The Ending of Outlaw Star

Warsie · Post by **Warsie** » 2007-06-12 11:38am

Okay; I was wondering about this.

In the first ending; you have a woman in the background a city? This kind've looks like some of the cities in Tenchi Muyo!. Any coincidence?

The second scene has the same person with some sort of gun and a ship in the background, is it damaged, is it okay?

There's the one with said person with a sword; it seems like she killed a bear or some sort of device; it seems as thehead popped open of something.

Then there's the scens with buildings floating in the air; is this from the universe or not?

Then there's the stuff in the second ending; say the solid ringe abournd a planet for an example; is this the Leyline or not?

Is this in-universe; or symbolic, or something else...

UCBooties · Post by **UCBooties** » 2007-06-12 12:39pm

It's just random fantasy and sci-fi pictures. They have nothing to do with Outlaw Star or anything else.

Spanky The Dolphin · Post by **Spanky The Dolphin** » 2007-06-12 01:46pm

Yeah, they have no relation whatsoever to the actual series: they're just unconnected pieces of science fantasy art.

Warsie · Post by **Warsie** » 2007-06-18 10:15pm

Oh; thank you...

Post by **Kuja** » 2007-06-19 02:14pm

A few of the women in the artwork look enough like Melfina that I wonder if they creators decided to keep some of their concept art on-hand and just made a slide show out of them for the endings.

Spanky The Dolphin · Post by **Spanky The Dolphin** » 2007-06-19 03:04pm

Not possible: the anime Outlaw Star was a direct adaptation of a couple of previous works, and I personally don't think they look or resemble anything like Melfina. It's science fantasy art that doesn't have any connection to the series.

Post by **Dalton** » 2007-06-19 07:06pm

Damn, I was wondering about this too for a while. Thanks, Spanky.

Spanky The Dolphin · Post by **Spanky The Dolphin** » 2007-06-19 08:09pm

No problem.

Specifically, the anime is based on the manga of the same name by Takehiko Ito, which itself was spun-off from a parody manga called Space Hero Tales (also called Future-Retro Hero Story).

While the anime seems to be "loosely based" on the manga, I did some rooting around on Google and was able to confirm that they shared the exact same style.

So yeah, that's pretty much final confirmation that the images in the ED don't have any real connection to the series itself.

DPDarkPrimus · Post by **DPDarkPrimus** » 2007-06-19 11:56pm

They sure are pretty, though.

I like both ED songs, too.

Haruko · Post by **Haruko** » 2007-06-22 03:45am

I always thought they were merely neat concept art related because they're space and fantasy themed.

UCBooties · Post by **UCBooties** » 2007-06-23 02:39am

Spanky The Dolphin wrote:No problem.

Specifically, the anime is based on the manga of the same name by Takehiko Ito, which itself was spun-off from a parody manga called Space Hero Tales (also called Future-Retro Hero Story).

A permutation of the "Future-Retro Hero Story" title made its way into the anime's logo. It says "Future Hero Next Generation" around the O of Outlaw Star.

Warsie · Post by **Warsie** » 2007-06-30 10:30pm

UCBooties wrote: A permutation of the "Future-Retro Hero Story" title made its way into the anime's logo. It says "Future Hero Next Generation" around the O of Outlaw Star.

Heh....thank for the reference, I now understood that.