{"id":19030,"date":"2021-05-17T02:30:47","date_gmt":"2021-05-17T09:30:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/?p=19030"},"modified":"2021-05-17T06:05:21","modified_gmt":"2021-05-17T13:05:21","slug":"mobile-suit-gundam-hathaway-movie-hit-by-another-delay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/2021\/05\/17\/mobile-suit-gundam-hathaway-movie-hit-by-another-delay\/","title":{"rendered":"Mobile Suit Gundam Hathaway Movie Hit By Another Delay"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">The upcoming <em>Mobile Suit Gundam Hathaway<\/em> movie has received another delay. <a href=\"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/2021\/04\/26\/mobile-suit-gundam-hathaway-movie-delayed-by-two-weeks\/\">Its previous delay<\/a> saw its release date being moved from May 7 to May 21.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">The movie&#8217;s website cited the extension of Japan&#8217;s state of emergency due to COVID-19 as the reason for this new delay. A new release date has not yet been decided.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><em>Mobile Suit Gundam Hathaway<\/em>&nbsp;previously received its&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/2021\/03\/26\/mobile-suit-gundam-hathaway-previews-mobile-suit-battles-and-theme-song-in-new-trailer\/\">second main trailer<\/a>&nbsp;in late March, while its&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/2021\/01\/19\/mobile-suit-gundam-hathaway-movie-gets-new-trailer-japanese-release-date\/\">first main trailer<\/a>&nbsp;was released in January. The second trailer previewed the theme song \u201cSenkou\u201d (\u201cFlash\u201d) by Alexandros. The movie&nbsp;was announced in 2018 as part of the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.gundam.info\/news\/hot-topics\/news_hot-topics_20181121_0012.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gundam series\u2019 40th Anniversary Project<\/a> and as the first installment of a trilogy. It was originally meant to premiere in July 2020.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\u201cMobile Suit Gundam Hathaway\u201d Trailer 2 (EN sub)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xM2q0FQepXQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">The movie is based on the <em>Mobile Suit Gundam: Hathaway\u2019s Flash<\/em>&nbsp;novel series by Gundam creator Yoshiyuki Tomino, which began in 1989. Set after the events of&nbsp;<em>Mobile Suit Gundam:<\/em>&nbsp;<em>Char\u2019s Counterattack,&nbsp;<\/em>the story centers on Hathaway Noa, the son of Londo Bell commander Bright Noa, who has become the leader of an anti-Earth Federation organization called Mafty.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Sunrise is in charge of the planning and production for&nbsp;<em>Mobile Suit Gundam Hathaway<\/em>. The staff includes Sh\u016bk\u014d Murase (<em>Genocidal Organ<\/em>) as director, Yasuyuki Mut\u014d (<em>Gundam Build Divers Re:Rise<\/em>) as scriptwriter, Takako Suzuki (<em>Mobile Suit<\/em>&nbsp;<em>Gundam Narrative<\/em>) as color designer, Kentaro Waki (<em>SWORD ART ONLINE<\/em>&nbsp;\u2013<em>Alicization<\/em>\u2013&nbsp;<em>War of Underworld<\/em>) as photography director, and Hiroyuki Sawano as music composer (<em>Attack on Titan Final Season<\/em>).&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Meanwhile, Pablo Uchida (<em>Gundam Reconguista in G<\/em>&nbsp;design works), Naoyuki Onda (<em>Psycho Pass 3&nbsp;<\/em>character designer and chief animation director), and Shigeki Kuhara (<em>Rage of Bahamut: Virgin Soul<\/em>&nbsp;animation director) are designing the characters based on drafts by Haruhiko Mikimoto (<em>Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress<\/em>).&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">In addition, Hajime Katoki (<em>Mobile Suit Gundam Narrative<\/em>), Mitoshi Yamaneki (<em>Gundam Reconguista in G<\/em>), Seiichi Nakatani (<em>Gundam Reconguista in G<\/em>&nbsp;design works), and Nobuhiko Genma (various roles in&nbsp;<em>Mobile Suit&nbsp;Gundam Unicorn<\/em>) are in charge of the mechanical designs, based on drafts by Yasuhiro Moriki&nbsp;<em>(Gundam Build Divers Re:Rise<\/em>&nbsp;mechanical designer).&nbsp;Takayuki Masuo (<em>Genocial Organ<\/em>) and Tomohiro Fujie (<em>Mobile Suit<\/em>&nbsp;<em>Gundam Narrative<\/em>) are the 3D directors.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">As for the cast, it includes Kenshou Ono as Hathaway Noa, Reina Ueda as Gigi Andalucia, Junichi Suwabe as Kenneth Sleg, and Souma Saitou as Lane Aim.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator is-style-wide\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/gundam-hathaway.net\/news.php?id=18699\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Mobile Suit Gundam Hathaway<\/em> website<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The upcoming Mobile Suit Gundam Hathaway movie has received another delay. Its previous delay saw its release date being moved from May 7 to May 21. The movie&#8217;s website cited the extension of Japan&#8217;s state of emergency due to COVID-19 as the reason for this new delay. A new release date has not yet been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":19033,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[14,97,1778],"class_list":["post-19030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-anime","tag-anime","tag-anime-movie","tag-mobile-suit-gundam-hathaway"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/gundamhathawayvisual-e1621256405818.jpg?fit=849%2C477&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8n4QV-4WW","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19030"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19030"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19030\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19034,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19030\/revisions\/19034"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}