New teaser, visual, mobile suits also revealed
Bandai Namco Group unveiled a new teaser video and visual for
Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch From Mercury
(
Kid? Senshi Gundam: Suisei no Majo
), the first new
Gundam
television
anime
series in seven years, during its
Gundam
Conference on Tuesday. The video reveals the anime's protagonist, the first ever "female hero" in a main
Gundam
television anime series, as well as her mobile suit, the Gun
dam Aerial.
(from 15:58 to 16:33 in the below video)
The conference also revealed a prequel project for the anime titled
Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch from Mercury - Prologue
. Bandai Namco described the prequel as a full-fledged project that will feature its own story and mobile suits, including the Gun
dam Lfrith (first image below) and Beguir-Beu (second image below).
The prologue project will debut this summer, and will debut first at the Gun
dam Factory Yokohama (the site of the life-size moving Gun
dam statue), the life-size Gundam Unicorn statue in Tokyo's Odaiba, the life-size Freedom Gun
dam statue in Shanghai, the life-size RX-93ffν Gun
dam statue in Fukuoka, and the upcoming Gun
dam Base Virtual World in Bandai Namco Group's planned Gun
dam Metaverse project. The project will then debut in events in Japan and around the world at a later date.
High Grade 1/144-scale models for the three newly revealed mobile suits are already in production.
Koji Fujiwara,
Bandai Namco Entertainment
's Chief Gundam Officer, stated at the "Dai 2-kai
Gundam
Conference" event last September when the anime was first announced, "We are aiming to create a work that even young generations will support." He added, "We are making bigger developments than ever before."
The series will be the first brand-new television anime series in the
franchise
since
Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans
. The first season premiered in October 2015 and aired for 25 episodes, and the second season premiered in October 2016 and also aired for 25 episodes.
The anime will
premiere
in October during the Nichi-5 slot on Sundays at 5:00 p.m. JST (4:00 a.m. EDT/3:00 a.m. EST) on
MBS
/
TBS
' network of stations.
Images ⓒ SOTSU, SUNRISE
Source:
Gundam
Conference, Press release