Original TV Anime 'Comet Lucifer' to Premiere in Fall 2015

by Stark700
Jul 26, 2015 1:47 AM | 93 Comments

A stage event by Max Factory and Good Smily Company at Wonder Festival 2015 Summer announced that an original TV series, titled Comet Lucifer, will premiere in Fall 2015. A music video was shown alongside its announcement of cast, staff, and character designs.

Synopsis
Gift, a world covered in glittering blue crystals called gifdium. Sougo Amagi is a boy who lives in the town of Garden Indigo, which has prospered from the mining of these crystals. Sougo, whose hobby is collecting rare crystals, one day becomes involved in a dispute between classmates Kaon, Roman, and Otto. He wanders deep into the ruins of a mine and discovers an underground lake. There, Sougo meets a mysterious girl with blue hair and red eyes. Who is this girl, and what will their meeting bring? The door to an adventure opens with their newly formed bond.

Cast
Sougo Amagi: Yuusuke Kobayashi (Arslan Senki (TV))
Felia: Ayaka Ohashi (The iDOLM@STER Cinderella Girls)
Kaon Lanchester: Rie Takahashi (Shirobako)
Roman Valov: Takuma Terashima (Log Horizon)
Otto Motou: Ayaka Suwa (Grisaia no Kajitsu)
Mo Litica Tzetzes Ura: Inori Minase (Gakkou Gurashi)

Staff
Director: Yasuhito Kikuchi (IS: Infinite Stratos)
Original Plan, Script, Series Composition: Yuuichi Nomura (Eureka Seven)
Series Director: Atsushi Nakayama (Absolute Duo)
Character Design, Chief Animation Director: Yuuichi Takahashi (Gatchaman Crowds)
Mechanical Design: Takayuki Yanase
Music: Tatsuya Kato (Kyoukaisenjou no Horizon)
Studio: 8bit

Music video of image song "Story of Lucifer" by TRUE

Source: Moca News

Comet Lucifer on MAL

New Anime Fall 2015

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After seeing the new promotional material for this, I have to take back my earlier disdain, this seems like it has a lot of soul put into it; it could become the sleeper hit of the season. They are taking a very interesting angle from a worldbuilding standpoint.

Sep 18, 2015 11:07 AM by Red_Tuesday

As soon as I saw mecha, my fantasy adventure boner was gone...
I'm still giving it a shot tho, we'll see.

Sep 17, 2015 1:59 PM by Hydra0411

this is the new visual:

is gender, Mecha?

Aug 29, 2015 5:36 AM by Grest

Sure, why not? ( the music sounds pretty good though)

Jul 30, 2015 8:08 AM by KashKetchum

Red_Tuesday said:

frequency15k said:

snip

I do that to avoid unsightly quote towers :P

haha fair enough i guess

Jul 29, 2015 2:18 PM by frequency15k

Jackie_Ninja said:
Idk why but this just gives me a No Game No Life feel...

The colour pallette in the visual is pretty obviously reminiscent of NGNL, and the character looks like a Kazami Kazuki / Shiro hybrid.

Jul 29, 2015 2:14 AM by Red_Tuesday

Idk why but this just gives me a No Game No Life feel... but the song is pretty good, I'm kinda in the middle for this one.

Jul 29, 2015 2:10 AM by JackieNinja

frequency15k said:

Red_Tuesday said:

snip

lol ok, well i dont watch anime and compare it to its source material, i watch it as a stand alone, and as an anime grisaia is really bad, and why did you put snip, in my quote? lol

I do that to avoid unsightly quote towers :P

Jul 29, 2015 12:48 AM by Red_Tuesday

Red_Tuesday said:

frequency15k said:
snip

You're confused. I'm not saying Meikyuu or Rakuen are among the 'bust animu evur hur dur' I'm saying that in adaptation terms they are masterpieces. Because apart from Meikyuu only Steins;Gate in history has ever improved on what the source material did. And Rakuen was at least its source's equal.

Neither Meikyuu or Rakuen are masterpieces as visual novels go, maybe low top 50s, but that has nothing to do with their adaptations being masterfully executed.

Grisaia no Kajitsu however is among the top 10 visual novels and that one they fucked up thoroughly.

