The anime studio Sunrise confirmed in a live project
announcement stream on Wednesday that it is producing five projects for
the Gundamfranchise's 40th anniversary: a film trilogy based on Yoshiyuki Tomino's Kidō Senshi Gundam: Senkō no Hathaway (Mobile Suit Gundam: Hathaway's Flash)
novel series, a compilation film project of the Gundam: Reconguista in G television anime in
2019, a spring television airing of the Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin anime, a new GundamBuild work in
2019, and a new SD Gundam work titled SD Gundam World Sangoku Sōketsuden in
2019.
Gundam: Reconguista in G celebrated the Gundam franchise's
35th anniversary, and marked the first return of Yoshiyuki Tomino as
chief director of an original Gundam series
since Turn
A Gundam. After a theatrical
premiere of the first three episodes in August 2014, the anime premiered on
Japanese television in October 2014. The Gundam Reconguista in G:
From the Past to the Future nine-minute short was then screened at the Gundam Front Tokyo's
Wall-G Theater at Diver City Tokyo starting in May 2015.
Sunrise noted that the keyword for the franchise's
40th anniversary is "beyond." It also unveiled four tribute posters
for the anniversary, with each poster crossing over two Gundam series. X Japan and Luna Sea member Sugizo composed a new song for the franchise's
40th anniversary, and performed it during Wednesday's presentation.
The Mobile
Suit Gundam: Hathaway's Flash film trilogy is the second project in the "UC NexT
0100 Project" that will tackle the future of the UC timeline. The first
project is the Mobile Suit Gundam Narrative (Kidō Senshi Gundam NT) anime film. Sunrise acknowledged
that it cannot announce the cast of Hathaway's Flash yet, but
promised to provide more details in the future. The trailer for the trilogy
will play with Mobile Suit Gundam Narrative when that
film opens on November 30.
Yoshiyuki Tomino, the creator of the first Gundam series and several of the later
projects, wrote the three-volume Kidō
Senshi Gundam: Senkō no Hathaway (Mobile Suit Gundam:
Hathaway's Flash or alternately, Mobile Suit Gundam: Flash's Hathaway) novel
series from 1989 to 1990. The novel series is set in the year UC0105 and centers
around Hathaway Noa, who appeared in the 1988 film Mobile Suit Gundam: Char's Counterattack as the son of the
influential Federation ship captain Bright Noa. (Char's Counterattack is set in the year
UC 0093.) The novel series deals with the aftermath of Char's Counterattack's
climatic finale.
In an April
presentation, Sunrise had briefly listed a
film trilogy based on the novel series with a release of fall 2019 or later.
The Gundam:
Reconguista in G film project will recompile footage from the earlier Gundam:
Reconguista in Gtelevision series along with new sequences. In conjunction
with the film's 2019 release, Tomino will appear at Japan Expo in Paris.
Right Stuff released the Gundam:
Reconguista in G television anime series on Blu-ray Disc in
North America in October 2016.
Animator Kazumi Nakatsu previously reported on
her Twitter account in November 2016 that Gundam: Reconguista in G would play in
theaters throughout Japan sometime in 2017. A theatrical film version of
the Gundam: Reconguista
in G television anime had not been announced previously.
Nakatsu's Twitter post has since been deleted. Tomino later stated that
a new project for Gundam:
Reconguista in G was in development.
The Mobile
Suit Gundam: The Origin series of six theatrical anime volumes will be
recompiled into a 13-episode television series that will premiere on NHK-General next April. Sugizo is producing
the opening and ending theme songs, and his group Luna Sea is performing
all the opening theme songs. The theme songs will include both newly written
songs and covers of famous Gundam songs in
collaboration with other musical artists.
The Gundam Build franchise began with
the 2013 Gundam
Build Fighters anime, followed by Gundam Build Fighters Try in
2014, and then Gundam
Build Divers earlier this year in April. Sunrise and Right Stuf released the first
two series on home video with English dubs. Crunchyroll and Gundam.info are both streamed the Gundam Build Divers series. That
series is also receiving an
English dub.
The Gundam Build franchise began with
the 2013 Gundam
Build Fighters anime, followed by Gundam Build Fighters Try in
2014, and then Gundam
Build Divers earlier this year in April. Sunrise and Right Stuf released the first
two series on home video with English dubs. Crunchyroll and Gundam.info are both streamed the Gundam Build Divers series. That
series is also receiving an
English dub.
The SD Gundam series is a
spinoff of the main Gundam franchise that
anthropomorphizes the franchise's iconic mobile
suit mecha. The spinoff franchise has
spawned its own anime, manga, games, and model kits. The latest anime in the franchise is SD Gundam Sangokuden Brave
Battle Warriors in 2010.
Source: Gundam 40th Anniversary
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