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{{cite web |url= http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2007-06-02/mobile-suit-gundam-00-tv-series-announced-for-october |title=Mobile Suit Gundam 00 TV Series Announced for October |publisher=[[Anime News Network]]|date=[[2007-05-02]]|accessdate=2007-05-03}}</ref> <ref>http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2008-02-05/japans-tbs-confirms-animes-move-from-saturday-6-p.m</ref>
{{cite web |url= http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2007-06-02/mobile-suit-gundam-00-tv-series-announced-for-october |title=Mobile Suit Gundam 00 TV Series Announced for October |publisher=[[Anime News Network]]|date=[[2007-05-02]]|accessdate=2007-05-03}}</ref> <ref>http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2008-02-05/japans-tbs-confirms-animes-move-from-saturday-6-p.m</ref>

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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]].<ref name="sunriseoffsite"/><ref name="moonphase"/><ref name="ann"/> ''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.<ref name="ANN_Oct2008">{{cite web|url=http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2007-11-17/gundam-00's-second-season-to-start-in-october-of-2008|title=''Gundam 00's'' Second Season to Start in October of 2008|publisher=[[Anime News Network]]|date=[[2007-11-17]]|accessdate=2007-11-18}}</ref>
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]].<ref name="sunriseoffsite"/><ref name="moonphase"/><ref name="ann"/> ''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.<ref name="ANN_Oct2008">{{cite web|url=http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2007-11-17/gundam-00's-second-season-to-start-in-october-of-2008|title=''Gundam 00's'' Second Season to Start in October of 2008|publisher=[[Anime News Network]]|date=[[2007-11-17]]|accessdate=2007-11-18}}</ref>

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Mobile Suit Gundam 00
File:Gundam 00 title.jpg
GenreDrama, Mecha, Science fiction
Anime
First season
Directed bySeiji Mizushima
Written byYōsuke Kuroda
StudioSunrise
Anime
Second season
StudioSunrise

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] The series premiered on October 6, 2007 on MBS and TBS's noted Saturday 6:00 p.m. timeslot.[2][3] [4]

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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.[5]

Mobile Suit Gundam 00 is the first Gundam series to be animated in high-definition,[6] as well as the first to be set in a non-fictional era (Anno Domini).

Plot

The series is set in the years 2307-2308 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), 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), consisting of China, Siberian Russia, India, the nations of South Asia (excluding the middle-Asian states of Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan), Mongolia, the member states of the ASEAN, Papua New Guinea, the Korean Peninsula, 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, Anatolia, European Russia and the entirety of the traditional continent of Europe, control an elevator built in the middle of the African continent.

File:G ExiaHD.jpg
GN-001 Gundam Exia

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]

Characters

See also: List of Mobile Suit Gundam 00 characters

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."[6] 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 is an attempt to do the same with Gundam Wing.[9] He also remarked that "its political flavour [...] is distinctly post-9/11".[9]

Media

Anime

See also: List of Gundam 00 episodes

Theme songs

See also: List of Gundam 00 albums

Opening:

  1. "Daybreak's Bell" by L'Arc-en-Ciel (episodes 1-13)[10]
  2. "Ash Like Snow" by the brilliant green (episodes 14-)

Ending:

  1. "Wana" (罠, lit. "The Trap") by The Back Horn (episodes 1-13)[11]
  2. "Friends" by Stephanie (episodes 14-)

Insert Songs

  1. "Wana" (罠, lit. "The Trap") by The Back Horn (episodes 3, 4, 8, 12 and 13)
  2. "Friends" by Stephanie (episode 15-18, 20-)
  3. "LOVE TODAY" by Taja (episode 19)
  • A slower version of Wana is used for the insert song, usually leads into the ED.
  • Two different versions of Friends with extra acoustics is used for the insert song, leading into the ED.

Manga

Mobile Suit Gundam 00P

A graphic novel serialized in Dengeki Hobby Magazine, featuring events before the main story. Story by Tomohiro Chiba, model conduction by Dengeki Hobby Magazine.[12]

Mobile Suit Gundam 00F

Manga serialized in Gundam Ace starting in number December 2007. It is a side story with art by Kōichi Tokita. It also tries to link the main story to the 2 other side-stories and introduces the characters and mecha from them.[12]

Mobile Suit Gundam 00V

Graphic novel serialized in Hobby Japan. It is told in the format of a mobile suit development history book published 20 years after the anime series, featuring photo guides of customized models.[12]

Mobile Suit Gundam 00

Serialized in Kerokero Ace. It adapts the television series into comic book format. Minor changes are present, such as the use of more visually comedic facial expressions.

Video game

Mobile Suit Gundam 00[13]

References

  1. ^ a b c "機動戦士ガンダム００ [ダブルオー]" (in Japanese). Sunrise. Retrieved 2007-05-03.
  2. ^ a b "MOON PHASE" (in Japanese). 2007-05-02. Retrieved 2007-05-03. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  3. ^ a b c "Mobile Suit Gundam 00 TV Series Announced for October". Anime News Network. 2007-05-02. Retrieved 2007-05-03. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  4. ^ http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2008-02-05/japans-tbs-confirms-animes-move-from-saturday-6-p.m
  5. ^ "Gundam 00's Second Season to Start in October of 2008". Anime News Network. 2007-11-17. Retrieved 2007-11-18. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  6. ^ a b "Mobile Suit Gundam 00 Preview Screening". Anime News Network. 2007-10-06. Retrieved 2007-10-07. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  7. ^ Newtype Magazine, July 2007
  8. ^ "Gundam Double 0 Mobile Suits Revealed". Famitsu. 2007-06-14. Retrieved 2007-06-14. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  9. ^ a b "The Fall 2007 Anime Season Guide". Anime News Network. 2007-10-21. Retrieved 2007-10-22. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  10. ^ "L'Arc En Ciel for Gundam 00 theme". Gunota Headlines. 2007-07-28. Retrieved 2007-07-29. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  11. ^ "ED theme by The Back Horn". Gunota Headlines. 2007-08-19. Retrieved 2007-08-19. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  12. ^ a b c "Gundam 00 gets trio of side stories". Gunota Headlines. 2007-10-01. Retrieved 2007-10-07. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  13. ^ "Popular anime becomes an action game on Nintendo DS" (in Japanese). Famitsu. 2007-12-31. Retrieved 2007-12-31. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
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