appearing after the episode of TBS/MBS’ “Toward The Terra”, a short promo announced a new Gundam series; Mobile Suit Gundam 00. slated to air on Oct 2007. The official site is up providing a streaming promo. see trailer below
Known details are:
Setting - 2307 AD (”seireki”, Japanese for “anno domini”)
Characters - 4 Gundam Meisters, who pilot the mobile weapons.
Factions - Solestal Beings (seemed to be ‘celestial’ from what i see), a private militia group whose purpose is to eradicate wars.
Tagline at the end of the commercial - “Rebirth begins through destruction”Rumors about the series have been going around Japanese message boards for some time, especially after Sunrise registered several Gundam00 domains. The proclamation that the setting would neither be in the Universal Century of the original nor the Cosmic Era of Gundam SEED, as stated by Sunrise’s Yasuo Miyakawa, seems to have been followed through with. Staff members are yet to be confirmed although the most persistent rumor is that the series will be directed by Fullmetal Alchemist’s Seiji Mizushima.
*see captured screenshots here
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