Anime studio BONES announced today that they will be producing a new film trilogy for the popular franchise, Eureka Seven with the first film opening in Japan this year. The new trilogy has been titled Kōkyōshihen Eureka Seven Hi-Evolution (Psalms of Planets Eureka Seven Hi-Evolution) and will follow the events of “The First Summer of Love”, an event that took place a decade before the original series’ story began. The films will then follow the same storyline originally presented in the first series but with a new, original ending. The trilogy will use completely new voice recordings and animated scenes. Chief Director Tomoki Kyoda will be returning to direct the new movies, along with returning scriptwriter Dai Sato and a large number of other staff members returning to work on the new series entries.
Plot
The series focuses on Renton Thurston, the fourteen-year-old son of Adrock Thurston, a military researcher who died saving the world. He lives what he considers a boring life with his grandfather in a boring town. He loves lifting, a sport similar to surfing but with trapar, a substance abundant throughout the air, as the medium. He dreams of joining the renegade group Gekkostate, led by his idol Holland Novak, a legendary lifter.
An opportunity to do so literally falls into his lap when a large mechanical robot, called the Nirvash type ZERO, and Eureka, its pilot and a member of Gekkostate, crash into Renton’s room. Renton’s grandfather orders him to deliver a special part to the Nirvash called the “Amita Drive”, which releases the immense power dormant within the type ZERO called the “Seven Swell Phenomenon”. Afterwards, Renton is invited to join Gekkostate, where he quickly discovers that the behind-the-scenes life of Gekkostate is hardly as glamorous or as interesting as printed in the glossy pages of their magazine, ray=out. Only one thing makes it all worthwhile for him: the presence of Eureka, the mysterious pilot of the Nirvash. Renton, Eureka, and the Gekkostate embark on an adventure that will shape their future as well as the world’s.
