The TV series Mobile Suit Gundam aired its first episodes in 1979 and multiple TV series and movies later, the franchise is getting ready to celebrate its 40th anniversary. The Mobile Suit Gundam 40th Anniversary Project has been initiated as a milestone to create connections beyond generations, countries, and regions, and also instill new values to the franchise.

The project’s presentation was held at Yebisu Garden Place’s The Garden Hall on 21 November 2018.

The 40th Anniversary Project’s theme is ‘Beyond’. Four key visuals have been released to symbolize ‘Beyond’, showing different characters from the franchise, who could have never been able to meet each other otherwise.

The key visuals are from the following works, left to right: Mobile Suit Gundam & Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn, Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans & Mobile Suit Gundam 00, Mobile Suit Gundam Wing & Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam, Gundam Reconguista in G & Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin.

Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin TV series to air on NHK from April 2019.

All six movies of the Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin series, which were shown in theaters from 2015 to 2018, will be rearranged into a 13-episode TV series. The openings and endings will be produced by LUNA SEA’s guitarist SUGIZO, who is also in charge of the 40th Anniversary Project’s theme song. All openings will be performed by LUNA SEA.

Gundam Build Fighters’s new work in planning

Gundam Build Fighters is an anime about moving and fighting plastic Gundam models. Gundam Build Fighters aired in 2013, followed by Gundam Build Divers in April 2018. Due to its popularity, a new work is currently planned and will air in 2019. Further details will be announced soon.

SD Gundam World Sangoku Soketsuden Planned

SD Gundam is a series that has released manga, card games, and plastic models. It is tremendously popular among children and will approach its 30th anniversary next year. It has been announced that a new anime series aimed at children around the world will be produced. The project is currently ongoing and further details will be announced in the future.

Movie Gundam Reconguista in G Gets Recap Movie in 2019

Gundam Reconguista in G is a TV series that aired in 2014 with Yoshiyuki Tomino as general director. A theatrical movie version including re-edits of all 26 episodes and newly-added cuts is slated to open some time in 2019. Tomino will be appearing at Japan Expo 2019 in Paris, which is approaching its 20th anniversary.

Mobile Suit Gundam: Hathaway’s Flash Gets Movie Trilogy

The UC NexT 0100 project spins a new century in the Universal Century. The first part of the project is Mobile Suit Gundam Narrative. The second installment will be a 3-part movie adaptation of Tomino’s 1983 light novel Kidou Senshi Gundam: Senkou no Hathaway (Mobile Suit Gundam: Hathaway’s Flash). Mobile Suit Gundam Narrative is set to open in Japanese cinemas on 30 November 2018. You can check out the latest teaser video and key visual here.

First Stage Play Adaptation: Mobile Suit Gundam 00 Hakai ni Yoru Saisei Re:Build

The popular Gundam series will finally be adapted into a stage play. Mobile Suit Gundam 00 will be performed in Tokyo from 15 to 18 February and in Osaka from 23 to 24 February 2019. The second day in Osaka will also have a live viewing to be screened in cinemas across Japan.

The 18 m Tall Gundam Moves! Gundam GLOBAL CHALLENGE to open at Yokohama’s Yamashita Wharf in Summer 2010

The ‘full-sized, 18m-tall Gundam standing statue’ was set at Odaiba in Tokyo in 2009 and became a new sightseeing spot. The project ‘Gundam GLOBAL CHALLENGE’ will place a real-sized Gundam at Yokohama’s Yamashita Wharf and the mecha will even move. It will be a big project that will gather experts from various fields, disclose the data, and seek participants from all over the world. This is a project we can’t take our eyes off as we’re eager to see what the fusion of Gundam and Japan’s ‘manufacturing and technology’ can produce.

LUNA SEA/X JAPAN’s SUGIZO In Charge of 40th Anniversary Project’s Theme Song ‘The Beyond’

One of the most famous rock guitarists in Japan, SUGIZO (LUNA SEA, X JAPAN), who is a Gundam fan that ‘wants to be Char’, is producing the 40th Anniversary Project’s theme song ‘The Beyond’. SUGIZO revealed a demo of the song during the presentation. However, as SUGIZO strives for peace and human rights issues through his music, the theme song is likely to become a song that makes you feel aspirations of the future and an imposing worldview. SUGIZO will also develop masterpieces of past Gundam songs and collaborate with various artists.

There will be more fascinating projects such as a film concert covering masterpieces of previous Gundam works with images and first local collaborations with each region. Further details on the 40th Anniversary Project are to be revealed.

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