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Encore Films to Screen Gundam GQuuuuuuX -Beginning- Film in the Philippines, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia

Encore Films announced on Thursday that it will screen the Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX -Beginning- anime film in the Philippines, Singapore, Malaysia, and Indonesia. Encore Films did not reveal the opening date for the film in the Philippines, but it will open the film in Malaysia and Singapore on February 27, and in Indonesia on March 12.

The film is a re-edited version of the first four episodes of the upcoming Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX (pronounced as “g-kwux”) television anime. The story centers on Amate Yuzuriha, a high-school student living peacefully in a space colony floating in outer space. When she meets a war refugee named Nyaan, Amate is drawn into the illegal mobile suit dueling sport known as Clan Battle.

Under the entry name "Machu," she throws herself into fierce battles day after day, piloting the GQuuuuuuX. Then an unidentified Gundam mobile suit pursued by both the space force and the police appears before her, along with its pilot, a boy named Shūji.

The film opened in Japan on January 17, and debuted at #1 in the Japanese box office in its opening weekend. It sold 352,500 tickets and earned 598,832,300 yen (about US$3.83 million) in its first three days. The film has surpassed the total all-time Japanese earnings of Mobile Suit Gundam Hathaway, which earned 2,209,628,200 yen (about US$14.29 million in current conversion) at the Japanese box office. This makes the Gundam GQuuuuuuX film the third highest-earning film in the Gundam franchise in Japan, with Mobile Suit Gundam Seed FREEDOM holding the all-time high of 4,796,455,740 yen (about US$31.05 million) as of its final weekend in May 2024, and the 1982 Mobile Suit Gundam III: Encounters in Space anime film ranking at #2 with 2.3 billion yen (about US$14.88 million in current conversion).

Kazuya Tsurumaki (FLCL, Gunbuster 2: Diebuster) is directing the anime, and Yōji Enokido (Bungo Stray Dogs, Sailor Moon Super S, Revolutionary Girl Utena, Ouran High School Host Club) is supervising the series scripts and writing the scripts with Hideaki Anno (Evangelion, Shin Godzilla). Illustrator Take (Katanagatari, Zaregoto, Pokémon Sun & Moon) is designing the characters, and Ikuto Yamashita (Evangelion, Shin Kamen Rider, Yukikaze) is the mechanical designer.

Source: Encore Films Philippines Facebook page, Singapore Facebook page, Indonesia Facebook page, Malaysia Facebook page