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Gundam GQuuuuuuX Becomes 2nd Highest Grossing Gundam Film


In a month of its release, Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX -Beginning- has earned 2.53 billion yen making it the second highest-grossing Gundam movie, surpassing Mobile Suit Gundam III: Encounters in Space, which had a cumulative total of 2.3 billion yen. Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Freedom maintains a strong hold as the top Gundam movie at 5.38 billion yen.

Yoshikazu Yasuhiko

Mobile Suit Gundam III: Encounters in Space released in 1982 as the last entry in the film trilogy recompilation of the original 1979 Mobile Suit Gundam anime series directed by Yoshiyuki Tomino, with character designs and animation direction by Yoshikazu Yasuhiko, and mechanical designs by Kunio Okawara.

Sotsu· Sunrise

Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX -Beginning- is a theatrical re-edit of select episodes, designed as a preview of the newest Gundam series, Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX.

Starting Saturday, February 22, special footage will be added after the main screening. This exclusive content offers a glimpse into what happens next in the story after the movie. 

Movie Key Visual

GQuuuuuuX was announced in December during the Bandai Namco Group’s Winter Gundam 2024 Conference. Touted as the” khara x SUNRISE, a crossing of dreams,” series is the first major collaboration between Gundam studio Sunrise and Neon Genesis Evangelion studio khara.

The series is directed by FLCL and Rebuild of Evangelion director Kazuya Tsurumaki, scripted by Evangelion creator Hideaki Anno and Yoji Enokido, with character designs by take, and mechanical designs by EVA Unit designer Ikuto Yamashita.

Story

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.

The series depicts an alternate Universal Century in which Char Aznable steals the Earth Federation prototype RX-78-02 White Gundam changing the course of the One Year War in favor of the Principality of Zeon.

Staff:

– Planning/Production: studio khara, SUNRISE
– Original Story: Hajime Yatate, Yoshiyuki Tomino
– Director: Kazuya Tsurumaki
– Series Composition: Yoji Enokido
– Script: Yoji Enokido, Hideaki Anno
– Character Design: take
– Mechanical Design: Ikuto Yamashita
– Animation Character Design Supervising Character Animation Director: Yumi Ikeda, Shie Kobori
– Animation Mechanical Design Supervising Mechanical Animation Director: Sejoon Kim
– Design Works: Toshiaki Ihara, Mahiro Maeda, Shingo Abe, Hidenori Matsubara, Takuya Io, Shuichi Iseki, Takeshi Takakura, EwokakuPETER, Ami, mebae, Wataru Inata, Shinya Mizuno, Yusuke Omura, Yutaka Izubuchi, Tomoko Masuda, Lin Junbun, Hideaki Anno, Kazuya Tsurumaki
– Concept Art: Hajime Ueda
– Storyboard: Kazuya Tsurumaki, Hideaki Anno, Mahiro Maeda, Toko Yatabe
– Direction: Kazuya Tsurumaki, Daizen Komatsuda, Toko Yatabe
– Character Animation Director: Hidenori Matsubara, Mayumi Nakamura, Shuichi Iseki
– Mechanical Animation Director: Shingo Abe, Gen Asano
– Detail Works: Toshiaki Ihara, Tatsuya Tanaka, Mahiro Maeda
– Animation Checker: Yasuhito Murata
– Digital Animation Checker: Mayuko Kanosue(studio EIGHTCOLORS), Ayaka Miura, Emi Nakano
– Color Designer: Akiko Inoue(Wish)
– Color Setting/Check: Saeko Kushima(Wish), Hiromi Okamoto(Wish)
– Special Effect: Shin Inoie
– Art Director: Hiroshi Kato(TOTONYAN)
– Assistant Art Director: Chihiro Goto(TOTONYAN)
– CGI Director: Takashi Suzuki
– CGI Animation Director: Masanori Iwasato, Shiguma Morimoto
– CGI Modelling Director: Shintaro Wakatsuki, Ryosuke Kusudo
– CGI Technical Director: Shunsuke Kumagai 
– CGI Art Director: Hiroyasu Kobayashi 
– Graphic Design Director: Kayoko Zama
– Visual Development Director: Yohsuke Chiai 
– Composition Director: Tomoyuki Shiokawa(T2 studio)
– Composition Advisor: Susumu Fukushi(T2 studio)
– VFX Director: Hiroaki Yabe 
– Look Development: Nanae Hirabayashi, Yoko Miki
– Editor: Emi Tsujita
– Music: Yoshimasa Terui, Masayuki Hasuo
– Sound Director: Haru Yamada(Sound Team Don Juan)
– Sound Design: Naoto Yamaya(sound box)
– Main Producer: Yuki Sugitani 
– Executive Producer: Naohiro Ogata 
– Producer: Keisuke Kasai 
– Production Desk/Setting Production: Hayato Tanaka 
– Digital Production Desk: Kohei Fujiwara 
– Distribution by: TOHO CO., LTD., Bandai Namco Filmworks 
– Advertising: Bandai Namco Filmworks, Shochiku Co.,Ltd., studio khara, Nippon Television Network Corporation, TOHO CO., LTD.
– Produced by: Bandai Namco Filmworks

Source: Official Website

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2 Comments

  1. KPIKDS
    February 21, 2025
    Reply

    What a waste for being a Gundam fan today. Where is the UC fans? all being old or dead.

  2. KPIKDS
    February 21, 2025
    Reply

    And the second Hathaway film is take to long to exit and had a waste a long of time. The people have less interesting today for UC for that.

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