Yadomaru
02-23-2009, 01:09 PM
Quoting myself from another site:
A little more than a month from now will mark thirty years to the day since Mobile Suit Gundam began airing. (The precise date is April 7th).
Of course, Bandai would've been planning something, but there was no indication as to what that might be.
Until today.
Deacon Blues, over at MechaTalk, came through with this little gem:
Title: Unknown
Mechanic Design: Katoki Hajime
Character Design: Suzuki Tatsuya
Mobile Suit: Phantom Gundam Unit No.7
EARTH FEDERATION PHANTOM SWEEP TEAM
Hughes Curro: Male. Age 32. A veteran officer who leads the Phantom Sweep special forces unit charged with hunting for Zeon remnants. He has a bitter experience in which his unit was annihilated in the past.
Sherry Allison: Female. Age 24. She was serving as a test pilot but was assigned to the special forces unit as a replacement.
ZEON FORCES INVINCIBLE KNIGHTS
Erik Blanque (Blank): Male. Age 20. A young officer whose family is a distinguished family in the Principality of Zeon. He takes command of the “Invincible Knights” in order to execute a counterattack operation against the Earth Federation Forces.
Story: The time is Universal Century 0081. One year has passed since the war and although the world was regaining order, small-scale battles continued in various places by the Zeon remnants who still continue to resist. During the situation, a veteran soldier of the Earth Federation Forces is appointed to a cleanup operation of the Zeon remnant forces. Feelings mix on the battlefield as the young Zeon officers advance their secret strategy for the revival of Zeon…
Now here is what's interesting. Within ten minutes of Deacon's post going up, we learned from Mark064, also at Mechatalk, that Hajime Katoki had recently revealed the latest of his redesigns of Kunio Okawara's M-MSV mobile suits: The RX-78-7 "7th Gundam", which, if the naming conventions of its predecessors are followed, would be the RX-78-7 Gundam Unit 7 "G07".
Both are pictured below, Okawara's on the left, Katoki's on the right.
http://img27.imageshack.us/img27/9861/rx787.jpghttp://img21.imageshack.us/img21/5856/330399564661fd1a8fb0o.jpg
What will this be? An OVA, a full-fledged anime, a movie? No idea. A novel, like Unicorn was, or a manga? Possible, though IMO the former's not bloody likely.
Could it be a hoax? Well, the 7th Gundam redesign probably isn't. There's always a slim chance the production news might be, but I certainly hope not.
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My opinion?
Assuming this is real, I'm totally psyched for it. That Gundam looks awesome, and I think it would look badass animated (Though I wish Katoki-dono'd kept a little bit more of the original's blue, but that's minor.)
Plus, IF the above-listed characters are the main ones, then there's a chance the Gundam pilot is either a woman(which would be awesome) or a "South Burning"-style older veteran character, which would be so badass on so many levels...
I hope this is for real...I think it could be so freakin' awesome...
(Must...not...get...hopes...up! Risk...disappointment!)
What'd y'all think?
A little more than a month from now will mark thirty years to the day since Mobile Suit Gundam began airing. (The precise date is April 7th).
Of course, Bandai would've been planning something, but there was no indication as to what that might be.
Until today.
Deacon Blues, over at MechaTalk, came through with this little gem:
Title: Unknown
Mechanic Design: Katoki Hajime
Character Design: Suzuki Tatsuya
Mobile Suit: Phantom Gundam Unit No.7
EARTH FEDERATION PHANTOM SWEEP TEAM
Hughes Curro: Male. Age 32. A veteran officer who leads the Phantom Sweep special forces unit charged with hunting for Zeon remnants. He has a bitter experience in which his unit was annihilated in the past.
Sherry Allison: Female. Age 24. She was serving as a test pilot but was assigned to the special forces unit as a replacement.
ZEON FORCES INVINCIBLE KNIGHTS
Erik Blanque (Blank): Male. Age 20. A young officer whose family is a distinguished family in the Principality of Zeon. He takes command of the “Invincible Knights” in order to execute a counterattack operation against the Earth Federation Forces.
Story: The time is Universal Century 0081. One year has passed since the war and although the world was regaining order, small-scale battles continued in various places by the Zeon remnants who still continue to resist. During the situation, a veteran soldier of the Earth Federation Forces is appointed to a cleanup operation of the Zeon remnant forces. Feelings mix on the battlefield as the young Zeon officers advance their secret strategy for the revival of Zeon…
Now here is what's interesting. Within ten minutes of Deacon's post going up, we learned from Mark064, also at Mechatalk, that Hajime Katoki had recently revealed the latest of his redesigns of Kunio Okawara's M-MSV mobile suits: The RX-78-7 "7th Gundam", which, if the naming conventions of its predecessors are followed, would be the RX-78-7 Gundam Unit 7 "G07".
Both are pictured below, Okawara's on the left, Katoki's on the right.
http://img27.imageshack.us/img27/9861/rx787.jpghttp://img21.imageshack.us/img21/5856/330399564661fd1a8fb0o.jpg
What will this be? An OVA, a full-fledged anime, a movie? No idea. A novel, like Unicorn was, or a manga? Possible, though IMO the former's not bloody likely.
Could it be a hoax? Well, the 7th Gundam redesign probably isn't. There's always a slim chance the production news might be, but I certainly hope not.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
My opinion?
Assuming this is real, I'm totally psyched for it. That Gundam looks awesome, and I think it would look badass animated (Though I wish Katoki-dono'd kept a little bit more of the original's blue, but that's minor.)
Plus, IF the above-listed characters are the main ones, then there's a chance the Gundam pilot is either a woman(which would be awesome) or a "South Burning"-style older veteran character, which would be so badass on so many levels...
I hope this is for real...I think it could be so freakin' awesome...
(Must...not...get...hopes...up! Risk...disappointment!)
What'd y'all think?