Info dump
[EDIT] Here, have a line drawing of Katashiro in his speedo (I think this is from the same magazine, lol):
[EDIT] tl;dr version:
- Enokido confirms the Little Prince references.
- They’ve decided on the ending!
- Southern Cross Academy is a cover for the Crux and the Cybody shit (this is probably why no one in the school administration pays much mind to their shenanigans)
- The Crux only just got the Cybercaskets working/figured out by the first episode. This is why they only just decided to break Fishy’s seal even though they seem to have had her for a while.
- There are MANY paintings of that girl all over the campus
- There are many paintings by the same artist in the Shindou house as well
- The Crux fake marks are not just on the masks, they physically mark their drivers with the fake marks. The process is very painful. (it’s unclear whether this part is referring just to the bit when they appriviose and scream when the collar locks on their neck or if this is something done earlier)
I *think* this comes from Voice Bishounen but I’m really not sure because 2ch is, as usual, shit at sourcing things. Someone posted a txt doc with a bunch of excerpts so here:
Excerpted:
Hidaka: Mizuno seems like the type who’d try to get to school on the roof of the bus… (the rest omitted)
Enokido: Later, when I was thinking up another “Galactic Pretty Boy”-like phrase, I was suddenly reminded of Saint-Exupéry’s “The Little Prince.” It was a story that had a simply sparkling world, and also words like “star / galaxy” and “prince / pretty boy” have really similar feels somehow (lol). So, that’s why “apprivoise” was the word that established the naming motif. [Note: the Little Prince is called "The Prince of the Stars" in Japanese]
Igarashi: Now, we’ve decided how we want to end it, so now we’re discussing how it’ll unfold as we go. (the rest omitted)
Igarashi: Psychological trauma, like the secret (Takuto) is trying to conceal and so on, are all lumped together in “adolescence.” (the rest omitted)
Cybercasket: An apparatus developed by the Glittering Crux to control the Cybodies. (part omitted) The members’ masks are the ignition keys*.
(next to an image of a mark on a Cybercasket collar) There’s an artificial mark on the Driver’s neck.
A secret project to revive the Cybodies sealed in the alternate dimension, Zero Time, in the real world began and the secret society aiming to complete it, the Glittering Crux Brigade, was formed.
Southern Cross Academy was established as camouflage for the project, the Glittering Crux and the underground ruins.
As a result of many years of research, the Crux developed a technique to manipulate the restrained Cybodies and finally broke the seal to advance to the next stage. (the rest omitted)
Enokido: In order to apprivoise and pilot a Cybody, one needs a “mark.” The Crux researched how to create artificial “marks” and, in the first episode they were finally ready to make their move, well, the story begins at the point where they’re [wondering] whether they should go ahead and break the seal they’ve got or not. (the rest omitted)
Enokido: A Cybody in the real world would probably outclass any weapons we have presently. In order to conceal a power that could change the world, naturally, many nations agencies and companies and so come together, and money is poured into the school––it’s something going on behind closed doors. The normal students don’t know anything about it, but, at the same time, it’s an academy where the members of the secret organization and people who know of its existence, could even change the future of the Earth. (the rest omitted)
Igarashi: (The Crux) is trying to release the Cybodies from their prison––but [they? we?] still don’t have a clear idea as to what end.
The initial “R”: There are several portraits of a certain girl on the premises of Southern Cross Academy. (part omitted) It appears that the Shindou estate is in possession of a number of works by the same artist.
Marks: They naturally appear on the bodies of Maidens and Cybody Drivers like birth marks. (part omitted)
They’re evidence that someone has apprivoised a Cybody, but the Star Drivers in the Crux don’t have real “marks,” skin is forced into an artificial mold to give them the qualifications to Drive, it’s extremely painful.
*- Ok, literally this says “activation equipment”
Original:
一部抜粋 ・日高 ミズノはバスの屋根に乗って通学したりするらしいんですが…(以下略) ・榎戸 あと、もうひとつ”銀河美少年”と言う単語を思いついた時、 ふと、サン＝テグジュペリの『星の王子さま』のことも思い浮かんだんです。 単純にキラキラとした世界を持った作品だし、それに「星/銀河」、 「王子さま/美少年」って、なんとなく言葉のイメージも近いしね(笑)。 だから、「アプリボワゼ」という言葉を筆頭に、ネーミングのモチーフに 使わせてもらったりもしてます。 ・五十嵐 今は最終的な着地点も決まっていて、そこにどんな展開で持っていくか、 話し合っている途中です。(以下略)。 ・五十嵐 (タクトは)隠しておきたい秘密とか、心の中のトラウマみたいなものも、 全部ひっくるめて”青春”だと捉えてる。(以下略)。 ・電気柩：サイバディを操るために綺羅星十字団が開発した装置。(一部略)。 団員が着けている仮面が起動装置。 ・(電気柩の首輪のシルシの画像より)ドライバーの首には人工の「シルシ」がある。 ・ゼロ時間という特殊な空間に封印されたサイバディを、通常空間へと 復活させるための極秘プロジェクトが立ち上がり、その遂行を担う秘密結社 ──綺羅星十字団が結成された。 南十字学園は、このプロジェクトと綺羅星十字団、そして地下遺跡の存在を カモフラージュするために創立された学園だったのだ。 長年の研究の結果、制限つきでサイバディを操る技術を開発した綺羅星十字団は、 ついにその封印を解く段階へと進む。(以下略)。 ・榎戸 サイバディにアプリボワゼして動かすためには、「シルシ」が必要。 綺羅星十字団はその「シルシ」を人工的に作る研究をしていて、 1話の段階でようやく動かす準備が整い、じゃあ、いろいろと仕掛けられてる 封印を解除しようか──という時点から物語が始まる。(以下略)。 ・榎戸 ゼロ時間から現実の空間に出たサイバディは、おそらく現状のどんな兵器をも 凌ぐほどの力を発揮する。 世界の趨勢を変えてしまうような力が秘められてるわけで、当然、 各国の機関とか財閥とかの注目を集めているし、学園に対してお金を出したり、 秘密裏に動いている存在もある。 一般の生徒たちは、何も知らないけれど、他方で、秘密組織のメンバーや その存在を知っている人にとっては、地球の未来さえ変えてしまう 可能性を持った学園(以下略)。 ・五十嵐 (綺羅星十字団は)サイバディを牢獄から解き放とうとしている──その結果 何が起こるか、はっきりと分からないままにね。 ・イニシャル「R」：南十字学園の敷地内には、とある少女の肖像画が複数展示されている。 (一部略)。シンドウ邸でも、同じ作者の絵を何枚か所蔵しているらしい。 ・シルシ：南十字島に住む四方の巫女たちと、サイバディのドライバーの体に 自然とあらわれる痣のようなもの。(一部略)。 サイバディとアプリボワゼしている証でもあるのだが、綺羅星十字団に所属する スタードライバーには、生粋の「シルシ」がなく、人工的に型を皮膚に押し付けて ドライブする資格を得ており、その際に多大な苦痛が伴う。
