Psalm of Planets Eureka Seven: Pocketful of Rainbows
I think about 50% of all sub groups on Rizon ended up contributing members in some way to this. GG + Gattai + BSS + Conclave + Mendoi + some other groups I’m probably forgetting. I personally worked on the editing, and some of our staff helped on QC!
I HOPE YOU ENJOY THIS THEATRICAL PROGRAM AS MUCH AS I DID! ;___;
SPOILER-LESS REVIEW:
Here is my spoiler-less review of the series. If you don’t want to know what you’re going into, feel free to pass it up.
Wow. This movie. Going into it, I was worried we’d basically have an “Escaflowne” movie situation on our hands: An adaptation which attempted to tell a different story for a pre-existing anime, but doing it by diverging totally from the original material in both theme and content, and creating a story that is largely unpalatable to most. My fears were, thankfully, unfounded. Psalm of Planets Eureka seveN: Pocketful of Rainbows is not only a movie that does the original series justice, it is a completely unique entity in its own right.
As stated before the movie came out, a lot of animation was reused during it; however, editing has made it so that, quite frankly, it is really difficult to tell with most. Some will be obvious, but most won’t. Some changes are done in a way that they actually screw with you if you had seen the original, amusingly enough. Overall, though, if you were to ask me how much animation I could detect was reused during it, I’d say about 5%. It was probably several times than that at least, but that’s as much as I could tell outright “hey they just switched characters there”. Even then, it was really well done.
The movie has a very different thematic focus, it has a totally different plot. Old characters you knew and love have totally different personalities, totally different identities, totally different pasts. If you’re going into this movie expecting just “Eureka Seven the Movie”, you’re going to be surprised. This isn’t just a tribute to the original. It is fantastically different, with its own plot, its own drama, its own characterization. You could watch it without watching the TV series and still enjoy it, though you would draw far more enjoyment seeing just how much has changed… and yet stayed the same.
The core ethos of the story, the “core” of Eureka Seven, stays the same. It is still a story of hope, a story of love, a story of standing up for your hopes and dreams. It is distinctly “Eureka Seven”. There are scenes that made me laugh, scenes that made me gawk at how well they’re done, scenes that made me go daww, and of course, those really amazing scenes that tug at your heart.
This is a movie I don’t regret one bit, and frankly, it makes me wish that they’d do something just like it again. It’s a fantastic addition to the Eureka Seven license, and you should watch it.
