The main page of the Gundam Unicorn website has been updated with new characters and Mobile Suits descriptions.
RIDDHE MARCENAS
23 years old.
Ensign. He pilots a ReZEL for the Londo Bell taskforce of the Earth Federation forces. Eldest son of the politician family Marcenas, he enlisted in the army to free himself from his family’s restraints.
MARIDA CRUZ
18 years old.
Lieutenant junior grade. She pilots the MS Kshatriya for the antigovernment organization “Sodetsuki”.
RGZ-95 ReZEL (Re-fine Zeta-Gundam Escort Leader)
This Mobile Suit belongs to the RGZ (Refine Zeta Gundam) series developped in order to mass produce the Zeta Gundam.
RGM-89D JEGAN
This is the main mass unit deployed by the Federation forces since the early 90′s.
RGM-89S STARK JEGAN
A special version of the Jegan.
NZ-666 KSHATRIYA
A 20 meter high Psycommu embarking MS developped by Neo Zeon.
AMS-129 GEARA-ZULU
A mass produced MS developped by Anaheim Electronics in order to become the main unit of Neo Zeon in lieu of the Geara Doga.
Gundam.info has made public the illustration represented on the spine of the ten DVDs mentioned here and available on July 24. The illustration is by Keiichi Satô and visible with the reversible jackets (which are the original DVDs jackets, because this special edition uses the cinema posters by default).
The life sized statue of the Gundam in the Shiokaze Park (Tokyo) gets over a new step on the last days as it is almost entirely assembled. Mainichi.jp offers a striking image gallery, and the BBC News website even dedicates one of its pictures of the day to the Gundam !
In the July issue of the magazine Animedia, Sunrise producer Yasuo Miyagawa explained that the form of the next Gundam SEED work is still under consideration and that an advance in this project during this years is uncertain.
Mitsuo Fukuda (director of Gundam SEED) added that the movie’s production goes on despite the lack of announce, and that he’s thinking about some more projects on different media.
Source : Kouryaku no Kan.
The Gundam 30th Anniversary official website has been updated with three news autographs, by two artists.
- Yutaka Izubuchi (base mechanical designer on Gundam ZZ, Mobile Suit designer on Char’s counterattack, design works on Gundam 0083, cooperating costume designer on Gundam W, superviser eand designer onMS IGLOO, …) ;
- Toshihiro Kawamoto (character designer on Gundam 0083 and The 08th MS Team, …).
Source : Gundam 30th Anniversary.
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