It won’t be long before the Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX TV anime begins airing, as April 8 JST (effectively April 9 at 12:29 AM JST) has been announced to be the new Gundam series’ premiere date.
The theme song is Kenshi Yonezu‘s “PLAZMA,” which was first used in the anime’s theatrical preview Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX -Beginning-.
The news comes not long after a new promotion reel video for Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX -Beginning-, which you should avoid watching if you’ve somehow dodged every Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX spoiler and detail since the initial announcement until now.
Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX was announced last December, with Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX -Beginning premiering in Japan on January 17 JST (it is also coming to North America and Southeast Asia). The premise is described as:
Amate Yuzuriha is 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 Shuji.
Now their world is about to enter a new era.
The previous TV anime in the Gundam franchise, which started with 1979’s Mobile Suit Gundam, was 2022 to 2023’s Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch from Mercury. That Gundam anime introduced the Ad Stella timeline and was also the first to have a female protagonist.
Staff
• Director: Kazuya Tsurumaki (FLCL and Diebuster, Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a Time co-director, Neon Genesis Evangelion co-assistant director)
• Series composer and scriptwriter: Yoji Enokido (Bungo Stray Dogs and Revolutionary Girl Utena, FLCL scriptwriter)
• Scriptwriter: Hideaki Anno (Neon Genesis Evangelion director, Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a Time chief director)
• Character designer: illustrator take (Pokémon Sword and Shield co-character and Pokémon designer)
• Mechanical designer: Ikuto Yamashita (Neon Genesis Evangelion co-mechanical designer, Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a Time main mechanical designer)
• Animation character designer and chief character animation director: Yumi Ikeda (A Whisker Away character designer)
• Animation character designer and chief character animation director: Shie Kobori (Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a Time co-design works artist)
• Animation mechanical designer and chief mechanical animation director: Sejoon Kim (Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a Time mechanical animation director and co-mechanical designer)
• Storyboard artist: Kazuya Tsurumaki
• Storyboard artist: Hideaki Anno
• Storyboard artist: Mahiro Maeda (Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a Time co-director, Blue Submarine No. 6 director)
• Storyboard artist: Toko Yatabe (Evangelion: 3.0 (-46h) director)
• Episode director: Kazuya Tsurumaki
• Episode director: Daizen Komatsuda (Bubuki Buranki director)
• Episode director: Toko Yatabe
• Color designer: Wish’s Akiko Inoue (Amaim Warrior at the Borderline)
• Background art director: Tontonyan’s Hiroshi Kato (Neon Genesis Evangelion)
• Assistant background art director: Tontonyan’s Chihiro Goto (Shadows House co-background art director)
• CGI director: Takashi Suzuki (Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a Time CGI technical director)
• Compositing director: T2 Studio’s Tomoyuki Shiokawa (SHOSHIMIN: How to become Ordinary)
• Music composer: Terui Yoshimasa (Jujutsu Kaisen Season 2 composer, Jujutsu Kaisen Season 1 and Jujutsu Kaisen 0 co-composer)
• Music composer: Masayuki Hasuo
• Animation production: studio khara and Sunrise
Cast
• Tomoyo Kurosawa as Amate
• Yui Ishikawa as Nyaan
• Shimba Tsuchiya as Shuji Ito
Source: @G_GQuuuuuuX
