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A [[manga]] adaptation of ''Mobile Suit Gundam 00'' has been produced, alongside three [[side story|side-stories]] entitled ''Mobile Suit Gundam 00P'' ([[light novel]]), ''Mobile Suit Gundam 00F'' (manga) and ''Mobile Suit Gundam 00V'' (light novel). A [[Radio drama in Japan|drama CD]] prequel is also being produced. Two original [[soundtrack]]s have also been inspired by the series, along with a [[Nintendo DS]] game ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam 00 (video game)|Mobile Suit Gundam 00]]'' by Bec. |
A [[manga]] adaptation of ''Mobile Suit Gundam 00'' has been produced, alongside three [[side story|side-stories]] entitled ''Mobile Suit Gundam 00P'' ([[light novel]]), ''Mobile Suit Gundam 00F'' (manga) and ''Mobile Suit Gundam 00V'' (light novel). A [[Radio drama in Japan|drama CD]] prequel entitled ''Mobile Suit Gundam 00 Another Story: Mission-2306'' is also being produced. Two original [[soundtrack]]s have also been inspired by the series, along with a [[Nintendo DS]] game ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam 00 (video game)|Mobile Suit Gundam 00]]'' by Bec. |
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Revision as of 04:13, 6 June 2008
Mobile Suit Gundam 00 | |
File:Gundam 00 title.jpg | |
Genre | Drama, Mecha, Science fiction |
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Anime | |
Directed by | Seiji Mizushima |
Written by | Yōsuke Kuroda |
Studio | Sunrise |
Released | October 6, 2007 – March 29, 2008 |
Anime | |
Studio | Sunrise |
Released | October 2008 (scheduled) – unknown |
Video game | |
Mobile Suit Gundam 00 | |
Developer | Beck |
Genre | Action, Anime Robot |
Platform | Nintendo DS |
Released | March 27, 2008 |
Mobile Suit Gundam 00 (機動戦士ガンダム00, Kidō Senshi Gandamu Daburu-ō) is the latest television anime of Sunrise's long-running Gundam franchise.[1]
It is directed by Seiji Mizushima and written by Yōsuke Kuroda, and features character designs by Yun Kōga. The series was first officially announced by Sunrise during a 15-second trailer on June 2, 2007.[1][2][3] Gundam 00 will consist of two seasons, with the first one containing 25 episodes. The second season is set to go on air in October 2008.[4]
Mobile Suit Gundam 00 is the first Gundam series to be animated in high-definition,[5] as well as the first to be set in a non-fictional era (Anno Domini).
Licensing for a North American release of Mobile Suit Gundam 00 was announced by Bandai Entertainment at New York Comic Con 2008 on April 18 2008.[6]
Plot
The series is set in the years 2307-2312 AD of the Gregorian calendar. During this time, fossil fuels became exhausted and the distribution of fuels became imbalanced. Humanity must rely on an array of solar power generation systems orbiting the Earth, and supported by three orbital elevators, each one pertaining to one of the three "major powers" on the planet.
The Union of Solar Energy and Free Nations (世界経済連合, sekaikeizairengō, abbrev. ユニオン Union, lit. World Economic Union), centred around the United States and consisting of the Organization of American States, Australasia and Japan, control the elevator located in South America. The Human Reform League (人類革新連盟, Jinrui Kakushin Renmei, abbrev. 人革連 Jinkakuren, lit. Human Reform Alliance), centred around China, Siberian Russia, and India, and including the member states of the SAARC (excluding Afghanistan and Pakistan) and ASEAN, Korea, Mongolia, Papua New Guinea, and Taiwan, control the elevator located in the Pacific Ocean. The Advanced European Union (AEU), consisting of Iceland, the islands of the Barents Sea, Greenland, Turkey, European Russia and the entirety of the traditional continent of Europe, control an elevator built in the middle of the African continent.
