{"id":40970,"date":"2024-12-06T16:47:26","date_gmt":"2024-12-06T07:47:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/?p=40970"},"modified":"2024-12-06T16:47:29","modified_gmt":"2024-12-06T07:47:29","slug":"evangelions-hideaki-anno-is-only-providing-support-for-new-gundam-gquuuuuux-its-real-creator-is-flcl-director-kazuya-tsurumaki-staff-emphasizes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/nongaming-news\/evangelions-hideaki-anno-is-only-providing-support-for-new-gundam-gquuuuuux-its-real-creator-is-flcl-director-kazuya-tsurumaki-staff-emphasizes\/","title":{"rendered":"Evangelion\u2019s Hideaki Anno is only providing support for new Gundam GQuuuuuux, its real creator is FLCL director Kazuya Tsurumaki, staff emphasizes\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Since Bandai Namco\u2019s announcement of<strong> <\/strong>the brand-new Gundam TV anime series<strong> Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX<\/strong>, fans and media alike have been focusing on Hideaki Anno\u2019s involvement (including <a href=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/nongaming-news\/new-gundam-anime-to-be-co-produced-by-evangelions-studio-khara-with-a-scenario-by-hideaki-anno\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the headline of our own article)<\/a>. While Anno <em>is<\/em> credited as the title\u2019s co-writer, a member of the team has stepped in to redirect some of the spotlight to Kazuya Tsurumaki, the anime\u2019s director.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"ja\" dir=\"ltr\">\u6a5f\u52d5\u6226\u58eb\u30ac\u30f3\u30c0\u30e0GQuuuuuuX\u306f\u9db4\u5dfb\u76e3\u7763\u306e\u4f5c\u54c1\u3067\u3059\u3002\u4f55\u3067\u3082\u9db4\u5dfb\u76e3\u7763\u304c\u6c7a\u3081\u307e\u3059\u3002\u5eb5\u91ce\u3055\u3093\u304c\u305d\u306e\u63f4\u8b77\u5c04\u6483\u306b\u6a2a\u3067\u306a\u3093\u304b\u3084\u308b\u304b\u3082\u3060\u3051\u3069\u305d\u308c\u3060\u3051\u3067\u3059\u3002\u3068\u306f\u3044\u3048\u5eb5\u91ce\u3055\u3093\u306f\u30ab\u30e9\u30fc\u306e\u793e\u9577\u306a\u306e\u3067\u4e2d\u9593\u6210\u679c\u7269\u306f\u898b\u305b\u3066\u307e\u3059\u3002\u304c\u3001\u3061\u3083\u3076\u53f0\u8fd4\u3055\u308c\u305f\u308a\u30af\u30c1\u30d0\u30b7\u7a81\u3063\u8fbc\u307e\u308c\u305f\u308a\u3057\u306a\u3044\u3088\u3046\u7d50\u69cb\u30ae\u30ea\u30ae\u30ea\u307e\u3067\u898b\u305b\u306a\u3044\u3088\u3046\u9032 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/86yqym63cR\">pic.twitter.com\/86yqym63cR<\/a><\/p>&mdash; \u5c71\u4e0b\u3044\u304f\u3068@\u30a8\u30f4\u30a1\u30f3\u30b2\u30ea\u30aa\u30f3ANIMA\u51685\u5dfb (@ikuto_yamashita) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ikuto_yamashita\/status\/1864477524799181297?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 5, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In a post on his personal X account, veteran mecha designer Ikuto Yamashita told fans that, \u201cMobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX is the work of director Kazuya Tsurumaki. He will make all the decisions. Anno may step in to provide support from the sidelines, but that\u2019s all.\u201d Ending on a humorous note, Yamashita adds, \u201cThat said, Anno is Khara\u2019s president, so he checks things while they\u2019re in progress. We\u2019re trying to put off showing him things until the last moment so that he doesn\u2019t turn the tables on us or try to meddle.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kazuya Tsurumaki, the director of Gundam GQuuuuuuX, is a veteran animator often referred to as the protege of Anno. He did a lot of assistant direction work on Neon Genesis Evangelion at Gainax, and debuted as a full-fledged director with the acclaimed experimental anime series FLCL. He went on to work as a director on Diebuster, Khara\u2019s Rebuild of Evangelion tetralogy, and The Dragon Dentist.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1196\" height=\"674\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1196px) 100vw, 1196px\" src=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/20241206-40970-header.jpg\" alt=\"Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX\" class=\"wp-image-40977\" srcset=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/20241206-40970-header.jpg 1196w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/20241206-40970-header-380x214.jpg 380w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/20241206-40970-header-768x433.jpg 768w\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The new peculiarly named installment of the Gundam series will primarily be the creative work of Tsurumaki, as Yamashita wanted us to know. 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Prior to the TV series\u2019 initial broadcast, a movie version using edited episodes will be coming to theaters in Japan on January 17 under the title Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX -Beginning-.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While Hideaki Anno is credited as a co-writer on Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX, a member of the team has stepped in to redirect the spotlight to Kazuya Tsurumaki, the anime\u2019s director.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":40978,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_gspb_post_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,65],"tags":[73,17],"class_list":["post-40970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-nongaming-news","tag-anime","tag-japan-related-news"],"blocksy_meta":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Evangelion\u2019s Hideaki Anno is only providing support for new Gundam GQuuuuuux, its real creator is FLCL director Kazuya Tsurumaki, staff emphasizes\u00a0 - 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