Boku No Hero Academia Season 5 Episode 1 will be an original anime-only episode about an "emergency training" battle with Class A vs Nejire + Tamaki, who will be playing "villains who infiltrated U.A."
Here's the full summary from Yahoo Japan!
Season 5 starts 3/27 at 5:30pm JT!
The filler episode sounds similar to the BNHA Hero Fes 2020 drama story where Deku & co. are whisked away to a dream world where they have to fight the Big 3, who are villains in the story as well. Here's my thread about it back in October 2020:
The FF7R Orchestra Concert live tweets from me will be in this thread! I'll use the hashtag #FF7ROC so everyone can keep track with info from the concert as it happens!
Here's the entire Set List, which includes an intermission in between.
Let's mosey!✨
Based on the Set List, the orchestra seems like it will be at least 2 hours long, perhaps longer with the Encore and Intermission.
Any announcements or surprise guests will likely be towards the end of the concert.
The Square Enix Music official page has released a screenshot of what the special program looks like. This one is of Cloud and it asks the question (to Toriyama):
"What was the reason you had when making this song to use mainly during battle scenes?"
FF7R Producer Kitase and Co-Director Hamaguchi talked a bit about Part 2 during the CEDEC conference! Here's the excerpt's translation.
Kitase mentions for Part 2, they want to deliver something that will live up to everyone's expectations but also throw them off, in a good way.
It took me a while to translate Kitase's quote because I was having trouble finding the right words to translate 「いい意味で裏切る」(literally "a betrayal in a good way"). I interpreted it as surprising the audience by going beyond their expectations but to "throw them off."
Here's the Japanese transcription of that part of his quote: そこには原作知ってるからこそ思ったものを届けられる場合もあれば、もっと「あ、こうなってたんだ」の驚きもあったり、期待に答えるのといい意味で裏切るのとっていうのを原作があるからこそ、そこうまく表現し楽しみに変えられる作品
All right CEDEC+ Kyushu 2020 Online, let's see what interesting info about the FF7R development Kitase and Hamaguchi have to say!
I'll post highlights or interesting info starting now! The event has started, and you can sign up here to get the event link: peatix.com/event/1750894/…
MC Question: How did the Remake become an actual thing?
Kitase: It was a decision made after speaking with Nomura and Hashimoto. In particular, Hashimoto mentioned he always wanted to make a game like Advent Children, and it became a project after much discussion.
Kitase says that tons of people thought that the first PV for FF7R was for another movie, but when they put the FF7 Meteor logo at the end, he thinks lots of people probably lost their minds that it would be a game lol.
Interesting bits from a 15 page interview on FF7R that's released in tomorrow's Famitsu:
-The next installment is already in full development
-They couldn't go further with the Madam M massage scene otherwise ratings would go up
-Roche was supposed to have a battle in Ch. 14
Just gonna reply to this thread with a compilation of other new info tidbits: