[Emmanuel]

Interview with Yasushi Muraki (effects director) and Shiho Takeuchi (design works). There are very nice details revealed in the interview:

- Muraki doesn't just do missile and beam animation scenes here like he did in E7. For E7AO his job is to storyboard all the action beats, and to do layout check for all scenes with mecha stuff in them.

- Takeuchi's role is mainly in art design setting, but he also did the animation designs for the new Nirvash based on Kawamori work. For the previous E7, Eiji Nakata did the animation designs. Takeuchi also reveals that Kimitoshi Yamane designed the Triton (GB's ship), but Takeuchi was in charge of designing the bridge in the ship.

- There is a deliberate intention for the designs to be more militaristic compared to E7, and so the animators are trying to make the weapons and detailing seem more realistic too.

- Muraki did the key animation for Nirvash's transformation in ep2 himself because he got really excited for it after storyboarding the sequence.

- They say that in the future episodes of the series Generation Bleu will be tackling Secrets from all over the world, so they won't just be fighting them in the places we've already seen. Also expect Nirvash to get various upgrades in accessory parts and weapons.

- Asked about the lack of a pure missile circus scene in E7AO so far, Muraki says that for a scene like that there has to be a certain skill level for the pilot or sync between Nirvash and the pilot. Right now at Ao's level he isn't capable of pulling off something like that... yet.