Mobile Suit Gundam , the genre-defining mecha anime series created by Yoshiyuki Tomino and Sunrise, is celebrating its 45th anniversary in 2024 with a series of film screenings entitled “Gundam Cinema Fest”. The films screened include the Mobile Suit Gundam trilogy (1981 – 1982), Mobile Suit Gundam Char's Counterattack (1988), and Mobile Suit Gundam Hathaway (2021). “Gundam Cinema Fest” hits Japanese theaters beginning on June 7, 2024. "Gundam Cinema Fest" line-up Related: Gundam Anime Shares Big Plans for 45th Anniversary, Celebratory Art “Gundam Cinema Fest” is part of the programming for the “Gundam Next Future -Road To 2025-” regional event, which leads up to a Gundam -related expo that will be held in Osaka in 2025. Crunchyroll currently streams the original Mobile Suit Gundam TV anime, and describes the story of the series as follows: Universal Century 0079. The rebel space colonies of the Principality of Zeon launch a war of independence against the Earth Federation, using humanoid fighting vehicles called...
- 5/14/2024
- by Paul Chapman
- Crunchyroll
The official website for Mobile Suit Gundam Seed Freedom , the feature film sequel from the Mobile Suit Gundam Seed franchise, confirmed the latest film has earned 4,000,124,620 yen (26.82 million Usd) on 2,372,164 admissions in 52 days since its release in Japan on January 26. The film ranked ninth in its eighth weekend in the Japanese weekend box office, continuing to break the Gundam series' film box office records. The movie already surpassed 2.3 billion yen (15.42 million Usd) marked by Mobile Suit Gundam: Encounters in Space released in 1982 and 2.23 billion yen (14.96 million Usd) by Mobile Suit Gundam: Hathaway in 2021. Related: Gundam Seed Freedom Film Shares Stunning Collab Visual with Dune: Part Two In its third weekend of release, Doraemon: Nobita's Earth Symphony held the same second-place spot it did last weekend . The Doraemon anime franchise's latest 43rd feature film earned 353 million yen (2.37 million Usd) on 288,000 admissions, and its cumulative total revenue has surpassed 1.7 billion yen (11.4 million...
- 3/19/2024
- by Mikikazu Komatsu
- Crunchyroll
The official website for Mobile Suit Gundam Seed Freedom , the feature film sequel from the Mobile Suit Gundam Seed franchise, announced today on February 13 that the film had earned 2,684,435,390 yen (17.96 million Usd) on 1,635,481 admissions in 18 days since its release in Japan on January 26. As reported , the film sold 1.21 million tickets in ten days, which means another 420,000 tickets had been added in the recent eight days, partly thanks to the 4Dx, MX4D, Dolby Cinema screenings that began on February 9. The film has finally become the top-grossing film in the 45-year-olfd Gundam anime franchise. The previous top-grossing film was Mobile Suit Gundam: Encounters in Space , the third part of the compilation film series based on the first Mobile Suit Gundam TV series, which earned 2.3 billion yen (15.5 million Usd) in 1982. And the second was Mobile Suit Gundam Hathaway, the first part of the trilogy anime adaptation of Yoshiyuki Tomino's novel series of the same name,...
- 2/13/2024
- by Mikikazu Komatsu
- Crunchyroll
Based on the “Mobile Suit Gundam: Hathaway’s Flash” three novel series by Yoshiyuki Tomino, that were published in 1989 and 1990, “Hathaway” is a sequel that takes place twelve years after the events of “Mobile Suit Gundam: Char’s Counterattack”. Part of the Uc NexT 0100 project, it adapts volume 1 of the series. It was released in Japanese theaters on June 11, 2021 and has also found its way on Netflix.
The story begins in the year Uc 0105, twelve years after the Second Neo Zeon War, inside a spaceship transferring a number of passengers who seem VIPs, including Federation Officials, to Earth. The craft, however, is hijacked by terrorists claiming to be from the group Mafty, who advocate the forced relocation of humanity into space to save the environment. A number of the passengers and the crew are murdered, but the criminals are eventually stopped by the efforts of Hathaway Noa and Kenneth Sleg,...
The story begins in the year Uc 0105, twelve years after the Second Neo Zeon War, inside a spaceship transferring a number of passengers who seem VIPs, including Federation Officials, to Earth. The craft, however, is hijacked by terrorists claiming to be from the group Mafty, who advocate the forced relocation of humanity into space to save the environment. A number of the passengers and the crew are murdered, but the criminals are eventually stopped by the efforts of Hathaway Noa and Kenneth Sleg,...
- 8/31/2022
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
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