{"id":22253,"date":"2021-08-02T04:36:43","date_gmt":"2021-08-02T11:36:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/?p=22253"},"modified":"2021-08-02T21:17:26","modified_gmt":"2021-08-03T04:17:26","slug":"gundam-hathaway-shoots-past-2-billion-yen-mark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/2021\/08\/02\/gundam-hathaway-shoots-past-2-billion-yen-mark\/","title":{"rendered":"Gundam Hathaway Shoots Past 2 Billion Yen Mark"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><em>Mobile Suit Gundam Hathaway<\/em> has earned more than two billion yen (~US$18,259,700) since its Japanese theatrical release on June 11. The movie previously passed the one billion yen mark in June, making it the first Gundam movie in 33 years to do so.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">The highest-grossing Gundam movie thus far remains the 1982 compilation movie <em>Mobile Suit Gundam III: Encounters in Space<\/em>, which earned around 23 billion yen (~US$209,986,550).&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Announced in 2018 as part of the Gundam series\u2019 40th Anniversary Project and the first in a trilogy<em>, Hathaway<\/em> is based on a trilogy of books penned by Gundam creator Yoshiyuki Tomino in the late 80s and early 90s. 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\"><em>Hathaway<\/em>&nbsp;was originally meant to premiere in July 2020 but suffered several COVID-related delays. The movie was released internationally via Netflix on July 1.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Anime Trending&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/2021\/07\/21\/review-mobile-suit-gundam-hathaway-isnt-your-typical-gundam-show\/\">two-writer review<\/a> for the film had unanimous praise for the production values and ground-level focus, but had split opinions on the story.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">The release date for <em>Hathaway<\/em>&#8216;s sequel is currently unknown. Producer Naohiro Ogata <a href=\"https:\/\/mantan-web.jp\/article\/20210613dog00m200003000c.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said in June<\/a> that the team is working hard on it and wished to release it quickly. He also mentioned that the team wanted to go to Australia for location scouting, but that it was difficult.\u00a0<\/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=\"https:\/\/mantan-web.jp\/article\/20210802dog00m200043000c.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mantan Web<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mobile Suit Gundam Hathaway has earned more than two billion yen (~US$18,259,700) since its Japanese theatrical release on June 11. The movie previously passed the one billion yen mark in June, making it the first Gundam movie in 33 years to do so. The highest-grossing Gundam movie thus far remains the 1982 compilation movie Mobile [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":21808,"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":[14,97,1066,1778,482],"class_list":["post-22253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-anime","tag-anime","tag-anime-movie","tag-mobile-suit-gundam","tag-mobile-suit-gundam-hathaway","tag-sunrise"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Gundam-Hathaway-screenshot-27.png?fit=1920%2C1080&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8n4QV-5MV","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22253"}],"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=22253"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22264,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22253\/revisions\/22264"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}