Realistic Model Series: Gundam SEED Archangel Bridge Releasing in October

During their “MegaHobby+Plus 2022 First Summer” event, toy/figure company MegaHouse has released product information and color images of the latest addition to their Realistic Model diorama series, the G-Structure[GS04] Archangel Bridge from the Mobile Suit Gundam SEED series.

In the SEED series, the LCAM-01XA Archangel was manufactured by the neutral Orb Union-based Morgenroete, Inc munitions company. The Archangel was the first of a new class of assault ship for the Earth Alliance military and served as the home base for the main characters of the series.

The Realistic Model Series Mobile Suit Gundam SEED G-Structure [GS04] Archangel Bridge is priced at 13,200 yen with an October 2022 release date.

Mobile Suit Gundam SEED aired from 2002-2003 directed by Mitsuo Fukuda and scripted by Chiaki Morosawa. The series features character designs by Hisashi Hirai, mechanical designs by Kunio Okawara and Kimitoshi Yamane, chief mecha animation direction by Satoshi Shigeta, and music by Toshihiko Sahashi. The popular series was followed with a sequel series in 2004 titled, Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny. Both the SEED and SEED Destiny series received HD Remastered editions in 2011 and 2013 respectively.

Story

Year 70 of the Cosmic Era. The Coordinators, a group of genetically enhanced humans, have moved into colonies orbiting the Earth. But that hasn’t quieted the tensions between them and regular humans; the conflict soon escalates into a full-scale war. On the neutral colony of Heliopolis, Kira Yamato, and his friends are going to school and just being kids. But when the ZAFT commando forces attack, Kira’s life changes forever.

Left with no choice, he and Federation officer Murrue Ramius are thrown into battle in a prototype mobile weapon, which Kira christens “GUNDAM.” Now, Kira must defend himself and his friends from his own people. For, unknown to anyone else, Kira is a Coordinator. And the enemy he faces on the battlefield is his childhood best friend, Athrun!

Announced in May 2021, the SEED series is celebrating its 20th anniversary with Mobile Suit Gundam SEED PROJECT ignited. The project includes the installation of the life-sized Freedom Gundam statue in Shanghai with a special video by director Mitsuo Fukuda to commemorate it, Gundam Docks at Shanghai event, Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Eclipse manga, a new video game in development, and an anime theatrical film sequel to the SEED TV anime series.