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….
March 21st, 2007 at 6:31 am
I think~~ stargazer and the destiny are related~~~…..
so now i think they combine the stargazer after selene and nior or some thing like that lost in space~~~
by the way…
LACUS STILL MY IDOL~~~~~
RIe tanaka RUlez…~~~~
LACUS ~~ LACUS ~~LACUS~~~
LACUS CLYNE rulez~~~
LACUS FIction…
March 21st, 2007 at 6:39 am
hmm
almost forget~~~ The combine it so its related….
March 21st, 2007 at 10:34 pm
TO UCAWCEACFCCC:
Hahaha, spoken like a true Gundam Fan… ^_^ I like the way you connected one series from another. Seems to like you’ve thought of this concept for a long time now, eh? Cool ^_^
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TO razakiller:
The events in Stargazer and Destiny happened in just about the same time, only difference is the location a set of characters… Not actually related but connected… ^_^
Have you played Rengou vs ZAFT 2 Plus in the PS2 yet? If you love Lacus then you’ll definitely love using her as a pilot… The thought of her piloting mobile suits seem so weird to me to it’s so cool… ^_^ Try it, just don’t get her killed ok… ^_^
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TO Regina:
It’s just a side story, so it only had 3 episodes… and I don’t actually see the potential in Stargazer being a good series… Please explain why it has so much potential in being a good series.
March 21st, 2007 at 10:49 pm
Oh one more thing…
TO EVERYONE, don’t blame the series, blame the writers, editors and the directors… They’re the ones to blame, but I’m not saying that they should end their careers just because of a poorly developed project… give em a second chance to re-think what they’ve done and come up with a better one… don’t compare to others, it’ll just pressure them… just try to understand, it’s not that easy to just come up with a great story then turn it into an anime…
March 23rd, 2007 at 3:35 am
Zyrael>>>
I play that thing
sure i love to use Lacus as a pilot..~~~
but with the PINK zaku that make a consert at Zaft….
Im sure got Perfect Destiny~~~
by the way…
Lacus RUlez“`~~~~
March 23rd, 2007 at 1:11 pm
Wow, this had been going on like, for, half a year?
Anyway, I’m not certain myself if this new Gundam series itself, is really a follow up of Gundam SEED or Gundam Wing itself. But I feel, since it is a “series”, it’s DEFINITELY a new Gundam series outside of all the other series.
My reason for SEED not being a good guess: a movie had just been announced but still under production, which will end the entire series as a trilogy.
As for Wing, I’ve got nothing to say, as I do not watch the series at all. To be frank, I only notice Gundam SEED in 2004. :(
April 1st, 2007 at 11:34 pm
I have watched my share of Gundam as of late, unfortunately ive read about all of the series since i was 18, now im 31 and im finally seeing some of the older stuff lol
as for seed, it started really strong, good storyline, excellent animations, and action. great charachter developement.
Destiny tried to hard i think, there’s alot of similar plots as Seed. it does have its twists of coarse.
as for Stargazer, im not sure i understood that series. the only thing i can figure out is that they are developing a new gundam with AI and a new propultion system. im still trying to figure out if the ship is the third episode is the Girty Lu or just a close copy of it. also im not sure i understand how or the relationship between Sven and the Girl in the end of the movie….. or whats even going on with them together in the stargazer :P my copy of the last episode wasnt of very good quality :P
still i think it would have been better if they took the time to develope the story a little more :P
and as for Gundam wing? that was an ok series, endless waltz was cool, i still think i like seed & Destiny better ^_^
April 2nd, 2007 at 1:55 pm
If there is a new gundam series, I hope they make one about an older Camiou Bidan from Zeta Gundam. I always felt bad that he ended up the way he did, and from analyzing the UC series he was potentially the most powerful of the newtypes from the UC era (maybe next to Sirocco… Char and Amurou were honestly not as strong as Camiou). I just am sick of seeing Gundam series after series with 15 year old teenage boys who still don’t have hair ‘down there’ as the main lead. An older male lead, a war veteran with a dark past, could make for a far more compelling lead IMHO. Judou from ZZ is another candidate, but I think many of us will agree that Camiou was a far more developed and interesting character than the plastic Judou.
ps: SEED and SEED DESTINY spawned some very beautiful gundam designs (Astray Red, Zaku Warrior, Providence, Buster Verde and Strike Noir imho) but it had a terrible story and characters with eyes too large for even the anime genre. I hope the folks at Bandai let it to rest and please for lord’s sakes let’s go back to the established and respected territory of UC.
April 2nd, 2007 at 8:38 pm
SEED and SEED Destiny do not suck.The fighting scenes i think are way better than other Gundam series.However,the flaw that i found in their series is that there are too many pointless battles that took place.The ending of SEED Destiny also produced confusion on the relationship between Athrun,Cagalli and Meryn.
April 4th, 2007 at 8:12 am
SEED and DESTINY are alright but they will always be in the UC’s shadow. As for the gundam series coming out in october, it’ll most likely be SEED. If it is,these are my simple reqest:
1: A powerfull unpredictible new storyline. Seed and Destiny were way too simalair. As for the plot, instead of another pointless war. let’s make ot one big terrorist plot after another, that leads up to the grand finale.
2: A kick-ass protangonist (of coarse) As cool headed as Kira and Athrun but as badass as Shinn, Canard Pars, Spike Speigel(Cowboy Bebop) and Johnny Knoxville (don’t ask.)
