Galo Thymos repeatedly tells the characters around him, even at moments when the fate of the world could go either way, that his “burning soul” cannot fight without style.
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The movie survives on the series of stylistic raises that the viewer doesn’t have the gumption to call. There’s a politically relevant subplot about the demonization of minority groups, but it’s more or less dropped once grand narrative developments are afoot. It builds in dramatic scale, cartoonishly so, but not in complexity. I haven’t described much of Promare’s plot because I don’t need to story is not this movie’s propellant. The staging and cinematography orient the chaos. Often the frame is so packed with Burnish fire travelling in all directions that one might wonder how the viewer can parse the action at all. It’s a collage simultaneously flat and spacious, abstract and enthralling. The fire is geometric, crackling, neon-colored, and ever-present in the action scenes. Because The Burnish control unearthly fire, Trigger had some creative room to bring it to life. Studio Trigger recognized that fire is classic “motif of animation expression” but is hard to animate in stylized 3D. These technical quibbles can be brushed aside by the incredible way that the crew has animated The Burnish’s fire. 3D is often used in anime to great effect (see: SSSS.Gridman), but here a twinge of visual dissonance remains. This approach has its limits, though the simpler the CG object, like a skyscraper or a fire truck, the more the geometric technique clashes with the cartoony style of the characters. Even the lens flares are square, like giant pixels. Character outlines blend into the background with ever-changing colors and the CG mechs become more complex and inventive. But where that series was crude (in both humor and animation), Promare is polished. Promare builds on a CG technique mixing 2D and 3D animation experimented with in Panty and Stocking. Unlike a series with a tighter budget, the film has plenty of room to show off. More cryptically, a representative for Trigger says over email that the reason behind these common motifs “might become clear someday, at the moment when the story of PROMARE intersects.” There might have been a translation error there, but the feeling of symbolic unity comes through. Nakashima.” The film is an elaboration on the shonen anime spirit with artistic verve and physical drama. The references to Trigger’s past make Promare an artistic statement of the company’s ethos, or, as the studio itself describes it, “the culmination of Mr. And of course, there are plenty of big robots piloted by plucky heroes with big hearts. Frames are omitted at times for a kinetic, cartoony look reminiscent of jokey scenes from Kill la Kill. A character pilots her plane in the same questionable pose that 02 takes in Darling in the FRANXX. The image of a skull head with angular sunglasses, a Trigger calling card that has cropped up on Gurren Lagann, Space Patrol Luluco, and SSSS.Gridman, makes an appearance as the helmet of the The Burnish’s leader. And yet straightforward pomp of this first action scene ends with enough intrigue to show that “not is all as it seems.” Off we go!Īs the first film from Studio Trigger, Promare is littered with motifs from previous productions. In their bulky, modular robot suits, they fight back the terrorist branch of The Burnish on a burning skyscraper. Each major character gets a splashy introduction card. Galo Thymos, the brash, shirtless rookie - who looks suspiciously like Kamina from director Hiroyuki Imaishi’s previous series Gurren Lagann - is our hero. The big muscly guy is the big muscly guy. The girl in a lab coat and goggles is the quirky techmaster. The hot dad with a moustache and shiny sunglasses is the coach. Similarly, the film introduces the central team of firefighter protagonists with tropey economy. The Great World Blaze ends, the world recovers, and only then does the opening credit sequence begin. The victims, dubbed The Burnish, join up after being persecuted and cause a small apocalypse by making volcanoes explode. A segment of the world’s population bursts into supernatural flame. Promare, the new anime action film from famed production company Studio Trigger, doesn’t waste time.
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