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Behind the Scenes of "INTO THE BLUE"

“INTO THE BLUE” was produced in 1986, during the second year of DAC’s production activities. The location was a room in an apartment in Yagiyama Honcho, which Mori was renting at the time. A total of six PC-9801 computers were borrowed from friends just for the summer vacation to perform rendering day and night. Five of the PC-9801s were equipped with the floating-point arithmetic coprocessor i8087.

Nakagawa created the storyboards for the story animation. They have been revised several times.

The storage media was a 2DD 5-inch floppy disk (720KB). Even then, it was the media with the largest storage capacity available. The price was probably several thousand yen for a box of 10 disks (which was quite expensive for poor students). The 3.5-inch floppy disk had not yet been appeared. We recorded the rendered images onto about 100 of these floppy disks for filming, but not all images could fit, so we had to reuse them.

This is a panoramic view of the room. (The person lying down in the bottom left is Mori.) The 9801s are arranged in a circle around the chair due to the placement of the keyboards and monitors. The black computer case and keyboard in the bottom right corner are the FM77AV. If you look closely, you can see the parallel I/F card that Nakagawa made inserted there.