3: A Black Gundam, since most the hero’s gundam are mainly white. Let’s have a black one for the hell of it.
4: Focus more on the new characters. In Destiny they made almost all the new characters the bad guys.
5: There’ve been rumors saying that Lacus and or Kira were gonna die, I’m kinda hoping that’s true because they make it look like the world revolves around them just because Kira’s the ultimate coordinator and Lacus’ the pink princess or whatever. I think that’s just stupid and unfair. Beside with Lacus dead it could start a spark in the series that so desprately needs one after Destiny. And we’ll a killing side of Kira (I would pay money to see that).
These are my hopes for the seed series ya’ll can flame me all you want but my opinion will still stand. I never was a Lacus fan. infact I never was a fan of pink haired anime girls ( epxect Lucy from Elfen Lied)
April 5th, 2007 at 3:23 pm
TO Athrun Zala
The fighting scenes in SEED don’t suck, but the ones in Destiny… I don’t think so… hate to it, but most of the fighting scenes there were “recycled” from other episodes of Destiny and from the former series (most especially the “2 mobile suits engaging in a 1on1 firing combat while circling each other then one breaks off then is followed by the other” scenario… it came from SEED, I think it first appeared when Kira and Athrun first engaged in combat, they were shooting each other but intentionally missing)
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TO MauriceP
Please don’t say SEED and Destiny are just shadows of UC. The fact that UC was the first era in which mobile suits appeared, would make other series, other than the ones in the Cosmic Era, mere shadows of UC too… It would be an insult not just to CE, but also other previous series and all other series that might appear in the future… If people would always compare each and every Gundam series that were released and to be released to the UC Gundam series, then what’s the point of ever making a new set of series anyways? Every series was unique in one way or another and the only similarities were the existence of mobile suits called Gundams, a war in which these mobile suits fought in, pilots who piloted the Gundams, and people who wanted to end the war in the most civilized humane way as possible.
True that there would be similarities in terms of story and probably characters and mobile suits, but that’s only because they’re all living in different universes, aka the Gundam Multiverse… If you’ve seen the movie ‘The One’ by Jet Li, then perhaps the existence of Gundams in different universes with similarities in terms of story, characters, mobile suit design and technology would be clearer to you people… ^_^
Oh and BTW… I don’t know if some of you people actually do it intentionally, but the correct way to write ‘of course’ is “of course”, not ‘of coarse’… it kinda bugs me, but not in a bad way…
April 5th, 2007 at 3:45 pm
TO beertax
Going back to UC, and having gundams as mobile suits again is kinda illogical now. If I remember it right, they ended the era of mobile suits and Gundams there. And there is this manga about UC that happened about 100+ years later after the first Gundam… if the first Gundam happened at about UC 79, and if my memory is correct about that manga happening at about UC 193 or something, then it would have been 114 years into the future after the first gundam. They were using new types of mechas there, and their design is way too far from the the designs of previous UC series… and I don’t think they call the mechas there as mobile suit anymore… also, there’s something new there about Newtypes, I think they no longer exist there cause if they do, then they would need a reason to clone Char there… (I forgot who they are but they needed the leadership of a great leader, like Char who was already a legend at that point)
They cloned Char there but he was given a new name, and I don’t think the clone has any memories of the previous Char… I don’t know…
I’m not really sure about the details but I’m positively sure that this manga existed… try searching for it in the net, I forgot where I found it cause it was so long ago.
April 5th, 2007 at 9:56 pm
Perhaps Stargazer was very short. But looking from its perspective, perhaps it’s nothing more than looking from the view of a Natural. But I have the feeling that Sven will come back in the movie. Just like how one of the Astray characters re-appear in the GSD Final Plus and GSD Special Edition (I don’t know the name though).
Regarding the fighting scenes, I’d say, some are a “rip-off” from SEED. That I agree. Most of Infinite Justice’s moves are exactly the same as Justice (being an “upgrade” of the latter), and even the move of Akatsuki taking out it’s double-sided laser sword is partially the same as the earlier 2 I mentioned. But there’s of course, new ones that they’d created so far. Old moves are recreated maybe because of the battle style of the player, or perhaps something else.
Since a new series is kicking off this October, including a Gundam SEED movie, we can just wait patiently for them both, particularly the former. Regardless or not whether it is an original story or a follow-up of an older series, or whether it is good or bad, I will still look forward to it.
April 5th, 2007 at 10:53 pm
Hmm… dont complaint.. they were produce it… then let them…
if you think that your idea is too good …. then make it your self…
Just wait for the next gundam series and watch it….
April 6th, 2007 at 7:11 am
Ok i likes Wing and Seed How ever what really got me upset about destiny was the the stupid main char of the second one. If this new series have new chars i can watch but if it’s going to have that dude ( Don;t know his name casue never really watch destiny and to lazy to look it up) in the new seriese this coming fall i can’t stand for it. Other wise Ill watch it. And, Romance is ok good, but sometimes it get’s carried away. I admit that Wing did not have to much of romance and that what i thought didn’t bring it out as well. But To much romance just dosn;t make Gundam. I like to watch Gundam which the main char is not (can’t swere, impolite) so poop head and thinks he all that. HIs attitude and the way he blames people it just Stupid all i can say.