The latest film in the popular Gundam anime series, Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX -Beginning-, began screening at 426 theaters, including IMAX screenings, on January 17th. Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX is also attracting attention as the first collaboration between Sunrise, the studio behind the Gundam series, and Khara, known for the Evangelion series. Singer-songwriter Kenshi Yonezu will be performing the theme song, Plazma. The anime series is being broadcast on Nippon TV, and a reconstructed version of some episodes will be screened ahead of the broadcast.
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.
