The 6-episode mini-series premieres on Netflix on October 17.
Netflix began streaming a four-minute clip from its new animated project Mobile Suit Gunma: Requiem for Vengeance on Monday as part of Netflix's Geeked Week 2024 event.
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The 6-episode Mobile Suit Gunma: Requiem for Vengeance series will premiere exclusively worldwide on Netflix on October 17. The story focuses on the European front during the One Year War made famous by the first Gundam anime.
The story focuses on Iria Sorari, and the mecha include the Zeon Zaku II mobile suit and the Gundam Federation mobile suit.
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The team at Sunrise and Safe House is producing the animation entirely in Epic Games’ Unreal Engine 5. Gavin Hignight (Tekken: Bloodline, Transformers: Cyberverse, Star Wars: Resistance, Marvel’s Spider-Man games) is writing the script, and German artist Erasmus Brosdau (Origin Zero, Warhammer 40,000’s The Lord Inquisitor: Seed of Ambition) is directing the project. Naohiro Ogata (Mobile SuitGundam: The Witch From Mercury, Mobile SuitGundam Thunderbolt) and Hignight 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 supervising the mechanical design. Wilbert Roget II (Mortal Kombat 11, Call of Duty: WWII, Lara Croft and the Temple of Osiris games) is composing the music.
Australian actress Celia Massingham (Legends of Tomorrow, DC's Ladies in Black) voices the title character and performs motion capture for the animation.
Source: Netflix YouTube channel, Gundam.info
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