New characters and mecha were also revealed
Bandai Namco Filmworks revealed in a new teaser on Monday that its new animation project Mobile Suit Gunma: Requiem for Vengeance will launch globally exclusively on Netflix.
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The six 30-minute episodes will be streamed worldwide and the story focuses on the European Front during the One Year War, made famous by the anime’s first episode.
The story focuses on Iria Sorari (left in the image below) and her mecha including the Zeon Zaku II mobile suit (center) and the Federation mobile suit (right).
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The film will be directed by Erasmus Brosdau. Australian actress Celia Massingham (DC’s Legends of Tomorrow, Ladies in Black) voices the title character and performed the motion capture for the animation.
The staff at Sunrise and Safe House are producing the animation entirely using Epic Games’ Unreal Engine 5. Gavin Hignight (Tekken: Bloodline, Transformers: Cyberverse, Star Wars: Resistance, Marvel’s Spider-Man gqme) is writing, and German artist Erasmus Brosdau (Origin Zero,”The Lord Inquisitor: Seed of Ambition” of Warhammer 40,000 ) is leading the project. Naohiro Ogata (Mobile SuitGundam: The Witch From Mercury, Mobile SuitGundam Thunderbolt) and Highnight are executive producers and Hiroaki Yura is producing.
Manuel Augusto Dischinger Moura is the main character designer and Kimitoshi Yamane (Cowboy Bebop, Escaflowne, various Gundunda projects) is the mechanical design supervisor. Wilbert Roget II (Mortal Kombat 11, Call of Duty: WWII, Lara Croft and Temple of Osiris games) is composing the music.
Source: Papa.info’s YouTube channel, Gundam.info
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