Trigger-verse feats, lore & respect discussion

There will be an upcoming interview with Hiroyuki Imaishi and Kazuki Nakashima regarding Promare and it's 5th anniversary. If it will have any juicy lore reveals remains to be seen...

According to the booklet that came with the special edition of Promare, the Parnassus is 5km long (the same length as Arc Gurren; previously I calced the Parnassus to be much bigger, but I feel 5km is a much more reasonable number). Nakashima notes that the entire ship was originally going to transform into a robot, but as that was too big for the story (or at least the story at that point, given Galo de Lion is far bigger), they settled with only the bridge transforming. What's more, Nakashima put forth that the warp gate would look like a cigarette burn (perhaps as the Promare flames burn a hole into the fabric of reality).
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Nakashima: From there, it expanded to, "The bike is like this, and the action is like this...". That's when I also discussed the fact that the Parnassus becomes a robot in the second half. I had always been told that the Parnassus would become a robot, and I had written it with that in mind, but when I said, "Actually, I haven't fully understood it. After all, that robot is too big for this story," they aid, "Well, let's make the bridge transform."
Imaishi: From our perspective, it would have been nice if a big rock could transform (laughs). Of course, we also wanted a spaceship to transform, but doing that would make the level of realism quite questionable (laughs).
Nakashima: When you transform something that is five kilometers long, you have to think about how to get there and all that. But the moment we realized that the bridge would transform and fight the robots on the deck, we thought, "This is the composition." Everyone came up with all sorts of ideas at once, and I even suggested that it would be interesting if the warp gate in the warp scene had holes like cigarette burns, and then had more holes in it. In the end, the holes became triangular.

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Reupload of a scan from the Tagro manga, which confirms the Tagro manga takes place in a different dimension (the manga features journeys to outer space in two chapters, one being across the galaxy and another to the Moon). This means that PSG is a multiverse in and of itself (abet one of unknown size).

Delicious in Dungeon has a crossover with Arknights! As per most crossovers beyond Trigger, I've a feeling this almost certainly isn't canon (unless of course, those versions are used).

Panty & Stocking make a cameo in the Gurren Lagann manga.

New PSG characters! Polyester and Polyurethane are two bishounen angel brothers, sent from Heaven.

A new angel, a new angel It was announced on stage today!Look forward to the adventures of the new characters, the polyester and polyurethane angel brothers, who appear in "New PANTY & STOCKING with GARTERBELT"!

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New character revealed ◢||New PANTY & STOCKING with GARTERBELTThe elder brother of the new angel brothers sent from heavenPolyester | CV. #榎木淳弥The younger brother of the new angel brothers sent from heavenPolyurethane | CV. #上村祐翔

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The VAs for Polyester and Polyurethane previously worked on Space Patrol Luluco, Star Wars Visions: The Twins and Darling in the Franx.

The role of Polyester will be played by Enoki-kun, who worked on "Space Patrol Luluco" and "STAR WARS VISIONS: THE TWINS", and the role of Polyurethane will be played by Uemura-san, who worked on "Darling in the Franxx"

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Mariya Ise (the VA for Stocking) says that Panty and Stocking will return in July (in time for my birthday!), more powerful than before.

Thank you for the New Panty&Stocking with Garterbelt special stage
The broadcast is scheduled for July 2025!!
Please look forward to the sisters returning even more powerful than before!!

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Kazuki Nakashima says that the idea for the Promare fire lifeforms came from the short story Story Of Your Life (which the movie Arrival is based off), and how communicating with different cultures can be a nuisance, even if done with friendly intentions; thus did the idea of the fire lifeforms communicating via burning was born (although I must say, that does seem like more than a mere nuiscanse).

映画『メッセージ』の原作小説である『あなたの人生の物語』を読んでいたときに、『文化が違う相手とのコミュニケーションにおいては、友好的な気持ちからだったとしても、その方法次第では相手にとって迷惑になることもあるんだな』という印象を受けたんです。


『では炎が生命で、燃やすことがコミュニケーションならば、人間にとっては迷惑だろう』と。握手するだけで相手を燃やしてしまうわけですからね。

そういう発想から、炎生命体の使徒である〈バーニッシュ〉が生まれました。それに対応するのは消防士なので、火付けと火消しの対立という構図になったんです。だからミュータントありきで発想したわけではなく、異なる文化を持つ者同士のコミュニケーションの問題を扱うことからスタートしたんです」

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When I was reading 'Story of Your Life,' the original novel on which the movie Arrival was based, I got the impression that 'When communicating with people from different cultures, even if it is done with friendly intentions, it can be a nuisance to the other person depending on the method.'

"So if fire is life and burning is communication, it must be a nuisance for humans." After all, just shaking hands can burn someone.

From that idea, the Burnish, an apostle of fire-breathing lifeforms, was born. The counterpart to that is a firefighter, so the structure is a conflict between ignition and firefighting. So I didn't start with the idea of mutants, but started by dealing with the problem of communication between people of different cultures."

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So...going over some more old scans to reupload, as a thought has struck me.

