The finals of the 12th Gundam Builders World Cup (GBWC, Gundam World Cup), a contest to determine the world's best Gundam model builder from the Gundam anime series, will be held on February 22nd at the Shinjuku Sumitomo Building Triangle Plaza (Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo). The masterpieces of the representatives of each country and area of the U-20 category, aged 15 and over and under 20, were unveiled.
GBWC is an international competition that began in 2011, where participants compete in Gunpla construction, painting skills, and ideas. There are three courses: U-14 for those aged 6 and over and under 14, U-20 for those aged 15 and over and under 20, and OVER-21 for those aged 21 and over, and the competition is held in 16 countries and regions, including Japan, Australia, Canada, Europe and the Middle East, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, Indonesia, mainland China, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, the UK, the US, and Vietnam. Since May of last year, competitions have been held in each area, one after another, and representatives have been selected.
The Japanese representative for the U-20 course was Hikona's "Beyond The AXIZ." Using the "MG" series Sazabi Gundam model as a base, he created a diorama with his own interpretation of the Sazabi's sortie scene from "Mobile Suit Gundam: Char's Counterattack."
