Gundam: Char’s Counterattack Official Records Collection Releasing in September

Announced in March, anime production studio Sunrise(now Bandai Namco Filmworks) will be releasing a complete collection of setting material from the 1988 hit anime film, Mobile Suit Gundam: Char’s Counterattack.

Titled Mobile Suit Gundam: Char’s Counterattack Official Records Collection —BEYOND THE TIME—, the set will include a three-sided box with illustrations of the RX-93 Nu Gundam and MSN-04 Sazabi by their original mechanical designer, Yutaka Izubuchi. The collection will include the following contents:

All final and initial drafts are included
Many unpublished rough drafts by Mamoru Nagano and others
Storyboards by Yoshiyuki Tomino, approximately 800 pages in total
Special dialogue between Toru Furuya and Shuichi Ikeda
Re-published interview with Yoshiyuki Tomino at the time of release
Other major staff commentaries
Final design draft for full-length film
Draft of the finalized art settings for the film
Color samples of each setting
Photographs of scenes from the film
Design drafts (characters, mechanics, etc.)
Design drafts for GUNDAM EVOLVE
Design drafts for DOME G
Past copyrighted illustrations

The Mobile Suit Gundam: Char’s Counterattack Official Records Collection —BEYOND THE TIME— is priced at 14,300 yen with a September 22, 2022 release date. Pre-orders can be made at the “Sunrise Store” in Premium Bandai, the official Bandai Namco Arts mail order site “A-on STORE”, and other retailers.

Set fourteen years after the One Year War in U.C. 0093, the Yoshiyuki Tomino-directed Mobile Suit Gundam: Char’s Counterattack serves as the final confrontation between legendary rivals Amuro Ray and Char Aznable. Char has risen to power as leader of Neo Zeon and plans an all-out assault to decimate the Earth’s population to revive the planet. Released to theaters in 1988, Char’s Counterattack grossed 1.16 billion yen at the box office.