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is it a copyright issue with the vocals? or the fact that they used several OP songs as normal for anime series usually switching over at the halfway point, in the case of zeta with 50 episodes





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aphyon wrote:
is it a copyright issue with the vocals? or the fact that they used several OP songs as normal for anime series usually switching over at the halfway point, in the case of zeta with 50 episodes


No, both the OPs "Zeta - Toki wo Koete" and "Mizu no Hoshi e Ai wo Komete", along with the EP "Hoshizora no Believe" were composed by the American singer and songwriter Neil Sadaka. Zeta being "Better Days are Coming", Mizu being "For Us to Decide", and Hoshizora "Bad and Beautiful," all rewritten most likely with lyrics written by Tomino under a pen name.

Due to US copyright and Neil's apparent dislike of them (even though he was apparently paid for their use) they haven't been able to use them in the US.
   
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Live again!

New Gundam stuff coming soon. Excited to see what "The Witch from Mercury" is.
   
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 BlackoCatto wrote:
Live again!

New Gundam stuff coming soon. Excited to see what "The Witch from Mercury" is.


Dare I dream?

From the design of the title screen, it's in a very very similar style to Iron-Blooded Orphans. I wonder if this might also prelude our first female Gundam MC? In a mainline series that is. For a franchise that has generally done better than many at giving leading ladies chances to shine and stand out independent of the leading boys, the main animation series have usually stuck to the same formula.

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 LordofHats wrote:
 BlackoCatto wrote:
Live again!

New Gundam stuff coming soon. Excited to see what "The Witch from Mercury" is.


Dare I dream?

From the design of the title screen, it's in a very very similar style to Iron-Blooded Orphans. I wonder if this might also prelude our first female Gundam MC? In a mainline series that is. For a franchise that has generally done better than many at giving leading ladies chances to shine and stand out independent of the leading boys, the main animation series have usually stuck to the same formula.


Apparently IBO is getting something unrelated to this, slated for some sort of OVA.

Be in mind that formula has had since Zeta a large amount of female writers as part of staff.
   
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The other IBO announcement was the Urdr Hunt mobile game finally getting anything close to a release date, but it's been delayed for years so who knows if it'll actually arrive next year XD

   
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washington state USA

 LordofHats wrote:
 BlackoCatto wrote:
Live again!

New Gundam stuff coming soon. Excited to see what "The Witch from Mercury" is.


Dare I dream?

From the design of the title screen, it's in a very very similar style to Iron-Blooded Orphans. I wonder if this might also prelude our first female Gundam MC? In a mainline series that is. For a franchise that has generally done better than many at giving leading ladies chances to shine and stand out independent of the leading boys, the main animation series have usually stuck to the same formula.


Of my favorite female anime characters one from Gundam scores in my top 10 list.

And like most of the characters i like she isn't the love interest or in need of saving.

Spoiler:



In true gundam fashion she has a rich back story.....and she dies.

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 BlackoCatto wrote:
Live again!

New Gundam stuff coming soon. Excited to see what "The Witch from Mercury" is.


I've seen some speculation that it might be references a Witch from Mercury old pulp novel. I haven't read it but certainly seems interesting. https://www.amazon.com/PLANETS-ADVENTURE-WITCH-MERCURY-BEAST-JEWEL-ebook/dp/B003C8G6X2

I'm hopeful Witch from Mercury will be another AU from Sunrise.
   
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Some recent Gundam news.

The Witch from Mercury has a release date of October 2022. https://g-witch.net/

Several popular shows aired in that slot including Gundam 00, Code Geass and Full Metal Alchemist. No other details yet.

Doan's Island will be released on June 03, 2022. This is in the Origin continuity. https://twitter.com/g_cucuruzdoan/statu ... 0956144644

The official twitter account also put out some new character art as well as information on the voice actors.

Reprising from original anime:
-Toru Furuya as Amuro
-Toshio Furukawa as Kai

Reprising from Unicorn:
-Ken Narita as Bright

Reprising from The ORIGIN:
-Hideaki Nakanishi as Hayato
-Megumi Han as Sayla
-Misato Nakuen as Fraw Bow

New to the role:
-Satomi Arai as Mirai
-Tomofumi Ikezoe as Sleggar

From Nintendo Direct "SD Gundam Battle Alliance" was announced and will debut in 2022 of this year. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j12f4rP6ao4

It will be a coop action game on the Switch pulling from multiple Gundam universes including a favorite of mine Gundam X. https://topics.nintendo.co.jp/article/a55960f0-11c7-4911-a163-a0dc9daf343f
   
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Not Gundam per se, but as we wait for a western release of Cucuruz Doan's Island, US anime mecha fans rejoice. Limited theatrical release of Macross Frontier compilation movies in the US June 16 and June 30 respectively.

https://www.fathomevents.com/events/Macross-Frontier-The-False-Songstress

https://www.fathomevents.com/events/Macross-Frontier-The-Wings-of-Farewell?date=2022-06-30

Notable as I believe these are the first wide showings of non-Robotech Macross universe properties since Harmony Gold and Big West made peace. Gundam related because it was Macross in its guise as Robotech that introduced me to mecha anime and eventually lead to my current Gundam fandom.


