 I guess, if synthwave were an anime, it'd probably be it. Hey everybody, welcome back to the channel, Geo here, and today we're going to be talking about the movie Promare done by, or co-produced, I should say, by Studio Trigger and X-Flag, and of course put out by Toho Animation. This came out in May of 2019, and it is a film directed by the team, the epic team, I should add, Hiroyuki Imaishi, and of course written by Kazuki Nakashima. Now if you know your production individuals and staff in the anime world, you know that these guys just produced top quality theories, such as Good and Lagann and Kill la Kill. It has a very distinct and familiar style if you're used to shows like that. Very similar character models, with mechanical designs in overall world, and the color palette, it's all very similar to those previous works, but that's not necessarily a bad thing. And of course I have to mention that one of the best music composers from Japan, of course Hiroyuki Sawano, is working in the score of this film. If you don't know who Sawano is, just check out his line of work and the series that he composed and movies and stuff, and you'll find stuff that you've loved. Trust me on that one. So I do have to say, Promare right out of the gate, it just looks so stylish, so clean and gorgeous that I fell in love with the movie from the very first frames. I joked about it at the beginning of this video, how it's very synthwave inspired, and yeah, throughout the whole movie, the visual designs, the color of the flames, and then the backgrounds. When characters are in holding cells, with the line work in the cells and all that stuff, it just kept reminding me of synthwave from the music and all that style. All that vibe, neo-noir, neon colors, all that stuff, which I really love, I'm a huge fan of the whole synthwave thing. You're probably wondering just what the heck is the movie about? Well, let me tell you that 30 years prior to the start of the movie, Earth suffered a great disaster known as the Great World Blaze, where fires just formed a massive spontaneous human combustion, and small parentheses here, I chuckled wholeheartedly because I kept thinking, okay, this is synthwave meets fire force, so yay. Yeah, the Great World Blaze killed half the world's population, and certain humans that survived this event developed pyrachinetic abilities, and they became known as the burnish. However, the world doesn't view them lightly because there was such mass destruction, and they're discriminated upon, people are very racist towards them, and it doesn't help that a sect of the burnish formed sort of a terrorist group called the Mad Burnish. Now in present time, the character of Gallo lives in the city of Promopolis, and is a member of the firefighting group known as Burning Rescue, who respond to incidents involving the terrorist sect Mad Burnish. So that in a nutshell is premiere, but it is so much more than that. What soon follows is a really fantastic sci-fi epic story about these characters that, one, when it comes to the burnish, they are mistreated and several of them are locked up, and they face discrimination and racism, which really it will resonate with a lot of viewers and with our current world problems and world issues when it comes to that stuff. You also have a very optimistic, bombastic, spontaneous character in Gallo, and he wants to do good, he wants to be the best that he can be, and he wants to save people. When he comes across the Mad Burnish, he finds worthy opponents, and that soon escalates into them trying to liberate their former comrades and burnish citizens, if you will, or burnish people, and yeah, what starts out as a simple story, which is unusual for Studio Trigger, if you've seen their previous works, it soon goes cosmic in scale with talks of parallel universes and what exactly the burnish is and their superpower, because it's not the way it's stylized, it doesn't look like a regular flame, it's very pinkish pinkish violet and sort of greenish colored, and there's a reasoning for that to separate it from regular flames, I guess, and yeah, if you're not ready, the film will assault you with countless exposition dumps about the nature of the burnish, the nature of the world, and the perilous state it is in, which you soon find out thanks to the villain of the film, and one has to wonder if he's truly a villain, yes he does commit villainous acts, I'm not saying he's a saint, but his reasoning is not out of pure malice, if you will, which I thought was great, it's always fun to have a character like that which he can cross the line between good or bad, or like neutral good or chaotic evil, or however you want to do the whole diagram thing, I thought that was pretty clever, I thought that was pretty fun to see characters like that, and with the main characters of Gallo and Leo, the two of them at the beginning, and if you see the posters and stuff, you think there's gonna be this heated rivalry, but it sort of took another turn, which I really appreciated, and I thought that the film was better for it, if they would have kept these two characters at odds throughout the entire film, it wouldn't have been as special in my opinion, but definitely the movie has some very kick-ass action, it goes into very Guren Lagan vibes with its mechanical designs, because yeah there are mechanical, or I should say mecha robots in this, that will delight some fans. The character work for the most part, the film focuses on a select handful of characters, and in the limited time, because I do believe it was close to two hours, you do get some development, some of them are more tropey and the character beats are very stereotypical with a film like this, there's a intro scene and soon after you learn what both sides of the argument are really all about, and then you find a shocking revelation, and then the combat escalates, our heroes are pinned down, you know it follows that mechanic, but it does so in a very stylish way where you're not gonna care, and you're just gonna have a fun time, because the action's intense, the choreography on this thing is insane, all the fights literally gallop boards this robotic suit, because he's a rescuer, EMT firefighter or whatever, and it's used for rescuing people, but he's gonna use it to fight, he's fighting the Matt Burnish, and they're running across buildings, and he's using sort of like this staff reminiscent of ancient Japan, and their firefighters and all that stuff, which I thought was really dynamic, and it catches your eye, especially with the music and the synthwave vibe, and all that stuff. Meanwhile, the character of Leo is sort of your atypical co-lead or antagonist, he's very different, and when you find out his plight, and when you find out why he's doing the things he's doing, you sympathize for him, when you find out who the actual villain of the film is, that's what I meant earlier where, yeah, he's doing horrible things, but it all comes from a necessity to save the world, if you will, from impending doom. So, yeah, I wholeheartedly recommend it. I enjoyed Premiere in all its glitzing glamours, some of the supporting cast barely get any screen time or barely get any character development, which was a shame because they looked pretty interesting, but they're just there to fill a specific role, but at the end of the day, it doesn't matter. It's a fun story that in honor of all of Studio Trigger's works, it keeps escalating to a point where the world opens up and it just gets crazy bonkers, but in a good way, in like epic sorts of ways. I cannot recommend this film enough. If you get a chance, do pick up the Blu-ray, do watch the film. It is worth your time. If you've seen Premiere, let me know down below. Let me know what you thought of it, because I thought it was pretty wild and crazy in all the best ways. Thank you, everybody, for tuning in. Thank you so much for liking, commenting, subscribing and being a part of what we can geek them. I thank you so much. As always, you can follow me on your favorite social media platform, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, all that fun stuff. We can keep the conversation going over there as well. Also, before I go, remember to hit the little bell icon so you know when new videos pop up and you don't miss another video here at a week in Geekdom. All right, I have got to go. I've rambled far too long. I will catch all of you on our next review.