Basquash!

Basquash! (Japaneseバ スカッシュ! ) is an anime television series, which was directed by Shin Itagaki and is shown since April 2, 2009 on Japanese television.

Action

In a distant galaxy a planet of Earthdash exists is called and in its orbit, a huge moon is, on the high society to live in the city of Mooneyes, while life on the planet is quite poor and the entire landscape a huge slum is. So everyone dreams of once in this glittering world to live with advanced care. On the lower world, meanwhile, large, manned, human-controlled robots have prevailed, doing the daily hard work, but at the same time the police are relevant and compete in basketball games against each other. Protagonist Dan JD are these robots, which are called Bigfoot, but a plague. Not only that his sister Coco was injured by a in their childhood difficult on the legs, so that they now have to sit in a wheelchair - they also play in the only league for basketball, the good human player can not participate because they simply too small are. At the same time the games will be broadcast on all TV's of the city, to tune the population frugal.

Dan takes the opportunity to go with his gear on raids, in which he tries to destroy as many TVs. While he is pursued by the law enforcement officers on his skateboard, plunder the other destroyed television, to then sell off the parts to a dealer. So they make money and Dan calmed his conscience at the same time trying to damage the league as large as possible. For his actions, he wears a mask and has created a name as Dunk Mask of far-reaching reputation. His mask, however, is a living animal with the name Spanky which can speak both seem to be insatiable because it also the new gift from Dan for Coco eats when she refuses - even though this is a conspecific.

Frustrated at a lonely game of basketball, he meets Miyuki Ayukawa who persuaded him to control one built by her and her grandfather Bigfoot himself. He can very quickly get into it and rushes the vehicle until it breaks down into its parts at the dawn of the next morning. Without going into further background, he gets from her three tickets to one of the games presented. Here he is running for the first time Sela D Miranda on the road that sells cold drinks and will stamp it together with his gang as lesser beings. However, at the sight of the game he is strong frustrated. The entire event is more like a game of marbles, which is so greatly enhanced for the TV shows, it looks for extreme action. In his outburst, he is stopped by Spanky and wakes up some time later again when Miyuki has entered the stadium. Again reminiscent of its common childhood with Miyuki, both run out. The repaired by Miyuki and made ​​available to him Bigfoot, he uses both to lie as uninvited guest a great show. In this the whole audience including Sela forfeited in full enthusiasm, so that the stadium collapses. Dan is finally stopped by the regular players Iceman Hotty and ends up in jail, where he is sentenced to a term of imprisonment of one year.

On the day of his release, he finds that his way to play basketball like a wildfire has spread and he became a legend. So his fans pounce on him and he has many admirers. In the apartment of Coco arrived he is brought back from his sister quickly back to the earth. With his fame, he inherited not only the title of a legend but also a legendary sum of debt, because it destroyed the stadium and the failures of various entrepreneurs have been charged. So Dan first tried to work for Miyuki as " Bigfoot courier ", but must quickly determine that he received strong competition. Thus, among other Sela D Miranda for him a new rival is that he is initially inferior. In their discussion, they are attacked by an unknown third party who is able to damage the Bigfoot of the two rival strongly without revealing his identity.

Characters

Dan JD (ダン· JD)

Miyuki Ayukawa (ミユキ·アユカワ)

Sela D Miranda (セラ· D ·ミランダ)

Iceman Hotty (アイス マン·ホッティ)

Full Bogard (ガンツ·ボガード)

Bel Lindon (ベル·リンドン)

Soichi Ayukawa (ソーイチ·アユカワ)

Haruka Gureishia (はるか·グレイシア)

Conception

The series is increasingly relying on 3D computer graphics, which is mainly used for animation of the robot and the environment. So many turbulent camera movements are included in which the cartoon animations were integrated.

Formation

The series was created in the animation studio Satelight and includes 26 episodes. The backgrounds were from the studio Hong Ying drawn animation while studios like AIM Entertainment, Hanjin Animation, JM Animation, Studio Cockpit Studio Live WONWOO and animation have been used in the preparation of the intermediate images. At the production, the company Dentsu, Mainichi Broadcasting System, Pony Canyon and of course Satelight itself involved

Party

Basquash! was led by Shoji Kawamori. The concept and ideas for the series comes from the Japanese Shoji Kawamori and Frenchman Romain Thomas, who was also the key frames of the animation. The film was directed by Shin Itagaki, who previously held the position in series like Black Cat and Devil May Cry.

Synchronization

Music

The music used in the series was composed by Kei Yoshikawa and arranged. In the opening credits of the title nO limiT Eclipse was a merger of Haruka Tomatsu, Saori Hayami and Megumi Nakajima used. Interpreted by Yu Yamada free titles found its use in the credits of the anime.

Publications

So far, the series is broadcast weekly since April 2, 2009 to the transmitters MBS in Greater Kinki and an hour later on RKB in the prefecture of Fukuoka. Other channels like TBC in Miyagi Prefecture, TBS in Greater Kanto, RCC in Hiroshima Prefecture, RKK in Kumamoto Prefecture, SBS in Shizuoka Prefecture, RSK in the prefectures of Okayama and Kagawa, HBC in the prefecture of Hokkaido and CBC in the region around the city of Nagoya.

In addition to the transfer of Basquash! on Japanese television series was also offered from May 1, 2009 by Kadokawa Shoten on the channel on YouTube in Japanese original version as a free stream.

Manga

Already since January 2009, Tetsuya Hayashi should at a manga adaptation of Basquash! work for the magazine Shonen Ace, the first chapter was published in the March issue.

Another offshoot entitled Basquash! Eclipse Stage is to follow with the May issue of the magazine Comp Ace, which like Shonen Ace is also published by Kadokawa Shoten. To draw the manga by Kagemaru.