The “SIDE L” video recreates the opening and ending of the original anime with a forthcoming “SIDE R” video planned
Bandai Namco Filmworks (formerly Sunrise) has opened a new website”Sunrise Robot Lab” to highlight the work of the former mecha anime studio that will go live on Wednesday. This site includes “AURA BATTLER DUNBINE SIDE L”, a video that combines new footage for Yoshiyuki Tomino's 1983 anime Aura Battler Dunbine to evoke (but not exactly recreate) the first opening and ending scenes of anime. The film features the theme songs “Dunbine Tobu” and “Mieru Darō Byston Well” by MIO, and features old footage from the anime along with a narrated summary by voice actor Norio Wakamoto.
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Kamikaze Douga and Bandai Nimco Filmworks have collaborated to produce the new video, which is being labeled as an “experimental video”. The two will collaborate on an upcoming “SIDE R” video featuring new weapon and mech designs as well as new music from an artist not present in the original anime.
Sunrise's 1983 series was an alternative retelling of the first novel The Wings of Rean by Yoshiyuki Tomino, author of Mobile Suit Gun, the same year. This was followed by a three-episode original video anime (OVA) series titled Aura Battle Dunbine: The Tale of Neo Byston Well. This novel series went on to inspire Garzey's Wing in 1996 and The Wings of Rean in 2005.
ADV Films previously released the series in North America. The series briefly aired alongside other Sunrise shows on the Daisuki streaming service in 2017. Sentai Filmworks licensed the series in 2018 and began streaming on HIDIVE in April 2018. Sentai Filmworks released the film on Blu-ray Disc in August 2018.
Source: Sunrise Robotics Laboratory, Mantan Web
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