Clockwork Machina!

Finally, the impending announcement that everyone has been waiting for is officially confirmed! Via ANN:

The June issue of Kadokawa Shoten‘s Monthly Gundam Ace magazine will officially announce on April 25 that an

anime adaptation of Harutoshi Fukui‘s Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn space robot novels has been green-lit for this winter. Kazuhiro Furuhashi (Le Chevalier D’Eon, Rurouni Kenshin, Zipang) will direct off a script written by Yasuyuki Muto (Afro Samurai: Resurrection, Le Chevalier D’Eon, Persona -trinity soul-).

Kumiko Takahashi (Card Captor Sakura, Ouran High School Host Club, Witch Hunter Robin) will adapt the original character designs that Yoshikazu Yasuhiko (first Mobile Suit Gundam, Venus Wars, Arion) created for the original novels. Hajime Katoki (Mobile Suit Gundam 0083: Stardust Memory, Mobile Suit Victory Gundam, Gundam Wing Endless Waltz Special Edition), Yoshinori Sayama (Birdy the Mighty Decode, Mobile Suit Gundam: Char’s Counterattack), Junya Ishigaki (Mobile Suit Gundam Wing, Macross Frontier), and Nobuhiko Genba (Fullmetal Alchemist: The Movie – Conqueror of Shamballa animator) will design the robotic mecha loosely inspired by Kunio Okawara‘s work on the first Mobile Suit Gundam series. Shinya Ogura (Eureka Seven , Gundam Evolve, Planetes) will advise on the world setting of the story, as he has on other Sunrise

anime projects.

The Gundam Unicorn story is mainly set in the year of Universal Century 0096 — three years after Char’s Counterattack, the last

anime to feature the protagonist Amuro and antagonist Char of the first Gundam

anime series. Before penning Gundam Unicorn, Fukui wrote the stories of the C-blossom – case729 and Samurai Commando: Mission 1549 manga.

Can’t wait to see the Sinanju animated! Only eight more months to go!

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