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Minami Kuribayashi's Gundam AGE Ending Song Music Video Streamed

Bandai Visual's Lantis label began streaming the music video for Minami Kuribayashi's song "Kimi no Naka no Eiyū" on Wednesday. The song serves as the ending theme for the Mobile Suit Gundam AGE television anime series. Lantis will release the single on November 9.

The Artist Side version of the single will retail for 1,800 yen (US$23.66) and will include a DVD, while the Animation Side version will retail for 1,300 yen (US$17.09). Kuribayashi has also sang theme songs for Chrono Crusade, My-HiME, My-Otome, Kure-nai, and Kämpfer, among others.

Gundam AGE is the latest series in the Gundam franchise and follows Flit Asuno and his struggles against an Unknown Enemy (UE). The story covers a century and three generations of Gundam pilots. The anime premiered in Japan on October 9 and is being simulcast in five languages in South and Southeast Asia and Australia.

Akihiro Hino, president of the game studio Level-5 (Inazuma Eleven, Danbōru Senki), is supervising the story of the anime. Susumu Yamaguchi is helming the project after directing most of the Keroro Gunsō (Sgt. Frog) films. Yamaguchi also worked as a key animator on Mobile Suit Gundam 0083: Stardust Memory, Mobile Suit Gundam F91, Mobile Suit Gundam: The 08th MS Team, and the Mobile Suit Gundam Seed titles.