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Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX TV Anime Unveils April 8 Debut, Theme Song by Kenshi Yonezu
posted on by Joanna Cayanan
The official Japanese website for the Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX (pronounced as “g-kwux”) television anime revealed on Sunday its April 8 premiere on 30 Nippon TV affiliate channels at 24:29 JST (effectively, April 9 at 12:29 a.m.). A second promotion reel for the Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX -Beginning- film started streaming on Saturday, which reveals and previews the series' theme song "Plazma" by Kenshi Yonezu.
The anime will have a special stage at the AnimeJapan 2025 event on March 23.
The film has sold over 1.55 million tickets for over 2.5 billion yen (about US$16.7 million) in the 31 days since it opened in Japan. The film has now surpassed the total all-time Japanese earnings of 1982 Mobile Suit Gundam III: Encounters in Space anime film, which earned 2.3 billion yen (about US$15.41 million in current conversion) at the Japanese box office. This makes the Gundam GQuuuuuuX film the second 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$32.14 million) as of its initial run's final weekend in May 2024. If Gundam Seed FREEDOM's special edition screenings later in 2024 are included, that film has earned a cumulative total of 5.38 billion yen (about US$36.05 million).
The story begins with 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 anime stars (full cast list contains spoilers):
- Tomoyo Kurosawa as Amate Yuzuriha
- Yui Ishikawa as Nyaan
- Shimba Tsuchiya as Shūji Itō
- Mariya Ise as Annqi
- Yukitoshi Tokumoto as Jezzi
- Kōsuke Echigoya as Pomeranian
- Shōya Chiba as Nabu
- Yuusuke Nagano as Kaine
- Rie Kugimiya as HARO
- Shinji Kawada as Challia Bull
- Seiichirō Yamashita as Xavier Olivette
- Akane Fujita as Comoli Harcourt
- Yūki Shin as Char Aznable
- Kōsuke Gotō as Denim
- Taichi Takeda as Dren
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.
Sources: Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX anime's website, Comic Natalie
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