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Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX -Beginning- Will Open in U.K. and Ireland Cinemas On March 15 (Updated)

Update - Anime Limited specifies this will be a one-day release on March 15.

Anime Limited announced that Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX -Beginning-, a re-edited version of some episodes of the upcoming Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX (pronounced as “g-kwux”) television anime, will be screened in the UK and Ireland on Saturday March 15 (plus an early London IMAX screening on Thursday March 13). Links for venues are available at https://blog.alltheanime.com/gundam-gquuuuuux-book-tickets/.

There will be an early IMAX screening at London's BFI Imax cinema, on Thursday March 13 at 6.30 p.m. Tickets for this screening will be available here from Friday February 21 at 4 p.m.

Odeon cinemas in the following locations will screen the film:

Acton, Bath, Belfast, Birmingham New Street, Birmingham Broadway Plaza, Blanchardstown, Bournemouth, Brighton, Bristol, Cardiff, Chatham, Coventry Sky Dome, Glasgow Quay, Greenwich, Guildford, Hatfield, Haymarket, Kingston, Lee Valley, Leicester, Limerick, Lincoln, Liverpool One, Manchester Great Northern, Manchester Trafford Centre, Mansfield, Metrocentre, Milton Keynes, Norwich, Sheffield, Southend, Wimbledon.

Light cinemas in the following locations will screen the film:

Cambridge, Sheffield, Stockport, Walsall, Banbury, Bolton, New Brighton, Sittingbourne.

Showcase cinemas in the following locations will screen the film:

Bluewater, Bristol, Derby, Leicester, Nottingham, Peterborough, Reading, Southampton

Vue cinemas in the following locations will screen the film:

Basingstoke, Bolton, Bristol Cribbs Causeway, Bromley, Cambridge, Cardiff, Cheshire Oaks, Croydon Grants, Dublin, Edinburgh Omni, Exeter, Finchley Road, Fulham Broadway, Gateshead, Glasgow St Enoch, Harrow, Hull, Islington, Leeds Light, Leicester, Manchester Printworks, Newcastle UL, Northampton, Norwich, Oxford, Piccadilly, Plymouth, Portsmouth, Preston, Reading, Romford, Sheffield, Staines, Star City, Swansea, Thurrock, Vue West End, Westfield, Westfield Stratford, Wood Green, York

The film opened in Japan on January 17, and it 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 sold a total of 1.18 million tickets and earned a cumulative total of 1,935,716,409 yen (about US$12.55 million) as of Sunday.

The story of Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX -Beginning- 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 SuperS, 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.