A week after its Netflix debut, the official website for Sunrise and Bandai Namco Filmworks‘ newest Gundam series, Mobile Suit Gundam: Requiem for Vengeance, reported that the show ranked 7th in Netflix’s Weekly Global Top 10 (English Series) and placed 2nd in Japan’s Weekly Top 10 (Series) during its first week. Additionally, it entered the “Top 10 Shows on Netflix Right Now” in 44 countries.
Mobile Suit Gundam: Requiem for Vengeance was announced at Anime Expo 2023 as a collaboration between Bandai Namco Filmworks Inc. and SAFEHOUSE Inc.(Resident Evil, Love, Death & Robots) using the Unreal Engine 5 3D production tool. The six-episode series debuted on Netflix October 17.
Story
In the year Universal Century 0079, a state of war began when the Principality of Zeon declared its independence from the Earth Federation government. In the war’s opening stages, the Zeon forces maintained an advantage thanks to the effectiveness of their new weapon, the mobile suit. However, they lacked the fighting strength to fully conquer Earth, and the war became a stalemate. Eleven months after the outbreak of war, a base in Zeon-occupied Eastern Europe is captured by the Federation Forces. A Zeon composite battalion is sent to recapture the base, and among its members are Solari and her Red Wolf Squadron, a mobile suit team that has only just arrived from space…
Staff
Bandai Namco Filmworks Inc. Present
- SUNRISE Production
- Co-Production: SAFEHOUSE Inc.
- Director: Erasmus Brosdau
- Executive producers: Makoto Asanuma, Naohiro Ogata, Taiki Sakurai, Gavin Hignight
- Animation Producer/Sound Director: Hiroaki Yura
- Producer: Ken Iyadomi
- Writer: Gavin Hignight
- Character design: Manuel Augusto Dischinger Moura
- Mechanical design: Kimitoshi Yamane
- Director of Photography: Junpei Kasaoka
- Music: Wilbert Roget,II
Source: Official Website
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