A new Gundam project titled Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX has been announced, and it will be a collaboration between Studio Khara and Sunrise. The anime will be directed by Kazuya Tsurumaki (Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a Time), with script by Yoji Enokido and Hideaki Anno. This marks the first collaboration between Studio Khara, known for the Evangelion series, and Sunrise, the studio behind the Gundam franchise.
The main voice cast for the anime includes:
- Tomoyo Kurosawa as Amate Yuzuriha (MACHU)
- Yui Ishikawa as Nyaan
- Shimba Tsuchiya as Shuji Ito
The TV anime will air January 2025. Ahead of the series premiere, a special theatrical release titled Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX -Beginning- will release on January 17, 2025, at 373 theaters nationwide. This version will have select episodes reworked into a cinematic experience.
The story is described:
Amate Yuzuriha is a high-school student living peacefully in a space colony floating in outer space. When she meets a war refugee named Nyaan, Amate is drawn into the illegal mobile suit dueling sport known as Clan Battle. Under the entry name “Machu,” she throws herself into fierce battle day after day, piloting the GQuuuuuuX. Then an unidentified Gundam mobile suit pursued by both the space force and the police appears before her, along with its pilot, a boy named Shuji.
You can read the characters’ introduction below.
Amate Yuzuriha (MACHU)
A high-school student whose real name is Amate Yuzuriha. Machu has always felt that her daily life in a peaceful colony was somehow false. After meeting Nyaan, she becomes the pilot of the GQuuuuuuX and begins participating in Clan Battle.
Mobile suit: GQuuuuuuX
Nyaan
A courier who smuggles illegal goods. When Nyaan’s homeland was turned into a battlefield and she became a refugee, she escaped her colony alone in a petit mobile suit, with no time to even check on the safety of her family. Luckily, she was picked up by a ship and brought to a colony that Machu lives. Her highest priority is her own survival.
Shuji Ito
A mysterious boy who appears before Machu and Nyaan. Shuji is wanted by the military police for painting graffiti all over the outer walls of the colony. He participates in Clan Battle in order to earn money for a certain purpose, and becomes Machu’s Mav.
The full staff list for the Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX anime includes:
- Original Story: Hajime Yatate, Yoshiyuki Tomino
- Director: Kazuya Tsurumaki
- Script: Yoji Enokido, Hideaki Anno
- Animation Character Design: Yumi Ikeda, Shie Kobori
- Animation Mechanical Design: Sejoon Kim
- Supervising Character Animation Director: Yumi Ikeda, Shie Kobori
- Supervising Mechanical Animation Director: Sejoon Kim
- Design Works: Toshiaki Ihara, Mahiro Maeda
- Concept Art: Hajime Ueda
- Direction: Daizen Komatsuda, Toko Yatabe
- Character Animation Director: Hidenori Matsubara, Mayumi Nakamura, Shuichi Iseki
- Mechanical Animation Director: Shingo Abe, Gen Asano
- Detail Works: Tatsuya Tanaka
- Animation Checker: Yasuhito Murata
- Digital Animation Checker: Mayuko Kanosue (Studio EIGHTCOLORS), Ayaka Miura, Emi Nakano
- Color Designer: Akiko Inoue (Wish)
- Color Setting/Check: Saeko Kushima (Wish), Hiromi Okamoto
- Special Effects: Shin Inoue
- Art Director: Hiroshi Kato (TOTONYAN)
- Assistant Art Director: Chihiro Goto (TOTONYAN)
- CGI Director: Takashi Suzuki
- CGI Animation Director: Masanori Iwasato, Shiguma Morimoto
- CGI Modeling Director: Shintaro Wakatsuki, Ryosuke Kusudo
- CGI Technical Director: Shunsuke Kumagai
- CGI Art Director: Hiroyasu Kobayashi
- Graphic Design Director: Kayoko Zama
- Visual Development Director: Yohsuke Chiai
- Composition Director: Tomoyuki Shiokawa (T2 Studio)
- Composition Advisor: Susumu Fukushi (T2 Studio)
- VFX Director: Hiroaki Yabe
- Look Development: Nanae Hirabayashi, Yoko Miki
- Editor: Emi Tsujita
- Music: Yoshimasa Terui, Masayuki Hasuo
- Sound Director: Haru Yamada (Sound Team Don Juan)
- Sound Design: Naoto Yamaya (Sound Box)
- Main Producer: Yuki Sugitani
- Executive Producer: Naohiro Ogata
- Production Desk: Hayato Tanaka
- Digital Production Desk: Kohei Fujiwara
- Production: Studio Khara/Sunrise
Gundam is a Japanese mix-media franchise that focuses on mecha robots, created by SUNRISE and Yoshiyuki Tomino. The franchise officially premiered on April 7, 1979, with the Mobile Suit Gundam anime series. It is celebrating its 45th anniversary this year. In addition to the popular anime series and spin-offs, the franchise also has manga, novels, video games, and, of course, the popular toys.
The latest addition to the franchise was the Gundam: Requiem for Vengeance animated project. It was a a joint collaboration between SUNRISE and SAFEHOUSE, Inc, and it premiered on Netflix on October 17. There are also the ALC ENCOUNTER anime that recently premiered, as well as the upcoming Mobile Suit Gundam: SEED FREEDOM ZERO anime, which is set between the SEED FREEDOM movie and after the SEED DESTINY anime.
Source: Official Website
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