The advance theatrical release of the latest installment in the popular Gundam anime series, Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX -Beginning-, got off to a strong start by topping the movie attendance rankings from January 17th to 19th (surveyed by Kogyo Tsushinsha).
Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX is also a hot topic as it is the first collaboration between Sunrise, which produced the Gundam series, and Khara, known for the Evangelion series. The TV anime series was broadcast on Nippon TV, and a pre-broadcast version of the film, which reconstructed some episodes, began screening at 426 theaters, including IMAX screenings, on January 17th.
The story is about the protagonist, high school girl Amate Yuzuriha (Machu), who lives a peaceful life in a space colony floating in space, but after meeting a war refugee girl named Nyaan, she becomes embroiled in an illegal mobile suit duel competition, a clan battle... The protagonist's robot, GQuuuuuuX, is a mysterious state-of-the-art mobile suit piloted by Amate Yuzuriha, and participates in the clan battle.
Kazuya Tsurumaki will be the director, Yoji Enokido will be the series composer, and Ikuto Yamashita will be the mechanical designer. Tomoyo Kurosawa will play Amate Yuzuriha, Yui Ishikawa will play Nyaan, a girl who works as an illegal courier, and Shimba Tsuchiya will play Shuuji Ito, a mysterious boy who appears before Machu and Nyaan. Singer-songwriter Kenshi Yonezu will be performing the theme song "Plazma".
