NEO GUNDAM INFO

Airing October 4th, 2015 on TBS/MBS' Sunday 5pm slot

- Directed by Tatsuyuki Nagai

- Written by Mari Okada

- The main characters are Mikazuki Augus and Orga Itsuka

- Name of the Gundam is Gundam Barbatos

- This Gundam is a high drama story of a bunch of child soldier orphans who band together to find a place they can call home

- The main Gundam is a relic from the previous war which starts as a wreck, but will evolve and get stronger as they defeat more enemies and upgrade the parts bit by bit

- The Gundam shares the same base frame as all other Mobile Suits, and so can cannibalize parts, weapons, and armor as the story progresses.

Full Staff:

Director: Tatsuyuki Nagai

Series Composition: Mari Okada

Character Concept Design: Yu Ito

Character Design: Michinori Chiba

Mechanical Design: Naohiro Washio, Kanetake Ebikawa, Ippei Gyobu, Kenji Teraoka, Tamotsu Shinohara

Background Art: Kusanagi

Music: Masaru Yokoyama

[Updated 8/22/15] *NEW*

Promo Video 2

[Updated 7/14/15]

Announcement Video (English Sub)

(Rough Translation by Bandai, Synopsis)

The setting is a world roughly 300 years after the end of a great conflict known as THE CALAMITY WAR.

Mikazuki Angus is an orphan with no family, who wouldn't hesitate to sacrifice himself to protect his comrades. And Orga Itsuka is someone who cares for his comrades, has a strong sense of responsibility, and is respected by one and all. They have been tegother since childhood, and the bond between them is stronger than that of brothers. These two protagonists are the axis around which the story develops.

The Gundam Barbatos starts out as an incomplete mobile suit, but as it goes through the fires of war along with Mikazuki and the others, it becomes stronger by adding on armor and weapons from defeated enemy mobile suits.

However, the CGS comes under attack from the armed organization Gjallarhorn trying to nip the bud of insurrection, so Mikazuki and the children start withdrawing as a decoy. The leader of the boys, Orga Itsuka, takes advantage of this occasion to rise in revolt against the adults who oppressed them and stages a coup d'etat.

Mikazuki, who was entrusted to fend off the Gjallarhorn by Orga, takes up the fight by using the Gundam Barbatos, a mobile suit from the "Calamity War" that was utilized as a nuclear reactor by the CGS.

[Updated 8/10/15] *NEW*

[Updated 7/13/15] 

2 more days until full reveal...

A photoshop image of a clearer image of the head.

A fan-art of what the final product might look like... 

4 more days until full reveal...

[Updated 7/10/15] 

5 more days until full reveal...

A photoshop image to duplicate what had already been revealed.  Now we just need the head and upper torso...

[Updated 7/9/15] 

6 more days until full reveal...

7 more days until full reveal...

[Updated 7/7/15] 

A new image was revealed today with more details expose from the original silhouette image!  

8 more days to full official reveal of this upcoming series.

More details are shown with all shadows removed...

[Updated 7/6/15] 

Digital artist John Soboda was able to use various digital tools to clean up the image to reveal more details from the original silhouette image.  Thank you John Sobada for sending us this image.  The image teases what the new Gundam will look like.  9 more days until official announcement.  

[Updated 7/4/15] 

This is a fan-art image, but we will leave it here as a reference as to what the silhouette might portray...  It would be interesting to compare this with the official image which would be release on July 15th.

Please take this image with a grain of salt for now...  Again, this image is not confirm to be official.

[Updated 7/3/15]