The upcoming Mobile Suit Gun Seed Freedom anime sequel film has received a new visual — the main visual — in which Kira Yamato and Lacus Clyne take center stage while Athrun Zala and Shin Asuka stand/sit in a corner.
Mobile SuitGundam Seed Freedom will launch in Japan on January 26, 2024. The film is set in the 75th year of the Mobile Suit Gundam Seed’s Space Age timeline, immediately after the end of the Alliance-PLANT War the second time in 2024. Mobile SuitGundam Seed Destiny.
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Seed and the series’ sequel, Seed Destiny, came out in 2002 and 2004, respectively. Plans for a sequel to the film were first announced in 2006, and in 2021, it was announced that Production is underway.
Gundam.info describes Seed as:
In the Space Age (CE) 70…
“Rising tensions between the Earth Alliance and Earth Alliance ZAFT forces caused by the ‘Bloody Valentine’ tragedy have exploded into a full-scale war.” The Earth Alliance’s mobile armored forces and tanks launched…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 (author of the novel Seed Destiny)
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)
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 (Mobile Suit Granada Hathaway CG co-director)
Production Animation: Bandai Namco Filmworks
Performer
à Souichirou Hoshi as Kira Yamato
Rie Tanaka as Lacus Clyne
Akira Ishida as Athrun Zala
à Kenichi Suzumura as Shin Asuka
Maaya Sakamoto as Lunamaria Hawke
à Nanako Mori as Cagalli Yula Athha
à 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