New Gundam series next October!… Apparently.
Fresh from the rumour mill. According to Moon Phase Zakki sources, a new Gundam series will start airing October next year. Many valorous spies paid the ultimate sacrifice to bring us this information.
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ガンダム新シリーズ、来年10月放送にむけて始動！…らしい。
「天保異聞 妖奇士」の後番、来年の土6は新ガンダム。監督は水島精二氏とのこと。一応、内部リークですが、実際この通り順調に企画が進むかどうかは不明。
Translation:
New Gundam series, starts airing October next year!… Apparently.
Taking over the time slot of Ayakashi Ayashi, a new Gundam series will air during the Saturday 6pm slot next year. The director will be Seiji Mizushima. Although this is, technically, an internal leak, it is not confirmed whether the project is really proceeding as stated.
You can just feel the journalistic confidence oozing out of this little article… On another note, Seiji Mizushima is most well-known as the director of Full Metal Alchemist.
Unlike most people, I still have hopes for the SEED franchise, especially if a new director is being brought in to continue the series. While it is not certain if the new Gundam series will continue the C.E. timeline, or indeed whether it even exists at this moment, I have this to say: BRING STELLAR BACK!!!
P.S. Moon Phase has also confirmed, with information from Comiket 70, that the third Nanoha series will be a full-fledged TV series and not OVAs. I don’t care for Nanoha, but it’s on the same page as this news so might as well….
August 11th, 2006 at 4:26 pm
“You can just feel the journalistic confidence oozing out of this little article…”
Haha! My thoughts exactly. Which is why I was quite hesitant in reporting this news as well. But I’m glad someone did it anyway. Definitely had to get the Nanoha scoop out though :D
August 11th, 2006 at 4:40 pm
I for one hope they’ll put SEED finally to rest. :/ It’s insanely popular and all, but it’s starting to be a bit of an embarrassment to the Gundam franchise in general. (Though it’s definitely not as embarrassing as Wing…) Or if they continue with it, I hope they’ll get a new character designer because, well, at least the characters would improve (that is, they wouldn’t look like each others’ clones).
August 11th, 2006 at 4:49 pm
I don’t see why you should be so happy.
August 11th, 2006 at 5:36 pm
Scrap Gundam. Let’s have some Battletech.
August 11th, 2006 at 6:31 pm
>>Though it’s definitely not as embarrassing as Wing…
How come? If you’ve seen the original Mobile Suit Gundam, you’d realize how unoriginal the Gundam Seed series really is.
Is the bad rap on Gundam Wing because Seed fans bash it? And everyone is just jumping on the bandwagon.
August 11th, 2006 at 6:36 pm
For the love of god, no, don’t bring back Stellar. It was cheezy enough when they brought back Mwu, and Stellar wasn’t even half as cool as him.
August 11th, 2006 at 6:44 pm
Screw Gundamn, White Devil 4TW!!!!
Hayate better play a bigger role next season. I want to see Reinforce in full force.
August 11th, 2006 at 8:14 pm
Gundam Seed all the wayyy!! ^_^
August 11th, 2006 at 9:03 pm
>techie
I’ve seen the original series (in fact, I’m an UC fan), but I think Seed isn’t half as embarrassing as Wing. Seed is unoriginal, yes, and rather silly if you ask me, but it’s got nothing on Wing in terms of overall silliness, coupled with blatant fanservice.
I realize that for many people Wing was the gateway into Gundam and thus it remains their favorite Gundam franchise, but it doesn’t change the fact that it has a silly premise, an annoying cast and a lukewarm story. Plus, it’s basically a bishounen anime meant to attract girls to the franchise (something that Seed does better, although I wish it didn’t even try). If it didn’t have mecha it might as well be called Weiss Kreuz 2. (Okay, it’s not as bad as Weiss Kreuz. But then, few anime reaches that low…)
August 11th, 2006 at 9:47 pm
OMGZ
FMA + Gundam = Well, we know how the EFSF and Zeon got so many connon fodder mecha and expendable weaponry. It was all Ed and Al and their merry alchemist friends magicking them out of Asteroids.
August 12th, 2006 at 12:11 am
For those wondering why we’re bashing Wing… it’s because everything that’s wrong with SEED is because Gundam Wing did it first, and thus set the ’standard’ which SEED is now following (pretty boys in super-powered Gundams, who take on whole armies by themselves rather than just whole squads, insane emo faces, unbelievable resurrections and super-powered Gundam upgrades). In other words, everything you hate about SEED is there because it came up in Wing first, and they’re merely following in Wing’s footsteps, but increasing the amounts of each element.
While G-Gundam may have brought the idea of “Gimmick Gundams” out first, Wing escalated it to the level which SEED and SEED Destiny both take it to today. Zeta Gundam brought forth the notion of Gundam upgrades (changing to a better Gundam), Wing was the one which came up with the idea of upgrading from a powerful Gundam to a Deus Ex Machina Gundam with the Wing to Wing Zero upgrade. It also introduced the notion that a single pilot (like Duo Maxwell, or Heero Yuy) could defeat whole companies and divisions of enemy Mobile Suits by themselves, often five to ten at a time, while earlier Gundam series merely had their pilots defeating two or three in a row, or two at once at most.
In other words, everything that’s wrong with SEED or SEED Destiny comes directly from the Gundam Wing tradition. Thus, if you see people bashing Wing, it’s because of the notions which it brought to the table and which set the tone for future Gundam series. All of those pretty-boy bishounen pilots, all of their godlike Mobile Suits and piloting skills, all of their ‘killing whole fleets at the same time’ cliches come from Gundam Wing. Unfortunately, Wing was the ‘gateway series’ for most of the current generation of North American Gundam fans, rather than something like Turn A Gundam or Victory Gundam.
August 12th, 2006 at 12:38 am
I agree: Wing was the foundation of SEED. Besides, it’s easy to bash in retrospect, but at the time Wing was pretty popular (at least, from my point of view).
Having the Deus Ex Machina Gundam is pretty entertaining from time to time, especially for the kids. That being said, I wish there were more “8th MS” series around. I’m pretty sure a good gundam along the lines of FMP:TSR can be done. AKA: Great machine, but not invincible.
August 12th, 2006 at 4:14 am
If they do continue Seed, I just hope they dont do the same thing that they did with Destiny, where the supposedly main character became the antagonist and Kira became the Main Character. You like what was the point of the series?? Why didn’t they make Kira the Main since the Beginning??
There were no developpment between Kira and Lacus?? It’s like watching them in SEED? As for Cagalli and Asuran, I still don’t know what happened, that’s how corny their development were?? Plus how the hell could they make Kira loose to Shin?? Isn’t he the Ultimate Coordinator??
In the end I still don’t they should make another SEED series, there’s already a Gundam SEED movie in production. They should make a new gundam series.
August 12th, 2006 at 6:09 am
>Haesslich
WORD.
August 12th, 2006 at 8:46 am
personally i think that seed and destiny is whole lot better than wing, wing…….i dont like it, what are you talking bout super gundams??? wing are the ones with them, how the hell can a gundam’s rifle have the power that more powerful than the ones that being mounted on a ship(wing gundam) and how can a blade thats shorter than an arm be able to cut down a aries vertalically(heavyarms) in seed, atleast they make more sense like equip freedom and justice with meteors so they can do heavy amout of grunt bashing. unlike wing, wing zero, or wing zero custom which can destory an army with just 1 shot, its just impossible, so i like seed better cuz its more realistic and the storyline is whole lot better, i hate heero, thinks hes better than everyone else