The Official Gundam GQuuuuuuX Anime Thread Mk I

[Ryujin]

New TV series, theatrical edited version premiering January 2025

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnMIaFV4q6M&t=117s

Studio Khara x Sunrise

Director: Kazuya Tsurumaki
Script: Yoji Enokido & Hideaki Anno
Mecha Design: Ikuto Yamashita

Shuji, get in the Gundam
Also, that's a lotta uuuu's

[Seto Kaiba]

... with a title like that, I honestly thought I was going to get rickrolled.

After watching it, I'm almost left wondering if the rickroll might've been preferable. Studio Khara is meh-inducing at the best of times, but the design aesthetic does not thrill and the premise sounds like they're just doing G Gundam in the style of G-Witch.

[MythSearcher]

I will just call it GQX, not typing all the u's

The mechanical design surely is different, they seem to intentionally swapping features on the Gundam(?) and Zaku. The police Zaku doesn't seem to have pipes next to the mouth piece, but Gundam(?) has snorkel sticking out on the sides. The Gundam(?) also has curvier body lines while the Zaku has straighter body lines.
I use Gundam because the model doesn't even carry the name "Gundam" on the box, but the show's name is Mobile Suit Gundam GQX and the MS is called GQX...

... with a title like that, I honestly thought I was going to get rickrolled.

After watching it, I'm almost left wondering if the rickroll might've been preferable. Studio Khara is meh-inducing at the best of times, but the design aesthetic does not thrill and the premise sounds like they're just doing G Gundam in the style of G-Witch.

Do understand G-Witch also has competition level MS battle in the beginning for school duel.

[Seto Kaiba]

Do understand G-Witch also has competition level MS battle in the beginning for school duel.

That would be why I drew the comparison, yes. It sounds like it's just that same clunky idea but with the win condition from G Gundam: destroying the opposing MS's head.

I was never fond of the idea in G-Witch. It always felt like it was an afterthought in the worldbuilding, like the writers couldn't think of any other way to get the Mobile Suits into the first half of the story. That plus the kids gambling with absurdly high stakes at school.

[MythSearcher]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/ ... f8afe34273&
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/ ... 2882495ca7&
Don't know if this will show and if it is real or fake.(My office network blocked discord server.)

This is posted online about 2 years ago along with another different colour MS with similar design style.
Notice the 2nd picture is basically GQX with a head change. The bit from the 1st picture also appeared in the trailer.
The text might be newly made up.

2 years sound reasonable as the start of the project, but things have changed a lot.

[Mafty]

Looks interesting, Does anyone else think this annoucement was rather sudden? Often there is an annoucement a couple of months in advance, it also dosen't seem to have been part of the Next UC Project (it dosent seem clear what timeline this is as of yet).

[MythSearcher]

Looks interesting, Does anyone else think this annoucement was rather sudden? Often there is an annoucement a couple of months in advance, it also dosen't seem to have been part of the Next UC Project (it dosent seem clear what timeline this is as of yet).

While it is not clear, it shows a lot of hints that it is the UC timeline.
You have the Zaku Axe, Zaku, island 3 colonies that are only really specifically used in UC with actual specs, Bits that look awfully like MAN-08 Emeth's bits.
Also, considering in Anaheim Journal you already get Ikuto designing competition MMS, it doesn't really look that out of place. Since civilian competition MS can look nothing like military models, we know there will be competitors focusing on looks more than spec, especially if spec is somehow limited by competition rules.

If the text from the above leaked pictures is true and haven't changed in 2 years, the red Gundam with Bit is/was used by Char and this one(with a head change) was used by Challia Bull, further confirming it is UC. (though projects like this can change a lot)

Edit: nevermind, the Italian Gundam info page leaked this, then the whole site is taken down, yes, it is UC and seems like 0085
https://media.discordapp.net/attachment ... 6961c35cfd&

[BrentD15]

I'll be calling this GCooks.

[Seto Kaiba]

While it is not clear, it shows a lot of hints that it is the UC timeline.
You have the Zaku Axe, Zaku, island 3 colonies that are only really specifically used in UC with actual specs, Bits that look awfully like MAN-08 Emeth's bits.

