Interview with Hideki Oka, the scriptwriter of 'Space Battleship Yamato 2202 Love Warriors' who chose to watch Yamato 2 until he quit the cram school
In the sequel to 'Space Battleship Yamato 2199', ' Space Battleship Yamato 2202 Ai no Senshi ' is a remake of the movie 'Farewell Space Battleship Yamato Ai no Senshi' and the TV animation 'Space Battleship Yamato 2' in 2017. From Saturday, October 14th, Chapter 3 'Pure Love' is being screened in theaters.
Space Battleship Yamato 2202 Love Warriors
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The key visual of Chapter 3 'Pure Love' currently being released is like this.
GIGAZINE (G):
The staff who are making '2202' this time, Mr. Oka is in the form of being between Mr. Habara and Mr. Harutoshi Fukui of the series composition. What kind of work did you touch before Yamato?
Hideki Oka (hereinafter referred to as Oka):
At that time, it was called 'TV manga,' including live-action and anime, but I was in elementary school when I was watching everything that was on TV.
G:
All!
hill:
Oh, it was a little too much. To explain, at that time, my family had a strict rule that 'TV is one hour a day,' and it means that I was desperately choosing and reading every program.
G:
Wow ... in an hour.
hill:
I watch only the B part 4 programs a day ... (laughs). Looking at episodes 5 to 6, I thought, 'OK, I understand it!' And I felt like I was on another program. It's a nasty kid. Since the number of channels was small, there were many cases where both counterprograms were seen in the city and in Hiroshima.
Nobuyoshi Habara (henceforth, feather):
Ah, I see.
hill:
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Habara:
Eh !? Why not!
hill:
You say, 'If you see it, you'll be stupid.' Parents. The sex appeal of ' Lupin III ' was good.
G:
Is it safe (laughs)
hill:
However, even though I was told that, I also watched Bakabon (laughs), so there are almost no programs I don't know at all. But isn't the TV kid who grew up in the easygoing era at that time like that?
Habara:
Certainly, I almost saw it.
hill:
Because I'm such a child, I drew all the pictures of monsters, Ultraman, and TV manga in the scribble book.
Habara:
Like ' Tiger Mask '.
hill:
Yes, Tiger Mask! When ' Kamen Rider ' started, the number of scribbles on the rider increased at once. ' Mazinger Z ' was also drawn while worrying, 'Wow, what's this face!' 'I don't know what shape it is?' Then, when it came to ' Great Mazinger ', the development of the brain finally caught up and it became possible to capture complex three-dimensional objects, but 'Yamato' appeared at the beginning of autumn.
G:
I came.
hill:
And 'I don't know!' (Laughs)
(Everyone laughs)
hill:
'What's going on here!' Is it too complicated? There are overwhelmingly many lines, and in my mind, it was like 'Stegosaurus is flying in space'. Stegosaurus is one of the things I know because there are a lot of sharp things on the top of the ship.
From Chapter 3, Yamato goes through space.
(Everyone laughs)
Habara:
I see (laughs)
hill:
The first impression is that there is a foreign body like Stegosaurus with an eerie black hole on the face, and something like 'What is this? What is going to start?'
G:
Was it such an encounter? At that time, Yamato appeared while picking up all the 'TV manga' regardless of the target age, and everyone said 'Wow has begun!'?
hill:
However, it is. Perhaps because the grade is different from Mr. Habara, I have almost no impression of a friend who was talking about 'Yamato'.
Habara:
Well, that's right.
hill:
At that time, I was also lost and was a ' monkey army ' sect. Therefore, 'Yamato' is only a pick-up in this broadcast. However, my parents love 'Yamato', and 'What does it mean to impress parents?' Is impressive to children, and when Yamato was rebroadcast, I was enthusiastic about it. did. Many people were addicted to this rebroadcast nationwide, and I was one of them.
Habara:
By the way, I remember that it was.
