Anno working with different key members of the Evangelion and FLCL employees on a brand-new Gundam collection filled with teenage woman angst and robotic staff battles.
When there’s a brand new Gundam collection popping out, it’s just about a provided that Dawn, also called Bandai Namco Filmworks, goes to be the studio animating it. Predictably, the announcement for the latest Gundam anime TV collection opens with the Bandai Namco emblem, adopted instantly by Dawn’s.
What comes subsequent, although, isn’t one thing anybody was anticipating: the emblem for Khara, the animation studio based and run by Hideaki Anno, the creator of Evangelion.
Anno has been a busy man since placing a presumably everlasting interval on the Evangelion franchise with 2021’s Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a Time, making Shin Ultraman in 2022 and Shin Kamen Rider in 2023. He additionally lately revealed that he’s helming a brand new Area Battleship Yamato anime challenge. He’s nonetheless acquired the time and power to be a part of Japan’s greatest mecha franchise of all, although, as he’s listed as a author for the upcoming Cellular Go well with Gundam GQuuuuuuX anime TV collection, whose reveal/preview video might be seen above.
▼ The GQuuuuuuX a part of Cellular Go well with Gundam GQuuuuuuX is transcribed phonetically in Japanese as “Jiikuakusu,” and is most probably meant to be pronounced in English equally to “gee quacks.”
Anno isn’t the one Khara luminary concerned with GQuuuuuuX, both. In truth, a lot of key roles are being stuffed by Khara employees, who additionally labored collectively at Gainax, Evangelion’s unique company mum or dad on Eva, FLCL, and Gunbuster 2: Diebuster. Directing GQuuuuuuX will likely be Kazuya Tsurumaki (director of the Rebuild of Evangelion motion pictures, the 2000 FLCL OVA collection, Gunbuster 2, and sure episodes of the Evangleion TV collection and its compilation motion pictures). Yoji Enokido (author of the second, third, and fourth Rebuild motion pictures, FLCL, Gunbuster 2, and choose episodes of Evangelion and Sailor Moon S and SuperS) can also be listed as a author for GQuuuuuuX, together with his identify previous Anno’s within the twin credit score. Lastly, the mecha designer for the brand new Gundam collection is Ikuto Yamashita, who additionally dealt with the Evangelion mecha designs.
▼ GQuuuuuuX can also be the identify of the brand new collection’ hero Gundam.
The producers describe the story with:
Amate Yuzuriha is a high-school pupil dwelling peacefully in an area colony floating in outer house. When she meets a warfare refugee named Nyaan, Amate is drawn into the unlawful cell swimsuit dueling sport often known as Clan Battle. Below the entry identify “Machu,” she throws herself into fierce battle day after day, piloting the GQuuuuuuX. Then an unidentified Gundam cell swimsuit pursued by each the house pressure and the police seems earlier than her, together with its pilot, a boy named Shuji. Now their world is about to enter a brand new period.
GQuuuuuuX would be the second consecutive Gundam TV anime with a teenage woman as its protagonist, following Cellular Go well with Gundam: The Witch from Mercury. It’s additionally the second Gundam TV collection in a row to eschew the common navy, insurgent pressure, and mercenary band eventualities that make up the majority of the franchise’s narratives, and contemplating the previous work of the GQuuuuuuX directing and writing crew, it’s not a shock to see the preview video adopting a moody, contemplative ambiance of youthful unease and id disaster.
There’ll, although, after all even be mannequin kits, with one already being previewed.
No premiere date has been introduced but for Cellular Go well with Gundam GQuuuuuuX, however a “theatrical model utilizing re-edited episodes,” to be titled Cellular Go well with Gundam GQuuuuuuX -Starting- is scheduled for launch in Japanese theaters on January 17, so it’s most likely a secure wager that the collection will start airing on Japanese TV someday in 2025.
Supply: Gundam official web site
High picture: YouTube/GundamInfo
Insert photographs: Gundam official web site (1, 2), YouTube/GundamInfo
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