See-Saw Releases Romantic CD Jacket Artwork for Gundam SEED Freedom Ending Theme

See-Saw’s record label FlyingDog Inc has released the jacket and bonus artwork for the pop duo’s upcoming single, “Sarigiwa no Romantics,” which serves as the ending theme for the Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Freedom film.

The jacket and the purchase bonus feature illustrations of Kira Yamato and Lacus Clyne, which were written especially for this single. A postcard will be offered as a nationwide bonus, and a poster will be offered as a Victory Online Store original bonus.

Priced at 1,320 yen the single will release January 24 featuring “Sarigiwa no Romantics,” “Anna ni Issho Datta no ni” live in 2019 @ Inu Fes and “Sarigiwa no Romantics”(Instrumental).

Announced in December, “Sarigiwa no Romantics” is being touted as the first new song from See-Saw in nearly twenty years.

The duo, consisting of Chiaki Ishikawa and Yuki Kajiura, previously performed the first ending theme “Anna ni Issho Datta no ni” for the 2002 Mobile Suit Gundam SEED series, as well as the final ending theme “Kimi wa Boku ni Niteiru” for the 2004 Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny sequel series.

Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Freedom will release to theaters January 26, 2024.

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.