[Anime] Mobile Suit Gundam 00

From Gunota Headlines:

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New Gundam TV series confirmed: Mobile Suit Gundam 00
A very short promo appeared after today's episode of TBS/MBS' "Toward The Terra" announcing a new Gundam series. Mobile Suit Gundam 00 (Double Oh) is set to air at 6pm on Oct 2007. The official site is up providing a streaming promo.

Known details are:
Setting - 2307 AD ("seireki", Japanese for "anno domini")
Characters - 4 Gundam Meisters, who pilot the mobile weapons.
Factions - Solestal Beings (not real sure on the English name right now), a private militia group whose purpose is to eradicate wars.
Tagline at the end of the commercial - "Rebirth begins through destruction"

Rumors about the series have been going around Japanese message boards for some time, especially after Sunrise registered several Gundam00 domains. The proclamation that the setting would neither be in the Universal Century of the original nor the Cosmic Era of Gundam SEED, as stated by Sunrise's Yasuo Miyakawa, seems to have been followed through with. Staff members are yet to be confirmed although the most persistent rumor is that the series will be directed by Fullmetal Alchemist's Seiji Mizushima.

The official site is supposed to have streaming but I can't seem to access it right now. As reported above it looks like it doesn't take place in the UC timeline either which makes me wonder if they're gonna create a whole new alternate timeline again...

http://www.gundam00.net/





Jam it back in, in the dark.

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Newtype Gundam 00 news
The staff:
Director - Seiji Mizushima
Series Composition - Yousuke Kuroda
Character design - Yun Kouga
Animation character design - Michinori Chiba
Mechanic design - Kunio Okawara, Kanetake Ebikawa, Takayuki Yanase
Mechanic concept design - Hitoshi Fukuchi, Kenji Teraoka
Animation mechanic design - Seiichi Nakatani

The main Gundam seems to be the Gundam Excia.

and some more:

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MS Gundam 00 official press releases
From Sotsu Agency's official website, the press release for Mobile Suit Gundam 00, the 12th Gundam TV series and the first to be broadcast in Hi-Def. The premise is given as follows:

"The setting is Earth 300 years from the present day, in 2307 AD. The series depicts the protagonist, Setsuna F. Seiei, who pilots a mobile suit (Gundam Excia) for a mysterious private militia (Celestial Being), going against a whole world where conflicts never cease and the struggle to eradicate war."

Bandai Namco's press release says the first Gundam 00 plamodel, the 1/144 Gundam Excia, comes in September. Outside of Gunpla, expect a slew of merchandising including figures, candy toys, vending machine stuff, apparel, video games, mobile content, and DVD & video.

Some interesting talent for the new series. The director is pretty well known to most Anime fans (for Fullmetal Alchemist), but what about the others?

Yousuke Kuroda has done series compositions for Gungrave and Hellsing(OVA) to name but a few.

Yun Kouga is the artist for Loveless so we see where the character designs are related from.

Kunio Okawara is the mecha designer for practiaclly every mecha franchise to come out of Sunrise and others, pretty much every Gundam show including SEED, and even Keroro Gunsou!! Take a gander yourself at ANN's page for Okawara Kunio for his profile. I guess he's done pretty much every single Gundam show on Earth!


How do you think this series will shape up? Still no word on who's doing the story...and no name came up for Music Director either...




There's nowhere I can't reach.

From Gunota Headlines

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Gundam 00 site update
The official site updated with an outline & staff section. Nobuto Sue's name is added alongside Kenji Teraoka and Hitoshi Fukuchi to the list of concept designers. Also worth noting is Kunio Okawara is credited third as a mechanic designer, behind Kanetake Ebikawa & Takayuki Yanase. In Sotsu Agency's press release, Okawara wasn't mentioned at all, potentially indicating a reduced role for him compared to his level of participation in other Gundam series. The official site will formally open on July 10.

The story outline:
"2307 AD.

As fossil fuels became exhausted, humanity found a new energy source to change their situation: A large-scale solar power system with three enormous orbiting elevators. However, only a few large countries and their allies reaped the benefits.

Three superpowers had ownership of the three orbiting elevators: The Union, based in the United States Of America, The People's Reform League, made up of China, Russia, and India, and Europe's AEU. The superpowers continue playing a large zero-sum game for their own dignity and respective prosperity. Even though it is the 24th century, humanity has yet to become one.

In this world where war has no end, a private militia appears advocating the eradication of war through force. Each possessing a mobile suit Gundam, they are Celestial Being. The armed intervention by the Gundams against all acts of war begins."

Official Site: Gundam OO





This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

The clearest (so far) picture of the Gundam Excia, as found on Famitsu:



The forearms seem to house metal blades it seems....is that good?




I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

Weird but I'm seeing a lot of SEED's designs in there, specifically those mobile suits that are almost identical to Buster and Aegis.

o_O

I was speaking idiomatically.

Originally Posted by Captain Desu

By the way any news of model kits coming out?

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HCM Pro figures for Exia and Dynames are already out, with Kyrios and Virtue being released pretty soon. FG kits are out already, HG versions will be available soon too. They're even coming out with 1/100 scale models of Exia and Dynames!!

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

Well, so far there's no mention of any colonies so there might not be any in this series. I guess there could always be sabotage to one of the orbital elevators though.

Which group is everyone following? I saw Nyoron's fansub in the beginning but it seemed a bit off in some places. Now Mendoi have stepped up together with Conclave and their first episode has been a big improvement so I'll probably be sticking with them from now on. Mendoi previously did an awesome job on bringing us Gundam SEED Destiny as Hiro-fansubs, so for this series I would prefer to follow them.

Plus - they give the choice of downloading the 344mb HD version or the smaller 170mb version. The HD version is awesome for home because I usually use my 27" HDTV when watching anime. But I take my anime to work sometimes and the screens there are kind'a crappy, so the smaller version is good (what a geek).

Now just waiting for Mendoi-Conclave's episode 2!!

FELIPE NO

Originally Posted by chato

little off topic but

I would usually watch the HD versions in my ps3 and it looks a helluva lot better there (44" hdtv) than my monitor ( HP 22" widescreen). Either way, I think I need a new video card cause it freezes for 2 seconds then comes back and I don't want to force it =/. So the ones I download from are a noname group who provides it as an mp4 (still hd quality with no fuzzy pixels or anything). Can mkv files work in ps3's as well? If you have one that is ^^;

Nah, I tried it but .mkv files do not work on the PS3. I guess at the moment you can only play MP4 files for movies. But using my computer is fine for me. I just connect my laptop to the HDTV and play it. It looks awesome!



What, you don't want my bikini-clad body?

Is it getting any better or getting worse? Kinda lost interest and dropped the show after episode 10 or 11 (can't remember now). I've been hearing how it's supposed to have picked up immensely after episode 18 or 19.

Well, I guess I'll let it go....

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