{"id":56627,"date":"2026-02-10T21:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/?p=56627"},"modified":"2026-02-10T18:35:25","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T09:35:25","slug":"new-mobile-suit-gundam-movie-boosts-downloads-of-1987-guns-n-roses-song-by-12166","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/new-mobile-suit-gundam-movie-boosts-downloads-of-1987-guns-n-roses-song-by-12166\/","title":{"rendered":"New Mobile Suit Gundam movie boosts downloads of\u00a01987 Guns N\u2019 Roses song by 12,166%\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Bandai Namco Filmworks\u2019<strong>&nbsp;Mobile Suit Gundam Hathaway: The Sorcery of Nymph Circe&nbsp;<\/strong>premiered in Japanese theaters on January 30. Bringing an end to a five-year wait following the trilogy\u2019s first movie in 2021, the new installment has been a massive success,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/gundam_hathaway\/status\/2021056535535776049?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">grossing&nbsp;over $9.83 million<\/a>&nbsp;in the box office in just eleven days.&nbsp;Interestingly, hype for the film has also&nbsp;had an effect elsewhere.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As reported by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/rollingstonejapan.com\/articles\/detail\/44226\/1\/1\/1\" type=\"link\" id=\"https:\/\/rollingstonejapan.com\/articles\/detail\/44226\/1\/1\/1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Rolling Stone Japan<\/a>,\u00a0the hit\u00a01987 song \u201cSweet Child O\u2019 Mine\u201d\u00a0by Guns N\u2019 Roses saw digital downloads\u00a0in the iTunes Store\u00a0jump\u00a0by 12,166%\u00a0right after the new film\u2019s premiere. The song rose to\u00a0the #18 on\u00a0iTunes\u2019s\u00a0song\u00a0rankings, and\u00a0streaming via platforms like Spotify jumped by 410% compared to the previous week.\u00a0Not only that but, the band&#8217;s debut album, Appetite for Destruction\u00a0(which includes the song)\u00a0also peaked at #16 on the iTunes Store&#8217;s album\u00a0rankings,\u00a0and\u00a0appeared in\u00a0Shazam&#8217;s\u00a0Top 200.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Opening Theme Song: Snooze by SZA | Special Trailer for \u201cGUNDAM HATHAWAY The Sorcery of Nymph Circe\u201d\" width=\"1160\" height=\"653\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IrAtDd7Dxfc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The reason behind\u00a0this\u00a0is that the new Mobile Suit Gundam Hathaway not only uses the song as its\u00a0credit roll\u00a0theme, but that this fact was kept completely\u00a0under wraps\u00a0right up until the premiere, causing interest to surge at once.\u00a0While Bandai Namco announced early on that it would be using SZA\u2019s Snooze as the film\u2019s opening song (to the pleasant surprise of many), the\u00a0ending song by Guns N\u2019 Roses was a complete surprise for theatergoers\u00a0and fans alike.\u00a0After the cat was out of the bag, the studio uploaded an official promotional video\u00a0featuring the song\u00a0on February 2, garnering over a million views at the time of writing\u00a0(here\u2019s a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/Mlb4WaADW2s?si=BRqU4C_kMo57L2Xd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">link to the video<\/a>, but note that it pretty much spoils the movie\u2019s finale.)\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.gundam-official.com\/hathaway\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Mobile Suit Gundam Hathaway: The Sorcery of Nymph Circe<\/a> has been confirmed for a worldwide theatrical release, but premiere\u00a0dates are\u00a0TBA.\u00a0<br>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Right up until its premiere, Bandai Namco Filmworks kept the ending theme song of Mobile Suit Gundam Hathaway: The Sorcery of Nymph Circe a secret.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":56629,"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-56627","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 v27.4 - 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