Hold onto your Char Masks ladies and gents, we have legit
fresh new Gundam news. And not just any news: we’ve got a brand new Mobile Suit
Gundam TV Series on the way for debut sometime in 2025. And it looks…interesting. A brand new unorthodox design. A new female
lead. Plus a union of two Anime
powerhouses behind two of the greatest Mecha Anime franchises of all time? Let’s not waste any more time on this one and
get into my Top 5 Thoughts on the Mobile Suit Gundam: GQuuuuuX Announcement.
Gundam titles usually aren’t that complex, opting for
more simplistic stylings with letters or numbers to designate themselves.
The last radically different title we’ve
gotten, at least in my opinion, is Reconguista in G…which is a terrible
title.
Not that GQuuuuuX instills the
same kind of bad feeling just from the title alone…but did we really need all
the U’s?
Why not just GQX?
Just a nitpick but thought I should share my thoughts
since the titles pretty mysterious as opposed to Iron Blooded Orphans or The
Witch from Mercury.
Speaking of which…
#4-Influences from Mercury
Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch from Mercury made serious
waves in the Anime community and got Anime fans who aren’t casual Gundam fans
to check it out.
This is definitely thanks
to the two female leads and their whirlwind romances amidst corporate Mobile
Suit Wars.
Whether Amate, or Manchu as
she’s going by in battle, can reach the same character heights as Suletta and
Miorine remains to be seen.
But having a
girl front and center in another Gundam TV Series means Sunrise wants to try
that successful strategy again.
Plus you’ve
got high school antics and Mobile Suit combat based in intense competitions
more than all out war (at least for now).
Can the parts that made G Witch such a hit do the same for GQuuuuuX?
#3-A Theatrical Sneak Peak
While an official release date on TV hasn’t been
announced, it has been confirmed that GQuuuuuX will get a special theatrical
sneak peak of sorts in January.
The
movie, which more or less boils down to a Compilation Film, will be titled Mobile
Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX: Beginning, and will be comprised of several early
episodes of the series.
This is an
interesting tactic and I cant think of the last time Gundam has resorted to
this.
In the last few years you’ve seen
Demon Slayer use this to promote forthcoming seasons, though those films involve
combining the last two episodes of a season followed by the whole of the usually
extended Season Premiere.
It’s a
different marketing move for sure.
#2-The Gundam
For the bulk of the franchise, most Gundams have borne
slight resemblances to the Grand Daddy RX-78-2 from the original series.
On occasion, it goes through some radical redesigns,
most notably the awesome mustache twirling Turn A Gundam, to the hideous insectoid
headed G-Self from Reconguista in G.
The
currently, to my knowledge, unnamed Gundam (maybe the titular GQuuuuuX…how do
you pronounce that?), looks to be continuing that bucking trend.
The Gundam looks like a merger of Gundam and
Evangelion (for reasons well get into momentarily), looking incredibly tall,
bearing a red insignia rather than gold on its head, and looking like it was
made for racing a la IGPX.
Its an
interesting design to say the least but how will it fare on screen?
#1-Sunrise X Khara
More than the Gundam or title itself for me is the
announcement of this being a collaboration between Sunrise and Khara.
Any Gundam fan is no stranger to their parent
company but Khara is a big deal too.
The
studio was founded in 2006 by one Hideaki Anno and has risen to meteoric fame
thanks to their work on the Rebuild of Evangelion films and Anno and Shinji
Higuchi’s subsequent Shin Films (Shin Godzilla, Shin Ultraman and Shin Kame
Rider).
This means that the forces
behind Mobile Suit Gundam and Neon Genesis Evangelion will be joining up to
produce a new Gundam entry and that alone is worth getting hyped over.
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