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Gundam 40th Anniversary Promotional Anime Teased for This Winter

Featuring Ferrari designer Ken Okuyama's reimagining of first Gundam mobile suit
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BANDAI SPIRITS unveiled more of the Mobile Suit Gundam 40th Anniversary Project at the 59th All Japan Model and Hobby Show on Friday, and teased the "Mobile Suit Gundam G40" promotional anime that will debut this winter.


This year marks the 40th anniversary of the first Gundam television anime, and next year marks the 40th anniversary of the first Gundam plastic model kit. To commemorate both milestones, BANDAI SPIRITS is releasing a High Grade 1/144-Scale Gundam G40 (Industrial Design Version) model kit in December. The new model features a revamped design of Kunio Okawara's first RX-78-2 Gundam mobile suit, as reinterpreted by industrial designer Ken Okuyama (Enzo Ferrari car, fourth-generation Chevrolet Camaro, E6 and E7 Series Shinkansen trains).





BANDAI SPIRITS' All Japan Model and Hobby Show booth presented a nine-minute video on the development of the G40 model kit. The presentation ended with a Sunrise anime promotional video for "Mobile Suit Gundam G40," and the video teased that the full version will debut this winter.

The booth's teaser video features a title logo inspired by the first Gundam television anime's logo and Okuyama's Gundam G40 design, rendered in cell-shaded CG. (The above image is a teaser visual for the movie that does not reflect the final cel-shaded rendering.) The teaser video begins with a pan over a mobile suit and the iconic mono-eye activation sequence reminiscent of the Zeon enemy's Zaku II mobile suit — only for the mobile suit's full face to appear, revealing the Gundam G40 design.

The "Mobile Suit Gundam 40th Anniversary Ken Okuyama Design Gunpla Project Special Movie" was originally planned for completion this fall. LDH Japan is contributing the music.

The Gundam 40th Anniversary Project also includes a film trilogy based on Yoshiyuki Tomino's Kidō Senshi Gundam: Senkō no Hathaway (Mobile Suit Gundam: Hathaway's Flash) novel series, a five-part compilation film project of the Gundam: Reconguista in G television anime, a television airing of the Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin anime, the new Gundam Build Divers Re:RISE net anime series, and a new SD Gundam work titled SD Gundam World Sangoku Sōketsuden. Sunrise and Legendary Pictures are also developing a live-action film project.

Source: 59th All Japan Model and Hobby Show coverage

Update: A similar promotional anime video, "All That Gundam," celebrated the 10th anniversary in 1989 with all the Gundam mobile suits in animation to date, including the RX-78NT-1 Gundam Alex from that year's Mobile Suit Gundam 0080: War in the Pocket. Katsuhiro Otomo directed the CG short "Gundam: Mission to the Rise" to celebrate the 20th anniversary at the Gundam Big Bang Project's kickoff event in 1998. The anime studio Robot collaborated with Sunrise, Gundam creator Yoshiyuki Tomino, and musical composer Yoko Kanno on the 30th anniversary short "Ring of Gundam" in 2009. Another 30th anniversary promotional short, "Gundam Perfect Mission," included almost every major Gundam mobile suit in animation to date that year.
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Steamboat_Bill said:
Have you seen the first OVA? It's terrific.
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It's an equally fun romp!

EDIT: The guy who made this seems unaware of Noel Bloom Jr., the "Just for Kids" kid. Blame Celebrity Home Entertainment for the video quality. Most of their videos were that crappy.
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Yep, there was a lot of kid vids including anime obscurities that were released under that label so it wasn't just one tape alone! Celebrity did that for all of these sold directly to consumers (recorded in EP mode). Tapes sometimes sold to video rental shops were in SP mode from what I've noticed watching these.
 
Steamboat_Bill said:
Have you seen the first OVA? It's terrific.

EDIT: The guy who made this seems unaware of Noel Bloom Jr., the "Just for Kids" kid. Blame Celebrity Home Entertainment for the video quality. Most of their videos were that crappy.
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To be fair, I didn't know about who that kid was until you mentioned it just now.
 
