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Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX -Beginning- Anime's Trailer Unveils Theme Song by Kenshi Yonezu

The official Japanese website for the Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX -Beginning-, a re-edited version of some episodes. The staff streamed a trailer that previews the theme song:

Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX -Beginning- will play first in theaters on January 17. The anime will screen on 426 theaters, including 52 IMAX theaters.

The story begins with Amate Yuzuriha, a high-school student living peacefully in a space colony floating in outer space. When she meets a war refugee named Nyaan, Amate is drawn into the illegal mobile suit dueling sport known as Clan Battle.

Under the entry name "Machu," she throws herself into fierce battle day after day, piloting the GQuuuuuuX. Then an unidentified Gundam mobile suit pursued by both the space force and the police appears before her, along with its pilot, a boy named Shūji.

The main cast are:

• Tomoyo Kurosawa as Amate Yuzuriha
• Yui Ishikawa as Nyaan
• Shimba Tsuchiya as Shūji Itō

Yukikaze) is the mechanical designer.

The other staff include:

• Animation Character Design, Supervising Character Animation Director: Yumi Ikeda, Shie Kobori
• Animation Sejoon Kim
• Design Works: Junbun Lin, Hideaki Anno, Kazuya Tsurumaki
• Concept Art: Hajime Ueda
• Storyboard: Kazuya Tsurumaki, Hideaki Anno, Mahiro Maeda, Tōko Yatabe
• Direction: Kazuya Tsurumaki, Daizen Komatsuda, Tōko Yatabe
• Character Animation Director: Hidenori Matsubara, Mayumi Nakamura, Shuichi Iseki
• Mechanical Animation Director: Shingo Abe, Gen Asano
• Detail Works: Toshiaki Ihara, Tatsuya Tanaka, Mahiro Maeda
• Animation Checker: Yasuhito Murata
• Digital Animation Checker: Emi Nakano
• Color Designer: Akiko Inoue (Wish)
• Color Setting/Check: Hiromi Okamoto (Wish)
• Special Effect: Shin Inoie
• Art Director: TOTONYAN)
• Assistant Art Director: Chihiro Gotō (TOTONYAN)
• CGI Director: Takashi Suzuki
• CGI Animation Director: Shiguma Morimoto
• CGI Modeling Director: Shintarō Wakatsuki, Ryosuke Kusudo
• CGI Technical Director: Shunsuke Kumagai
• CGI Art Director: Hiroyasu Kobayashi
• Graphic Design Director: Kayoko Zama
• Visual Development Director: Yōsuke Chiai
• Composition Director: T2 Studio)
• Composition Advisor: Susumu Fukushi (T2 Studio)
• VFX Director: Hiroaki Yabe
• Look Development: Yōko Miki
• Editor: Emi Tsujita
• Music: Masayuki Hasuo
• Sound Director: Sound Team Don Juan)
• Sound Design: Naoto Yamaya (sound box)
• Main Producer: Yūki Sugitani
• Executive Producer: Naohiro Ogata
• Producer: Keisuke Kasai
• Production Desk/Setting Production: Hayato Tanaka
• Digital Production Desk: Kohei Fujiwara
• Distribution by: Bandai Namco Filmworks
• Advertising: Bandai Namco Filmworks, Nippon Television Network Corporation, TOHO CO., LTD.
• Produced by: Bandai Namco Filmworks

Sources: Gundam GQuuuuuuX anime's website, Mainichi Shimbun's Mantan Web

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