Anyway, I'm just saying 8bit seem to be selectively capable of greatness, they just have the worst timing in the world, and get shafted by production committees/ IP holders (Kajitsu should have had the bare minimum of 24 episode funding and that shit is on NBC Universal Japan and Front Wing, not 8bit.)

lol ok, well i dont watch anime and compare it to its source material, i watch it as a stand alone, and as an anime grisaia is really bad, and why did you put snip, in my quote? lol

Jul 28, 2015 9:32 AM by frequency15k

frequency15k said:
snip

Jul 28, 2015 3:29 AM by Red_Tuesday

Red_Tuesday said:

frequency15k said:
lol, nice visuals and probably nothing else

hahahahaha grisaia a masterpiece???? are you kidding me???

If you don't know what you're talking about, keep your mouth shut, you'll make yourself look like a fool.

Grisaia no Kajitsu was the shit one, Meikyuu is the prequel story and Yuuji's background story 50-minute special that aired in spring.

Obviously you haven't seen it and need to pipe down.

Jul 28, 2015 2:06 AM by frequency15k

While glancing at the Topic I only read "Anime" and "Lucifer" and almost jizzed my pants thinking for a moment we'd get a Hoshi no Samidare anime. Disappointment.

Jul 28, 2015 2:06 AM by grandy_UiD

frequency15k said:
lol, nice visuals and probably nothing else

Jonesy974 said:

hahahahaha grisaia a masterpiece???? are you kidding me???

Jul 28, 2015 1:22 AM by Red_Tuesday

lol, nice visuals and probably nothing else

Jonesy974 said:

Red_Tuesday said:

Mostly correct, though Grisaia no Meikyuu was a near-masterpiece and probably the only VN adaptation that improved on the source material in history.

hahahahaha grisaia a masterpiece???? are you kidding me??? maybe if you watch anime for a shitty plot, plot devices, plot armor, a harem and horid pacing and plot/character development. this is why all the anime these days is shit... everyone who played the vn automatically thinks this garbage is amazing... its not, seriously....

Jul 27, 2015 11:58 PM by frequency15k

not quite sure about it , the PV didn't give much information , i'll give it a try but the direction and the Studio are quite meh

Jul 27, 2015 10:55 PM by xSkydel

Red_Tuesday said:

TheNaturalPerm said:
8bit has a terrible track record. They have yet to produce something truly good so I'm more than skeptical.

Mostly correct, though Grisaia no Meikyuu was a near-masterpiece and probably the only VN adaptation that improved on the source material in history. Maybe only Steins; Gate comes close.

Though I'm not touching this with a bargepole, this looks truly uninspired.

Jonesy974 said:
Everyone shitting on 8bit even though Grisaia Mekyuu and Rakuen were superb.

What do you expect? If the first season of something is god-tier shit, then it stands to reason the remaining ones can shit gold and piss ambrosia and still be soiled by their forebear.

I don't even think it's unfair. Even if Meikyuu and Rakuen were great productions, they excuse 0% of Kajitsu's butchering.

And Absolute Duo was an outsourced cash-in, they had like a third of the studio working on that, the rest were working on Grisaia. Hell, most of the music was Windows 95-level randomized midi and some scenes barely had backgrounds. One fight scene in a mall mid-season was done in pitch black darkness just so they didn't have to draw any BG.

Soundtrack was just as decent as any other ecchi harem soundtrack.

There was never no scene with "no bg". There may have been crap bgs, but never a scene with no bg.

You can hate the show all you want, and it's not like AD was any semblance of a masterpiece, but coming up with shit arguments just for the sake of saying something bad about a show makes you look fucking foolish. Not even worth attempting to discuss this any further.

Jul 27, 2015 7:55 PM by Jonesy974

Well I will give it probably the 3 episode rule, although I was not captivated by Infinite Stratos and Absolute Duo, but who knows. Maybe third time's a charm.

Jul 27, 2015 5:23 PM by Valkata

Stark700 said:
Sougo meets a mysterious girl with blue hair and red eyes. Who is this girl, and what will their meeting bring? The door to an adventure opens with their newly formed bond.

so he meets Rei Ayanami

Jul 27, 2015 3:16 PM by Contaminated

Looks alright I guess. Animation is really nice, though.

Jul 27, 2015 12:58 PM by The_Archking

ehhhhh... I guess I'll check it out...

Jul 27, 2015 9:59 AM by 5shin

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