Earth Federation Forces, Zeon remnants tracking down special unit “Phantom Sweep” :

  • Hugues Courand
  • Cherie Allison

Zeon Forces, reprisals operation “Tears of Suiten*” dedicated unit “Invinsible Knights” :

  • Erik Blanke

* “Suiten” litteraly means “Water and Sky”. It is also one of the names of the Shinto god of water.

Sources : 4chan.org, Gundam.info (removed).

The April issue of Gundam Ace reveals news about the Gundam 30th anniversary project!

New Gundam, the RX-78-7 : Gundam 7.

Mechanical design : Hajime Katoki. Character design : Tatsuya Suzuki.

Universal Century 0081, after the end of the One Year War. Despite the re-establishment of the order, Zeon remnants continue to fight small-scale battles everywhere. In this situation, Earth Federation Forces veterans whose mission consists in obliterating the Zeon remnants will face young conspirators moved by the hope of bringing back the glory of the Principality…

  • Hugues Courand : 32, commander of the special unit “Phantom Sweep” in charge of  tracking down Zeon remnants. He has been traumatisez by the extermination of his former battalion.
  • Cherie Allison : 24, former test pilot re-assignated to the sepcial unit.
  • Erik Blanke : 20, heir of a noble Zeon family, he commands the rebel strategic unit “Invisible Knights” to take his revenge on the Federation.

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Sources : Char Custom News, Kouryaku no Kan, SRW Hotnews (images).

Tomeo Midorikawa, sixty-two years old and manager of a ramen store in Kagamiishi (Fukushima Prefecture, Japan) has built a ten meters heigh statue called “Great”.

Four years ago, he decided to build it aiming for health maintenance. But his initial plan to make a Gigantor (Tetsujin 28) or Astro Boy (Tetsuwan Atom) statue has been bothered by the rotundity of these two. He then saw a Gundam figure on a near store’s display and chose to build the actual robot instead.

However, “Great” is not over yet and its builder is planning to provide it with a movable arm to hold its famous beam rifle.

Source : Asahi.com.

A lot of new pictures available at The Gundam Base : page 1 et 2.

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Source : Onegai GaiGar.

As Anime News Netwok reported :

The North American distributor Bandai Entertainment has announced at its New York Comic Con panel on Saturday that it acquired “all” manga based on Sunrise’s Mobile Suit Gundam 00 anime series. It will begin releasing Ōto Taguchi’s main Gundam 00 manga in August. It will also release Koichi Tokita’s Mobile Suit Gundam 00F spinoff and the light novel series at dates to be announced later.

Update (from ANN) :

The North American distributor Bandai Entertainment has clarified with ANN after New York Comic Con on Monday that it acquired Kōzō Ōmori’s Mobile Suit Gundam 00 manga adaptation from Kadokawa’s recently launched Kerokero Ace magazine. It did not acquire Ōto Taguchi’s manga of the same name from Kodansha’s defunct Monthly Magazine Z magazine. Bandai Entertainment also confirmed that it does have the licenses for Koichi Tokita’s Mobile Suit Gundam 00F manga spinoff and Noboru Kimura’s light novel series — both are from Kadokawa.

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