G:
Wasn't anime embarrassing and graduating as you grew up?
hill:
There were some. I wonder if it's about the end of the 4th grade. But I'm 're-enrolling' right away (laughs) In our generation, the revival boom has already started when we were in the 5th grade of elementary school. By that time, Yamato's fan activities were gradually spreading nationwide, and movements to reevaluate
Habara:
Yes Yes.
hill:
The summer of 1978, when ' Star Wars ' came and 'Farewell Space Battleship Yamato' came, was an unforgettable summer that determined my destiny. What I was seeing, what I was feeling, and myself, who lived in that kind of atmosphere, have been around for decades. That is the driving force behind becoming an assistant director of movies and TV dramas, and I think it is the root of the fact that Mr. Habara invited me to come here.
Habara:
I agree.
G:
I'm envious of being able to meet and experience such a summer.
hill:
For me, the summer of 1978 is a 'sacred place.' Personally, I have the impression that everything was decided that summer.
Habara:
I think it was a good time for my age.
hill:
When you become a junior high school student, your horizons will expand. At that time, I watched the sequel to 'Space Battleship Yamato.' The next year will be ' Galaxy Express 999 '. I was immersed in the illusion, 'There is a wonderful world that is different from here somewhere far away, and I'm traveling towards it, I'm sure it is.' It's pretty messy when I think about it now, but I think many of them thought so at that time.
G:
Did everyone get excited in junior high school?
hill:
I agree. There is no doubt that both boys and girls were talking about 'Yamato.' However, after the release of 'Gundam,' I had the impression that the stance of the class members on fiction had changed. Before 'Gundam', I feel that anime was summarized by the word 'romance'. 'Gundam' came there and everyone was taught that 'cynical', 'matching with reality', and 'that kind of thing can be in the anime'. As a result, I feel that I have come to see anime a little more objectively and critically. It may be that our growth and the transition of the work happened to be linked in that way, but I am a person of that generation. However, as the surroundings changed and the works changed, for some reason I was being pulled by the old-fashioned scent of 'Yamato'.
G:
Hmmmm.
hill:
Only 'Yamato' is exceptional, and I kept chasing 'Yamato' because I wanted to taste the 'Yamato' character, and there is a section I was looking at while wondering if there was any 'Yamato-like smell' in other works.
G:
Did you have any works other than the 'Yamato' series that had a 'Yamato' scent?
hill:
' Armored Fleet Dailager XV '. 'Why is it so Yamato-ish!' If you don't pull it out, it's similar.
Habara:
Understand!
hill:
The staff also wears a little, and Keisuke Fujikawa is the main script. Also, ' Space Carrier Blue Noah '. I remember starting to see it with great joy, saying, 'You can enjoy more' Yamato 'like things!'
Habara:
That's because the staff are the same (laughs).
G:
Yamato, which became a major social phenomenon in 'Farewell', then returned as 'Space Battleship Yamato 2'. I heard that Mr. Habara had already decided to become an animator, and that Mr. Yoshinori Kanada was included as an animator, so he was happy to watch it. How was Mr. Oka?
hill:
After all, 'Farewell' was so impressed that she shed tears of tears at the end. However, it will start two months later. I wonder what that was, 'But I'm sure I'll live forever, in your heart, in your heart, in your soul.' I thought, but ... I saw it because I had to see everything after it started. After all, I quit the cram school ...
Habara:
really! To see?
hill:
On the day of the first episode, I failed to skip the cram school. Make irreparable mistakes! After all, I abandoned the cram school and chose 'Yamato' from the second episode.
G:
What! (Lol)
hill:
It's messed up in the fall of the first year of junior high school.
Habara:
At a time when English is getting harder (laughs)
hill:
I wonder how I persuaded my parents ... I can't remember, but I quit.
G:
It's amazing that I chose to quit and watch (laughs)
Habara:
I also heard it for the first time.
hill:
However, you missed the first episode.
Habara:
That's why I was more disappointed.
hill:
It's hard for today's child to imagine that it was a once-in-a-lifetime meeting (laughs)
Habara:
You can see it on the internet (laughs) At that time, it didn't appear on video.
hill:
It was a story when there was no video itself in ordinary households.