With this infinite source of energy benefiting only the major powers and their allies, constant warfare erupts around the globe for fuels and energy. The nations that rely on fuel have plunged into poverty. Many believed that solar energy threatened the "promised land of God". The chaos lead to the formation of a private military organization, called Celestial Being (ソレスタルビーイング, Soresutaru Biiingu), dedicated to eradicating war and uniting humanity with the use of four humanoid machines called Gundams.[1][3] Mobile Suit Gundam 00 follows four mobile suit pilots termed Gundam Meisters (ガンダムマイスター, Gandamu Maisutā), sided with Celestial Being. The protagonist is 16-year old Setsuna F Seiei (刹那・F・セイエイ), a quiet, taciturn young man who grew up in the Kurdish Republic, and a Gundam Meister for two years. He pilots the GN-001 Gundam Exia, a high mobility mobile suit effective in melee combat.[7][8]
Production
Planning | Sunrise |
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Original Concept | Hajime Yatate Yoshiyuki Tomino |
Series Composition and Screenplay | Yōsuke Kuroda |
Original character Design | Yun Kōga |
Animation Character Design | Michinori Chiba |
Mechanical Concept Design | Kanetake Ebikawa Takayuki Yanase Kunio Okawara Seiichi Nakatani |
Animation Mechanical Design | Seiichi Nakatani |
Science Fiction Consultants | Kenji Teraoka Tomohiro Chiba |
Settings Cooperation | Isaku Okabe |
Art Director | Tsuyoshi Satou (KUSANAGI) |
Art Design | Nobuto Sue (KUSANAGI) |
Color Design | Akemi Tejima (Wish) |
Photography Director | Takeshi Katsurayama (Asahi Production) |
Sound Director | Masafumi Mima |
Music | Kenji Kawai |
Sound Effects | Shizuo Kurahashi (Soundbox) |
Editing | Yukiko Nojiri |
Executive Producers | Seiji Takeda (Mainichi Broadcasting System) Yasuo Miyakawa (Sunrise) |
Producers | Hirō Maruyama (Mainichi Broadcasting System) Hirōmi Iketani (Sunrise) Shin Sasaki (Sunrise) |
Music Producers | Keiichi Nozaki (JVC Entertainment) Hirohito Shinohara (Sony Music Entertainment) Noburu Mano (Sunrise Music) |
Production | Sunrise Mainichi Broadcasting System |
Production Cooperation | Sotsu |
Narration | Toru Furuya |
Director | Seiji Mizushima |
- According to Hiroomi Iketani, one of the Gundam 00 producers, planning for Gundam 00 started in 2005, under the temporary name "Next".[9] Iketani approached Seiji Mizushima, the director who was initially reluctant about accepting the job due to his lack of knowledge regarding the Gundam series, for the first time at the end of 2005. The staff, consisting of over 300 people, spent roughtly 2 years planning the series.[9]Compared to other anime shows, Gundam 00 has more main staff members, probably because of the show's variety of mecha designs.
Characters
Celestial Being
Gundam Meisters
- Setsuna F Seiei (voiced by Mamoru Miyano)
- Lockon Stratos (voiced by Shinichiro Miki)
- Allelujah and Hallelujah Haptism (voiced by Hiroyuki Yoshino)
- Tieria Erde (voiced by Hiroshi Kamiya)
- Team Trinity
- Johann Trinity (voiced by Katsuyuki Konishi)
- Michael Trinity (voiced by Daisuke Namikawa)
- Nena Trinity (voiced by Rie Kugimiya)
Other members
Advanced European Union (AEU)
Human Reform League (HRL)
Union of Solar Energy and Free Nations (Union)
Kingdom of Azadistan
Civilians
Release
The series premiered on October 6, 2007, replacing Toward the Terra on the terrestrial MBS and TBS networks, occupying the networks' noted Saturday 6:00 p.m. timeslot.[2][3] [10]
Currently, two DVD collections have been released,[11] with a third volume slated for March 22. [12] Both volumes performed well in sales, with the first collection selling approximately 22,847 copies on the first week, ranking third on the Oricon's overall weekly DVD chart.[13]
Reception
After a sneak preview of Gundam 00 on September 1 2007, Anime News Network remarked "striking parallels" between the series and an earlier installment of the metaseries, Mobile Suit Gundam Wing (1995): "Like Gundam Wing, Gundam 00's main story begins with hyper-powerful Gundam units appearing at various locales to execute slightly-less-than-Dynasty-Warriors-level mayhem in synchronized phases of a paramilitary operation."[5] Later, Carl Kimlinger of Anime News Network suggested that just like Mobile Suit Gundam SEED adapted the original Mobile Suit Gundam (1979) for modern audiences, Gundam 00 may possibly be an attempt to do the same with Gundam Wing.[14] He also remarked that "its political flavour [...] is distinctly post-9/11".[14]