Considering how frequently Gundam AUs reuse designs with minor tweaks, I'd call that no guarantee of UC-ness.

Island 3-type space colonies are seen in several other Gundam timelines including After War, Cosmic Era, and Advanced Generation. There are other, slightly different, O'Neill cylinder designs seen in Advanced Generation and Post Disaster too.

[MythSearcher]

While it is not clear, it shows a lot of hints that it is the UC timeline.
You have the Zaku Axe, Zaku, island 3 colonies that are only really specifically used in UC with actual specs, Bits that look awfully like MAN-08 Emeth's bits.

Considering how frequently Gundam AUs reuse designs with minor tweaks, I'd call that no guarantee of UC-ness.

Island 3-type space colonies are seen in several other Gundam timelines including After War, Cosmic Era, and Advanced Generation. There are other, slightly different, O'Neill cylinder designs seen in Advanced Generation and Post Disaster too.

Well, if the leaks are real, then it is a parallel UC where the Zeon had won their independence war.

[Kuruni]

Follow a random Reddit'post, I will call it G-Quacks.

[ORegan]

... with a title like that, I honestly thought I was going to get rickrolled.

I first saw the screenshots etc on facebook and thought it was a shitpost. A couple seconds into the actual trailer and seeing the out of nowhere Pomeranian, I still wasn't sure.

But, they are definitely committing to the "is this UC or not?" bit so I guess the only reasonable thing to do is everyone pick a definitive stance and argue with each other over small details until we're all blue in the face. As is tradition.

[Mafty]

If it is actually set in UC 0085 then it could well be a part of the Next UC Project, plus being set later in the timeline does fit in with the fact that Mobile Suits became part of civilian life as well (Kamille was part of a robot club, and Gyunei had a Hobby HIzak).

Also given all the over advaced designs retconned into the OYW , putting it later into the timeline makes a bit more sense.

[MythSearcher]

If it is actually set in UC 0085 then it could well be a part of the Next UC Project, plus being set later in the timeline does fit in with the fact that Mobile Suits became part of civilian life as well (Kamille was part of a robot club, and Gyunei had a Hobby HIzak).

Also given all the over advaced designs retconned into the OYW , putting it later into the timeline makes a bit more sense.

Well, parallel timeline can have all sorts of weird stuff as well.

[Deacon Blues]

2 years sound reasonable as the start of the project, but things have changed a lot.

No Gundam project has that accelerated of a timeline. There is almost always a four-year timeframe for projects. This one seems to have taken considerably longer as Ogata proposed it back in 2018 (and there seems to have been several ideas that started back then too that're still coming).

[MythSearcher]

2 years sound reasonable as the start of the project, but things have changed a lot.

No Gundam project has that accelerated of a timeline. There is almost always a four-year timeframe for projects. This one seems to have taken considerably longer as Ogata proposed it back in 2018 (and there seems to have been several ideas that started back then too that're still coming).

Really? First Gundam was only started as a proposal in Apr 1978, Tomino didn't join the discussions until Sep 78. Zeta only got about 2 years of time as well, the project did start earlier, but they placed L-Gaim before it while Tomino and Nagano didn't have that much time on the project before the end of L-Gaim. ZZ only started after Zeta has aired. G was also only planned during V and W was also only planned during G.
If you believe the source from Japanese Wikipedia, Kawaguchi Katsumi apparently said in this article: https://www.nikkei.com/article/DGKDZO14 ... 0C1BC8000/ (paywall) that for a spring premiere, Gundam usually started discussion with Bandai about the plan the summer before hand and confirmed in autumn, but G Gundam is different because Bandai wanted Fighting game elements in the new series in Nov 1993, the show aired in Mar 1994. They were working on a project called Polka Gundam before that according to ガンダム神話Zeta, and they already made the first episode and only changed to the new series on Dec 1993. Yeah, this is not AI hallucination, I checked the page history before 2022 and there was no major edits during that year. I am not too familiar with X but the director Takamatsu Shinji apparently was only suddenly asked to direct the show in Nov 1995 according to the DVD pamphlet.
I don't think no Gundam project has that accelerated of a timeline, and I doubt Turn A was started much earlier since Sunrise and Bandai was not known to have such planning back then. Tomino was pretty angry that he was only asked to do something for the 40th anniversary on that exact year and scolded them that he needed more time to do so and he can only work on the 45th anniversary project back in that year.(or was it 35th and 40th? can't remember the exact numbers but the idea is that same, the company didn't contact him until that very year)
Seed D is similar, it only aired a year after Seed and while not as rushed as ZZ, G, W, X, the project also only has at most 2 years of planning time if you think they started it at the beginning of Seed. And we know they changed a lot of stuff since the announcement of Seed D, Shiho, who was announced as a major character before airing, almost vanished during the show. And the Japanese wikipeida said they talked about it in Summer 2003, and until that time the higher ups were only planning to end the Seed series with a movie. Pretty much only Fukuda thinks that he was rushed to make Seed D, if you look at the 90's Gundams, he actually got plenty of time.

