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Gundam GQuuuuuuX Anime Film Opens in India on February 28
posted on by Adriana Hazra
The Gundam GQuuuuuuX film debuted at #1 at 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 opened in Japan on January 17. Immersive MX4D and 4DX screenings will start on February 22.
The film has sold a total of 1.38 million tickets for a cumulative total of 2,256,093,900 yen (about US$14.62 million), surpassing 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.
The story of Gundam GQuuuuuuX, a re-edited version of the first four episodes of the upcoming Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX (pronounced as “g-kwux”) television anime, 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 battle 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.
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' Instagram account
