Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX TV Anime Reveals New Cast & Characters (Contains Spoilers) – News

The official Japanese website for the Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX (pronounced as “g-kwux”) television anime revealed on Sunday new cast and characters, and mobile suits that will appear in the series.

The cast for the Kaneban Co., Ltd. Junk Shop members:

Principality of Zeon Army:

Mobile Suits:

Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX -Beginning- is playing first in theaters starting on January 17. The anime is screening in 426 theaters, including 52 IMAX theaters.

The film debuted at #1 in the Japanese box office in its opening weekend. It sold 352,500 tickets and earned 598,832,300 yen (about US$3.85 million) in its first three days. It stayed at #1 in its second weekend in the Japanese box office, selling 306,000 tickets and earning 527,562,300 yen (about US$3.39 million).

The film’s staff reported on Sunday that it has sold over 1 million tickets, and earned over 1.6 billion yen (about US$10.3 million).

The story begins with Amate Yuzuriha, a high-school student living peacefully in a space colony floating in outer space. When she meets a war refugee named Nyaan, Amate is drawn into the illegal mobile suit dueling sport known as Clan Battle.

Under the entry name “Machu,” she throws herself into fierce battles day after day, piloting the GQuuuuuuX. Then an unidentified Gundam mobile suit pursued by both the space force and the police appears before her, along with its pilot, a boy named Shūji.

The main cast members are:

Kazuya Tsurumaki (FLCL, Gunbuster 2: Diebuster) is directing the anime, and Yōji Enokido (Bungo Stray Dogs, Sailor Moon Super S, Revolutionary Girl Utena, Ouran High School Host Club) is supervising the series scripts and writing the scripts with Hideaki Anno (Evangelion, Shin Godzilla). Illustrator Take (Katanagatari, Zaregoto, Pokémon Sun & Moon) is designing the characters, and Ikuto Yamashita (Evangelion, Shin Kamen Rider, Yukikaze) is the mechanical designer.

The other staff members include:

• Animation Character Design, Supervising Character Animation Director: Yumi Ikeda, Shie Kobori
• Animation Mechanical Design, Supervising Mechanical Animation Director: Sejoon Kim
• Design Works: Toshiaki Ihara, Mahiro Maeda, Shingo Abe, Hidenori Matsubara, Takuya Io, Shuichi Iseki, Takeshi Takakura, E o Kaku PETER, Ami, mebae, Wataru Inada, Shinya Mizuno, Yūsuke Ōmura, Yutaka Izubuchi, Tomoko Masuda, Junbun Lin, Hideaki Anno, Kazuya Tsurumaki
• Concept Art: Hajime Ueda
• Storyboard: Kazuya Tsurumaki, Hideaki Anno, Mahiro Maeda, Tōko Yatabe
• Direction: Kazuya Tsurumaki, Daizen Komatsuda, Tōko Yatabe
• Character Animation Director: Hidenori Matsubara, Mayumi Nakamura, Shuichi Iseki
• Mechanical Animation Director: Shingo Abe, Gen Asano
• Detail Works: Toshiaki Ihara, Tatsuya Tanaka, Mahiro Maeda
• Animation Checker: Yasuhito Murata
• Digital Animation Checker: Mayuko Kanosue (Studio Eight Colors), Ayaka Miura, Emi Nakano
• Color Designer: Akiko Inoue (Wish)
• Color Setting/Check: Saeko Kushima (Wish), Hiromi Okamoto (Wish)
• Special Effect: Shin Inoie
• Art Director: Hiroshi Katō (TOTONYAN)
• Assistant Art Director: Chihiro Gotō (TOTONYAN)
• CGI Director: Takashi Suzuki
• CGI Animation Director: Masanori Iwasato, Shiguma Morimoto
• CGI Modeling Director: Shintarō Wakatsuki, Ryosuke Kusudo
• CGI Technical Director: Shunsuke Kumagai
• CGI Art Director: Hiroyasu Kobayashi
• Graphic Design Director: Kayoko Zama
• Visual Development Director: Yōsuke Chiai
• Composition Director: Tomoyuki Shiokawa (T2 Studio)
• Composition Advisor: Susumu Fukushi (T2 Studio)
• VFX Director: Hiroaki Yabe
• Look Development: Nanae Hirabayashi, Yōko Miki
• Editor: Emi Tsujita
• Music: Yoshimasa Terui, Masayuki Hasuo
• Sound Director: Haru Yamada (Sound Team Don Juan)
• Sound Design: Naoto Yamaya (sound box)
• Main Producer: Yūki Sugitani
• Executive Producer: Naohiro Ogata
• Producer: Keisuke Kasai
• Production Desk/Setting Production: Hayato Tanaka
• Digital Production Desk: Kohei Fujiwara
• Distribution by: TOHO CO., LTD., Bandai Namco Filmworks
• Advertising: Bandai Namco Filmworks, Shochiku Co. Ltd., Studio Khara, Nippon Television Network Corporation, TOHO CO., LTD.
• Produced by: Bandai Namco Filmworks

Sources: Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX anime’s website, Comic Natalie

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