>>3356600>G: What was it like when you first planned for "Promea"?>Wakabayashi: In my memory, I think that the next film was about to do "Yakuza's struggle".>G: Wrestling !? (Laughs)>Wakabayashi: After that, I think that it became a flow of trying to create a so-called "How To Train Your Dragon" kind of "friendship between boy and extraterrestrial" like to be considered as a theater work. Before the title "Promea", "Early Promea" was a story that "The character of the flame and the boy of the protagonist make the heart come true".>G: The flame comes out from that time.>Wakabayashi: That's right. In the "early promea", the main character is a kind-hearted boy, Rio, and a good rival like a boy named Garo with a hair like sloppy hair was together and put a sword in a heroine position at the waist, now "Senior female captain" of a unit like Burning Rescue. It was a story that there was a mascot-like character of a flaming creature there.This must be from the same period as the early art showed at Otakon -- middle school-age Lio and Garo in white uniforms, older Aina, and blue flying squirrel mascot critter Promare. IIRC that art had a robot in the background, wonder where the robot came from in the How To Train Your Promare phase of development.
