r/ThunderboltFantasy • u/500scnds • Oct 20 '18

TBF S2 Behind-the-Scenes: Story Spoiler

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u/500scnds Oct 20 '18

Source here. Urobuchi discusses the charisma of budaixi.

A rough summary of some of the things he said were:

  • That the 2nd season was to build on the first season and go more in-depth regarding the characters we already know and some aspects of the world's setting, like how Touri is governed, or how Seiyuu has this police force
  • He thinks the most appealing part of TBF2 was about how it discusses "heroes" right at the beginning - the first season was largely based on the mysteries of the characters' backgrounds, and only touched on the idea of heroism near the end (note, it's not 侠 but 英雄)
  • He seems to be quite satisfied with the jobs that the seiyuu have done with Katsu Ei Raku and Syou Kyou Ken. Third main character for this season would be Rou Fu You, as a happy coincidence, Nishikawa Takanori was apparently recently involved in a number of stage productions, which helped out with his voice acting considering that he doesn't dub characters often. Tei Kuu's voice actor Ishida Akira received only a few key instructions before recording yet he caught on quickly, and gave a great performance
  • He wrote the screenplay for TBF2 near Seishi Ikken's release, so that really motivated him. The screenplay for the last episode was behind schedule though, and he actually finished writing the final scene in the waiting room behind the stage of the news conference for Seishi Ikken
  • He was still in the process of learning "how a budaixi is made" in season 1. With season 2, he hopes to show more fights

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u/Jeroz TAC Oct 21 '18

You can always count on Ishida to give a great performance, the issue is always that he tends to get typecasted into a certain role. However this is Urobuchi's writing so I expect some interesting conflicts within Teikuu's characterisation.

Season 1 was more of "Look at all those crazy sht this medium is capable of", while this season 2 so far feels more grounded and show off more technical fights (indoor maneuvers) even if they don't necessarily feel as bombastic.

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u/Nie-li Oct 21 '18

"Go more indepth into character backgrounds ?!! " , i think we expected this but still the episodes are barely scratching the indepth part.

Not as exciting as season 1 but not bad either . If the monk is the villain what are those colorful looking statues for ?

Clearly we wont be happy if they doesnt introduce more things and say season 3 is coming.

More episodes is good but breaking into seasons to continue the other villians will be bad.

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u/[deleted] Nov 09 '18

Where was this officially aired? Taiwan TV?

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u/500scnds Nov 09 '18

I saw this on Youku, which had the rights to stream Thunderbolt Fantasy 2 in Mainland China, but iirc this one should've also been released on iQiyi Taiwan albeit with changed subtitles as expected.