#geekboat

[coredrill]

if anyone who follows me lives in/near new york city. i highly recommend stopping by shigeto koyama’s free “obake” art exhibition while it’s around!! he did character designs for promare, heroman, and star wars visions: the twins; mecha design for promare, diebuster, darling in the franxx, alexis kerib from gridman and baymax from big hero 6; the japanese ms. marvel covers; directed the “obake-chan” animator expo short; designed studio trigger’s logo; and was the gradation boy for promare… i went to his talk there today and i feel like it has yet again rearranged my brain and how i view art and the limitations of human creativity LMAO.

[matoitech]

was gueira and meis being australian ever like a geekboat trivia or a legitimate thing or did someone just say that once bcuz i’ve seen that since the movie came out and don’t think i’ve ever seen it firsthand myself

[fotiathymos]

GEEKBOAT Autograph Kumoricon2022 Art by SHIGETO KOYAMA

Funny official art hehehe

[theconceptofanicecube]

My Lio nendoroid has arrived ヾ(≧▽≦*)o

I bought his articulated body at the same time I got Galo's. I expected Lio to arrive a lot sooner, but his package ran into some problems with customs.

But he is here now and Galo is no longer alone :,^)

(I think Lio's shoes made him a bit taller than Galo when standing heh)

The Battle of the Geekboat also arrived in the same package :^D

I don't think I had seen it from the side view before, so it was quite thicker than I expected.

[fencer-x]

Hi, you posted a photo of one of Koyama's early Detroit designs for Lio a while back, with the fire chariot. Can you share what book or magazine that is from? I own and have read most of the art books created by Promare staff and have most of the magazines released with Promare information since June but somehow missed this. Thanks!

They’re from the Battle at Geekboat artbook, and you can find some scans lovingly provided by @doushikazuki here: https://doushikazuki.tumblr.com/post/188801295365/so-this-is-the-rest-of-battle-at-the-geekboat

[doushikazuki]

So this is the rest of Battle at the Geekboat! There are a lot in here, and I considered splitting it into two parts, but I wanna do it all in one shot. The rest of the book kinda fits together anyway.

Also that picture is the last one in the book, and I just think it’s BADASS I NEED A POSTER OF IT GODDAMN

Anyway, enjoy! I got the Memorial book, so look forward to that one :D

As you can see, the final designs. :)

I love Lio here. He’s just so cute, no matter how he’s drawn.

Now these last two are very interesting. If they had kept the chariot thing with those promare horses... goddamn. And I LOVE the pink triangles in the burnish in the bottom one.

Here it is! The bread tie inspiration for Lio’s earring! Not sure what that one in the top left is supposed to be... he looks like he’s made of stone? lol

God he’s gorgeous...

THIS IS JUST ADORABLE. Tiny captured Lio is just too much.

And all the designs of the Lio de Galon/Galo de Lion until they get to the final result. Also the Deus Ex Machina up there too. Just incredible...

And that’s about it! There are a few more story boards, but I’ll save them for another post. This one has the most important stuff. XD

Enjoy! And if there’s ever anything you guys wanna see, you can ask me! I love sharing!!

[ms-poltergeist]

my geekboat book comes 2day . peace and love

[theconceptofanicecube]

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Promare 4th anniversary talk with Hiroyuki Imaishi, Shigeto Koyama and Hiromi Wakabayashi at 05/24 00:00 JST.

[fotiathymos]

[ PROMARE Interviews - Geekboat Edition ]

Real quick. What is Geekboat? 

Geekboat is the nick name of a group of staff members in Trigger. Geekboat consists of Wakabayashi, Imaishi and Koyama. Anything referred to as a Geekboat idea is pretty much just those three making weird random remarks on the story and/or characters. None of it is “canon” and most of the time they claim to state that anything is possible so if you feel its true for the story or character then its true! If not, then ditch the idea and make your own!

The following information was from the Geekboat Event in June 2019. 

There is no clear information on who said what in most cases. 

The main story is true. Some information connects with ‘canon’. Some are made up from the crew.

> The names of the Mad Burnish motorcycles are named after the American cities they ‘awakened’ as Burnish in. Lio- Detroit, Meis - Dallas, Gueira - Miami. (It will be △ if you check it on the map!)

> Lio was raised by British nobility / aristocracy but still noted to be from Detroit. (one of the directors reported to have said “thats the first time I’ve heard of this” it seems specific to just the “Geekboat universe” unless it is later shown in official PROMARE information books.)

> Lio loved to play around with motorcycles and even secretly bought himself a biker jacket

> Gueira played American football and was very fast but due to having a weak body he was unable to make it on a team.

> Gueira’s large size in his Burnish armor form is because of his admiration of American football.

> Gueira also had a ‘long cherished dream’ of being a part of a rugby scrum and got to live his dream when he and Meis protected Lio from Freeze Force and sent him flying into Fennel Volcano.

> Meis is inspired by a “Visual Kei band member”.

> The PROMARE movie pamphlet (and even in the film) indicates each of the Burning Rescue members have their own roman numeral ranking numbers. Ignis is Burning Rescue I, Lucia is Burning Rescue II, Remi is Burning Rescue III, Varys is Burning Rescue IV, Aina is Burning Rescue V, Remi’s girlfriend is the missing Burning Rescue VI, and Galo is Burning Rescue VII.

