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Forbes
16 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Forbes
Classic Gundam's Design Fixed In New ‘GQuuuuuuX' Toy
The upcoming Metal Robot Damashii toy of the classic Gundam from 'GQuuuuuuX'. In the final episode of Gundam GQuuuuuuX, the original RX-78-2 Gundam appears, and its latest toy has a lot more to it than it first appears. To back up quite a bit, the original design of the classic Gundam by Kunio Okawara is surprisingly curvaceous, and that has always caused issues when it gets translated into model kit or toy form. Back in 1999, Bandai did a solid stab at getting the original Gundam 'right' with their Kado Senshi chogokin release. I have it, and for its time, it's very nicely done. More recently, though, the design has been forcibly modernized for model kits and especially toys. The latter being an issue with the Robot Damashii spin-off series Ver. ANIME. The point of these Ver. ANIME toys were to accurately replicate mecha designs from the various host anime, and all of them were wonderfully done. All except one. The classic Gundam still had a modernized sculpt and proportions, which naturally irritated the fans in Japan. Every toy variant of the classic Gundam in this Ver. ANIME toyline had the same issue, and most had given up on ever getting a proper version of the design. FEATURED | Frase ByForbes™ Unscramble The Anagram To Reveal The Phrase Pinpoint By Linkedin Guess The Category Queens By Linkedin Crown Each Region Crossclimb By Linkedin Unlock A Trivia Ladder That was until it was featured in GQuuuuuuX, and in its original Okawara proportions. Following the other Metal Robot Damashii releases from GQuuuuuuX, which feature die-cast in their construction, the original Gundam has been added to that lineup. While we only get a beam saber and shield with this release, so no beam rifle or hyper bazooka, the fact that this toy finally fixes this issue of being faithful to Okawara's design is definitely welcomed. Pre-orders start today in Japan via Premium Bandai, and the price tag is also pretty decent. Coming in at 16,500 yen (or around $114 at the current exchange rate), you will also likely be able to use the hands and weapons from prior Robot Damashii releases to get the full load-out. Gundam GQuuuuuuX is now streaming worldwide via Amazon Prime Video. Follow me on X, Facebook and YouTube. I also manage Mecha Damashii and am currently featured in the Giant Robots exhibition currently touring Japan.
Forbes
18 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Forbes
Second ‘Gundam Hathaway' Movie Gets A New Trailer And Winter Release
Lane Aim, the pilot of the Penelope. It's taken a good while, but the second Gundam Hathaway movie has finally received a new trailer and will be out this Winter. The first Gundam Hathaway movie was released back in 2021 and was the first in a trilogy that adapted the novels written by Yoshiyuki Tomino. Set after the events of Char's Counterattack, it dealt with Bright Noa's son Hathaway as he leads a new rebel faction called Mafty against the now overly corrupt Federation. For years, it was thought that Tomino's Hathaway's Flash novels were impossible to adapt, but Shūkō Murase pretty much nailed it with the first film, and it looks like he'll do the same with the second. However, it does appear that the second film, called The Sorcery of Nymph Circe, will deviate from the novels somewhat, but my guess is that it will be more of a truncation of the story, if the first film is anything to go by. One additional point of confusion is that both the English trailer (shown below) and Japanese trailer say that this movie will be released 'Next Winter'. However, in the description for the Japanese trailer, it sounds like the movie is coming out this Winter, which makes more sense, as the last movie was released in 2021. What I do hope happens, though, is that this new Gundam Hathaway movie will receive a theatrical release in the US and Europe. I saw the first film on the big screen, and it made a huge impact. Especially the sections where you see mobile suit combat from the perspective of people on the ground trying to escape the carnage. In any case, Gundam Hathaway is finally getting its second movie, and from the trailer alone, it looks like it could be equally as special as the first film. Follow me on X, Facebook and YouTube. I also manage Mecha Damashii and am currently featured in the Giant Robots exhibition currently touring Japan.
