Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX Premieres April 8 on Amazon Prime
The upcoming episodic version of the Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX anime is coming to Amazon Prime worldwide on April 8. The cast includes:
- Tomoyo Kurosawa as Amate Yuzuriha (Machu) Japanese
- Yui Ishikawa as Nyaan
- Shimba Tsuchiya as Shuji Ito
Just like with the movie version, titled Beginning, the staff includes Kazuya Tsurumaki (FLCL, Evangelion) as the director, Yoji Enokido on series composition and script with Hideaki Anno (Evangelion, Shin Godzilla) will also be working on the screenplay. Shie Kobori is the character designer and Ikuto Yamashita is doing the mechanical designs. Kenshi Yonezu is performing the theme song "Plazma."
Anno's studio khara and Sunrise are collaborating on the anime. The movie version was released n Japan on January 17th and February 28 in the West (through GKIDS).
Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX synopsis is as follows:
Amate Yuzuriha is 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 battle 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 Shuji. Now their world is about to enter a new era.
This is the latest installment in the iconic franchise created by Yoshiyuki Tomino.
Source: Press Release
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