> Remi has a blond crocodile girlfriend. 

> Remi use to be a playboy before getting involved with his girlfriend. Remi’s crocodile girlfriend use to be a member of Burning Rescue, her photo is in his locker, before she was involved in a biological accident that turned her into a crocodile. She now lives in the sewers underground Promepolis. She may return to being human one day. Remi goes down to the sewers to feed her each day.

> One of the final scenes in the film shows the civilians watching the sunrise. There is a man in an SGT shirt and sunglasses, putting a robe on an elderly woman. It’s Koyama.

> When Galo goes to save Lio from the Promatech Engine, the coloring of the Matoi Tech was discussed heavily. They took a day stressing over the color schemes but it just ended up monotone. (Theres no more elaboration on this which upsets me as this is just talking about the coloring of the ‘kiss scene’)

> In the first fight scene of Lio vs Galo. Lucia distracts Lio with the mini Matoi Tech and shows her face saying ‘stuuupid/made you look’. Galo did not see it but Lio did, Lucia’s poking fun at Lio.

> Mai Yoneyama was who wanted to give Lio piercings. Koyama was the one who stated they could ‘just get bread clips for a quick, discount Lio style earrings’. Only Lio’s left ear is pierced, though the promo poster show’s it on his right.

> Ignis is said to be in his late 30s to early 40s and has a daughter that plays football (American soccer). 

> When confronted on how Lio’s shirt goes from white to black when he falls into the lake the answer was made on the spot of “he scorched it when he fell into the lake”. The real answer was they wanted to make it black.

> Imaishi wants everyone to pay attention to the motor sounds when Krazor-X gets kicked by Lio de Galon and goes off balance because he thinks it was really impressive. Koyama added that the sound of the Pulverizing Pile Driver charging up was also very impressive. (They want you to listen to the mech sounds, pretty much.)

> You can see Lio’s belts form an X shape when he finally takes off his shirt in the final scene. The shape is meant to mimic Galo’s X of his shoulder straps. Wakabayashi, “The earnest reason for this is when they’re standing side-by-side together at the end, we wanted them to take their clothes off and stand next to each other on the same level as equals. The frivolous reason for this is, they’re hot guys so they ought to be undressed.” 

> Wakabayashi (cont. but now more so about character design) “You shouldn’t be stingy when it comes to the power of naked hot guys. Gloves also shouldn’t be normal gloves! If the gloves don’t follow through to this point, why bother? Frills are also aristocratic so the original design of Lio was even more amazing.” Lio’s jacket was once designed to be more white lace at one point. (Maybe meaning these images?)

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That’s all I got for now! Thank you for reading and or sharing! All sources came via translations on twitter and google docs and hurting my head reading white text on black backgrounds!

[matoitech]

any new promare stuff whether its official art or merch or news (no trivia for a couple yrs) electrifies my autism brain with a cattle prod

[doushikazuki]

Got another batch to share with all of you!  A few more random concept art, and a lot more Kray this time.

Don’t worry, this book is LONG, like this post, so there’s still plenty to share!

Enjoy! :D

I love the little Lio on top of the dragon head, so fucking epic man.

Got a little bit of blue in there too! And what looks like the evolution of Galo’s mohawk? XD

I love all the outfits for Lio too, so cute to see how he came along. ALSO JUST NOTICED THAT ONE WITH THE CHAIN OR SOMETHING CONNECTING THE LEGS OF THE PANTS WHAT D:

So much Kray man... but I think in the next batch I do there are the other people, so look forward to it! :D

[doushikazuki]

So... I underestimated just how much is in this book, so I’m gonna have to upload these in batches over a few days XD (work and stuff, you know) But here’s a few for you guys!

You can definitely see the Gurren Lagann influence in this early concept art of Galo. God, he’s so hot, no matter what the design...

I’ll put the rest behind a read more, since there are quite a few!!

MORE TO COME!!! ENJOY!!!

I saw this at a Studio Trigger panel and Koyama and Imaishi showed this to us, very early Galo, Lio and Aina. Incredible how far their designs came along...

That last one looks JUST like Simon, right???

And pretty sure the animal is what Vinny was originally gonna look like. XD

Don’t worry, there are plenty more!! Look forward to them! :D

[doushikazuki]

Oh- Here’s one more I wanted to share! Not sure how many were interested, but it’s probably the closest thing we’ll get to a height chart for a while?? Galo and Lio are so close in height there! XD And i love his shirt.... ugh.

And I don’t recognize the guy on the bottom right... did I miss something? I saw the movie 5 times and i don’t know who that is XD

Anyway, that’s all for tonight!

[doushikazuki]

Got another batch of stuff from the Battle of Geekboat! Lots of concept art an sketches of Galo, Lio and Kray this time, and a bunch of random Mad Burnish designs. This is kind of a big batch, so I hope it doesn’t break tumblr. XD

I might have to do these in two posts, so I’ll put the rest up later. Enjoy these!! :D

I like the little braid that Galo has in the corner XD

And the detail on Galo’s mohawk... how he so hot?

Lio so small!!

THE LOOK ON GALOS FACE IN THE LAST ONE

That’s all for now! The rest will be in another post!

[matoitech]

ok i guess if we’re talking abt british lio i will say that i do not believe in it and i think trigger doesnt have good jokes <3