cried at that time". Although I feel that it has been said that it smells somehow somehow (laugh), now that I saw "Farewell", most people differ in their households from those in their 40s or 50s, That means having it. If you have a family you should think that you should not specialize like "Farewell" easily. What can I do if a situation exists that there is something as important as life other than myself, what will it do if people are placed in a situation like "farewell"? There was a structure that tears that pure young people caught themselves by placing "no" in such things as it is undesirable to be incorporated into adult society from now on as young people , Now they are becoming adults. If you think about what you have left when you are gone, you can not easily thrust by saying "no". From that point also, I can be interested in how much human beings are able to resist, and at that time I saw "Farewell" at that time, when the situation from the side of the adult was combined with those seen from the side of the child I am planning to make that meaning that the meaning of things will be completed.

G:
There was also a story saying "Because it is such a time, I will not make something without hope".

Fukui:
Whether it is pessimistic or optimistic, I will be involved with the part of how I perceive my life today, and after receiving each one, I can make my life a little distant objective I do not think so.

G:
I see. People who look forward to such "skeletal" works, as well as people entering the world of "Yamato" newly, and people of the Yamato generation who may be a bit far away from animation, look to many people It is a work you want.

Fukui:
Please think that you were deceived and look at it (lol)

G:
Thank you for all the story today!


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"The Space Battleship Yamato 2202 Love's Warriors" Chapter 1 嚆 矢 篇 "is released tomorrow · February 25, 2017 (Saturday). Please watch the new Yamato legend by all means.