According to the booklet which came with the SSSS.Gridman DVD & blu-ray, Alexis Kerib and Rikka's mother coming from outside the Computer World, and had both read the scripts for SSSS.Gridman beforehand.
As stated repeatedly by Akira Amemiya and Tetsu Inada, Alexis Kerib is Chief Overjustice, who is said to have wandered the universe/multiverse for thousands of years (this example being from Gridman Universe Super Complete Works).
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As for the backstory, the character Alexis Kerib is apparently the image direction had of Chief Overjustice of Space Patrol Luluco, a work he also worked on. He ended up as this after wandering alone for thousands, tens of thousands of years. So, I think that in the final episode of "SSSS.GRIDMAN," he was hit by the Fixer Beam and returned to being Chief Overjustice lol. In the movie, when Akane first used Instance Domination, I included a "Shaa!" like Ultraman voice, but during the test I shouted "Justice!" as loud as I could. If you're asking whether it was good or bad, it's no (lol).

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In Gridman Universe, it's noted that a work of fiction can infact a real universe (and that people believing in stories and feeling emotions over them makes them real). This is relevant to the main story as the Dynazenon universe (and all the Gridman spinoff universes) were created by Gridman in his mind.

"I still don't understand? I've been told that I'm an artificial person."
"It doesn't matter, even if it's fake."
Utsumi asserts as if he's blown away. He and Rikka lived in this city created by the gods without any change even after learning the truth.
Eat, go to school, play with friends, take a bath, sleep, and wake up in the morning.
Since I am living as a human without any problems, there is nothing to swallow my roots now."
The very fact that they thought so their strength.
"That's right. You don't just believe in facts. Gossip, myths, connections between nations and people, etc. - You like believing in things that have no form, right? You expand the community with the power to believe in fiction, and continued to evolve on this planet..."
Hearing the monster girl's profound speech, Yuta is taken aback.
"Utsumi cried watching the hero show, and I cried when I saw the drama club stage, the fictional story was unmistakable reality for us."
"You are the only life forms that can believe in fiction."
The monster girl smiled with a gentle voice that made her envious.
Humans believe fiction, and believe the world out there.
For example, suppose a person is watching a TV drama at home.
The drama that humans perceive as a fictional creation may actually be a universe that is as large as the world of humans who consider themselves to be real inhabitants.
Conversely, a write who thinks he is writing a novel in reality may actually be a fictitious character who has been given the role of a novelist in a certain creative work.
Alternatively, a completely different world may live in the electronic device called a personal computer. There may be as many of them as there are machines in the world.
In all those worlds, there are living beings.
Even if it is a fictional life, it lives like a real existence. There is joy and sorrow, there is joy and pain.
Knowing that - The girl of god was crushed by a sense of guilt and broke her heart once.
"...I don't really know where the universe came from, or whether it's made-up..I think I've decided what I'm going to do."
Rikka smiled and agreed with Yomogi, who had decided what to do even though she wasn't satisfied with everything."Then, come with us."
It's not about facing something grand with heroic aspirations. Just do what you decide to do...

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So, not only does Gridman have some pretty blatant reality over fiction transcendence (possibly even multiple levels of said transcendence going by the above passage), but given how Chief Overjustice and Midori are not only in Gridman (as Alexis Kerib and Rikka's mother respectively), but they read the script first. This would seems to imply that to Midori and Overjustice, the world of Gridman is in and of itself a work of fiction (which already has at least one level of R > F transcendance, though likely more as the Second said that Yomogi watching a fictional TV show could connect with it and make it real), and thus Space Patrol Luluco would be currently the strongest Trigger series with the most levels into R > F. It's not 100% confirmation, but IMO it is some pretty solid evidence).

Star Wars Celebration in Japan later this month will feature Karre's X-Wing as exclusive merchandise (if Karre will return in Trigger's new installment for volume 3 of Visions, only time will tell).

Star Wars: Visions Micro Galaxy Squadron by Jazwares​

Tiny but mighty, this first-to-market X-wing is accompanied by its dedicated crew of Karre and R-duo, from the Star Wars: Visions Volume I short “The Twins.”

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Polyester is the older of the two angel brothers, while Polyurethane is the younger.

CV:榎木淳弥
天界からダテンシティに新たに遣わされた天使兄弟の兄。

CV:JUNYA ENOKI
The older angel brother.

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CV:上村祐翔
天界からダテンシティに新たに遣わされた天使兄弟の弟。

CV:YUTO UEMURA
The younger angel brother.

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Reupload of a very important scan from SSSS.Dynazenon Super Complete Works (and a fan translation by someone else, but which checks out); the kaiju seeds come from 20,000 years in the future, but somehow ended up in the past. These same seeds are used by Akane to grow her kaiju, as well as Goldburn growing from one after feeding from and latching to Chises emotions. Kaiju are connected to human emotions and grow from them (this is why they take humanoid forms, at least at first), whether they realise this is the case (such as Akane) or not (such as most of the kaiju in Dynazenon, who feed off the emotions of the people of the city, or even the planet.
(Original Japanese version)