G:
You mentioned earlier that the summer of 1978 is a milestone, but was it around this time that you decided to go on the path of video?
hill:
I went to see 'Star Wars' in July of this year. When I went out in the morning, I didn't think of anything, but on the way back, I said, 'Become a movie director!' (Laughs) At that time, there was no replacement, so I sat down and watched it four times from morning till night. It's not like, 'If you meet the boys for three days, take a look at them', but it was such a shock that you became different people when you went and when you returned. I had watched movies before, but 'Star Wars' was the first time I thought 'I want to go to the side of making'.
Habara:
Was Oka-san's house a movie-related job?
hill:
No, my father is a bank clerk, my mother is a women's clothing store, and I'm a child of a normal house. But when I saw 'Star Wars', that happened. When I think about it now, I feel like I've begun to see various things with a critic's eyes. 'Space Battleship Yamato 2' seems to have been the first anime I saw with that consciousness.
Habara:
'I would do this myself' (laughs)
hill:
Yeah. 'I would do this myself.' At that time, there was already such a feeling.
G:
After that, it may be great that I could see 'Yamato 2' from the perspective of the creator.
hill:
If you talk about that time like this, it will come back to life. …… Well, it's something strange, and at that time I had a feeling that it was natural to have'Yamato'. Why did you think so?
Habara:
Isn't it because there were one after another?
hill:
Looking back on it now, it seems that there is a lot of time between works, such as 5 months or 1 year, which is quite a long time for children. But for some reason, I didn't feel like it had disappeared ... Maybe the world was thinking, 'I'll never let go of'Yamato'.' There is such a fever throughout the world, including business spirit, so I felt a little that 'Yamato' was 'something that can be seen at any time.' I caught it with the feeling that 'it's natural and it's a very good thing that shows me something interesting each time.' However, only the 'final edition' was different. That's because there was a clear atmosphere in which the world no longer needed 'Yamato.' The only thing I went to see with the feeling that 'who would go if I had to go' was the 'final edition'.
Habara:
It was just a simultaneous screening with '
G:
I am very convinced that Mr. Habara recommended Mr. Oka.
Habara:
Isn't it? I had seen 'Tiger Mask' while poking a pot with Mr. Oka, but at that time I had the feeling that 'the part I feel while watching the work is very close to me', so 'I definitely want to be with you.' I said to him.
hill:
so. There was a time when I was working in Indonesia and wasn't in Japan for about a year and a half, but just before returning to Japan, I suddenly received an email from Mr. Habara and decided that ' XEBEC will make a sequel to' 2199 '. Please write a proposal '(laughs)
Habara:
'Farewell' and 'Space Battleship Yamato 2' ...
hill:
'It's a remake of'White Comet Edition'.' At first, I thought, 'Are you being teased?' 'What's happening?', But when I asked, it was true, so 'Then I'll think freely.' That was the reason why I sent the proposal to Mr. Habara.
G:
Does the screening of '2199' overlap with the time when you are not in Japan?
hill:
I couldn't see only Chapter 7 of '2199', so when I returned to Japan temporarily, I jumped into TSUTAYA first. ' Star Touring Ark ' was also on Blu-ray since I was in Indonesia when the theater was released. I love 'Ark', and when Mr. Habara talked about 'Planning', he said, 'Will we continue to interact with Gatrantis ... Gamirasu, Gatrantis and the earth will start in a trilemma. Thinking about it, I was throwing what I wrote freely to Mr. Habara, as if I had received a title like a trilemma.
G:
In this work, when making the script, Harutoshi Fukui once made a flow and divided it by the number of stories, and Mr. Oka created a scenario. It seems that everyone is watching it, discussing it with Wai Wai, and finally Mr. Fukui puts it together again. Is this quite a form?
Habara:
I think it's rare.
hill:
I don't think so much.
G:
How much has been decided at the stage of 'creating a flow' by Mr. Fukui?
hill:
I wonder if it's okay to say that the outline of the story is complete. There are quantitative variations from story to story, but the amount of characters is generally great. The volume of the part that Mr. Fukui thinks 'I want to write here' is particularly overwhelming. That is what is called a 'composition memo', and the next task is to even out it as a 30-minute program per episode. This is the 'long plot making' I was doing.
