Our scanners detect a new Netflix carrier drop. Affirmative! It’s a Gundam series teaser trailer! Gundam: Requiem for Vengeance is “coming soon” and promises much for fans of giant robotic war suits. Watch the trailer, and then we’ll explore the facts we know and our expectations for the show.
Did you also wonder, for a moment, if this was a game trailer for a successor to Gundam Evolution?
Gundam: Requiem for Vengeance Strikes Hard
According to Netflix, the series takes place just after the war that birthed the franchise:
Focusing on the European front of the One Year War, which was the setting of the first Gundam series Mobile Suit Gundam (1979), the new animated series Mobile Suit Gundam: Requiem for Vengeance is a joint production with SafeHouse Inc. that is made with Unreal Engine 5 and aimed at audiences worldwide. The series will stream only on Netflix.
It’s “coming soon,” according to Netflix’s Twitter/X post, so judge for yourself what that means. Tokyo-based SafeHouse Inc. is no slouch when it comes to 3D animation. Their work appears in Gran Turismo 7, the Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba movie, and Final Fantasy XVI. Mobile Suit Gundam: Requiem for Vengeance will stream exclusively on Netflix. The streaming service gets a lot of flak from vocal anime fans, but will that stop us from checking out episode one? Really? I doubt it.
And that’s all we know.
My Old Man Expectations
I’m a Warhammer 40,000 kid, now over 40 and still pushing tiny space soldiers around. The grimdark universe of 40K and the giant robotic killing machines of the Universal Century appeal to punks with jobs, like me, who are over the polished Disneyfication of Star Wars. Also, 40K fans love words like “requiem” and “vengeance.” I’ll take my coffee bitter, thank you. I expect Mobile Suit Gundam: Requiem for Vengeance to revolve around a group of scarred souls fighting for survival. We don’t want victorious stories that glorify war. We want stories about genuine people holding onto life with bare fists or a combat knife.
Pacific Rim (2013) taught me to appreciate giant CGI robots. Using the Unreal Engine follows the legacy of Guillermo del Toro’s 3D-rendered kaiju-fighting war suits in that movie. An earlier version of the same software was used to groundbreaking effect in Transformers (2007).
Bring on mechanically believable CGI mobile suits and a story that hits hard, and I’m sold. How about you? Tell us in the comments. We’re also listening on Facebook, Twitter, and Discord.
Goth Girls and Gigantic Bot Battles
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