Gizmodo
a day ago
- Entertainment
- Gizmodo
There Has Never Been a Better Time to Revisit the Original ‘Gundam'
Gundam has spent nearly 50 years reinventing itself across myriad side stories, new universes, and reimaginings of the story that started it all in the events of the 'Universal Century' that kicked off in the original 1979 series Mobile Suit Gundam. There are so many ways to get into the franchise, newer starting points, perhaps less intimidating starting points than a 43-episode TV series. But there's a reason the original Gundam still endures as one of the best, if not the best, entry points all these years later, especially after Gundam GQuuuuuuX just spent 12 weeks drawing upon and remixing it: not only does the show remain as relevant and poignant as it did all those years ago, visiting it now beyond the context of its legacy is fascinatingly rewarding. Either the original Gundam's compilation trilogy or its TV anime (for what it's worth, it is a larger ask, but the show is worth its runtime) still gives you a fascinating meditation on the impact of war on a generation of young people disenfranchised by the powers and generations that came before them. Its mecha action remains compelling in spite of any perceived 'dated' animation from a 46-year-old cartoon, especially so for the way the series frames the impact of that action on the humans driving it. A show still feeling out the early shapes of the genre it would go on to help define, the original Gundam endures as a classic because its ideas remain so potent; it's no wonder the series has spent the decades since either trying to build on and continue that story or create new imaginings and parallels that exist in conversation with it. GQuuuuuuX represents arguably the apex of that decades-long desire to reflect on the legacy of what Mobile Suit Gundam has come to be in the minds of legions of fans and creatives who have come in its wake. The original show looms large over GQuuuuuuX, not just for the sheer amount of context from it the series ultimately demanded of its audience, but because GQuuuuuuX exists in the context of Mobile Suit Gundam's legacy. Figures like Char are treated less like people within the narrative and more emblematic of their reputations, not just within the universe, but their reputations from years of fascination with these characters and the original series. Even the very act of being a direct, alternative universe remix on the outcome of the original show is an acknowledgement that the reputation of the original Gundam is so vast that the very act of engaging with what it would mean to retell its story is worthy of building an entire series out of. GQuuuuuuX's creatives have not been shy about the aims of the show being not just its own thing, but a way to encourage new generations of audiences to go and explore the original show and see what sparked their own fascinations with it, to see what created the legacy that GQuuuuuuX celebrates. Which is why it's so interesting to go back to that original show and realize that it is a show distinctly removed from the legacy it would go on to attain. The original Gundam was not necessarily made with the future of the franchise in mind—there almost wasn't going to be a franchise, with the show getting its initial runtime reduced and ending with the almost certainty that there would not be more coming. With all these years and images fans and the wider franchise itself have conjured up in their heads about its events and characters through years of revisits and expansions, through years of commentary and conversations across a litany of side stories and other series, there is something remarkably refreshing about experiencing Mobile Suit Gundam when it was just that show and not the herald of one of the most influential series in anime. It allows you to be able to go back in time, in some way, and see when Char and Amuro were not Char Aznable and Amuro Ray yet. Amuro spends most of the first half of the series struggling to survive the horror he is enduring, let alone being shaped into the heroic figure and symbol he eventually becomes, metanarratively or otherwise. Char admittedly does have something of a reputation even upon first meeting him in comparison (half the cast of the show, ally or enemy, won't stop gasping about 'The Red Comet' and his ace piloting skills), but not so much that the show isn't scared of humbling him or moving focus away from him, as it does so for a good chunk of the series' middle act. At the end of the day, they're simply just the people they were, characters allowed to grow and develop, to be flawed and to be challenged, instead of the subjects of Gundam's entire legacy. It's remarkable to watch them be humanized in this way, instead of held up as almost-untouchable figureheads. In the original Gundam, its world and its characters are not yet beholden to legacy and just simply… are. Whether it would be the first time you're seeing it or you're a Gundam diehard revisiting for the umpteenth time, it's important to be reminded of what Mobile Suit Gundam was before all that. Even without the context of its legacy, it endures as a remarkable show. Want more io9 news? Check out when to expect the latest Marvel, Star Wars, and Star Trek releases, what's next for the DC Universe on film and TV, and everything you need to know about the future of Doctor Who.
