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Hero TV to Air Gundam the Origin I, Active Raid Anime

Philippine television channel HERO TV announced on Wednesday that it will air the Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin I: Blue-Eyed Casval and Active Raid anime.

Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin I: Blue-Eyed Casval will premiere on HERO TV on September 18 at 12:00 p.m.

The official website of the Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin video anime series describes the first episode:

Universal Century 0068, Side 3 – The Autonomous Republic of Munzo. Zeon Zum Deikun attempts to declare complete independence of Munzo from the Earth Federation Government, while he preaches the evolutionary potential of humans who have advanced into outer space. Deikun however suddenly falls to his death in the middle of his speech at parliament.

Upon Deikun's death, Jimba Ral spreads word of a House of Zabi conspiracy – but despite such efforts the power and sphere of influence of House of Zabi, led by Degwin Sodo Zabi, only seem to escalate.

While we witness for the first time the untold convulsions of Universal Century history, Casval and Artesia, just bereaved of their father, must face destinies which will be just as tumultuous as the very era itself.

Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin I: Blue-Eyed Casval is the first of a four-part video anime series telling the past of iconic Gundam character Char Aznable and his younger sister Sayla Mass. The episode premiered in a limited engagement in Japanese theaters in February 2015, and Odex screened the episode in theaters in Singapore, Malaysia, the Philippines, and Indonesia in the same month. The second episode, "Artesia's Sorrow," opened in Japan last October. The third episode began screening in 15 theaters in Japan for two weeks on May 21. The fourth episode will screen in 15 theaters in Japan on November 19.

After the fourth episode the anime will enter the Loum Arc that will cover the Battle of Loum.

Anime Consortium Japan is releasing the series digitally worldwide through a premium rental streaming program.

The anime project adapts Yoshikazu Yasuhiko's manga of the same name, which in turn is inspired by the first Mobile Suit Gundam anime's story.

Active Raid will premiere on HERO TV on September 7 at 7:30 p.m.

Active Raid's story is set in a part of Tokyo that has descended into a quagmire, and it follows the Special Public Security Division Third Mobile Assault Eighth Unit — popularly called "The Eighth" — who don powered armor "Willware" exoskeletons to counter the rise in crime. Assistant inspector Asami Kazari is assigned to The Eighth with the task of assessing the unit's status and reporting it to her superiors. But her true goal is to rehabilitate this sloppy, haphazard, justice-less group.

Goro Taniguchi (Planetes, Code Geass, Maria the Virgin Witch) is serving as chief director on the original television anime at Production IMS. Orange is producing the 3D CG. Noriaki Akitaya (Bakuman., Persona 3 the Movie #1 Spring of Birth, Castle Town Dandelion) is directing the anime, and Naruhisa Arakawa (MAOYU, Spice and Wolf, Outbreak Company) is writing the scripts. Artist and manga creator Shun Saeki (Food Wars! Shokugeki no Soma) is drawing the original character designs, while Asako Nishida (Love Live!, Simoun, Vampire Knight) is designing the characters for animation. Kotaro Nakagawa (Planetes, Code Geass, Prison School) is composing the music.

The first 12-episode half of the anime premiered in Japan on January 7. The second half premiered in Japan on July 12, and is currently airing.

[Via Anime Pilipinas]