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[Werewolf Jones]

The core staff credits alone give me enough to be hyped. Indifferent on the character designs but it could be a welcome change of pace.

 

[Bojji]

That art style + ugly CGI, ugh...

 

[EviLore]

Something different, I guess!

 

[SF Kosmo]

I absolutely hate the main mecha design. Part of it is that they always insist on giving main Gundams those tacky red/blue/yellow colors and they really don't work here, but it's also just too busy/noisy, like it doesn't read well.

Maybe something you could fix with a repaint, I guess.

 

[Paltheos]

More details:

The story begins with Amate Yuzuriha, 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 Shūji.

Kazuya Tsurumaki (FLCL, Gunbuster 2: Diebuster) is directing the anime, and Yoji Enokido (Bungo Stray Dogs, Sailor Moon Super S, Revolutionary Girl Utena, Ouran High School Host Club) is supervising the series scripts and writing the scripts with Hideaki Anno (Evangelion, Shin Godzilla). Illustrator Take (Katanagatari, Zaregoto, Pokémon Sun & Moon) is designing the characters, and Ikuto Yamashita (Evangelion, Shin Kamen Rider, Yukikaze) is the mechanical designer.

This thing's got a pedigree. I'm really not digging those character designs but all the other big names get a thumbs up from me. I'm also not onboard with yet another high school arena fighter after how safe Sunrise played Witch from Mercury (Geass guy just wasn't free to Valvrave hard enough), but I am a sucker for Gundam and will always give it a shot.

 

[newtypepilot]

clan battles?

I know people are gonna shit on the mecha designs but I would rather have them try something different than always using the same cookie cutter aesthetics.

 

[NanaMiku]

Better look of the main Gundam

FYI, the main mecha designer also designed the gauntlet runner in Metaphor. He also designed the mecha in Rebuild of Evangelion movies.

Basically the main staff for this series previously worked on the Rebuild of Evangelion.

 

[yet_another_alt]

What is it with the Japanese and tournament stories?

 

[NanaMiku]

What is it with the Japanese and tournament stories?

Easier way to tell conflict stories? I don't really know. But if I remember correctly, Gundam right now is targeting children, and many children don't know what Gundam is. Manga/anime that are aimed at children/teens usually have tournament arc too.

 

[Futaleufu]

I remember when Gundam used to be about kids in the army

 

[Dirk Benedict]

Have to see more.

 

[Doom85]

This thing's got a pedigree. I'm really not digging those character designs but all the other big names get a thumbs up from me. I'm also not onboard with yet another high school arena fighter after how safe Sunrise played Witch from Mercury (Geass guy just wasn't free to Valvrave hard enough), but I am a sucker for Gundam and will always give it a shot.

It sounds like this fugitive guy shows up in the first episode, so I assume the arena might just be an element in episode 1 to establish the lead’s piloting skills, and then when she and her friends meet this fugitive, their world gets turned upside down and they end up on the run and get involved in a major struggle far bigger than anything they ever expected with their lives.

Just my feeling. Witch from Mercury had a lead who was a skilled pilot but had her first proper arena fight in episode 1, whereas this synopsis makes it clear the lead is already an experienced arena fighter, so I feel it’s unlikely the show will continue to follow her doing something she’s already been doing for a good while.

 

[Trogdor1123]

That’s a kind of crappy trailer. The music really doesn’t match

 

[The Sum of Zero]

Looks pretty interesting.

 

[Robot Carnival]

while I'm mostly a UC fan, I am surprisingly down with this. the mech design is different enough from the traditional Gundam that I can just take it as some random mech show and not a Gundam show instead, so that's fine by me. character design seems fine with me also. hopefully it doesn't disappoint.

 

[Zephyranthes]

I didn't end up liking G-Witch so....we'll see. Anytime I see a new Gundam project now I can't help but think that I'd rather they just finish Hathaway Part 2 instead.

 

[AJUMP23]

Why do they always have a prolonged yell.

 

[NanaMiku]

That’s a kind of crappy trailer. The music really doesn’t match

This anime is by Rebuild of Evangelion staff. The music is similar to that

 

[IAmRei]

I dont care whoever helmet the producer, the design is not gundam and too ugly, the design is not for real robot style as well... Ugh

 

[NecrosaroIII]

Apparently Anno is also doing a Yamato movie?

That guys is living the Otaku dream. Godzilla, and Ultraman? And now Gundam and Yamato? Insane

 

[JunkerWoland]

Unless for some reason intentional, people should check-out the story synopsis at the Italian version of the official site, before they get around to fixing things. I'll avoid spoilers, but it's certainly interesting, maybe even more so considering some of the series' staff.

Link: https://it.gundam.info/about-gundam/series-pages/gquuuuuux/

 

[The Sum of Zero]

Unless for some reason intentional, people should check-out the story synopsis at the Italian version of the official site, before they get around to fixing things. I'll avoid spoilers, but it's certainly interesting, maybe even more so considering some of the series' staff.

Link: https://it.gundam.info/about-gundam/series-pages/gquuuuuux/

Site is down now but I saw a screencap elsewhere of what you're talking about. Very interesting.

 

[JunkerWoland]

Site is down now but I saw a screencap elsewhere of what you're talking about. Very interesting.

The site lasted longer than I would have expected.

Well, whatever, I grabbed the synopsis, before the site died. Text is below, if people want to copy and translate themselves.

Spoiler: Spoiler

Nell'anno U.C. (Universal Century) 0079, l'agglomerato di colonie spaziali Side 3 sul lato estremo della Luna, che ora si fa chiamare Principato di Zeon, dichiara la propria indipendenza e lancia una guerra contro la Federazione Terrestre.

Un giovane eroe delle forze del Principato, Char la Cometa Rossa, riuscì a catturare la modernissima armatura mobile Gundam delle forze della Federazione. Pilotando il Gundam Rosso, cambiò drasticamente il corso della guerra, portando le forze del Principato alla vittoria.

Siamo nell'U.C.0085, cinque anni dopo la fine della guerra. Amate, una studentessa liceale che vive tranquillamente a Side 6, affronta una svolta nella sua vita quando incontra il contrabbandiere Nhãan e un ragazzo di nome Shuji, che pilota il Gundam Rosso.

L'Universal Century sta per entrare in una nuova era.

 

[Heimdall_Xtreme]

The core staff credits alone give me enough to be hyped. Indifferent on the character designs but it could be a welcome change of pace.

I still can't get out of my head how terrible Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Freedom was

 

[Heimdall_Xtreme]

I absolutely hate the main mecha design. Part of it is that they always insist on giving main Gundams those tacky red/blue/yellow colors and they really don't work here, but it's also just too busy/noisy, like it doesn't read well.

Maybe something you could fix with a repaint, I guess.

The colors are not a problem... I want it to be transformed into vehicles.

 

[NanaMiku]

The colors are not a problem... I want it to be transformed into vehicles.

So far they only transform the head

 

[Heimdall_Xtreme]

So far they only transform the head

But I want this

 

[NanaMiku]

But I want this

Well, technically there's transforming (more like combining) mech animes next year

New Aquarion


Red Ranger isekai will have combining mech