Someone made a transcript of Episode's 1 commentary with Takaki, Kaneko, Iguchi and Izawa. Is an interesting read.
VDM BD 1 Audio Commentary, here we go. Reminder that this audio commentary is a special for first ep only, and that the people in the commentary were talking as they watched the first ep.
First is introduction, from Izawa, Iguchi, Kaneko and then ‘boobs lover, the big breast producer Takaki here’. Words of thank for buying the BD and other small talk. Both of the VA seems to be in charge of making sure that they would talk only about serious topic. Iguchi started by hoping that this commentary would delve further into the story and also able to share the creators’ passion. Izawa remind them that one of the purpose of this commentary is to share what is Valkyrie Drive to the people that doesn’t know anything about it and asked both Kaneko and Takaki to please explain it seriously, they said that they’re always serious, especially when it comes to boobs.
Iguchi said that this is actually the first time she met someone called ‘The Big Breast Producer’, turns out it’s actually just a title Takaki gave himself. Iguchi and Izawa asked to share the process of coming up with the story. Iguchi asked them how experienced they are with audio commentary. Takaki said that he’s Tokonome when it comes to this. Kaneko answer seriously that this is his first audio commentary, he also said that he’s very nervous. Unlike the radio where Iguchi calls Izawa ‘Mike-chan’, she normally calls her ‘Izawa-san’. Izawa have done audio commentary before, only one time though. ‘Tokonome ja nai!’ joke.
Izawa noted that the ‘Tokonome’ kanji is much bigger than she initially thought. In her script, she said that the name was small enough to be hidden by one hand. Iguchi add that it can’t be helped, it is a gym uniform. Then Izawa ask who came up with the ‘Tokonome’ name. Kaneko said that falls to Kuroda, the main writer. He said Kuroda handle the details while he focused on the upper level management and boobs. Izawa also asked Takaki how he came up with Bhikkhuni charas’ name. Takaki said he tried to give them names with flower theme. Iguchi the asked them who came up with the premise of girls turning to weapon and fight. Kaneko said he’s here for the boobs, meaning the premise is someone else idea, he didn’t mentioned any names though. Then Iguchi asked them about their favorite character. Kaneko’s favorite are Mirei and Mamori, he also said that he see two of them as one, as they are inseparable. Izawa thought that Kaneko was going to say N-cup. Iguchi forgot which chara have N-cup and Kaneko answers it immediately that it’s J. Takaki said that it’s very confusing to call someone that has N-cup ‘J’.
Kaneko said that both Mirei and Mamori are quite hard to draw. For Mirei that’s because her hair is too long, usually they would avoid giving ridiculously long hair to a character but Kaneko did it anyway because he love it. For Mamori is the eyes that is hard to draw. Kaneko said he received complaints from animator saying that Mamori’s eyes are difficult to draw. Then they turn to Takaki and asked him about his favorite chara. Takaki said that he was about to answer Mirei but then it overlapped with Kaneko. Beside Mirei he said he likes this operator girl. He said he likes glasses girl. No one but Kaneko heard that part so they all thought that Takaki likes a mob operator A. Only after Kaneko confirm whether he said glasses or not that they know he meant Kasumi. Guess he don’t know much about Mermaid.
Kaneko said that he tried to make sure that all of the action doesn’t seem weightless. He tried to make the action to look more realistic but in the end it still looked unrealistic with the flashiness. Then they got to Charlotte first nipslip. Iguchi is the first one to notice the nipslip, Kaneko said that Charlotte’s boobs movement animation was a craft only a master can do. Takaki note wouldn’t those kind of things hurt? Kaneko said that Charlotte was supposed to be a character with few screw loose, so she didn’t really care about that. Izawa said during recording she thought Charlotte to be the most guarded character, that she doesn’t really let others to see herself. Both Iguchi and Izawa were quite surprised by the amount of skin Charlotte exposed compared to other character. Iguchi add that there aren’t many show where we can see acting from boobs. Takaki questioned how would boobs act. Iguchi said that the boobs in VDM were very expressive.
Iguchi said the scene that leaves a lasting impression in her was in first ep drive scene, where Mirei looked at Mamori’s boobs very seriously. Kaneko said that Mirei in that moment were half of himself. Izawa said they pay extra attention to detail for the boobs movement. Like when they were recording, they receive lots of instruction to add a moan or two whenever the boobs jiggle. Same with sound effect. Kaneko said by adding those little details it could help the animators to draw better boobs jiggle.
Iguchi like Meifon for her wide range of expression, compared to other character, she seems much more expressive. Then she asked Kaneko whether he spent more effort to make sure that Meifon stay expressive. Kaneko said not at all. He said it’s fun to draw character making faces especially when it fits their personality.
Izawa really likes the Feste Castle design and asked Kaneko whether he came up with it, Kaneko bluntly said that he’s here only for the boobs, and that the design were up to the art director aesthetic. Originally the castle design were much leaner. There’s so much jiggling boobs in the show they kinda wish someone would count how many jiggles they have per episode. While talking about jiggling, Izawa asked Takaki about Bhikkhuni’s jiggling. Takaki said that of course they jiggle. Iguchi asked can the player touch them and Takaki answer of you can. Takaki said they tried to do whatever they can within the limit to make sure the boobs are perfect.
Izawa said that the S&M couple are very nice, Iguchi were taken aback. ‘Nice?That?!’. Izawa said that Mirei and Mamori have clear strong-weak balance, or in other words its clear who is the uke and who is the seme. Iguchi got very excited in this part. So she found the S&M couple that have similar balance with MireMamo and yet quite different to be interesting. Iguchi agrees, she also thought that the S&M couple drive scene to be impactful. Kaneko said that the moment the girl turned into an arm is different for each girls. Some might transform quietly and other can be intense like M Girl. He said he let the one that came up with the arm concept to do as he please while he focus on the boobs.
Iguchi got quite excited when MireMamo kiss. ‘Good, its very good’. Kaneko praises Iguchi with her ‘Fusion trance’ line. Saying that she sounds very cool while looking very seriously at nipples. Takaki said the way it glows kinda looks like E.T. and Kaneko joked that he actually used E.T. as inspiration for that part. Kaneko said that he was scolded by his superior with his original plan for that scene, so he have to change it. Originally, they didn’t drive inside pink atmosphere and Mamori’s face were not as comical, and more lewd. The MireMamo drive scene was supposed to be like S&M couple, where they just do lewd stuff and turn into arm, not in special pink vision thing.
After turning back to person Iguchi asked why is Mamori’s bra are like that, Kaneko said that so that it follows the reality. Like, to show that the drive scene truly happened in front of those crowds and not just a dream sequence. Iguchi asked them who came up with the ending because it doesn’t have the intensity the main story has. Kaneko said he was quite troubled deciding the ending visual, but the ending song creator gave him few advice. Iguchi and Izawa said that the chibi design in the ending is very cute and wished that they would make more merch with them. Iguchi add that she also want a mini-series like those 5 minutes show staring these chibi charas, but without the ecchi. Kaneko won’t be needed and Iguchi immediately add that ‘ecchi, let’s make it ecchi anime too’.
They have few seconds left and asked Kaneko and Takaki is there anything else they wanted to add. Kaneko said he already said oppai couple of times so he’s satisfied with it. Same with Takaki. And that’s it.
