Honda Announces Collaboration with Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Freedom

Auto and motorcycle manufacturer Honda has announced a collaboration with the hit film Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Freedom.

A collaboration exhibit featuring Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Freedom will be showcased at the 2024 Motorcycle Show Honda booth, including the bikes that appeared in the film, “Gold Wing Tour” and “HAWK 11”.

Collaboration Exhibition Period

Osaka Venue: March 15th to 17th, 2024
Tokyo Venue: March 22nd to 24th, 2024
Nagoya Venue: April 5th to 7th, 2024

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Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Freedom has quickly become the highest-grossing Gundam film, amassing a cumulative total of 3,485,058,910 yen and selling 2,075,752 tickets in just one month since its theatrical release. Its success was highlighted by dethroning the 1982 Mobile Suit Gundam III: Encounters in Space, which held the franchise box office record for forty-two years with 2.3 billion yen. The film premiered on January 26, debuting at #1 in the Japanese box office, surpassing competitors such as Spy × Family Code: White, Poor Things, and the live-action Golden Kamuy film.

The tagline of Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Freedom is “You are there inside me. Am I there inside you?”. The film is directed by Mitsuo Fukuda, featuring a script by Fukuda, Chiaki Morosawa, and Ryu Goto. Hisashi Hirai returns for character design, while the mechanical design team includes Kunio Okawara, Kimitoshi Yamane, Kazutaka Miyatake, Junichi Akutsu, Manabu Shintani, Zenseava, Takuya Io, and Hiroyuki Taiga. Satoshi Shigeta returns as mechanical animation director. Toshihiko Sahashi is the composer for the film’s music, and the theme song “FREEDOM” is performed by Takanori Nishikawa with Tetsuya Komuro.

Story

In C.E.75, the fighting still continues.

There are independence movements, and aggression by Blue Cosmos… In order to calm the situation, a global peace monitoring agency called COMPASS is established, with Lacus as its first president. As members of COMPASS, Kira and his comrades intervene into various regional battles. Then a newly established nation called Foundation proposes a joint operation against a Blue Cosmos stronghold.