Earth Defense Family Update

A press conference for the upcoming TV series, Earth Defense Family was held in Tokyo last Friday, and full production details on the series came out. EDF will premier in Japan on Broadcast Satellite WoWoW channel 5 on January 9th. Vocalist Rolly, will provide the opening theme song, “Samurai” and the insertion song “Mirror-Mirror.” The series is directed by Satoshi Kimura, director of the second Tenchi Muyo movie and the Tenchi OAVs. Kimura revealed that planning on EDF has been ongoing for the past 3 years and commented on the series’ dedicated use of traditional cell animation, mentioning that at this point there are certain effects in anime which still can only be properly facilitated by human hand. The quality of animation per episode in EDF is said to be extremely high, with the number of animation cells used in the first episode alone exceeding 9500 pieces. It was added that the concept of “family” would play a key role throughout, and the series was meant to appeal to both children and adults. Macross creator Shoji Kawamori will be supervising EDF with character designs provided by Kazuaki Mouri. Animation production is by Group Tatsuku.

Source: Anime News Service