Bandai Namco Leisure unveiled a brand new promotional video for Gundam Construct Metaverse, its tenth anniversary anime for the Gundam Construct franchise, throughout the Gundam Convention Autumn 2023 stay stream on Friday. The video (blocked inside Japan) reveals the 2 predominant forged members, the musical composer, the theme music artists, and the October 6 premiere for the anime.
The forged consists of:
Chika Anzai as Rio Hōjō
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Rio Tsuchiya as Seria Urutsuki
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Yuki Hayashi is composing the anime’s music. BACK-ON performs the anime’s opening theme music “Hikari to Kaze” (Gentle and Wind), whereas LINKL PLANET performs the ending theme music “Days of Start.”
The three-episode collection will stream on the Gundam franchise‘s official YouTube channel and on Gundam.information‘s YouTube channel on October 6.
The Gundam Convention stream additionally revealed extra particulars about Bandai Namco Leisure‘s deliberate “Gundam Metaverse” undertaking. The beforehand introduced “Gunpla Colony” beta take a look at for the undertaking will launch for 2 weeks in the US and Japan on October 6 to 17, with a full launch slated for spring 2024. The convention revealed the brand new A.I. character Mellow, who will information customers inside the digital house.
The brand new story of the Gundam Construct Metaverse anime is about in a web-based metaverse house the place customers can use avatars to maneuver round and work together with different customers, together with conducting Gunpla (Gundam plastic mannequin) battles with them. The story facilities on Rio Hōjō, a boy who lives in Hawaii, and who learns the best way to construct Gunpla from a neighborhood hobbyist named Seria Urutsuki. Within the metaverse, a determine often known as Masks Girl teaches him the artwork of Gunpla battling, and he strives to get higher at it daily. Together with his customized Lah Gundam, he seeks out ever stronger opponents. (Rio customizes an Entry Grade RX-78-2 Gundam mannequin within the picture of the “spirit of Japan,” with Lah being the native Hawaiian phrase for “solar.”)
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Acclaimed animator Masami Obari is directing the anime at Dawn Past. Obari has labored at totally different occasions as a storyboarder, animation director, motion director, or key animator for quite a few episodes or opening sequences for the Gundam Construct franchise, and in addition directed the Gundam Construct Fighters: Battlogue and Gundam Breaker Battlogue anime. Noboru Kimura returns from Gundam Construct Divers to oversee the collection scripts. Hirona Okada, Yoriko Gotō, and Ippei Gyōbu are designing the characters. Humikane Shimada is credited for “Fumina Design Collaboration.” Kenichi Ōnuki is overseeing the character designs. Bandai Spirits and Bandai Namco Leisure are credited for planning help.
The mechanical designers are Kunio Okawara, Kanetake Ebikawa, Takayuki Yanase, Shinya Terashima, Naohiro Washio, and Kōtarō Andō. Yū Yoshima is the chief mecha animator.
The collection might be considered one of three components of the “Gundam Subsequent Future -Highway to 2025-” undertaking commemorating the Gundam franchise‘s forty fifth anniversary. The “Dream Battle Undertaking” collection is predicated on a picture of a dream competitors that might solely occur within the Metaverse (pictured beneath).
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In October, the “Gundam Subsequent Future 2023 East/West/Digital” occasions will happen in Tokyo, Osaka, and on-line. The primary XR Dwell occasion for the Gundam Metaverse may also be held. The Gundam Navi information utility will obtain performance for Gundam Metaverse. A “Gunpla Scan” characteristic will enable customers to scan their Gundam fashions and have them seem within the house of the Gundam Metaverse.
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The Gundam Construct spinoff of the Gundam franchise started with the Gundam Construct Fighters anime in 2013. The anime takes place in a world the place folks can construct Gundam mannequin kits and ship them into battle in opposition to one another in a digital battlefield. The franchise acquired a sequel with Gundam Construct Fighters Strive in 2015, and Gundam Construct Divers in 2018. Gundam Construct Divers Re:RISE premiere in October 2019. Gundam Construct Divers Re:RISE Season 2 premiered in April 2020. Crunchyroll streamed each seasons as they aired.
Gundam Construct Divers Battlogue, the newest anime within the Gundam Construct franchise, premiered in November 2020. Gundam Construct Fighters, an entry within the franchise, equally had the Gundam Construct Fighters: Battlogue anime in 2017. Like the brand new work, the Gundam Construct Fighters: Battlogue options “dream battles” with varied conditions and Gunpla.
The live-action video undertaking for the Gundam Construct franchise, Gundam Construct Actual, debuted in March 2021 on YouTube. The undertaking featured precise real-life Gunpla mannequin kits, and it had six episodes.
Sources: Gundam Convention, Gundam.information YouTube channel