Gundam NT Anime's 1st 23 Minutes Streamed with English
Subtitles
The Gundam.info portal
site began streaming the first 23 minutes on Friday of Mobile Suit Gundam Narrative(Kidō
Senshi Gundam NT), the new anime project for
the Gundam franchise. The video features subtitles in five
languages including English, and is available worldwide except in China.
The website is also streaming the anime's long trailer with
English subtitles. The trailer is a subtitled version of a region-locked
trailer streamed on Tuesday.
The anime opened in Japan on Friday. Sunrise is working with NYAV Post to produce an
English dub for the anime.
Shunichi Yoshizawa (Mobile
Suit Gundam Thunderbolt, Gundam: Reconguista in G episode director) is
directing the anime at Sunrise Studio #1. Harutoshi Fukui (Mobile
Suit Gundam UC) is penning the script. Kumiko Takahashi is in charge of the main original character designs, and Se Jun Kim (Mobile Suit Gundam Twilight AXIS) is designing the
characters for animation. Hajime Katoki and Eiji Komatsu are in charge of mechanical design.
Sunrise describes the anime's story:
U.C. 0097, one
year after the opening of "Laplace's Box." Despite the revelation of
the Universal Century Charter that acknowledges the existence and rights of
Newtypes, the framework of the world has not been greatly altered.
The
conflict later dubbed the "Laplace Incident" is thought to have ended
with the downfall of the Neo Zeon remnants known as the Sleeves. In its final
battle, two full psycho-frame mobile suits displayed power beyond human
understanding. The white unicorn and the black lion were sealed away to remove
this danger from people's consciousness, and they should now be completely
forgotten.
However,
the RX-0 Unicorn Gundam 03, which disappeared two years earlier, is now about
to show itself in the Earth Sphere once more. A golden phoenix... named Phenex.
The new project
is set in U.C. 0097 of the Universal Century (U.C.) timeline of the
original Mobile Suit Gundam series and Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn. The project's tagline is "The
Destination of the Newtype Myth."
The anime is
also inspiring manga and novel adaptations. Kōzō Ōmori (Mobile Suit Gundam 00 manga) is drawing the manga, which
launched on November 26. The novel also debuted on November 26, and it tells
the story of the past of three important characters in the anime. Kiyoto Takeuchi (Appleseed: Ex Machina, Harlock:
Space Pirate) penned the novel.
For both the
novel and manga projects, Harutoshi Fukui is
credited with the story, and Hajime Yatate and Yoshiyuki Tomino are credited for the original work.
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