First off, when exactly does Innocent Aces take place with regard to the Sky Crawlers movie?
Jimmy Soga, Product Manager: The game is a prequel to the movie. In the film there are these special pilots called “Kildren,” who are destined to live eternally in their adolescence. The game takes place when these Kildren are integrated into the war and start to replace the adult pilots. The game will be told from the perspective of one of the adult rookie pilots, codenamed “Lynx,” who becomes involved in this special military project with the goal of making pilots immortal. You’ve mentioned the protagonist, Lynx, a number of times, but I don’t think we’ve seen him in any official media yet. Is it even a guy? It’s not Maumi, is it? No, the protagonist Lynx is not Maumi Orishina. He’s one of the last adult rookie pilots to join the war and is working his way up the ranks through the various missions. You won’t see any character art for him since most the game is set through his — which also happens to be the player’s — point of view. Sky Crawlers (the movie) was very much about depicti
