GUNDAM AGE

The anime studio Sunrise announced on Monday that Susumu Yamaguchi will direct Kidō Senshi Gundam AGE (Mobile Suit Gundam AGE), the latest Gundam anime series which will premiere on Japan’s MBS and TBS stations in October. Yamaguchi directed most of the Keroro Gunsō (Sgt. Frog) films, and he also worked as a key animator on Mobile Suit Gundam 0083: Stardust Memory, Mobile Suit Gundam F91, Mobile Suit Gundam: The 08th MS Team, and the Mobile Suit Gundam Seed titles.

Sunrise also confirmed that Akihiro Hino, president of the game studio Level 5 (Inazuma Eleven, Danbōru Senki), is supervising the story. Michinori Chiba is adapting Takuzō Nagano’s original character designs for animation. Kanetake Ebikawa, Junya Ishigaki, and Kenji Teraoka are all contributing to the mechanical designs.

Story
The story will span a century and three generations of Gundam pilots. In the year A.G. (Advanced Generation) 101 — several hundred years after humans migrated to space colonies — an Unknown Enemy (UE) suddenly attacks the space colony Angel and destroys it.

The calamity and the huge loss of life became known afterward as “The Day the Angel Fell From the Skies.”

Seven years later, the war with the UE comes to the once peaceful colony where seven-year-old Furitto Asuno lives. When Furitto loses his mother to the war, he is entrusted with the “AGE Device,” a memory unit which has been handed down from generation to generation in his family. On the device are the designs for “Gundam,” an ancient mobile suit known as a savior. Furitto resolves to build the Gundam.

In the year A.G. 115, 14-year-old Furitto is at the Earth Federation base Arinsuton on the space colony Nora. For seven years, Furitto has continued developing with the base’s engineers, and at last the “Gundam” is complete. The Gundam is equipped with the AGE System, which allows the unit automatically evolve. However, the UE has arrived at Nora, and Furitto must fight in the very Gundam he built himself.

Plastic Models


The Gundam AGE plastic models and figures will have an embedded IC chip so they can be scanned by arcade game machines with a system known as the Gage-ing Link.

Japan’s Bandai Namco Games announced on Monday that the game studio Level 5 is developing a role-playing game based on Kidō Senshi Gundam AGE, the newest Gundam anime series that Level 5 is planning with the studio Sunrise. Bandai Namco Games will sell the resulting game in Japan.

Bandai Official Press Release (PDF file)

Mobile Suit Gundam AGE Promotion Video 1

Link

Official GUNDAM AGE Website

I should be able to say “NEW GUNDAM” now.
by Katsumi Kawaguchi San

Various rumors have flitted for New-GUNDAM since last week.

In them, information described as an article in the child magazine is origins.

“I do not want to see GUNDAM for children”

“GUNDAM ended by this. “

“The production side rounded down the fan of GUNDAM. “

“Already graduated from GUNDAM. “

“There is will being not to see New-GUNDAM, and the model kit will not be bought. “…A lot of comments are seen.

However, how much information are the people who originate such a comment reading from the article in the child magazine with an indistinct page only 3?

A lot of similar comments are seen also in Japan.

However, the point where the interpretation is obviously wrong is seen as for New-GUNDAM about which they are talking with such a comment.

The film’s being actually seen becomes autumn. Should I judge it only from the inadequate information now?

The point that information that touches first was an article in the child magazine seems to be dissatisfied with them.

However, the role that the child magazine had played was the one in the boom of GUNDAM/GUNPLA 30 years ago more than technical journal.

In the person who says, “GUNDAM doesn’t want to see for children” in Japan, there must be a person who has the experience that he was obtaining information on GUNDAM from the child magazine in the child age.

I was making GUNPLA from the child magazine. The comic “プラモ狂四郎” is the one published in the child magazine.

Still, there might be a person “GUNDAM for children is not what the adult can enjoy it”, too.

Do you deny “G-GUNDAM”?

“G-GUNDAM” had been criticized, “GUNDAM for the kindergartner” severely before the be on the air. There is a person that it can enjoy “G-GUNDAM” because the story is interesting, too.

No one still knows the story of New-GUNDAM. Is it slow even if actually judged after the film is seen?

In my personal opinion, it is thought that everything should not be turned to the fan of GUNDAM and the film named GUNDAM be made.

It is thought that one of the factors that GUNDAM has continued for 30 years is in the place where the fan of new GUNDAM has been sometimes acquired.

Children’s GUNDAM fans were acquired in “G-GUNDAM”.

The animated cartoon fan including the woman was acquired in “GUNDAM-W” and “GUNDAM-SEED”.

I think to keep making the film that can enjoy only GUNDAM fan today is to end GUNDAM in the short life by me.

How many GUNDAM fans will really remain all over the world in 30 years of 20 years in the place where it kept making only the film for GUNDAM fan today?

When GUNDAM faces the end as long as it doesn’t keep acquiring a new fan, it visits at once at the new generation.

“GUNDAM Unicorn” is continuing now. The film for the fan of GUNDAM is separately made.

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