Time of India
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- Time of India
Call of Duty Mobile Gundam collaboration release date, content, and more
Image via Activision. It's time for Call of Duty Mobile to get into collaboration with popular Japanese science fiction franchise Gundam. After the crossover with Warzone and Modern Warfare 3 in 2024, the upcoming collaboration with CoD Mobile is going to be the second stint of Gundam. The previous collaboration brought a lot of new content into the game, like three themed tracer packs, weapon blueprints, camos, charms, and many more. And the upcoming collaboration with the mobile counterpart is not going to be any different. Call of Duty Mobile Gundam collaboration details The developers have recently announced that Season 6 in Call of Duty Mobile - Gundams Arrive - will be released on July 2, 2025 at 5 PM PT. In this collaboration, players will be able to relish Gundam themed operators, weapons, and rewards. Not only that, a new game and event will also be there. Starting of with a new Multiplayer game mode, this collaboration will introduce 4v4 Gundam Team Deathmatch, where players will be able to suit up with themed operators like Ethan - Freedom Gundam, Reaper - Sazabi Gundam, Proton - v Gindamo, and Deathscythe Gundam. This mode will be based around typical mech vs mech Gundam duels. Each Gundam operator has its own Finishing Move along with unique lobby screen and animation. by Taboola by Taboola Sponsored Links Sponsored Links Promoted Links Promoted Links You May Like Treatment That Might Help You Against Knee Pain Knee pain | search ads Find Now Undo Call of Duty®: Mobile x Gundam Reveal Trailer Now coming to event, players will able to earn rewards from this new game mode via a brand new Survival of the Fittest event, like new the legendary weapon J358 — Fin Funnel v Gundam, Urban Tracker — Defense Force, Cyro Bomb — Haro (reskin), Emote — Haro Team, and many more. On the other hand, Call of Duty Mobile players can celebrate the U.S. Independence Day starting from 4th July to 9th July with Independence Day-themed calling cards, charms, weapon blueprints, and many more. The Gundam Forever Operator Series Draw and Gundam Universe Weapon Series Draw will see players battling it out for Gundam themed operators and weapon blueprints like Krig 6 - Sword of Blue Skies, Locus - Red Comet, and many more. Completing both the draws will grant players special collection rewards. Along with these, a Double CP event and Returning Mythic Drops will be featured as well. Read More: Call of Duty Warzone Mobile shutting down a year after launch; here's what the company said Game On Season 1 continues with Mirabai Chanu's inspiring story. Watch Episode 2 here.
Gizmodo
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- Gizmodo
The Specter Hanging Over the Nostalgic Climax of ‘Gundam GQuuuuuuX'
The final episode of Gundam GQuuuuuuX asks its characters, new generations and remixes of familiar faces alike, to imagine new possibilities and futures for themselves free from the established ideas and histories of the Gundam shows that came before them. But while doing so, one nostalgic allowance exposes that GQuuuuuuX itself was unable to let go of that past in a singularly damning 12th and final episode of Gundam GQuuuuuuX is largely built on the revelation that its entire setting, a re-imagined vision of Gundam's Universal Century setting, has been made by a version of the Newtype Lalah Sune from a reality where she was saved from death in battle against the Gundam by the sacrifice of her version of Char Aznable, sending her into a despair that shattered reality, as she mentally searched for, and created, timelines that tried to imagine a possibility where Char survived. Already itself an alternate imagining of similar events in the original 1979 anime, where Lalah perishes at the Gundam and its pilot Amuro Ray's hands, this information is relayed to the audience and GQuuuuuuX's young protagonist Machu alike by a psionic flashback in the form of a modern yet retro recreation of scenes from the 41st episode of the original show, 'A Cosmic Glow.' As the recreation of Char, Amuro, and Lalah's battle plays out, familiar voices fill in their roles: Char and Lalah are once again voiced by their original actors from Mobile Suit Gundam, Shuichi Ikeda and Keiko Han, respectively, but Amuro is left oddly silent. (In a fun twist for the English-language dub, Keith Silverstein and Lipica Shah, who voiced Char and Lalah in the adaptation of Gundam: The