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Eureka Seven Hi-Evolution: Anemone Blu-ray Released Monday
posted on by Andrew Osmond
On Monday July 12, Anime Limited will release a Collectors Blu-ray of Anemone: Kōkyōshihen Eureka Seven Hi-Evolution (Eureka Seven: Hi - Evolution: Anemone ). This is the second film in the Eureka Seven: Hi - Evolution film trilogy, which reworks the original 2005 Eureka Seven TV series by the BONES studio. This edition will include a 160-page storyboard book.
For the first time in the Eureka Seven franchise, the film is set in Tokyo. The film centres on Anemone, a girl who lost her father in a battle in Tokyo seven years prior to the film's story, leaving her with only her stuffed toy Gulliver, and the AI concierge Dominikids for emotional support. Now she is a key part of a strategy by the experimental unit "Acid" to combat the seventh Eureka, "Eureka Seven," an enemy of humanity that has killed 2.6 billion people. Driven to the brink, all of humanity entrusts its hope to Anemone as she dives deep into the interior of Eureka Seven.
The staff remained mostly the same as the first film, but added Takuhito Kusanagi and Fumihiro Katagai as designers. Shigeru Fujita and Ayumi Kurashima remain credited as character animation director, but were also credited as sub-character designers. Kenta Yokoya was credited as mechanical animation director and design works, while previous mechanical animation director Shingo Abe was credited as one of the main animators, alongside Hideki Kakita, Shuichi Kaneko, Ken Ootsuka, and Nobuaki Nagano.
The "Nirvash X" mecha appears in the film. Shōji Kawamori (Macross, Last Hope) designed this new version of the franchise's main mecha, and it is the largest of its kind in the franchise's history.
Funimation will release a Blu-ray/DVD edition of Season 3 Part 1 of Black Clover, carrying episodes 103 to 112 of the series.
Anime Limited will also release a standard Blu-ray edition of the second half of Turn A Gundam, carrying episodes 26 to 50.