Trilby said:
He's also the son of the owners of the company!
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Noel Bloom Sr. also owned Caballero Home Video, perhaps one of the oldest porn companies still in existence. He actually had a background in porn, going back to the days of 8mm films - he was arrested on obscenity charges numerous times, and one of his writers for the 8mm porn films was none other than Ed Wood.

Not exactly the sort of person you'd normally trust with children's shows, but that explains why the label was so eclectic.
 
Violence Jack said:
YO you watch kenny too? He's wonderful. Dude got me into the Laughing Salesman and Overlord.
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Haha I only knew he existed this year, his Twinkle Nora video showed up out-of-the-blue and I thought it was alright (but it was a fun refresher, as I had watched the OVAs a couple of years ago and just completely forgot everything except for the bald dude looking like a grown-up Caillou lol). But then a guy on MAL I sometimes talk to/swap opinions with name-dropped him, I figured I'd watch more of his videos, and kenny just warmed up to me. So I hit that bell, and I've thus far enjoyed his videos that have come out since.

I just really liked this new video simply because I'm a magical girl fan and Minky Momo has been on my plan-to-watch list for a long while now. I just had no idea what the show was like, like goddamn, what a fucking shame that Takeshi Shudo's legacy basically ended with Pokemon, and even then, he didn't have as much control over it as he would've liked. Minky Momo, however, must've been all him, and I'm gonna guess that explains some things in Pokemon (particularly the first and third movies).
 
Steamboat_Bill said:
Noel Bloom Sr. also owned Caballero Home Video, perhaps one of the oldest porn companies still in existence. He actually had a background in porn, going back to the days of 8mm films - he was arrested on obscenity charges numerous times, and one of his writers for the 8mm porn films was none other than Ed Wood.
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Fascinating!

Not exactly the sort of person you'd normally trust with children's shows, but that explains why the label was so eclectic.
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Certainly. Might also explain the use of Project A-Ko music that sometimes showed up in those previews. Now imagine trying to sell that as an edited "Just For Kids" release!
 
Kari Kamiya said:
God-fucking-dammit, that's another 26-episode children's anime turned into a "film"--they did this with Thumbelina. What was Enoki Films' deal?
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I suppose they were that desperate to sell these shows and nobody was interested in trying to air 26 episodes of the same thing. I personally wish someone would pick up "Honey Honey" but fat chance on that!
 
Kari Kamiya said:
God-fucking-dammit, that's another 26-episode children's anime turned into a "film"--they did this with Thumbelina. What was Enoki Films' deal?
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It was easier to sell them this way than to get a TV deal. Of course, these were always available as TV shows, but it was figured that there was more of a chance to sell them as movies than as TV shows.

Enoki Films wasn't the only company to do this. Harmony Gold did the same to a couple of shows as well - anyone remember The Brave Frog? There were three compilation films of Time Bokan. And there are probably more examples I can think of, but all of them have this guy as the composer.

William Winckler recently did several dub jobs of old Toei shows cut into movie form that have evidently never seen release here. Oh yes, and there's the TMS Treasure Island cut down into movie form on YouTube if you want to see that.
 
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Steamboat_Bill said:
It was easier to sell them this way than to get a TV deal. Of course, these were always available as TV shows, but it was figured that there was more of a chance to sell them as movies than as TV shows.
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The 1980's saw a lot of this on TV and home video.

Enoki Films wasn't the only company to do this. Harmony Gold did the same to a couple of shows as well - anyone remember The Brave Frog? There were three compilation films of Time Bokan. And there are probably more examples I can think of, but all of them have this guy as the composer.
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I'm thinking of one based on a giant robot show from the 70's called Dai Apolon that was renamed "Shadow World"...

The same group also did one for Daimos that was named "Starbirds"

William Winckler recently did several dub jobs of old Toei shows cut into movie form that have evidently never seen release here. Oh yes, and there's the TMS Treasure Island cut down into movie form on YouTube if you want to see that.
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Other good examples!
 
So while the new episode has only premiered on Twitch and hasn’t been uploaded to the official YouTube...enjoy the new episode of Something Witty Entertainment’s SAO Abridged. The best way to watch the actual anime.
 
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