Just as Zhu Chi and Nakata Satoshi were shoving each other over the outsourcing issue and being misunderstood by their female coworker,
elsewhere, Gu Xue had finished two more cuts of key animation, but she simply couldn't keep going. She took off her earbuds, tossed them aside, and pulled out her storyboard.
As Mihara had said, she did still have one shot left to finish.
The explosion when the Mother Queen landed in episode eleven of Invasion.
At first, she hadn't been sure there'd be enough time. Now that it looked like she had plenty, she decided to make the scene bigger.
Yeah, she'd draw a nuclear explosion.
It wasn't a spur-of-the-moment decision. She'd decided on it as soon as she saw the script; otherwise, she wouldn't have asked Misawa Hiroshi to give her this explosion cut.
She even had a rough idea of exactly what it should look like.
The nuclear explosion theme song.
In other words, aLIEz.
A lot of people had probably heard it, but the reason the song was called the nuclear explosion theme was, first of all, that its climax really was explosive. Calling it a nuclear explosion wasn't wrong. But the main reason it was known as the nuclear explosion theme was...
Its composer, Sawano Hiroyuki, gave his songs such tongue-twisting names that they looked like something he'd named by rolling his face over a keyboard. No one could remember them.
So people had to give them easier nicknames.
Most of Sawano Hiroyuki's songs were insert songs, opening themes, or ending themes for anime. Viewers would come up with nicknames based on the animation. Probably the most famous was the insert song βο from Guilty Crown. The first time it played, the protagonist held a girl in his arms and drew his sword. The