Gundam’s new show raised the lid of its fascinating assumption

In the last 45 years the history of anime Mecha, Gundam They are not afraid of both imagining alternative reefs of their iconic primary timeline-or in transforming its history, alternative scenarios or highly inspired Alternative terms and settings– Or extend it completely. But The last record., Gundam GquuuuuxIt may go for one of the boldest, but we will still see on the screen and finally we have a little more information on what it looks like.

A few short weeks after the Japanese release of GUNDAM GQUUUUUX mobile suit beginsTheatrical compilation of the early episodes of the series with new material, Bandai and Khara have officially lifted the lid On a series of designs and information about the setting of the mysterious new show – confirming what was worn and furiously speculated by anyone who has been reviewing fragments of frames in the last few months that yes, yes, Gquuuuux It is really a retelling events of GundamThe emblematic time line “Universal Century”, from the point of view in which the Principality of Zeon won the war depicted in the anime since 1979, not the Earth Federation.

The new information confirms that Gquuuuux was placed during the year 0085, just over half a decade after the end of the one -year war, which formed much of the worldwide building for the original GundamS This time around, Char aznable Successfully manages to steal the prototype of the Gundam Federation – a recovery mission we saw to go south in GundamThe first episode – claiming a zeon, which continues to resolve its sophisticated technology and use Gundam to turn the tide of the conflict in their favor. And of course, charm is charm, he paints the damn thing red in the process.

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By 0085, charm at first glance was not found-but the Red Gundam, as it is now called, reappears in the area of ​​the earth, participating in underground battles for a mobile suit in the colony colony Gquuuuux The main character Machu calls home. As well as new views on the classic and zeonic forms of the Gundam RX-78-2-presented by Gospel Mechanical designer Ikuto Yamashita as something quite more shy and similar to the prototype frame compared to the armored shape of classic aesthetics – the new material also includes a look at the setting of the iconic Zeon Grunt suit, Zaku, a curved bumper placed in a similar skinny frame , as well as a few intriguing Zeon characters beyond the charm itself. Those Include Chaallia BullAn employee of Newtype Zeon, who appeared in a later episode of the 1979 anime to help put the stage for his research on his study on Psonic -enhanced pilotsand two new young officers from various military academies in the ZON, Xavier Olyvet and Comomoli Kharkurt.

The studio also revealed a few other characters, who also call the Side 6 colony home, which Machu eventually meets, as it is wrapped in the world of “clan battles” in the form of Kaneban Co owners, a junk dealer, Acting as a dialing front pilot in the underground battle scene – including fascinating Pomeranian, who acts as a company mascot, and two small robots, one new (Konch, Kuboid Little Robot seen in the Shuji trailers, the new red Gundam pilot), and a very familiar (Haro, dressed in candy, the beanie, The spherical robot that was part of Gundam From the beginning).

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While Gundam DieHards had little time to think exactly what the new show means to give up directly on the original Gundam so – a RecoveryIf you wish, a previous job of director Cazuya Tsurumaki on Gospel Re -presentation of movie series– This is the first time the studio was ready to really show what it cooked in the world beyond Japanese theaters. Exactly how everything gathers remains to see, but in many ways, Gundam has been in conversation with yourself since franchising was saved from seemingly doom, by How a series of heir Until the first show, it developed the history of the universal age and its cyclical conflicts, to how countless alternative universe in franchise, as it tackled its prerequisites and the most great questions in its own wayS What Gquuuuux This may be more direct but still part of this broader conversation to review GundamThe inheritance of the inheritance: An idea that is full of potential and matures to study in a project that was explicitly announced in honor of the most anniversary moment of franchise.

GUNDAM GQUUUUUX mobile suit begins is set up on Come to American theaters In limited capacity later this month on February 28th. The television anime is expected to start broadcasting in Japan this spring.

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