A certain tokusatsu panelist couldn’t make it, so Gainax co-founder Hiroyuki Yamaga agreed to run a panel on Gainax’s pre-production film Uru in Blue. I took some rough notes – this won’t be a write-up of the panel so much as a transcription. Also, both the notes and the photos were taken on my phone; please set your expectations accordingly.

Some background: Uru in Blue (Japanese title: Aoki Uru) is a film project by Studio Gainax. Fans in and out of Japan have been seeing information about it since the 90s – Carl Horn ran a panel about it at Anime Los Angeles earlier this year. Carl also attended this panel, so if he runs his Aoki Uru panel again there’s a chance it’ll be updated with some of what what revealed here.

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