Newtype 2011-06
Newtype_2011-06
Homura's shield
Homura and her hammer space shield. Seems that Gen wasn't really fond giving her only this as weapon, but after seeing the storyboards it seems that he liked the whole pulling machine guns out of nowhere dynamic. The producers also liked it.
More on the shield:
―――ほむらの能力设定をもう少し详しく教えてください
虚渊:
ほむらの盾に见えている武器が砂时计で、その砂の流れを遮断することで 时间をとめているんです。で、砂时计の上部分の砂が全部なくなった时点で ひっくり返すと1か月分の时间が戻る。それまでは止める事しかできない。 つまり、砂时计の1か月分の砂をやりくりする能力がほむらの特殊能力なんです。 まき戻った时间は…そこが主题の作品ではないので厳密には考えていませんが 世界は平行して分岐しているのかな、と思っています。
Q - Could you elaborate a bit more on the power of Homura?
Urobuchi - The weapon that looks like Homura's shield is actually a sand timer. When the flow of the sand is blocked, time is stopped. And when there is no sand on the upper part of the sand timer and then the timer is reverted, one month's worth of time is turned back. But before that stage is reached, only time stopping is possible. This means the special power of Homura is the ability to manipulate one month's time's worth of sand in the sand timer. As for the time passed and then turned back, since it was not the focus in this work I did not think it through very thoroughly. I think you can say that the world split up and became parallel worlds there.