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Bandai announces that the Official Gundam Cafe opens on April 24, 2010 at the JR Akihabara Station.

You can read more on the official website here. (It opens a .pdf file.)

Bandai Entertainment has announced on its Twitter feed on Wednesday that it has set a June 2010 release date for the Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam: A New Translation movie trilogy. Bandai originally announced its North American license for the films in 2006.

Similar to what the first Mobile Suit Gundam movie trilogy did for the first Gundam television series, the Zeta Gundam movies compile the Zeta Gundam television series with the majority of the original cast reprising their roles. The movies, which creator Yoshiyuki Tomino assembled for Zeta Gundam's 20th anniversary celebration, also feature digital remastering and some additional new footage.

Anime convention AnimeNEXT has announced that its musical guest of honor is the all-girl rock band Stereopony. The band has provided theme songs for multiple anime series, including "Bleach" and "Mobile Suit Gundam 00."

This will be the band's first performance at an American anime convention. However, they have played in the United States before: in 2009, they performed at the South by Southwest music festival in Austin, Texas.

AnimeNEXT is being held in Somerset, New Jersey, on June 18-20. Their concert will be on June 18, and they also plan to hold a panel and autograph sessions.

source: toykograph

Apparently tired of Japan being the only country with a mecha defense force, Ukraine has decided to set up their own mecha forces.

TIS, a sea port company, announced that they are "proud to inform that we are the first in the Kominternovsky region to employ Giant Humanlike Combat Robots within the Security Department. Model TIS-1KB"

Further information is still unknown.

The Sankei Sports newspaper (via ANN) reports that the 1/1 Gundam that spent two months in Odaiba (and was the site of a wedding) is to finally be reassembled, this time in Shizuoka city, in central Japan. The Gundam will be placed in front of the JR Higashi-Shizuoka station from July 2010 until may of 2011, after which it is to be moved to another prefecture.

The gundam will eventually end up at the Bandai Hobby Center.

Unless you've been living under a rock, you've heard of the life sized Gundam that was constructed at Shiokaze Park on the artificial island of Odaiba in Tokyo Bay. The Robot was 1/1-scale, 18-meter-tall statue of the anime's title robot. The approaching Typhoon #11 was cited as the reason for cancelling the ceremony on the statue's last public day. Yoshiyuki Tomino, gundam creator and Tohru Furuya, Amuro Ray's voice actor, would have participated in the closing ceremony just like they did in the opening ceremony on July 10th.



Planners had anticipated 1.5 million visitors over the two month display period and were greeted with 4.15 million visitors. August 23, 2009 held the record of 185,000 visitors. The enormous, 35 ton, statue was built with fiberglass-reinforced plastic over a steel frame so it can be dissassembled later. There are 50 lights, 14 mist-emitting devices, sound effects and a moving head unit. The planners acknowledged that the fate of the statue after August 31 is "undetermined."

One of the really cool events happened on August 25th where 38-year-old Yasuo Kai married his 37-year-old bride Emi in front of the statue. In total there were 550 couples that applied for this special

At the Gundam Big Expo event in Tokyo it was confirmed that the anime will launch in early Spring of 2010. The official website for the anime adaptation of the Gundam Unicorn novels has confirmed this. There will be six original video anime volumes of fifty minutes each, and it will be presented on Blu-ray Disc and DVD, shown at events, distrubuted through other unspecified means and exhibited overseas.



The original Gundam Unicorn novels are set in the same Universal Century (UC) timeline as Yoshiyuki Tomino and Sunrise's first Mobile Suit Gundam science-fiction television anime series and its sequels. Fukui finished serializing the novel version in the August issue of Kadokawa Shoten's Monthly Shonen Ace magazine in June. The final two compiled book volumes, #9 and #10, will ship in Japan on Monday. ~Anime News Network

In an interview conducted last wednesday novelist Haurtoshi Fukui confirmed that the first anime episode will incorporate material from the first two novel volumes. Despite the fact that the anime will be a reconstruction with new ideas developed between the original novelist and scriptwriter Yasuyuki Muto, Fukui has assured fans that he is faithful to his original works.

Gundam's official website announced that the Blu-ray Disc sets for the Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ Memorial Box will include two new Gundam Frag short films. The website states that the viewers of these shorts will catch a glimpse of the daily and the not so daily life on the battlefield.


Plot Summary:
Universal Century 0088: With the Titan’s forces completely destroyed and the AEUG losing more than half of its forces after the Gryps War, the Zeon exiles take the chance to revive their cause. Now known as the Neo-Zeon, Earth will be an easy target for them.

It will be up to the AEUG and the remnants of the Earth Federation to stop the Neo-Zeon front. With no able body left to pilot the Mobile Suit, Argama enlists help from the young junk collector Judau Ashta and his friends. ~ Anime News . Biz

There is a new Gundam manga in the August issue of Kadokawa Shoten's Monthly Gundam Ace magazine which shipped on Friday. The first few chapters of Masato Natsumoto's Kidō Senshi Gundam Senki U.C. 0081-Suiten no Namida- (Mobile Suit Gundam Battlefield Record U.C. 0081: Tears of the Seas and Skies) manga and Tsukasa Kotobuki's Kidō Senshi Gundam: Day after Tomorrow ~Kai Shiden no Memory yori~ (Mobile Suit Gundam: Day after Tomorrow: From Kai Shiden's Memories) manga are included in the issue.

In the same issue, Meimu's manga adaptation of the computer-animated Mobile Suit Gundam MS IGLOO 2: Jūryoku Sensen video series and Yoshihiro Sono's Kidō Senshi Gundam: Orera Renpō Guren-tai manga have sadly come to an end. The next issue of the magazine will ship in July with the first chapters of writer Tomohiro Chiba and artist Koichi Tokita's Mobile Suit Gundam 00I manga, and Mizuho Takayama's tentatively titled Kidō Senshi Gundam: Zeon MS Shōnen Yūgeki Tokka-hei manga. Previews of these upcoming titles are included in the current issue.

Source: Anime News Network

What unholy mind wrought us this pink Gundam with garish embellishments? Is it cute or stupid, or maybe both? Does the existence of this no doubt unofficial model embarrass Giant Gundam? Or is it what the statue is looking for, the reason for his incessant head movements?

During the the "Ani-Monday" block on the SCI FI Channel we can expect a return of Gundam 00. This was announced by Bandai Entertainment Inc. in a license with Starz Media and will take place on June 29th. Two episodes will be running each week during the 13 week run.

Mobile Suit Gundam 00 is the latest in the long running Gundam franchise and takes place in the year 2307 A.D. The series will be on the second season and is directed by Seiji Mizushima (Fullmetal Alchemist, Evangelion and Appleseed: Ex Machina)

The series is directed by Seiji Mizushima whose past credits as a director and
storyboard artist include Fullmetal Alchemist, Evangelion, and Appleseed: Ex Machina.

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