'Kidou Senshi Gundam SEED Freedom Zero' Prequel Project in Production

by DatRandomDude
Nov 1, 7:36 PM | 13 Comments

Following the conclusion of the second screening of the Kidou Senshi Gundam SEED Freedom (Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Freedom) special edition on Friday, a prequel project titled Kidou Senshi Gundam SEED Freedom Zero (Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Freedom Zero) was announced. Director Mitsuo Fukuda also revealed that the script for Zero was already finished 20 years ago.

The original Kidou Senshi Gundam SEED (Mobile Suit Gundam SEED) television anime aired in 50 episodes from Fall 2002 to 2003. The 50-episode Kidou Senshi Gundam SEED Destiny (Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny) sequel anime aired from Fall 2004–2005, followed by the Kidou Senshi Gundam SEED Destiny Final Plus: The Chosen Future OVA in December 2005.

The SEED Freedom movie opened in theaters in Japan on January 26, grossing over 5 billion yen (US$ 32.6 million approximately), becoming the highest-grossing Gundam movie in Japan.

Official site: http://www.gundam-seed.net/
Official Twitter: @SEED_HDRP

Source: Gundam.info, V-Storage

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@EiriktheNazgul I wouldn't equate traditionalism with nationalism, since not every concern with tradition is political, but if it doesn't affect his work that much, I don't care that much.

Nov 19, 4:22 AM by RobertBobert

@RobertBobert I found it, It took some digging and an ass load of reading but I don't think hes overly racist in any way, he mentions respectfully that he doesn't like the rise of feminism and that we should be respectful of everyone's views on this issue, he also in a recent animation directed by him ' Fukuda Mitsuo ' he replaced the traditional japanese flag with that of the Rising Sun Flag of ww2 regarding a scene shot in korea, in the animation: GPX Cyber Formula Saga, the change was in the BlueRay DVD release, and is a woman waving a flag at a rally.

I don't think this change makes him racist, at all, hes just japanese making a japanese anime, Japan is a traditional country, this type of shit is normal.

Source: https://bbs.ruliweb.com/community/board/300744/read/39585676?

Nov 18, 11:39 PM by EiriktheNazgul

@kazumayanagi I could say that you watch the show he directs, don't take advantage of his political analysis, but first of all, how involved is he in the show outside of the directing itself?

Nov 8, 7:35 AM by RobertBobert

Shame Fukuda is directing it with his racist antics recently, big skip.

Nov 8, 7:10 AM by kazumayanagi

@EiriktheNazgul What do you think of the latest series? I heard it was positioned as a direct sequel to a trilogy of films. It was developed simultaneously with the release of the sequel SEED.

Nov 4, 1:52 AM by RobertBobert

@RobertBobert Its not just lelouch, the original cast was attractive in an adult sort of way, unlike most anime today this is something that gundam has done well for a while now, code geass included, imo its rare to see anime done so well, as in the case of R1 and R2, my biggest complaint with geass is that they seem to pander to the wrong crowd with these new releases, in the last movie they sent us to an arabic kingdom, and that was interesting but it doesn't reach a larger audience and it doesn't have the setting to be a great adaption, in akito they had us in france as the general setting and that was kind of boring, I really wish another studio was doing this production, sunrise just doesn't have what it takes to make alternative content for seed.

Nov 3, 8:11 PM by EiriktheNazgul

@deg You completely misunderstood what I wanted to say. First of all, you are more than aware that I am extremely critical of G-Witch myself. Not even because of yuri, but because of how shallow, vague and awkward this show was. Not to mention “do you remember, remember?” type of fanservice and almost verbatim quoting of the Last Witch Izetta. Secondly, this intrigues me because Sunrise (or Bamko) regularly try to leave UC in favor of alternative timelines where they could control everything they want and the "modern audience" actively supports them in this (a striking example of the new fans vs old fans controversy around the mentioned above the witch), but business interests regularly bring them back to milking either UC or AE which have become classics in their own right.

Anyway, I recently decided to rewatch the original UC 00079 and I was simply amazed at how much more interesting, captivating and most importantly, deeper the narrative was compared to modern AE, despite the much simpler and older narrative tools. If the old shows from the 00s or even the late 70s look more polished than the expensive shows from the 10s and 20s, then it is not surprising that the audience forces Sunrise to return to them, although Sunrise and Bamko themselves clearly want something new judging for side work.

@EiriktheNazgul I haven't watched the new series, but remembering the new manga, which is basically fanservice for fanservice's sake, I can see what you mean. But otherwise, while Gundam has great potential for creating new titles, as I subjectively think, Geass is too tied to the original heroes and works quite poorly without Lelouch.

Nov 3, 1:30 AM by RobertBobert

RobertBobert said:
@deg Gundam has always been one of the biggest cash cows in anime. But what intrigues me is their sharp turn towards existing titles rather than creating new inclusions as usual. However, this is typical of whole Sunrise in general, if you remember the new sequels to old shows and the bonus episode to one of their most controversial shows of the 10s.

where have you been? only witch from mercury have moderate financial success when it comes to new gundam shows heck old gundam fans hate gundam age and gundam build fighters and other attempt to cater to potential new gundam fans

read the first post it was specifically said that this gundam movie is the highest grossing film for gundam too

so ye obviously they will milk the cash cow that is gundam seed to attract the old fans

Nov 2, 11:18 AM by deg

@RobertBobert I was talking about the new Code geass movies, but the akito 5 episode mini series was horrific, it lacked everything that made the original concept so good, in fact I think most of the alternative code geass content was poorly done, aside from the first two seasons, those were great.

Nov 2, 11:14 AM by EiriktheNazgul

Cosmic Era fans aren't just eating we're feasting.

Nov 2, 10:43 AM by Fortress_Maximus

Wait, are they going to release a prequel for the sequel? Is Sunrise so reluctant to do a new AE Gundam after Mercury Witch?

@EiriktheNazgul In what sense did they do with Code Geass? Are you talking about the film trilogy or subsequent shows? Because as far as I remember, the films simply create an alternate timeline so that they can experiment with continuing the story since the original show has a completely finished ending and a logical ending.

@deg Gundam has always been one of the biggest cash cows in anime. But what intrigues me is their sharp turn towards existing titles rather than creating new inclusions as usual. However, this is typical of whole Sunrise in general, if you remember the new sequels to old shows and the bonus episode to one of their most controversial shows of the 10s.

Nov 2, 1:45 AM by RobertBobert

This is wonderful news, I just hope they don't ruin it like they did with code geass, lets hope they stay true to the culture of the series.

Nov 2, 12:19 AM by EiriktheNazgul

obviously they will milk the cash cow after the movie become the top grossing gundam movie

japan loves gundam seed so much

Nov 1, 7:38 PM by deg