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….
September 28th, 2006 at 3:11 pm
I think they should continue with the C.E. The UC era came to an end. I just hope the next Gundam series isn’t too kiddy like G-Gundam and hopefully no annoying characters like Frey and Stella. I also hope they don’t bring back the dead like how Destiny brong back Mwu Lafraga . I’ll be looking forward to the new series, that is, if there is one.
September 30th, 2006 at 7:28 am
G Gundam has weird designs, but it’s not something to show to the average kid. Gets too mature in a number of areas, be it the deaths, or the fanservice. If you really want kiddy, look no further than Inferior Offender Gundam Farce. :P
Continuing the UC era is just as possible as with the CE era. I mean, there’s actually stories beyond the One Year War (*gasp*). In terms of timeline, the UC era ended with Victory, and ended with a door wide open for a post Victory story. Same with the CE era, though it’ll likely end up revisiting the likes of Kira and co. Just… for once, put a competent team together to do this, please. Two episodes of Stargazer has already shown that it’s possible to create something good in the CE universe.
December 15th, 2006 at 1:50 pm
Since that i saw both of the SEED series,i wonder what would happen next. I don’t care if ppl hate it or criticize ‘em,am dying to know more of ‘em til it end(with no more SEED titles,again.) N that’s all i want to know.T.Q. -_- ….
December 15th, 2006 at 2:45 pm
Wow, people still read this post?
Okay, just to clear things up. It has been confirmed that the rumours were false. The series that Sunrise was rumoured to be working on turned out to be Code Geass.
January 6th, 2007 at 9:16 pm
OK, For all of u who bash Wing well, you don’t know what good anime is when it hits you. from wing down are all good ecept a few of them. Seed is THE worst out of them all. CAUSE u got stupid story line, kinda went no were. LIKE OHHH IM on one side i kill you, and yahh im on the other side i kill you. Blah, bLah, blahhh. WING atleast had a better story plot. had a bit a romace witch was ok. SEED HOWEVER HAD Stupid Romance in it kina dumb except the kira and the pik haired girl. i can;t spell her name so i won;t try.NOW This coming 2007 Oct I HOPE they make it TOTALLY Different from SEED. Casue it just sucked period.
January 25th, 2007 at 11:28 am
@WING=BEST, haha you think that Wing is the best?? You know absolutely nothing. ANY of the UC series can top Wing. In my opinion Wing is among one of the worst gundam series ever, it was so fake and it made the gundams so invincible it wasn’t even worth watching. SEED is actually better than Wing. The storyline, the fights,etc are much better than Wing’s. But both SEED and SEED DESTINY are both pretty pathatic for gundam series, but Wing and G top them both at being pathatic. The only reason Wing is popular is because how much people enjoy invincible/ unkillable characters. The UC series are the only series that worth watching. The storyline, action, characters can easily top any one of the other timeline gundam shows. Does Heero top Char in popularity?? I think not, there has been countless votings and the UC characters get good amout of votes and Char is always end up among the top. WING >CRAP
February 17th, 2007 at 4:51 pm
I can belive this shit, ANOTHER CRAP SEED SERIES???!!! the gundam designs are horrible, the characters are taking of a shoujo shit series (ohh who kiss with who?? who can sing better??), what about the REAL gundam?? 1979!!!, oh my shit, I really hate seed, that series is the worst gundam series ever, so comercial, so stupid (an idol.. so bling!!… ohh a girl with little clothes!.. so cool.). You stupid people =_= ruined an amazing series like gundam with series like seed. Is a crap saga, Seed and Seed Destiny. Wing is maybe the best gundam series, have the best gundam desing (holy crap, you can’t compare a shit like “justice” gundam with Wing Zero custom or a simple Deathscythe hell!!.. oh yeah, one is invisible!! wooowww.. so shinny!!… -_- a real mecha is like a varitech, with only the power of the pilot and the power of the metal… but what do you know about a varitech!…). You say the seed series is better ‘cuz you look the characters like a soup opera!!! so pink, so wak… really people, think. Is GUNDAM series, no “who kiss with who” series or “the most pink or cute girl”… if you like seed u don’t know a shit about gundam saga, this bullshit is comercial. A real gundam fan know that.