2 years is actually not that accelerated. Gundam only got more time to produce since then.

And well, from those pictures, GQX project didn't start at that time, but already got some designs done so probably at least half a year into the project. And GQX was still not aired yet, saying they started the project 2 years ago was nothing accelerated.

[Seto Kaiba]

2 years is actually not that accelerated. Gundam only got more time to produce since then.

In all fairness, it depends on what you want to consider the true start of the project.

If you only consider from the time the studio receives the series order to the time the series goes to broadcast, then you're looking at something like 2-3 years on average. If you consider the time the series concept was in development before the series order that typically adds a year or so.

To give an example from my personal specialty as a translator, development of the original 1982 Super Dimension Fortress Macross series would officially kick off in August 1980 with a series order from Wiz Corp (Artmic, during a short-lived rebranding). The series would hit TV screens a bit over 2 years later in October 1982. However, as series creator Shoji Kawamori revealed in interviews, Studio Nue had already been workshopping its series concept for a year already as the "G Project" (actual title Genocidas) before the series order was made. So the actual development time comes to around 3 1/2 years not 2.

Sunrise was toying with the idea of a series space opera anime like Yamato for a year or so before the stars aligned via the success of Zambot 3 and Daitarn 3 and funding actually materialized to start development with an eye towards production.

Newer titles seem to take a bit longer too. Development of Macross Frontier began in earnest in early 2006, but concept work for it began a bit earlier in 2005, putting the total development time at around 3 1/2- to 4 years considering its end-of-2008 launch.

[MythSearcher]

In all fairness, it depends on what you want to consider the true start of the project.

If you only consider from the time the studio receives the series order to the time the series goes to broadcast, then you're looking at something like 2-3 years on average. If you consider the time the series concept was in development before the series order that typically adds a year or so.

To give an example from my personal specialty as a translator, development of the original 1982 Super Dimension Fortress Macross series would officially kick off in August 1980 with a series order from Wiz Corp (Artmic, during a short-lived rebranding). The series would hit TV screens a bit over 2 years later in October 1982. However, as series creator Shoji Kawamori revealed in interviews, Studio Nue had already been workshopping its series concept for a year already as the "G Project" (actual title Genocidas) before the series order was made. So the actual development time comes to around 3 1/2 years not 2.

Sunrise was toying with the idea of a series space opera anime like Yamato for a year or so before the stars aligned via the success of Zambot 3 and Daitarn 3 and funding actually materialized to start development with an eye towards production.

Newer titles seem to take a bit longer too. Development of Macross Frontier began in earnest in early 2006, but concept work for it began a bit earlier in 2005, putting the total development time at around 3 1/2- to 4 years considering its end-of-2008 launch.

Fair, but officially they consider that Apr 1978 proposal to be the start of the project, so first Gundam only had around a year. Zeta had more, we know they wanted to make a Gundam show before L-Gaim and introduced L-Gaim as a buffer, but we also know from Nagano's account the project didn't really start until much later, in the middle of the production of L-Gaim, and things were chaotic. ZZ is similar. All the way till probably G, all of the yearly shows where just like what Kawaguchi described, had about a year of development before airing, and we can actually see it happening, they are pushing yearly shows one by one from V, G, W, X. I guess the project would have started earlier, but the official discussion with Bandai the sponsor wouldn't be much later because they need to produce the models, and ZZ didn't seem like a good experience to them so they likely don't like to be left waiting for the final design and wanted more input. They seem to really pushed it on G. And likely the model just isn't sustainable by X so they stopped doing that.
Newer shows do have more production time, but I wouldn't say no Gundam accelerated to a 2 year timeline, things have been done that way.

