Promotions for Mobile Suit Gundunda Seed Freedom continue as the upcoming anime sequel now has a major trailer with plenty of new footage.
New clips include Kira looking stunned after spotting Lacus with Orphee Lam Tao, prime minister of the National Organization for Independence, and a sword fight between Shin and the Organization’s defense secretary, Shura Serpentine.
Mobile SuitGundam Seed Freedom will open in theaters in Japan on January 26, 2024. The film is set in the 75th year of the Mobile SuitGundam Seed’s Space Age timeline, immediately after the end of the Alliance War -PLANT for the second time in Mobile SuitGundam Seed Destiny. In addition to the Organization, it also introduces two other new factions in the form of the peacekeeping COMPS, which Kira and most of the main characters are affiliated with, and the anti-coordinator Blue Cosmos.
Seed and Seed Destiny premiered in 2002 and 2004, respectively. Plans for a sequel were first revealed in 2006, and production was announced to resume in 2021.
Gundam.info describes Seed as:
In the Space Age (CE) 70…
“Increasing tensions between the Earth Alliance and ZAFT Forces caused by the ‘Bloody Valentine’ tragedy have erupted into all-out war.”Earth Alliance Mobile Armored and Tank Forces appear attack…the mobile armors were destroyed one after another…
“It seems a foregone conclusion that the Earth Alliance, with its superior numbers, will prevail. But this initial assessment has been proven wrong. Nearly 11 months have passed since the conflict began and there is still no end in sight…”
Staff
Manager: Mitsuo Fukuda (return)
• Screenwriter: late Chiaki Morosawa (Seed and Seed Destiny series composer)
Script writer: Ryuu Gotou (Seed Destiny novel author)
Script writer: Fukuda
→ Character Designer: Hisashi Hirai (return)
→ Mechanical animation director: Satoshi Shigeta (credited as the series’ mechanical animation director)
• Art director: Shigemi Ikeda (return)
→ Art director: Yukiko Maruyama (art panel artist in the series)
→ Composition director: Takeshi Katsurayama (return)
→ Mechanical designer: Kunio Ookawara (return)
Mechanical designer: Kimitoshi Yamane (return)
• Mechanical designer: Kazutaka Miyatake (design support for the series)
à Mechanical designer: Junichi Akutsu (design support on Seed)
Mechanical designer:
à Mechanical designer: Manabu Shintani (Mashin Eiyuuden Wataru: Shichi Kon no Ryuujinmaru)
à Mechanical designer: Zensava
→ Mechanical designer: Takuya Io
à Color designer: Akemi Nagao (Hinomaru-Zumou)
Composer:
CG Director: Shigenori Toyooka (Ayaka)
CG Director: Matsuhiro Satou
© CG Director: Kensuke Kushida
CG director: Tomohiro Fujie (co-CG director of Mobile Suit GTA)
Production Animation: Bandai Namco Filmworks
Performer
Souichirou Hoshi as Kira Yamato
Rie Tanaka as Lacus Clyne
Akira Ishida as Athrun Zala
Kenichi Suzumura as Shin Asuka
Maaya Sakamoto as Lunamaria Hawke
Nanako Mori as Cagalli Yula Athha
Yukari Tamura as Aura Maha Khyber
permission Hiro Shimono as Orphee Lam Tao
à Yuuichi Nakamura as Shura Serpentine
à Sumire Uesaka as Ingrid Tradoll
Misato Fukuen as Redelard Tradoll
à Yoshitsugu Matsuoka as Daniel Harper
Kentarou Tone as Liu Shenqiang
Source: @SEED_HDRP