PD: the chara designs look like a ponny shoujo series =0=
February 21st, 2007 at 4:28 am
ok as someone who has seen almost all of the gundam series the popular ones and some of the lesser ones i enjoyed seed i saw 0083 0079 and basically everything with char and amuro b4 i ever saw wing and seed and to be honest i like the later better with time things need to get bigger and better if u ask me the skill of the pilots is a testament to a change in anime period in seed and wing when the pilots encounter someone who is actually a worhy opponent it goes from guys who can beat a fleet to 2 guys going at it yes i expect them to be able to take down 2 or more enemies why not the way they are bein sold to u is these guys are the best and there suits are that powerful with amuro and char it wasn’t sold that way and i hated the whole newtype things casue it felt too convaluted in seed its simple coordinators are an actual race not a small percentage of people even though it seems like everyone who had colorful hair was a newtype when it was supposed to be rare im for change g gundam sucked but wing and seed and seed destiny are the best hands down if u dont like it too bad
February 21st, 2007 at 4:31 am
and by the way one more thing some of u guys need help and lives casue to know what some of u know about gundam is kinda disturbin unless u helped right or are closely related to the people involved in it but some of u seem like the type who can tell me cha’s mothers blood type of the top of your head and thats just scarier get a life and girlfriend jus a lil advice
February 21st, 2007 at 9:35 am
Okay lets blame gundam wing but thing is guys that hey lets just say something here hypotetically you got yourself a nuke and you shoot it does that make you a super soldier no but you just took out 100 of thousands in one shot wing takes this to a different level using his unit to mathc enemies in superior numbers A rifle of such output could only be fired twice and not consecutively ofcourse taking out laods of enemies byu yourself is hardly realistic (which is what ignoring the giant robots figthing the MS 08th team has) ofcourse the emo crap I can do without but i can tell you the super soldier the ability to kill without being touched thing that i as a guy always dreemed of killing huge numbers of enemies with your skill is not that hard think of it as marine vs frontline infantry(ignoring the fact that the gundamiun alloy could take an insane amount of shots) a 1 shot kill is normal think about it it is possible for freedom to eliminate great numbers thnx to a multy target system the wing zero takes this to another scale using a huge beam to exterminate nto only those i the line of direct fire but vrushing those nearby with its massive heat output which will be nothing short of a nuclear blast . Okay gundam wing will not be the best series in gundam history but it is far fro mworst(sometiem watch gundam sd to see what im talking about) but ignoring the rambling about piece and crap you got a solid acton show with supersoldiers say Gi joe a la mech . i know i defend winng too much but i like the wing zero it is to me the best MS ever created (it can own the freedom biach) it can compare in coolness to the labors of patlabor and id love to show you just how much one sole mech can do (give me 2 hours of practice to learn to control it) whole battalions will fall before me a true ace pilot wouldnt that be a wonder to see?still seed again will be fine with me aslong as its not uber cheesy (can be as cheesy as they want if they make me a character tought)
March 2nd, 2007 at 12:43 pm
Is the next SEED series for real??? Damn can’t wait for that one… ^_^ When is it and what is it all about??? What is it called??? Got any facts about it???, cause there’s this rumor I’ve read once that Lacus would die in the next series… I hope it’s not true, I mean it would kinda make the SEED series incomplete especially if the story would mainly revolve with Kira and co. again… But even if it’s with a new bunch of characters, I guess it still wouldn’t be complete without the songstress… ^_^ She’s one of my favorite character and my favorite pilot in the game Rengou vs. ZAFT II Plus… ^_^ (I kinda like the idea of her using a mobile suit and sending her message of peace to people by force, that of course is in a game only… ^_^)
Please fill me in with this , I really wanna know… ^_^
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I was once a Wing fan but since I saw SEED back in 2003, I found SEED to be far more interesting compared to Wing… At first I tried to close my mind about liking SEED because I kept thinking that Wing was better in terms of design, story and realism, and that Heero would own Kira anytime, but after sometime, I kinda changed my perspective with the series… What I’m saying is that if you’re too keep an open mind, you might actually find SEED, and other series for that matter, to be ok too… My first impression with Wing was; it was the ultimate gundam series, but now, that is not the case… All gundams in all series have the right to be godly in their own respective universe… Amuro and Char own the UC, Heero and the wing boys own almost everyone in the After Century era, and so does Garrod in After War, Domon in Future Centry, and Kira and Athrun in the CE era…
Oh and don’t count the G Gundam series out of the gundam family, G Gundam mobile fighters are what truly describes a true mobile suit… and not to mention it’s true power completely relies on it’s pilot, with only a few help from the suit itself. I have great respect for this series, even though I’ve barely watched it.
