The staff for the
Mobile Suit Gundam Seed FREEDOM
film
project
unveiled more cast members and their characters' visuals on Tuesday.
From the left to right in the image above, the newly announced cast members and their characters are:
The staff has not revealed the cast member for the character Griffin Aruparesuto. Many of these new characters appeared in the second promotional video in August ? notably, Aura sitting on a throne next to Orufe and Shura:
Shimono will join other cast members at the "
Mobile Suit Gundam Seed
Festival ~Connect Ano Toki o Koete~" event on November 19 at the Bunky? Civic Hall in Tokyo.
The cast, which features returning and new members, also includes:
The film will
open
in Japan on January 26, 2024. The story is chronologically set in C.E. (Cosmic Era) 75.
Mobile Suit Gundam Seed
director
Mitsuo Fukuda
is directing the film at
Bandai Namco Filmworks
. Fukuda also co-wrote the script along with his late wife
Chiaki Morosawa
and
Liu Goto
.
Hisashi Hirai
(
Mobile Suit Gundam Seed
) is designing the characters.
Other staff members include:
-
Mechanical Design
:
Kunio Okawara
,
Kimitoshi Yamane
,
Kazutaka Miyatake
,
Junichi Akutsu
,
Manabu Shintani
, Shiba Zen,
Takuya Io
,
Hiroyuki Taiga
- Mechanical Animation Director:
Satoshi Shigeta
- Color Key Artist:
Akemi Nagao
- Art Directors:
Shigemi Ikeda
,
Yukiko Maruyama
- CG Directors:
Mitsuhiro Sato
, Kensuke Kujida,
Tomohiro Fujie
- Monitor Works:
Azusa Tamura
,
Jir? Kageyama
- Compositing Director of Photography:
Takeshi Katsurayama
,
Shigenori Toyooka
- Editing:
Yukiko Nojiri
- Sound Director:
Sadayoshi Fujino
- Music:
Toshihiko Sahashi
The film project is part of the
Mobile Suit Gundam Seed
Project ignited
initiative, which was
announced
in 2021. The initiative commemorates the 20th anniversary of the original
Mobile Suit Gundam Seed
anime
in 2022, and it has several parts. The initiative also includes a new
Mobile Suit Gundam Seed
game and the
Mobile Suit Gundam Seed
Eclipse
side-story manga.
Mobile Suit Gundam Seed
director
Mitsuo Fukuda
confirmed
that the film is a sequel to the second
Gundam Seed
television anime,
Mobile Suit Gundam Seed Destiny
.
The first
Mobile Suit Gundam Seed
television anime aired from 2002 to 2003, followed by
Mobile Suit Gundam Seed Destiny
from 2004 to 2005. The three-part
Mobile Suit Gundam Seed C.E.73: Stargazer
anime project followed in 2006.
Sony Music
Anime Festival '06
announced
the planned film project in May 2006.
Chiaki Morosawa
, the head scriptwriter for the two
Gundam Seed
series,
passed away
at the age of 56 in 2016. She had been collaborating with her husband, who directed both
Gundam Seed
television series, on the planned
Gundam Seed
film project. Morosawa had
explained
in 2008 that the plot for the project was completed, but that she had been ill since the end of the
Mobile Suit Gundam Seed Destiny
sequel in 2005.
Source: Press release
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