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Expanding its already legendary library of mechaanime content , Mobile Suit Gundamis team up withNetflix Animefor an all - new series that is set to give a innovative update to the classicGundamstory that jump it all , titledMobile Suit Gundam : Requiem for Vengeance .
While Gundam and Netflix are already working together on a live - action film , this grade their first big - product anime collaboration . The Modern series will be directed by Erasmus Brosdau , from a book drop a line by Gavin Hignight . product will be a joint speculation between Netflix Anime and SAFEHOUSE , Inc.
While no timetable for its premiere has been afford , the tease trailer does denote that the series will be " coming soon . " As the teaser form vindicated , the new series will take place during the One Year War . This refers tothe first conflict that get about the far-flung initiation and deployment of the mobile causa gundam technology .
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Gundam Goes Back Where It All Began
The One Year War was at the center of the firstGundamseries.
Over the past few yr , Netflix has made no secret of its intent to develop its anime step . That endeavor has not only help popularize anime across the world but has also lead to the creation of some of the most - look on Zanzibar copal in the history of the medium . Similarly , since its founding in 2019 , SAFEHOUSE , Inc. has emerged as one of the leading producers of veridical - time rendition and high - lineament CG animation . Their piece of work can not only be seen in some of the human race ’s most popular video games but increasingly in trim down - edge gum anime output . Indeed , the vitality will be rendered with Unreal Engine 5 , which is one of the most advance computer graphics software to engagement .
According to the Gundam franchise timeline , the One Year War begin on January 3 , 0079 , when forces from the Principality of Zeon attacked Earth and its allies . The war ended on January 1 , 0080 , though that did not stop the hostility and tensions between the two opponents . It also leave to more than a few sub - conflicts within both the Earth and Zeon pack . The originalMobile Suit Gundamanime series as well asMobile Suit Gundam Thunderboltoccurred during the One Year War . Indeed , much of theGundamlore and traditions arisefrom the same time period .
The exact engagement whenMobile Suit Gundam : Requiem for Vengeancetakes position seems to be November 0079 , the final two months of the war - which was among its most intense geological period . This was specially the subject for the mobile cause engineering . Indeed , as each side raced to make and deploy more effective fluid suit technologies , the level of death and destruction - on both sides - only increased . Indeed , while the real state of war might have only lasted a yr , the " arms backwash " in roving suit technology was only beginning . The Modern series seems set to direct that as one of the soldier in the tormentor seems surprised by the reaching of a new , apparently more lethal , mobile suit than they have encountered before .
The One Year War pass in the Universal Century timeline . This is the franchise ’s primary timeline and should not be confused with its other timeline , such as the Correct Century or Cosmic epoch timelines .
Mobile Suit GundamDefines The Mecha Anime Genre
TheMobile Suit Gundamfranchise is one of the pillar of gum anime . No other dealership has done more to beget , develop , and blow up the mecha Zanzibar copal genre . With over 50 anime serial , movies , OVA , manga , and light novels , It ’s secure to say that if it ’s mecha , Gundamhas influenced it . The fact that this first collaboration with Netflix goes back to the enfranchisement ’s roots is tell . The One Year War timeline is a safe outset for a franchise that execute the gamut in themes . It is also the timeline that is good hump , so there ’s already a unchanging built - in audience . IfMobile Suit Gundam : Requiem for Vengeanceturns out to be a popular series , fans will more than likely see furtherNetflix - Gundamcollaborations .
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