>Their differing forms of justice reflected in opposite mirrors
>Clad in the Orbital Knights uniform, Slaine and his determination move the world.
The series writer Katsuhiko Takayama tells us this counterattack itself is what Director Aoki Ei wanted to draw out.
>From the 2nd cour on, Slaine was made the main character in a Picaresque novel-like fashion. The story piled up from the first cour and the warmed up characters were all something to make this reversal dramatic.
>However, the things motivating Slaine are not his own selfish desires. Everything he does is for Hime.
>Inaho and Slaine are really different, but because they are different, they are smiilar. The thing they share in common is that they simply just want to save Hime and they don't expect anything in return. In the sense that they both have their own beliefs of what is right they are both heroes.
>Never yelling it out in a loud voice, but you can feel the emotions kept in their chests. This "don't tell too much" style is Director Aoki's work's charm.
This is a work that brings in a wide variety of factors into one harmonius story so every script was hard to make, but the concept of "how much is cut off" became a problem. There was Urobuchi-san's original draft and I'm the type of person who can't write without knowing the ending so when I started writing the 13th episode, the final destination was already decided on. As for the characters, they didn't go as planned and instead I worked backwords and wrote them while thinking "what would this character do in this situation?".
>And on top of that, I leave gaps for the imagination on purpose. That the style of "don't tell too much".
>Some stuff about war that no one cares about. Then the 2 mm comment is here.
>Last interesting thing he said maybe: Anyway, the focus of the story was Inaho, Slaine, and Hime. This was decided on the beginning and that won't change even in the end.