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NEWS: Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX TV Anime Unveils April 8 Debut, Theme Song by Kenshi Yonezu




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Shay Guy



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PostPosted: Sun Feb 23, 2025 2:20 pm Reply with quote
Checking Wikipedia, I think this is the first Gundam TV series not to be co-produced by Mainichi Broadcasting System since Turn A. And apparently this is the first Nippon TV Gundam ever — the history seems to go like this:


  • 0079/Z/ZZ produced by Mētele aka Nagoya TV (Chubu region station for All-Nippon News Network)
  • Victory through X produced by TV Asahi (flagship Kanto station for same network) and aired back-to-back on Fridays at 5 PM, a timeslot that’s hosted the news program Super J Channel since 1997
  • Turn A produced by Fuji TV
  • SEED through G-Witch produced by MBS (Kansai station for Japan News Network, the Kanto station for which is TBS)
  • Build Fighters/Divers produced by TV Tokyo (which had also broadcast the various SD series)
  • Unicorn RE:0096 recut aired on TV Asahi in 2016
  • Gundam: The Origin recut aired on NHK (!) in 2019


(The more I learn about Japanese TV, the weirder it seems. Would you ever see an internationally distributed scripted American series that was produced not by ABC per se, but specifically KTRK? Maybe it’s the population concentration, or the typical conventions for corporate structure, or both.)

Also, is this the first late-night regular Gundam series? The recut of The Origin aired late at night, but I’m sure OVA re-edits have different economics. Even G-Witch was a daytime anime, and that had other concessions to modern anime economics (shorter runtime, split cours).

Looks like this isn’t a regular anime block either; it’ll be replacing a live-action drama timeslot called Drama DEEP that started just a year before. Interestingly, NTV’s airing it shortly before their existing AnichU timeslot, though with a half-hour non-anime gap in between — AnichU is currently home to Flower and Asura, which will be replaced by Apocalypse Hotel in the spring.
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Chiyosuke



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PostPosted: Sun Feb 23, 2025 5:41 pm Reply with quote
Shay Guy wrote:
Checking Wikipedia, I think this is the first Gundam TV series not to be co-produced by Mainichi Broadcasting System since Turn A. And apparently this is the first Nippon TV Gundam ever — the history seems to go like this


While it does seem like the end of a streak, TBS and MBS are more or less sister companies (for differing regions) so whatever either produced, the other was gonna air it regardless, nine times out of 10.
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