Through the last 45 years of the history of a mecha anime, Gundam were not afraid of both imagining alternative riffs about their iconic primary timeline-whether across re-imagines of its story, alternate scenes, or highly inspired Alternate timelines and settings“On the day it is expanding completely on it.” But the latest entry,, Gundam gquuuuuxMaybe go for one of the boldest one, yet we’ll see on screen, and we finally have a little more information, what it looks like.
A few short weeks after the Japanese release of Mobile suit Gundam Gquuuuuux StartA theater compilation of the early episodes of the series with new material, Bandai and Khara have formally raised the lid About a series of projects and information on the configuration of the mysterious new show – confirming what was reportedly and fiercely speculated by anyone who has passed cuts from images over the past few months that yes, Gquuuuux is actually a reissue of the events of GundamThe iconic timeline “Universal Century”, from perspective, where the Principality of Zeon won the war presented in the 1979 anime rather than the Earth Federation.
The new information confirms that Gquuuuux is set in the year 0085, just over half a decade after the end of the one -year war, which formed much of the world construction for the original Gundam. This -times around, Char aznable successfully manages to steal the prototype of the Gundam federation – a Recon mission we saw in the south in GundamIt’s a very first episode – demanding it for Zeon, who continues to retrofit its advanced technology and use the Gundam to turn the tide of the conflict in favor. And of course, because being char, he paints the cursed thing in the process.
Mobile suit Gundam Gquuuuux Mecha and zeon -roles
By 0085, because it is apparently nowhere to be found-but the red Gundam, as it is now called, reappears in the Earth’s sphere, participating in underground mobile suits at the colony Gquuuuux star Machu calls home. As well as new look at both classic and zeon forms of the Gundam RX-78-2-re-imagined by Gospel Mechanical designer Ikuto Yamashita as something completely more skeletal and as the frame of a prototype compared to the armored form of the classic aesthetics – the new material also includes a look at the layout of the iconic Zeon Grunt suit, the Zaku, given curved armor trades over similar Lean inner frame, as well as several plot Zeon -characters beyond Char itself. Those Include Challia BullNewtype Zeon officer, who appeared in a later episode of the 1979 anime to help set the stage for its exploration of Psionically enhanced pilotsand two new young officers from various Zeon war academies, Xavier Olivette and Comoli Harcourt.
The studio has also revealed a few more characters, who also call the side 6 -colonial home, which Machu later meets while she is wrapped in the world of “clan battles” in the form of Kaneban Co property owners, a young businessman acting as a front for Recruitment pilots into the underground fighting scene – including Adorable Pomerania, who acts as a corporate pet, and two small robots, one new (Konch, a Cuban little robot seen in the trailers with Shuji, the new pilot of the Red Gundam), and one very familiar , who was part of Gundam From the beginning).
Mobile suit Gundam Gquuuuux Colonial characters
While Gundam Diehards had some time to consider exactly what it just means for the new show directly to push the original Gundam So – a ReconstructIf you want, given the previous work of the director Kazuya Tsurumaki Gospel Re-imagining movie series– This is the first time that the studio has really shown what it cooks to the world beyond Japanese theaterists. Just as everything comes together remains visible, but in many ways, Gundam talked to himself since the franchise was saved from apparent destruction, from As descendants The first show developed the history of the Universal Century and its cyclical conflicts, as myriad alternate universes in the franchise have since handled its premise and greatest questions in his way. What Gquuuuux makes it may be more direct, but it is still part of that wider re -examination conversation GundamHeritage: An idea that is full of potential, and mature for research in a project, which was explicitly announced in celebrating the franchise’s latest anniversary.
Mobile suit Gundam Gquuuuuux Start is set to Come to US theaters In a limited capacity later this month on February 28th. The television anime is expected to start broadcasting in Japan this time.
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