G:
Do you have any plans such as 'Be sure to bring this line of' Farewell '' or 'Here is the line of' Yamato 2 ''?
hill:
There is a policy to reproduce the famous scene, but I think that Mr. Fukui's original did not have any instructions to pull the lines outright. I don't even think about it at the beginning when I start working. While I'm working, I sometimes say 'Oh ... I came!' (Laughs)
G:
Would you like to write while playing 'Yamato 2' or 'Farewell'? I thought it was necessary to draw out the lines, but is it completely up to the library in the brain?
hill:
The basics of the lines and music are imprinted on your consciousness. However, the completed video and the script are different, aren't they? That's why I always had this (Shueisha ' Farewell Space Battleship Yamato Ai no Senshi Definitive Edition Roadshow Responsible Editing Vol.2 '). This is the only one that has the script at that time.
G:
So that's it!
hill:
Also, the composition plan written by Toshio Masuda is recorded in ' Deluxe version Farewell Space Battleship Yamato Ai no Senshi ', and the purpose is not to trace 'Farewell' separately, but the staff at that time Toshio Masuda's manuscript was important in order to return to the purpose of making the outline of the drama. Also, the paperback book of the Cobalt series is the story of 'Farewell' written from the perspective of 'Yuki Mori', which is rare at that time. These three are like 'unforgettable original scenery', and I kept them at hand during the script work of '2202' which lasted about a year. It's not like 'let's borrow this place and bring it', but 'I want to be aware of the aims and feelings of those who were made at that time.' Although '2202' is a remake of 'Farewell' and 'Yamato 2', there are many new elements, and Mr. Fukui is the theme of this work, so for me, 'What is' original scenery '?' It's better not to forget that, 'he said from time to time. Even so, the writers at that time were very good at writing. It's a 'name tone' full of rhythm. The Japanese language itself has changed in 40 years. No one can write this now.
Three books that Mr. Oka showed me at the time of the interview.
Habara:
That's true.
G:
Is there anything you noticed again when you read the script again this time?
hill:
I think 'Farewell Space Battleship Yamato' is the most 'purely shaped' feature-length Yamato. Especially 30 minutes from the beginning, there is no waste so that there is no fault until Yamato starts. I felt once again the sharpness of Toshio Masuda and his colleagues at that time. By the way, I saw various Toshio Masuda movies in between the work ...
Habara:
which one? ' Tiger, tiger, tiger! '
hill:
I saw 'Tiger, Tiger, Tiger!' And '
G:
Is there anything like 'I did well here' or 'I had a hard time, but please take a look' when I tried the script this time?
hill:
Chapter 3 is the 10th episode.
Habara:
Are you talking about space fireflies?
hill:
That's right. That is based on the episode of 'Yamato 2'. I was surprised when Mr. Fukui told me that I would do fireflies. In the second half, the Space Cavalry and the Yamato Crew will be a quick start. That has changed a lot at the stage of storyboarding and directing.
Habara:
Yes.
Hajime Saito of the ancient and space cavalry.
hill:
That is wonderful. I thought, 'That's fine, that's the correct interpretation!'
Habara:
Was that so, and it was good (laughs) I hope you can check at the theater what is going on.
hill:
Even among Mr. Fukui, it was written in the composition memo that 'this is an unavoidable part', and I also wrote it a little raw in response to it, but I was surprised that it was directed with a completely different interpretation. Something that I couldn't imagine comes up. I really like that scene.
Habara:
By the way, the
hill:
Ah! That's right (laughs) Surprisingly, is it ten episodes?
Habara:
I thought it would come in nine episodes, but Mr. Fukui recommended ten episodes (laughs)
hill:
Ten episodes are 'episodes that smell like'Yamato''.
Habara:
Well, it feels like 'Yamato 2'.
G:
You can see how we have changed too. Thank you for your time today.
'Space Battleship Yamato 2202 Love Warriors' Chapter 3 'Pure Love Edition' will be screened in theaters for 3 weeks at 25 theaters nationwide from Saturday, October 14, 2017. The series consists of seven chapters and will be screened in theaters in sequence. In addition, the fastest pre-sale of the special limited edition Blu-ray is being held at the theater along with the release.
Chapter 4 'Tenmei Hen' will be screened in theaters on Saturday, January 27, 2018.
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