| Bandai Namco Group announced today that a new Gundam TV series, "Gundam Build Fighters", will begin airing in October. This series takes place in the near future, when "Gunpla Battle" (simulated battles between Gundam plastic models) is very popular. The story revolves around Iori Sei, a young but ambitious "Gunpla Builder" who has expert knowledge and building skills but is weak in maneuvering the models, and Reiji who has not much interest in Gunpla but possesses excellent control skills. Staff information is as follows: Studio: Sunrise Director: Nagasaki Kenji Series Composition: Kuroda Yousuke Character Design: Oonuki Kenichi Mecha Design: Ookawara Kunio, Akutsu Junichi, Ishigaki Junya, Ebikawa Kanetake, Teraoka Kenji Official anime website: http://www.gundam-bf.net/ Source: Yahoo News Story by shakeyourpup45 Gundam Build Fighters on MAL |
KinetaJul 3, 2013 8:56 AM
| So MAL finally starts locking news threads that are only a few weeks old? I wonder where was the announcement of this change? Or we are seeing yet another case of changes made that impacted users but not communicated to them? I wonder how long people would put up with this. As much as I have a bunch of information to share about anime announced recently I cannot share it in news board, and the anime series is too disorganized and chaotic to share information except with people already interested in the particular series. |
| Ooh how I've been waiting for this to happen! Pretty sure I'm gonna love it. I seriously have no idea why the majority is hating on it already. |
morshuwarriorJul 2, 2013 4:45 AM
| Yay a new Gundam will watch! Man Fall is going to be even better than Summer at this rate. xD |
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| Awesome! Can't wait to watch another Gundam Series this fall |
| Gunpla? Meh~ And I though there are some news on Origin :/ |
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| I guess I'll be the one to point out "Octboer". |
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| Hooray for more mecha action. Another show to look forward to in fall. |
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| you had me at gundam and lost me at build fighters |
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| They sure as hell did not do their homework after Gundam AGE 'massive success'. |
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Corpse69 said: you had me at gundam and lost me at build fighters LOL I agree that the "Build Fighters" part sounds kind of lame...just my personal opinion :) |
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| Well kinda expected. They want to gain more influence on younger audiences segment perhaps... Just hope that this time it will not be for nothing |
| I thought it would be sequel or some sort of this (well, it's kind of similar). I got excited for nothing... |
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| What is this, Angelic Layer with Gunpla? |
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| NEW GUNDAM HELL I AM IN Reading the synopsis ...dat hurts |
MaorJul 2, 2013 3:18 AM
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| well I do plan to watch every gundam series anime..like all of them so I'll get to this too lol |
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| Bad, Sunrise, bad. Just give us Origins already. Regardless, will watch, because Gundam. |
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| OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH MYYYYYYYYYYYY GODDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD i am so excited. so so so so so excited. i love gundam so i will be totally biased as with all gundam everything, once again. |
| Gunpla Builders was a nice way to celebrate the model kit lines success, but making a new tv series? Seriously Bandai? Well let's hope the fights aren't like G Gundam. No news on the Origin or SEED movie? |
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| I was like "Oh this seems interesting,I might watch prequels,there shouldn't be many of them". Never have I been so wrong. |
| what is this I don't even. I guess that's TWO failure gundam series in row then. |
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| I only liked three gundam series so far namely: Gundam Seed, Gundam Seed Destiny, Gundam 00....I haven't watched Gundam Wing but they say it was one of the best in the gundam series so I'll probably watch it sometime...I'm not quite stoked about the new series basing on the title since I didnt like Age of Gundams at all. |
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| The synopsis reminds me of Metabots. The Gundams look great so hopefully the story is great as well. Either way, I can't wait for October! |
| Video game and a anime based on gunpla. Sunrise is really trying to sell them |
| Oh boy another kiddy Gundam series. I don't know if I even want to give this a chance. I gave age a chance and the series as a whole was watchable but meh. I guess I'll check this one out. No high hopes for it though, just another series to sell model kits. Not that the other Gundam series are not guilty of this, but builders and age is so in your face about it. |
ZeroflamezJul 2, 2013 10:44 AM
| I don't get why they think that dumbing down the show for a "younger audience" is going to get them more viewers. Gundam has never been popular with little kids and never will be, its more a show for teens. This looks like it might be worst than Gundam Age (although Age wasn't horrible). Its a shame because I was really looking forward to a new good gundam series. Going back to the same style as Gundam 00/Destiny/Wing. |
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MaxY- said: I was like "Oh this seems interesting,I might watch prequels,there shouldn't be many of them". Never have I been so wrong. Just go watch anything UC Gundam, they're are the best ones. |
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| "Iori Sei, a young but ambitious" Oh no ... |
| I really don't like the character design. It looks like Card Fight Vanguard met Gundam. And why do all the new Gundam series look so kiddish. It looks worse than Gundam Age. Probably not watching until Gundam steps their game up and gets their shit together when it was cool like Wing/Seed/00 and all the older ones. |
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| Another gundam to feed the ever-faithful fanbase... Easy profit, right? |
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| PV in case anyone want to see If you're into the older UC stuff, this will be refreshing to see those suits get reanimated. |
