GKIDS and Bandai Namco Filmworks announced Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX -Beginning- will receive an early IMAX screening for one-night only on February 26. Tickets are on sale right now.
Moreover, tickets to the Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX -Beginning- Japan Society screening will go on sale on February 13 at 8:00 a.m. PST / 11:00 a.m. EST. Tickets will be available on Japan Society’s website. The Japan Society screening is set for February 20.
In January, GKIDS acquired North American distribution rights for Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX -Beginning- anime film. The film comes to various theaters in North America on February 28.
The staff working on Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX includes the Evangelion franchise creator Hideaki Anno as script writer, alongside Yoji Enokido. Kazuya Tsurumaki is the anime’s director. Take is the character designer. The voice cast of Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX includes Tomoya Kurosawa as Amate Yuzuriha, Yui Ishikawa as Nyaan, and Shimba Tsuchiya as Shuji Ito.
Singer-songwriter Kenshi Yonezu performs “Plazma,” the theme song of Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX -Beginning-. hololive VTuber Suisei Hoshimachi performs Mō Dō Natte mo Ii ya (I don’t really care what happens anymore” and NOMELON NOLEMON performs “Midnight Reflection.”
Lastly, here’s a story synopsis via the official website:
Amate Yuzuriha is 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 Shuji.
Now their world is about to enter a new era
