New Gundam anime to be co-produced by Evangelion’s studio Khara, with a scenario by Hideaki Anno 

During the “Gundam Conference Winter 2024” event held on December 4, Bandai Namco announced the brand-new Gundam TV anime series Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX.

The upcoming new installment of the Gundam series will be produced by Bandai Namco Filmworks’ studio Sunrise and Hideaki Anno’s studio Khara, which is best known for the Rebuild of Evangelion film tetralogy. 

Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX will be directed by FLCL director Kazuya Tsurumaki, with a scenario co-written by Evangelion creator Hideaki Anno (who happens to be working on a new Space Battleship Yamato movie too) and Yoji Enokido, who has written scripts for Sailor Moon, Utena, Evangelion, FLCL, and other popular titles. 

The plot of the new anime series is described on the official homepage 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. 

Prior to the airing of the TV series, a movie version using re-edited episodes will be coming to theaters in Japan on January 17, under the title Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX -Beginning-. Information on the overseas release is TBA.