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| Yawn, all the Gundam manga and LNs that exist and Sunrise animates this, I'm disappointed, give me an Advance of Z anime or The Origin, something the fanbase will actually watch and buy your merchandise. |
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KayChan4U said: I really don't like the character design. It looks like Card Fight Vanguard met Gundam. And why do all the new Gundam series look so kiddish. It looks worse than Gundam Age. Probably not watching until Gundam steps their game up and gets their shit together when it was cool like Wing/Seed/00 and all the older ones. Wow it took longer than expected to get our first "worse than AGE" quote but there it is after all. Sluggish this time Gundam fandom..... The more I look at this the more I like what I see. It'll be the first time we've seen some of these designs animated on TV in ages and it's shirking the trend of last seasons CGI mecha entirely by the looks of it. It also really doesn't look all that kiddish to me so much as kid safe. I'm also not above the potential for Shonen style Gundam battle tournaments ala G Gundam even if it's all part of an arcade game. I don't see why this can't be a fun show, especially with the Gundam 00 writer on board who can probably write tighter and more realized scripts than Akihiro Hino. I'm not expecting something super deep like UC by any stretch, but again I don't hate what I see in the trailer by any stretch either. As an old time Gundam fan it was like, "wow there's a Gyan doing a fencing pose, and there's a Shokew fighting around Big Ben, and is that Harry Ord's Gold Sumo?! UNIVERSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSE!" If they can introduce kids to those design concepts and popularize them for a new generation (and really they're likely to already sell themselves) then that'll be cool too. It looks like they want to work with the grain of the franchise by listening to the feedback from kids about not knowing anything about wars and space colonies (but I bet you they know about video games) rather than against it like with AGE where they started from scratch and hired a writer in Akihiro Hino who from the sounds of it wasn't exactly Mr. Popular in Japan at the time. |
PeacingOutJul 2, 2013 10:37 AM
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RebuildOfKam said: PV in case anyone want to see If you're into the older UC stuff, this will be refreshing to see those suits get reanimated. This video can actually give cancer. I don't know what is more puke-worthy, the kiddy character designs, the shitty OST or the WHOLE FREAKING PREMISE of the show. AGE was already "oh my god what is this I don't even" but this jumps the shark even further. |
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| OMG!!! Another gundam series!!! I cannot wait!!! >< |
Zel_Ezl said: OMG!!! Another gundam series!!! I cannot wait!!! >< It's funny because you didn't even watch the good Gundams |
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RebuildOfKam said: PV in case anyone want to see If you're into the older UC stuff, this will be refreshing to see those suits get reanimated. I'm probably the minority on this, but this looks incredibly entertaining! I honestly would rather have this instead of Origins, maybe because, oh I don't know, origins is the same as the original 1979 series? Yeah that's probably it. |
RebuildOfKam said: PV in case anyone want to see If you're into the older UC stuff, this will be refreshing to see those suits get reanimated. Wow those battles look better than I thought they would be, maybe even Unicorn status. |
VioLinkJul 2, 2013 2:49 PM
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VioLink said: RebuildOfKam said: PV in case anyone want to see If you're into the older UC stuff, this will be refreshing to see those suits get reanimated. Wow those fight scenes look better than I thought the would be, maybe even Unicorn status. Very unlikely, but odds are they look well above average for TV anime. Gundam fights tend to go on for what feels like an eternity too and I mean that in a good way as opposed to the stand there grunting way that is common in say Toei anime. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7poMcz6XEkA There's a fight from the much maligned Gundam AGE and that is mostly considered just a goofing around test fight. As in nothing special any old fight. Not bad for a 50 episode show. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtoXCXBfmx8 Now here's an end game fight. Noticeably more Sakuga and movement involved. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2l1a6THyZc Now here's a fight from Gundam Unicorn. The difference between TV And OVA is pretty notable with the Mobile suits forever on the move and spinning and dodging out of the way of fire. To me this is a true representation of what Mobile Suit combat is supposed to look like in terms of motion and speed. It's a game of last second dodging and reflexes, one missed juke and your missing a limb or dead. |
PeacingOutJul 2, 2013 2:57 PM
skudoops said: morshuwarrior said: I'm probably the minority on this, but this looks incredibly entertaining! I honestly would rather have this instead of Origins, maybe because, oh I don't know, origins is the same as the original 1979 series? Yeah that's probably it. I think you are definitely in a minority (of gundam fans) at least who share this opinion. Given sunrise's animation quality, who doesn't want to see Origins re-done and (I am not sure if they are doing this) reworked to remove some of the more tedious areas. It would indeed be great to see it re-done with new animation and in HD and I am looking forward to Origins as well, but I feel like this new title gives something fresh and original. The Gunpla OVA was far too short and I've been wanting more of it ever since I saw that. Btw, regarding that its targeted towards kids too, I couldn't care less, as long as it's entertaining all is fine by me. |
| Trust me when I say that at least so far the reaction to this is astoundingly reasonable by the standard of the Gundam Franchise. I think it owes a lot to the lack of a leak though. For a change Bandai managed to keep a lid on this project until they were ready to unveil it and then they did. As such we know what it is, there's accurate first information on the new series and people can base their expectations on that. Gundam 00 and AGE did not have that same luxury. |
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