With this trailer the Bandai Namco Filmworks revealed that Mobile Suit Gundam: Requiem for Vengeancea 6-episode, 30-minute anime series, will premiere on Netflix October 17, 2024. You can see below a promotional image revealed at San Diego Comic-Con.
The story will focus on the European Front during the One Year War made famous in the first anime. Gundam.
The story unfolds around Iria Sorari (on the left in the image below), and as for the mecha we have the Zaku II (center) and the Gundam (right). This anime is being animated using only the Unreal Engine 5 from the Epic Games.
As we reported previously, the story is Gavin Highnight (Tekken: Bloodline, Transformers: Cyberverse, Star Wars: Resistance).
The project has the collaboration of the producer Naohiro Ogata (Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch From Mercury, Mobile Suit Gundam Thunderbolt) and Australian actress Celia Massingham (DC’s Legends of Tomorrow, Ladies in Black) plays the title character and performed motion capture for the animation.
The character design is by Manuel Augusto Dischinger Moura It is Kimitoshi Yamane (Cowboy Bebop, Escaflowne, Gundam projects) is overseeing the mechanical design. The music is the responsibility of Wilbert Roget II (Mortal Kombat 11, Call of Duty: WWII, Lara Croft and the Temple of Osiris).
The story is told from the perspective of the Zeon faction in (UC 0079) and the producers stated that they were inspired by Mobile Suit Gundam Thunderbolt It is Mobile Suit Gundam: The 08th MS Team.
