In the middle of the 1970s, if someone wanted to discuss Japanese popular culture, undoubtedly the conversation would revolve around its science fiction film icon Godzilla. No offense to the flying turtle Gamera and its loyal legion of followers, but Godzilla films not only ruled Japanese popular culture, but were shown around the world to much acclaim and sometimes good-natured derision. Today, in 2016, when one wants to discuss Japanese culture, the topic immediately turns to anime, and among anime titles, none permeates Japanese society like the franchise Mobile Suit Gundam.
For example, after 9/11, the Cartoon Network cancelled First Gundam in the midst of its run. Bandai, the corporate owner of the franchise, then worked to create Gundam television programs that down-played the usual war-story made famous by the franchise, doing so in one case by focusing on a child under the age of ten living in an idealized future with antagonists played in over-the-top fashion like mustachioed 1920s film villains. In another Gundam anime, competitions between model-kit builders in the near future use advanced computer technology to pit these pretend weapons against each other in an arcade video game. In terms of content, post-9/11 writers and directors have created Gundam stories that deal with amputee veterans, snipers, and powerful pseudo-nations that declare war on any other state that dared to use violence against other peoples or nations. Other presenters in our panel discuss the anime Neon Genesis Evangelion and how its deconstruction of the mecha genre affected its fans, and the interweaving, rightly and sometimes wrongly as they are separate media, of anime studies and manga studies in the academy.
At the 2018 Anime Expo, Legendary Pictures and Sunrise announced a collaboration to develop a live-action Gundam film.[22] Brian K. Vaughan was brought in to write and serve as an executive producer for the film.[23] In April 2021, it was reported that the project had landed at Netflix and that Jordan Vogt-Roberts had been hired to direct.[24]
Part of the 20-year anniversary of the original anime, the upcoming film will pick up where Mobile Suit Gundam Seed Destiny left off and serve as a direct sequel to the title. Sunrise (Bandai Namco Filmworks) will be animating the film under the direction of Mitsuo Fukuda who worked on both Mobile Suit Gundam Seed and Mobile Suit Gundam Seed Destiny. Fukada co-wrote the script with his late wife Chiaki Morosawa and Liu Goto, while Hisashi Hirai handled character designs.
Membuat debutnya pada Maret 12, 1988, Char's Counterattack adalah puncak dari saga yang dimulai dari Mobile Suit Gundam dan dilanjutkan Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam dan Mobile Suit Gundam Double Zeta, film ini menandai akhir konflik empat-belas tahun antara Char Aznable dan Amuro Ray. Didasarkan dari novel oleh pencipta Gundam Yoshiyuki Tomino, film yang menandai akhir ketegangan antara Federasi Bumi dan kerajaan Zeon (hingga Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn' yang dirilis pada tahun 2010).
Berlatar di bulan Maret UC 0093, film ini menampilkan kembali antagonis utama Char Aznable, yang telah muncul setelah lima tahun dalam persembunyian untuk memimpin Neo Zeon dalam perjuangan untuk kebebasan atas Federasi Bumi. Masih bertekad untuk membuat manusia sepenuhnya menjajah di ruang angkasa, ia memobilisasi Neo-Zeon untuk menjatuhkan asteroid 5th Luna di markas Federasi di Lhasa, Tibet. Di bawah kedok menyerahkan semua kekuatan militer Neo-Zeon, ia berencana untuk menjatuhkan asteroid Axis ke Bumi.
Yoshiyuki Tomino menyesuaikan film Char's Counterattack dari novel Hi-Streamer, dan kemudian menulis Beltorchika's Children sebagai alternatifnya. Tomino sebelumnya telah merencanakan untuk memunculkan Char kembali di Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ, tetapi ketika ia mendapat izin untuk memproduksi Char's Counterattack, dia membatalkan penampilan yang direncanakan tersebut. Tomino tidak ingat rencana-nya untuk memunculkan kembali Char di Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ.[kutipan diperlukan] perbedaan-perbedaan antara novel dan film salah satunya seperti Amuro dan Char mengendarai versi lanjutan dari ν-Gundam dan Sazabi: Hi-ν-Gundam dan MSN-04-II Nightingale, karakter dari Z Gundam, Beltorchika Irma hamil anak Amuro, Hathaway sengaja membunuh Quess bukan Chan, dan konfirmasi kematian Amuro dan Char.
In addition to Hashimoto as leader and Pitoyo Hartono, anime director Yoshiyuki Tomino, film producer Katsuyuki Motohiro and creative technical director Seiichi Saito are also involved in the project.
Pacific Bonsai Museum shakes up this Japanese tradition with LAB (Living Art of Bonsai), an experimental collaborative for bonsai innovation. This project is a re-sequencing in the order of influence between the bonsai artist, ceramicist and stand maker. The project kicks off in 2018 and continues through 2020. A video trailer from a film about this new process can be viewed at For more information, go to The Pacific Bonsai Museum is at 2515 S. 336th St. in Federal Way, WA. 206-612-0026 for information.
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