March 9th, 2007 at 10:08 pm
GS and GSD more better because of….. Kira+Lacus….
Lacus Song….
Girl that command Eternal Battle ship….
Make peace……
But more important.. Lacus….
She Cute….
Rie tanaka RULEZZZ….
March 16th, 2007 at 2:31 am
First of all as a true gundam fane, no gundam series sucks. In terms of what is “overpowered” i think things kind of go along pretty well. You can losely tie all of the animated gundam series together in the same timeline. It is a stretch but it can be done. Everything of course starts off in UC. As UC progresses, generally the mobiles suits get more powerful. This is true for both mass produced models and the more powerful ones. A newly mass produced suit from ZZ Gundam could probably take out Gundam (if you think about it in terms of production). There is a time gap between Char’s counter attack and Gundam F91, in this gap it does seem as if mobile suits become more powerful but not in as much of a high rate. Then there is another time gap until Victory gundam, and there seems to be a slight technology lapse. Then comes Gundam X, the “7th” space war that they mention seems to be the one year war but in an alternate universe. That aside, the mass colony drop makes sense at the end of UC (the types of colonies that were dropped were from UC). There is a slight technology lapse since getting into space is difficult and uncommon in this series. Also we see the last knowledge of Newtypes. Then time progresses and the CE comes along. CE can be shown as next because it retains the UC like colony type (heliopolis, beginning of SEED). Also there are a few Newtype traits that are retained in a few individuals (Mu, Rau, Rey, and Kira maybe a few others). After CE Newtype traits pretty much vanish. Then comes Gundam Wing, there is another bit of a technology lapse in some areas, ships aren’t really used much its more about mobile suits. The colonies are perhaps more advanced and there seems to be some focus on AI (mobile dolls, sand rock telling quatre to leave and not die, etc). Then comes G Gundam, obviously the most advanced mobile suits called mobile fighters. Humans actually evolved a bit here too, with more power. Then another technology lapse and a de-evolution of humans and Turn A Gundam starts, at the end they mention and show scenes from UC, AW, and AC (SEED waste made yet). There is some indication that the Turn X is the evolved form of the Shining Gundam hense why this comes after G Gundam.
In my opinion, it makes sense losely, there is no “unrealistic superpower” that should not exist. I have watched every single gundam series two or more times and i would have to disagree that SEED, SEED Destiny, and Wing are the worst. I have to say that SEED Destiny was a little pointless though. I think that War in the Pocket, Victory Gundam, and Turn A Gundam are probably the series that aren’t as good. They are a little slow and I find them boring compared to the rest. However, is still say that none of them suck.
March 20th, 2007 at 11:28 am
wow some kind of battle of wing vs seed. lolz.
i only watched wing, seed, seed destiny, and turn a, so i dont know about the uc ones, but i think i prefer seed over wing.
the old ones from uc sound really interesting does any one know where to get them?
March 20th, 2007 at 2:05 pm
So back to the big question…is there any real GD series (Not OVA) after Seed Destiny…..??? Anyone out there with any insider news.
It’s a pity that Stargazer did not develop further, it has so much potential…but they chose to end it in 3 episodes