According to the official Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin anime website, the sixth chapter, “Rise of the Red Comet,” will be the last. The anime version of the second part of the Battle of Loum arc is set to screen in Japanese theaters starting on …Read more »
Sunrise is on the way with more Gunpla anime action in the form of Gundam Build Divers, the latest entry in the Gundam Build Fighters series. This one has Kyoya Kujo competing in the Gunpla Force Battle Tournament along with a wide assortment of challengers, and it’s …Read more »
Mobile Suit Gundam the Origin VI: Rise of the Red Comet is set to make its debut in Japanese theaters on May 5, and a new trailer is here to preview the action to come. As tends to be the case with Gundam.info videos, this …Read more »
Iron Blooded Orphans is the most dramatically effective entry in the Gundam series since 0080: War in the Pocket, a suspicion I’d felt while watching the series as it aired and one affirmed totally after watching Bang Zoom!’s dub of the first season over the …Read more »
There’s no shortage of pop culture references in Steven Spielberg’s upcoming adaptation of Ernest Cline’s Ready Player One, and a bunch are on display in the latest trailer. Plenty of people have already slowed it down and broken down every second of notable appearances, but …Read more »
It’s a theme common in the Universal Century Gundam series that Earth is the birthplace of all conflict. To remain on Earth when we are capable of space travel is to find, as Char has it, “(our) souls … pulled down by [its] gravity.” The …Read more »
The four-episode Mobile Suit Gundam Thunderbolt anime was compiled into a feature in the form of an anime film called DECEMBER SKY, which premiered in Japan last summer. Fast forward to the present and it’s time to start looking ahead to international streaming plans. The …Read more »
The first ever Anime NYC takes place at the Javits Center in New York from November 17 to November 19, and the latest guests to be revealed hail from the world of Mobile Suit Gundam. Leading the trio is Shin Sasaki, executive producer of all …Read more »
Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin features some of the most top-rate action animation made in years. “Prequel saga” is a phrase that, at this point, elicits otaku dread and disappointment. After all, how much do we really want to see our favorite heroes and villains …Read more »
Funimation updated plans for Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans‘ return to Toonami. The second season officially kicks off on Adult Swim’s block on October 7 at 12:30am.
Many U.S. anime fans’ first exposure to the world of Gundam was through Toonami’s airing of Gundam Wing , the 90s series that takes place in the After Colony timeline. So there are plenty of folks for whom this figure will evoke more than a …Read more »
The denizens of Tokyo can breathe safe again, as a Gundam mobile suit once more stands in defense of the city. Fans of the mecha franchise were heartbroken last December, when it was announced the RX-78-2 statue in Odaiba, Tokyo would be scrapped. It was …Read more »
Frequent Otaku USA readers are well aware that it’s a hard world out for young Japanese animators. The industry is awash in profit, but very little of that profit seems to be trickling down, with newbie animators making so little money they have to live …Read more »
In the wide world of storytelling tropes, the student-master relationship is a fan favorite. Watching a young, impudent learner grow thanks to a wise old sensei never seems to get old, and in the rare instance it does, someone comes along to give the old …Read more »
An offhand joke or a premature announcement? It’s anybody’s guess as to how serious Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans ’ voice actor Kengo Kawanishi was when he signed off a livestream Saturday by saying “see you in the movie version!” But fans of the series …Read more »
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