[Deacon Blues]

2 years sound reasonable as the start of the project, but things have changed a lot.

No Gundam project has that accelerated of a timeline. There is almost always a four-year timeframe for projects. This one seems to have taken considerably longer as Ogata proposed it back in 2018 (and there seems to have been several ideas that started back then too that're still coming).

Really? First Gundam was only started as a proposal in Apr 1978, Tomino didn't join the discussions until Sep 78. Zeta only got about 2 years of time as well, the project did start earlier, but they placed L-Gaim before it while Tomino and Nagano didn't have that much time on the project before the end of L-Gaim. ZZ only started after Zeta has aired. G was also only planned during V and W was also only planned during G.
If you believe the source from Japanese Wikipedia, Kawaguchi Katsumi apparently said in this article: https://www.nikkei.com/article/DGKDZO14 ... 0C1BC8000/ (paywall) that for a spring premiere, Gundam usually started discussion with Bandai about the plan the summer before hand and confirmed in autumn, but G Gundam is different because Bandai wanted Fighting game elements in the new series in Nov 1993, the show aired in Mar 1994. They were working on a project called Polka Gundam before that according to ガンダム神話Zeta, and they already made the first episode and only changed to the new series on Dec 1993. Yeah, this is not AI hallucination, I checked the page history before 2022 and there was no major edits during that year. I am not too familiar with X but the director Takamatsu Shinji apparently was only suddenly asked to direct the show in Nov 1995 according to the DVD pamphlet.

I suppose I should've said nothing in the last two-plus decades has had that accelerated of a timeline. It was a long learning curve, to say the least.

I don't know where you got that they "supposedly" made the first episode for this follow-up to V Gundam, but the write-up says nothing of the sort. The only thing that was finished was a tentatively constructed plot for the first half and a first episode script, but that was it. That wasn't even mentioned in the book, that tidbit comes from a 2016 interview with Imagawa. Bit of a far cry from having a first episode made.

Interestingly, the initial plan for the follow-up to Victory Gundam was a project that adhered to the essence of the Gundam series. Titled Polka Gundam, it was envisioned as an epic drama about the friction between Earth residents and Mars immigrants as humanity, having migrated to Mars, attempts to return to their motherland. However, the failure of Victory Gundam prompted an abrupt change in direction, and Mobile Fighter G Gundam emerged. It was December of the year Victory Gundam aired. The decision was made with only three months left until the start of the new series. Sunrise and Bandai agreed upon clear themes: "A drama featuring Gundams that inherit only the character traits" and "showcasing a plethora of Gundams."

I don't think no Gundam project has that accelerated of a timeline, and I doubt Turn A was started much earlier since Sunrise and Bandai was not known to have such planning back then. Tomino was pretty angry that he was only asked to do something for the 40th anniversary on that exact year and scolded them that he needed more time to do so and he can only work on the 45th anniversary project back in that year.(or was it 35th and 40th? can't remember the exact numbers but the idea is that same, the company didn't contact him until that very year)

April 1997 is when planning kicked off officially. And Bandai/Sunrise don't have to be involved in it. Planning for a new series starts whenever the date is stamped on the proposal.

And well, from those pictures, GQX project didn't start at that time, but already got some designs done so probably at least half a year into the project. And GQX was still not aired yet, saying they started the project 2 years ago was nothing accelerated.

Myth, the project started in 2018, Ogata stated this in the conference video. This didn't start in 2022.

[MythSearcher]

I suppose I should've said nothing in the last two-plus decades has had that accelerated of a timeline. It was a long learning curve, to say the least.

SEED-D wasn't in the works until the end of SEED, which is just a year before it on aired.
2 decades, maybe, not 2+.