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 Lord of Deeds wrote:
Not Gundam per se, but as we wait for a western release of Cucuruz Doan's Island, US anime mecha fans rejoice. Limited theatrical release of Macross Frontier compilation movies in the US June 16 and June 30 respectively.

https://www.fathomevents.com/events/Macross-Frontier-The-False-Songstress

https://www.fathomevents.com/events/Macross-Frontier-The-Wings-of-Farewell?date=2022-06-30

Notable as I believe these are the first wide showings of non-Robotech Macross universe properties since Harmony Gold and Big West made peace. Gundam related because it was Macross in its guise as Robotech that introduced me to mecha anime and eventually lead to my current Gundam fandom.



And of course they both have to be on Thursdays when I have no chance of being able to make it to the theater. Hopefully this will become a larger trend though, I'd love to see more anime movies.

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Thought I'd resurrect this now that Witch From Mercury has officially (and finally) arrived.

The Prologue episode is still on Youtube in the states;




As for the proper series, ep1 was great. The plot is essentially a mix (thus far IMO) of Gundam, Revolutionary Girl Utena, and Shakespeares' The Tempest. Someone took good lessons from Iron-Blooded Orphans on that last one, though we have a writer who is infamously inconsistent with their endings (they also wrote the series for Code Geass, Eureka Seven, and Guilty Crown).

I really appreciate some of the little details though.

For example, Gundam Aerial is canonically the first headliner Gundam to be confirmed sentient and it is it's pilot's 'little sister.' If you look at Aerial's design it actually backs this up with the suit having wider hips and a narrower waist than most Gundams giving it a feminine visual aesthetic. Even tiner, there are actual 'nails' on the fingers of the suit. They looked like claws in the original art pieces but at the end of ep1 an angle shows they're too thin to be claws. They're actually long (feminine) nails. And that's just the sort of attention to detail I appreciate in my stompy stompy robots anime >.>

   
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washington state USA

I'm a UC fan so i feel the opposite. the entire point of gundam was military hardware to get away from that kind of super hero robot "detail" that was the norm in the 1970s. it set the tone for future works of various franchises, even if it did start out a bit exaggerated in the 70s art style it was eventually refined down. it is one of the reasons i dislike most of the alt universe stories like wing. it goes against everything the show was trying to do.


Aside from the gundam itself the overall setting looks clean and gritty enough at least from the one episode. i will probably still watch it, though i doubt it will rank up there in my gundam playlist like 0080, 0083, 08th, thunderbolt etc...





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 aphyon wrote:
I'm a UC fan so i feel the opposite. the entire point of gundam was military hardware to get away from that kind of super hero robot "detail" that was the norm in the 1970s. it set the tone for future works of various franchises, even if it did start out a bit exaggerated in the 70s art style it was eventually refined down. it is one of the reasons i dislike most of the alt universe stories like wing. it goes against everything the show was trying to do.


I mean, I think that's kind of exaggerated when things like the Axis Shock became core to the UC timeline and the Unicorn one upped that. The sort of hard insistance that Gundam can't have super robots has been a bit silly since Zeta Gundam if you ask me.

And so far I can't say there's much of that in Witch yet. If anything it looks to be doing the IBO thing and being a bit more grounded, but with higher tech instead of mechs with maces being the upper tier of things. The only thing a bit off in it is that I don't think any other show ever started with the starter Gundam having bits/funnel equivalents (the hell is the mid-season upgrade gonna be?).

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Zeta did get a little silly, but the story got so good i gave it a pass.

If you notice most of my favorite Gundam series are side stories in and around the one year war.

the origin, 0080, 0083, 08th ms team, thunderbolt, MS igloo etc... i am also a huge fan of Kazuhisa Kondoh's various Gundam manga series,

I love the hard war story aspect of Gundam as refined with modern animation techniques.




As for a mid season upgrade.... why the shining finger of course (J/K) maybe they will pull something from victory or X Gundam.

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I have a feeling the story's school setting is going to go Fire Emblem Three Houses, just to up the tragedy XD

   
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With the blatant Utena references, at the very least I'm expecting rape, incest, grooming, suicide attempts, etc.

Utena may not have been a war story, but it definitely had its fair share of fethed up things
   
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Yeah. I'm kind of eyeing the parts of the premise that recall The Tempest and hoping because for a revenge story The Tempest ends on a better note cause Prospero gives up his revenge so his daughter can be happy XD

   
 
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