Sound of the Sky

Sound of the Sky (ソ·ラ·ノJapanese ·ヲ·ト, So Ra No Where To) is an anime television series from 2010 that was directed by Mamoru Kambe. Produced the series of A-1 Pictures and Aniplex and is also the debut project of Anime no Chikara, a consortium of TV Tokyo and Aniplex. Around the same time publishing a manga adaptation began which was drawn by Yagi Shimba and started off in the January 2010 issue of Comic Dengeki Daio.

Action

In the center of the action, which takes place in a post-apocalyptic world was thrown back in the human race to the status of the 20th century, the young girl Kanata Sorami which remained solely on the basis of a war is. At that time, they came across a trumpet player, what inspired them to join the military and become a trumpet player himself. However, the arts of the clumsy girl is very modest. Finally, it has the military to a new location. It so happens that it is ( with Cuenca as a template ) assigned to the 1121st train in the city of Seize. There you tried Kazumiya Rio as their new supervisors teach the games.

So Kanata first learns the hard life as a soldier, but soon has mostly enjoy dealing with their new girlfriends. Gradually they improved at Playing the trumpet and they experienced together with the other four soldiers of the troop various adventures that reveal more and more the sad history that has led to the current state, one thrown back in time world. It still wrestle some of the girls with the memories of the past, they can only process difficult. Nevertheless, it creates Kanata through their loving nature, most problems to settle and they become very close friends who barely remember a train and be treated equally.

Later in the conflict but again pointed to as the peace talks with the Roman Empire drag, but which are not accepted by all and are aware of a renewed confrontation. Here, the 1121st train plays a key role. Finally, Rio is of royal blood and may the peace talks lead to a successful end, while Kanata, Kureha, Noël and Felicia make it with the reconditioned archaic spidery tank Takemikazuchi to delay the renewed confrontation long enough so that the attempt to overshadow the peace talks, is thwarted.

Characters

Conception

Sora no Woto uses many elements from different cultures. The nation Helvetia to the 1121st train part is represented as French-speaking. Archaic artifacts such as old books and stelae, but mostly the names of the inhabitants are written in Japanese, a language can understand hardly any of the inhabitants and their characters are simply referred to as ideograms. The opposing nation is called Helvetia as Roma and called in their own language, the Germans themselves Roman Empire. An ever again aufgegriffenes motif is the South African -based regions Nordbüscheleule ( Ptilopsis leucotis ), which occurs both as a pet and emblem in the anime and the typical for her behavior reflects. Shortly before the production of the series a video from a Japanese TV program became known, the theme of a protective mechanism of the owl in front of potential enemies.

The opening credits of the series used numerous illustrations in the style of the works of Gustav Klimt, where as once already in Elfen Lied from the same director as Sora no Woto, occurring figures were replaced by the characters of the anime.

Formation and Publications

Sora no Woto emerged as the debut production of Anime no Chikara, a merger of the Anime Department of TV Tokyo and Aniplex. The aim of this project should be to bring together a group of creative people to produce not building on other works anime television series. The anime was animated to the studio A-1 Pictures. Directed by Mamoru Kambe, who had earlier works such as Elfen Lied, Baccano! or Cardcaptor Sakura coordinated. The original design of the characters was designed by Mel Kishida and adapted by Toshifumi Akai to the needs of an anime. The screenplay was written by Hiroyuki Yoshino, who built up the action on the concept of Paradores.

Were first aired twelve episodes of the series from January 5th to March 23, 2010 ( after midnight and therefore on the previous TV day ) on the Japanese broadcaster TV Tokyo. With a few days offset the transmitter AT- X, TV Aichi and TV Osaka started showing. Two more episodes appeared only on DVD and BD.

In Europe, the series of Beez Entertainment is licensed, the DVDs were ve sold with German localization under the title Sounds of the Skies from June 2011 on Al! .

Synchronization

Music

The music of the series was composed by Michiru Oshima In the opening credits of the title Hikari no Senritsu (光 の 旋律) by Kalafina was used. The guy is entitled Girls, Be Ambitious. underlain by Haruka Tomatsu. In addition came the French-speaking piece Servante du feu used, which was sung by Matthieu Ladouce.

The single of the leader Hikari no Senritsu was published on January 20, 2010 by Sony Music. She was followed on January 27, 2010, Single credits Girls, Be Ambitious. , Published by Music Ray'n. Original Soundtrack (ソ·ラ·ノ·ヲ·ト オリジナル·サウンド トラック) by Aniplex published: March 24, one day after the end of the first showing was titled Sora no Woto.

Manga

Even before the release of the anime, the impression of a same name manga series began in the Comic Dengeki Daio, drawn by Yagi Shimba. The plot, as well as the original concept for the anime comes from Paradores. In the ASCII Media Works magazine published the manga was first published in January 2010 issue of November 2009. The last chapter was published in the August issue of June 2011. Individual chapters have been summarized in two anthologies.