While critically acclaimed, the first season of Gundam 00 experienced lower average ratings than its predecessors Mobile Suit Gundam SEED and Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny. Over its 25 episode run, it averaged a rating of 4.85% and peaked at 6.1%. On a more positive note, Gundam 00's average rating was higher than all other previous Gundam shows set in alternative universes such as Gundam Wing (which averaged 4.3%) and G Gundam (which averaged 4.1%).[15] Gundam 00's third DVD release also managed to top the anime DVD sales chart,[16] apparently selling 25,135 copies in its first week.[17]
In a top 20 anime poll published in the April 2008 issue of Newtype magazine, Japanese readers voted for Gundam 00 as #1 best anime, higher than its predecessor Gundam SEED which was voted #9. In Newtype's poll for top 10 male anime characters, Setsuna F Seiei was voted #2, Tieria Erde #3, Lockon Stratos #4, Graham Aker #5 and Allelujah Haptism at #7; and in its poll for top 10 female anime characters, Nena Trinity was voted #8 and Marina Ismail was voted #10.[18] Mamoru Miyano, the seiyū for Setsuna F Seiei, also won the "Best Voice Actor" award at the 2008 Tokyo International Anime Fair.[19] Miyano and Tieria Erde's seiyū, Hiroshi Kamiya, both won the "Best Main" and "Best Supporting" Male Characters respectively at the 2008 Seiyū Awards.[20]
Media
A manga adaptation of Mobile Suit Gundam 00 has been produced, alongside three side-stories entitled Mobile Suit Gundam 00P (light novel), Mobile Suit Gundam 00F (manga) and Mobile Suit Gundam 00V (light novel). A drama CD prequel entitled Mobile Suit Gundam 00 Another Story: Mission-2306 is also being produced. Two original soundtracks have also been inspired by the series, along with a Nintendo DS game Mobile Suit Gundam 00 by Bec.
Theme songs
Opening themes
- "Daybreak's Bell" by L'Arc~en~Ciel (episodes 1-13)[21]
- "Ash Like Snow" by The Brilliant Green (episodes 14-25)
Ending themes
- "Wana" (罠, lit. "The Trap") by The Back Horn (episodes 1-13)[22]
- "Friends" by Stephanie (episodes 14-24)
- "Daybreak's Bell" by L'Arc~en~Ciel (episode 25)
Insert songs
- "Love Today" by Taja (episode 19 and 24)[23]
References
- ^ a b c "機動戦士ガンダム00 [ダブルオー]" (in Japanese). Sunrise. Retrieved 2007-05-03.
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"MOON PHASE" (in Japanese). 2007-05-02. Retrieved 2007-05-03.
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"Mobile Suit Gundam 00 TV Series Announced for October". Anime News Network. 2007-05-02. Retrieved 2007-05-03.
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(help) - ^ "Gundam 00's Second Season to Start in October of 2008". Anime News Network. 2007-11-17. Retrieved 2007-11-18.
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(help) - ^ a b "Mobile Suit Gundam 00 Preview Screening". Anime News Network. 2007-10-06. Retrieved 2007-10-07.
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(help) - ^ "Bandai Entertainment Gets Gundam 00 TV Anime". Anime News Network. 2008-04-18. Retrieved 2008-04-18.
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"Gundam Double 0 Mobile Suits Revealed". Famitsu. 2007-06-14. Retrieved 2007-06-14.
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"00 Production Info". Gunota. 2007-10-10. Retrieved 2008-03-23.
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"Mobile Suit Gundam 00 Products". Gundam 00. 2008-03-22. Retrieved 2008-03-22.
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"Mobile Suit Gundam 00 DVD 3". Sunrise. 2008-03-22. Retrieved 2008-03-22.
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"DVD 1 Sales". Sunrise. 2008-01-31. Retrieved 2008-03-22.
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(help) - ^ a b "The Fall 2007 Anime Season Guide". Anime News Network. 2007-10-21. Retrieved 2007-10-22.
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- ^ Japanese Animation DVD Ranking, March 26–April 1 - Anime News Network
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- ^ Newtype April 2008 Issue Poll
- ^ "Eva 1.0 Wins Tokyo Anime Fair's Animation of the Year". Anime News Network. 2008-02-26. Retrieved 2008-05-07.
- ^ "2nd Annual Seiyū Awards Announced". Anime News Network. 2008-03-09. Retrieved 2008-05-07.
- ^ "L'Arc En Ciel for Gundam 00 theme". Gunota Headlines. 2007-07-28. Retrieved 2007-07-29.
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(help) - ^ "ED theme by The Back Horn". Gunota Headlines. 2007-08-19. Retrieved 2007-08-19.
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(help) - ^ "Taja for Gundam 00 insert song". Gunota. 2008-1-30. Retrieved 2008-03-22.
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