{"id":39936,"date":"2022-07-04T18:55:19","date_gmt":"2022-07-05T01:55:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/?p=39936"},"modified":"2022-07-04T18:55:33","modified_gmt":"2022-07-05T01:55:33","slug":"fafner-in-the-azure-behind-the-line-unveils-new-key-visual-production-staff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/2022\/07\/04\/fafner-in-the-azure-behind-the-line-unveils-new-key-visual-production-staff\/","title":{"rendered":"Fafner in the Azure: BEHIND THE LINE Unveils New Key Visual &amp; Production Staff"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12pt\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The spinoff anime episode of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Fafner in the Azure: BEHIND THE LINE<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> has been confirmed to be pre-screened in Japanese theaters at an undetermined date. Although a screening date is not yet known, the production team has revealed a new anime key visual and information about additional staff.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12pt\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The production staff for the \u201cpeaceful spin-off\u201d anime consists of <\/span><b>Takashi Noto<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> (<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Soukyuu no Fafner<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">) as director, <\/span><b>Tow Ubukata<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> (<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Psycho Pass 3<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">) as screenwriter, <\/span><b>Hisashi Hirai<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> (<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Heroic Age<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">) as character designer, <\/span><b>Naohiro Washio<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> (<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Gundam Build Divers<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">) as mechanical designer, and <\/span><b>Tsuneyoshi Saitou<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> (<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Kageki Shoujo!!<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">) as music composer. <\/span><b>Production I.G <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">is handling the animation production.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_39940\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-39940\" style=\"width: 350px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"39940\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/2022\/07\/04\/fafner-in-the-azure-behind-the-line-unveils-new-key-visual-production-staff\/fafner-in-the-azure-behind-the-line-anime-key-visual-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/fafner-in-the-azure-behind-the-line-anime-key-visual-1.jpg?fit=566%2C800&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"566,800\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"fafner in the azure behind the line anime key visual\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;\u00a9 XEBEC\u30fb\u200bFAFNER BEHIND PROJECT&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/fafner-in-the-azure-behind-the-line-anime-key-visual-1.jpg?fit=212%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/fafner-in-the-azure-behind-the-line-anime-key-visual-1.jpg?fit=566%2C800&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"wp-image-39940\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/fafner-in-the-azure-behind-the-line-anime-key-visual-1.jpg?resize=350%2C495&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"fafner in the azure anime behind the line key visual\" width=\"350\" height=\"495\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/fafner-in-the-azure-behind-the-line-anime-key-visual-1.jpg?resize=212%2C300&amp;ssl=1 212w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/fafner-in-the-azure-behind-the-line-anime-key-visual-1.jpg?resize=297%2C420&amp;ssl=1 297w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/fafner-in-the-azure-behind-the-line-anime-key-visual-1.jpg?w=566&amp;ssl=1 566w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-39940\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12pt\">\u00a9 XEBEC\u30fb\u200bFAFNER BEHIND PROJECT<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12pt\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Additional staff members include <\/span><b>Masafumi Mima<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> (<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Bubble<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">) as sound director, <\/span><b>Yumi Horikoshi<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> (<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">86-EIGHTY-SIX) <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">as art director, and <\/span><b>Mitsuko Sekimoto<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> as color designer. Additionally, the <\/span><b>Warsaw National Philharmonic Orchestra<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> is contributing a special musical performance for the anime episode. Japanese pop band <\/span><b>angela<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> will also be performing the anime special\u2019s main theme song.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12pt\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The first <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Fafner in the Azure<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> anime series aired from July 4, 2004 to December 26, 2004 with <\/span><b>XEBEC<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> handling animation production. It has released three additional installments in 2005, 2010, and 2015 respectively, with the most recent anime being <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/2021\/07\/05\/last-3-episodes-of-fafner-in-the-azure-the-beyond-get-trailer-november-5-theatrical-premiere\/\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Fafner in the Azure: The Beyond<\/span><\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. The series has also inspired various anime films, OVAs, light novels, manga, video games, music albums, and drama CDs.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12pt\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Funimation licensed <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Fafner in the Azure <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">for North America. The anime series is described as:\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12pt\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Tatsumiyajima is the central island in the middle of a small cluster of islands, in a sleepy backwater of the Japanese isles. Not much happens there, and the island&#8217;s young people go to school knowing that their lives are likely to remain peaceful and undisturbed. Or so they have been taught&#8230; but the truth is different. The fate of mankind is on the line, and Tatsumiyajima is the last line of defense against a hostile and incomprehensible enemy. At the center of it all, fighting for Humanity&#8217;s continued existence, is the giant robot Fafner, the dragon that guards this final treasure of mankind.<\/span><\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12pt\"><b>Source<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/fafner-btl.jp\/#staff-cast\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Soukyuu no Fafner Official Anime Website<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The spinoff anime episode of Fafner in the Azure: BEHIND THE LINE has been confirmed to be pre-screened in Japanese theaters at an undetermined date.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":39939,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[2954,4900,2331],"class_list":["post-39936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-anime","tag-fafner-in-the-azure","tag-fafner-in-the-azure-behind-the-line","tag-production-i-g-2"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/fafner-in-the-azure-behind-the-line-anime-key-visual-e1656985959222.jpg?fit=566%2C320&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8n4QV-ao8","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39936"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39936"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39936\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39941,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39936\/revisions\/39941"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}