#GKIDS Acquires Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX -Beginning- for Screening in North America on February 28

GKIDS has announced that it has acquired the North American theatrical distribution rights for the Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX -Beginning- re-edited anime film. The company will release the film in North American theaters starting February 28, 2025. 

This marks the first distribution deal between GKIDS and Bandai Namco Filmworks between the two companies.

Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX -Beginning- premiered in Japan on January 17, 2025. The theatrical re-edit makes use of some of the upcoming Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX TV anime series’ episodes. 

Kazuya Tsurumaki (FLCL and Diebuster, Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a Time co-director, Neon Genesis Evangelion co-assistant director) is directing the anime, with Yoji Enokido (Bungo Stray Dogs and Revolutionary Girl Utena, FLCL scriptwriter) as series screenwriter and co-scriptwriter, Hideaki Anno (Neon Genesis Evangelion director, Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a Time chief director) as co-scriptwriter, illustrator take (Pokémon Sword and Shield co-character and Pokémon designer) as character designer, and Terui Yoshimasa (Jujutsu Kaisen Season 2 composer, Jujutsu Kaisen Season 1 and Jujutsu Kaisen 0 co-composer) and Masayuki Hasuo music composers. Studio khara and Sunrise are handling the animation production. 

Other staff involved in the re-edited anime film include: 

• • Mechanical designer: Ikuto Yamashita (Neon Genesis Evangelion co-mechanical designer, Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a Time main mechanical designer) 
• • Animation character designer and chief character animation director: Yumi Ikeda (A Whisker Away character designer)
• • Animation character designer and chief character animation director: Shie Kobori (Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a Time co-design works artist)
• • Animation mechanical designer and chief mechanical animation director: Sejoon Kim (Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a Time mechanical animation director and co-mechanical designer)
• • Storyboard artist: Kazuya Tsurumaki
• • Storyboard artist: Hideaki Anno 
• • Storyboard artist: Mahiro Maeda (Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a Time co-director, Blue Submarine No. 6 director)
• • Storyboard artist: Toko Yatabe (Evangelion: 3.0 (-46h) director)
• • Episode director: Kazuya Tsurumaki
• • Episode director: Daizen Komatsuda (Bubuki Buranki director)
• • Episode director: Toko Yatabe 
• • Color designer: Wish’s Akiko Inoue (Amaim Warrior at the Borderline)
• • Background art director: Tontonyan’s Hiroshi Kato (Neon Genesis Evangelion)
• • Assistant background art director: Tontonyan’s Chihiro Goto (Shadows House co-background art director)
• • CGI director: Takashi Suzuki (Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a Time CGI technical director)
• • Compositing director: T2 Studio’s Tomoyuki Shiokawa (Shoshimin: How to become Ordinary)

Meanwhile, the main voice cast stars Tomoyo Kurosawa as Amate, Yui Ishikawa as Nyaan, and Shimba Tsuchiya as Shuji Ito. 

Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX was announced in December 2024 as a studio khara and Sunrise co-production helmed by FLCL‘s Kazuya Tsurumaki. The previous Gundam TV anime was 2022 to 2023’s Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch from Mercury, which introduced the Ad Stella timeline and was the first to have a female protagonist. 

GKIDS describes the main synopsis of Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX as: 

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.

Source: press release