

I suspect may have been the original plan for the village from Episode 3, given that the same cloaked figures can be seen here (plus the whole opium den scene in Episode 3 that would fit right into a red light district like this one).

One of my favourite pieces is the first, which depicts the twins in an oppressively urban part of Wonderland, maybe something of a red light district, all neon and back alleys. The Wonderland of these concept sketches is a lot more populated than the one we got to see, which probably fell amiss of budgetary concerns. I’ll be using these screenshots throughout this post, but let’s talk about them here at the front. You see, the first FFU DVD features more than just concept art of the characters we know and tolerate: it also features incredibly early concept art, from when the show was going in a very different direction! As even the DVD goes out of its way to note, the twins actually do things in this original concept, and I hope whoever shot that down realizes they’re heavily responsible for the show’s low narrative quality.

Since I’m running out of DVD screenshots, I think I’m going to accelerate something I was going to put off until the end.