Origin, briefly reprise their roles for this sequence.) That is, until later on in the climax of the episode, where Tōru Furuya—who has played Amuro across anime, films, games, and more for 46 years—reprised his role once more. It's for a singular line of dialogue, acting as the spiritual voice of the titular Gundam GQuuuuuuX to express its desire to not see Lalah suffer any further. But regardless, it's new material from the original voice of Amuro Ray. At one point, that might have been a triumphant huzzah, but in 2025, hearing Furuya having recorded new material strikes a much more complicated tone for Gundam fans. In May 2024, in an interview with the Japanese tabloid Shūkan Bunshun, Furuya (who was 70 at the time) revealed that he had engaged in an extramarital affair for four and a half years with a woman almost 40 years his junior. In the same interview, he also admitted getting into a physical altercation with the woman, as well as pressuring her into terminating a pregnancy during the course of their relationship. The reaction to the scandal in Japan was immediate. Furuya is perhaps one of the most famous voice actors in the country, known for his role not just as Amuro, but also as Sailor Moon's Tuxedo Mask, Dragon Ball's Yamcha, Sabo in One Piece, Pegasus Seiya in Saint Seiya, Rei Furuya in Detective Conan, and many more roles in a career that spanned almost six decades of work. Within a month of the release of the interview and Furuya's public apology on Twitter (which has since been locked), the actor had been dropped from a role in the then-upcoming Atlus RPG Metaphor Re:Fantazio, and Furuya announced that he would step down from his roles in One Piece and Detective Conan. Later that same year, Toei announced that Ryōta Suzuki would replace Furuya as Yamcha in Dragon Ball: Daima. But Bandai Namco, the owner of Gundam studio Sunrise, stayed quiet over whether or not Furuya would continue to voice Amuro Ray, as he had across dozens of Gundam works. In June 2024, the company sent a statement to Yahoo Japan's Meikou Kawamura stating that the company was undergoing 'a careful consideration to deal with [the situation around Furuya],' declining to comment further. In October that year, Bandai announced that Furuya would reprise his role as Amuro alongside Ikeda's Char once more in Gundam ALC Encounter, a short film to be broadcast as a special wall projection by the life-sized statue of the Nu Gundam in Fukuoka. GQuuuuuuX had been in development for several years before Furuya's scandal had emerged—planning on the series, in collaboration with Evangelion studio Khara, began as early as 2018, potentially even before Furuya's affair had even begun. It's likewise difficult to know if any part of the series was rewritten to move focus away from Amuro appearing in any capacity: the character is explicitly absent from GQuuuuuuX's remix of the events of the original Gundam and never actually named when allusions are made to the character, only referred to in passing as the pilot of the Federation's white Mobile Suit, while GQuuuuuuX focuses instead on Char and Lalah as its primary legacy characters. And again, even when Amuro would've naturally had dialogue in the finale's recreation of the events of 'A Cosmic Glow' alongside Ikeda and Han's return as Char and Lalah, the character is silent. But from what's publicly known about the development of the series at this point, we can't definitively say if these were intentional creative choices or necessities born out of attempting to distance from Furuya. But if they even were the latter, it would make little sense to then bring Furuya back to provide a single line of dialogue anyway. The new versions of Char and Lalah in GQuuuuuuX recast new actors in place of Ikeda and Han, and, with Furuya's scandal breaking months before GQuuuuuuX had been publicly announced, there was plenty of time between it and the final episode's broadcast to cast a replacement actor, even if it needed to be a soundalike to still communicate to audiences the connection to Amuro and the original Gundam. Was that connection so vital that there was no other choice? It seems simply instead that, unlike other studios, Bandai was simply unwilling to let go of Furuya's link to the legacy of Gundam yet—in spite of GQuuuuuuX's own thematic messages about the need to move on and imagine new possibilities for the series' past and future, leaving a conflicting mark on an otherwise forward-looking end to the series. Want more io9 news? 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