Bandai Namco Entertainment unveiled a new promotional video for Gundden Build Metaverse, the anime commemorating the 10th anniversary of the Gundam Build franchise, during the Gundam Fall 2023 Convention livestream on Friday. The video (blocked in Japan) reveals the two main actors, the composer, the theme singer, and the anime’s October 6 premiere.
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The cast includes:
Chika Anzai as Rio Hōjō
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Rio Hōjō (Avaverse Metaverse)
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Rio Tsuchiya as Seria Urutsuki
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Yuki Hayashi is composing music for the anime. BACK-ON performed the anime’s opening theme song “Hikari to Kaze” (Light and Wind), while LINKL PLANET performed the ending theme song “Days of Birth”.
The three-episode series will air on the gundam franchise’s official YouTube channel and on gundam.info’s YouTube channel on October 6.
The gundam convention broadcast also revealed more details about Bandai Namco Entertainment’s planned “Gundam Metaverse” project. The previously announced “Gunpla Colony” beta test for the project will launch over two weeks in the United States and Japan from October 6 to 17, and a full launch is expected in the spring. 2024. The conference revealed the AI character Mellow, who will guide users through virtual space.
The new story of the anime Gundam Build Metaverse is set in an online metaverse where users can use avatars to move around and interact with other users, including waging Gunpla battles (simulators). Gundam plastic figure) with them. The story revolves around Rio Hōjō, a boy who lives in Hawaii and learns how to build Gunpla from a local hobbyist named Seria Urutsuki. In the metaverse, a character called Mask Lady teaches him the art of Gunpla combat and he tries to improve at it every day. With his customized Lah gundam, he searches for stronger opponents than ever. (Rio customized the entry-level RX-78-2 model in the image of “Japanese spirit,” with Lah being the native Hawaiian word for “sun”).
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Famous animator Masami Obari is directing the anime at Sunrise Beyond. Obari has worked at various times as a scriptwriter, animation director, action director, or lead animator on various episodes or opening sequences for the Gun Build series. , and also directed the Gun Build Fighters: Battlogue anime and the Anime Breaker Battlogue anime. Noboru Kimura returned from Gundbuild Divers to oversee the series’ scripts. Hirona Okada, Yoriko Gotō and Ippei Gyōbu are designing the characters. Humikane Shimada was recognized for “Fumina Design Collaboration”. Kenichi Ōnuki is overseeing the character designs. Bandai Spirits and Bandai Namco Entertainment are credited with planning support.
The mechanical designers were Kunio Okawara, Kanetake Ebikawa, Takayuki Yanase, Shinya Terashima, Naohiro Washio and Kōtarō Andō. Yū Yoshima is the main mechanical animator.
The series will be one of three parts of the project “Gundam Next Future-Road to 2025-“ celebrating the 45th anniversary of the Gundunda franchise. The series”Dream Battle Project” is based on the image of a dream competition that can only happen in the Metaverse (pictured below).
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In October, GTA Next Future 2023’s “East/West/Digital” events will take place in Tokyo, Osaka and online. The first XR Live event for GTA Metaverse will also be held. Gundavi Navi news app will receive functionality for GTA Metaverse. The “Gunpla Scan” feature will allow users to scan their Gundunda models and have them appear in the space of the Gunpla Metaverse.
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The spin-off of the Gunden Build series began with Gundunda Anime Build Fighters in 2013. The anime is set in a world where people can build Robot model kits and pit them against each other in a war. virtual school. The franchise received sequels with Gundam Build Fighters Try in 2015 and Gundam Build Divers in 2018. Gundam Build Divers Re:RISE debuted in October 2019. Gundam Build Divers Re:RISE Part 2 premiered in April 2020. Crunchyroll streamed both seasons as they aired.
Gundam Build Divers Battlogue, the latest anime in the GunBuild series, premiered in November 2020. Gundam Build Fighters, part of the series, also had the anime Gun Build Fighters: Battlogue in 2017. Like the new work, Gundam Build Fighters: Battlogue features “dream battles” with various scenarios and Gunpla.
The live-action video project for the Gund Build series,”Gundam Build Real”, debuted in March 2021 on YouTube. The project includes real-life Gunpla model kits and has six episodes.
Source: Gunpla Conference, Gunpla.info YouTube channel
