Kidou Senshi Gundam: GQuuuuuuX – Beginning

Synopsis:

Trailer:

Characters:

• Aznable, Char (Main) - Voice Actors: Shin, Yuuki
• Itou, Shuuji (Main) - Voice Actors: Tsuchiya, Simba
• Nyaan (Main) - Voice Actors: Ishikawa, Yui
• Yuzuriha, Amate (Main) - Voice Actors: Kurosawa, Tomoyo
• Annqi (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Ise, Mariya
• Benowa (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Egoshi, Akinori
• Bloom, Cameron (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Okitsu, Kazuyuki
• Bull, Challia (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Kawada, Shinji
• Cassius, Paolo (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Naka, Hiroshi
• Chaichi (Supporting)
• Denim (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Gotou, Kousuke, Lin, Fanying
• Dren (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Takeda, Taichi, Zhao, Mingzhou
• Flanagan (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Shirokuma, Hiroshi
• Harcourt, Comoli (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Fujita, Akane
• Haro (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Kugimiya, Rie, Jiang, Yingjun
• Jezzi (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Tokumoto, Yukitoshi
• Kaine (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Nagano, Yuusuke
• Kowal (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Murai, Yuuji
• M'Quve (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Sugita, Tomokazu
• Mallygan (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Saitou, Souma
• Nabu (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Chiba, Shouya
• Nagawara, Mahko (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Inada, Tetsu
• Olivette, Xavier (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Yamashita, Seiichirou
• Osillo (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Nakamura, Genta
• Raggucci (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Shimoyama, Yoshimitsu
• Rassit (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Hirose, Saya
• Ray, Tem (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Echigoya, Kousuke
• Sepha (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Watanabe, Risa
• Slender (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Inagaki, Takuya
• Tangi (Supporting)
• Tokwan (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Sasaki, Hiroo
• Uragang (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Yamashita, Taiki
• Wakkein (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Sakaguchi, Shuuhei
• Ward (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Yanaka, Hiroshi
• Yuzuriha, Tamaki (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Kugimiya, Rie
• Zabi, Kycilia (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Nazuka, Kaori
• Árraga (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Niwa, Masato

Staff:

• Kasai, Keisuke (Producer)
• Sugitani, Yuuki (Producer)
• Tsurumaki, Kazuya (Director, Episode Director, Storyboard)
• Yamada, Haru (Sound Director)
• Komatsuda, Daizen (Episode Director)
• Yatabe, Touko (Episode Director, Storyboard)
• Anno, Hideaki (Storyboard, Screenplay)
• Maeda, Mahiro (Storyboard)
• Yonezu, Kenshi (Theme Song Performance, Theme Song Composition, Theme Song Lyrics, Theme Song Arrangement)
• Abe, Shingo (Animation Director)
• Asano, Gen (Animation Director)
• Enokido, Youji (Screenplay, Series Composition)
• Gotou, Chihiro (Art Director)
• Hasuo, Masayuki (Music)
• Hoshimachi, Suisei (Inserted Song Performance)
• Ikeda, Yumi (Character Design, Chief Animation Director)
• Inoie, Shin (Special Effects)
• Inoue, Akiko (Color Design)
• Iseki, Shuuichi (Animation Director)
• Katou, Hiroshi (Background Art, Art Director)
• Kim, Se-jun (Chief Animation Director, Mechanical Design)
• Kobori, Shie (Character Design, Chief Animation Director)
• Matsubara, Hidenori (Animation Director)
• NOMELON NOLEMON (Inserted Song Performance)
• Nakamura, Mayumi (Animation Director)
• Ogata, Naohiro (Executive Producer)
• Shiokawa, Tomoyuki (Director of Photography)
• Take (Character Design)
• Terui, Yoshimasa (Music)
• Tsujita, Emi (Editing)
• Yabe, Hiroaki (Special Effects)
• Yamashita, Ikuto (Mechanical Design)
• Yamatani, Naoto (Sound Effects)
• Yasuhiko, Yoshikazu (Original Character Design)
• Yasuhito, Murata (Animation Check)

Reviews:

• User Caeruleus_CCXVI (Score: 7/10):
  7.25/10 ~ Man im so hype for this From what I can tell this is going to be the first few episodes of the TV series so dont fret if you did not get the opportunity to see it in theaters like I did. GQuX is an alternative timeline of WHAT IF Char got the RX78 instead of Amaro during the One Year War. You do not technically need to know anything about Gundam as a whole and you can go into this one pretty blind, however for the best viewer experience I would probably recommend watching: - 0079 (the original show or 3 piece movie) - Gundamthe Origin (back story on Char)n- Char's Counter Attack (to know what the outcome of the original show to have a comparison of why this is so hype) nnAnd for you Gundam Nerds out there they took the overall Plot elements from G-Fighter and mashed them together with the Universal time line.nnGundam has become very stagnant over the years with only 2 real stand outs in my personal opinion, Thunderbolt; a pretty forgotten about series that is unfinished that really took a fresh way to look at Gundam. AND Which from mercury, that really just took all the Gundam tropes and reversed them.... which honestly was pretty poorly executed. Pretty much every other Gundam feels like Gundam, is loaded with nearly all the same story beats, at this point Cliche's and almost everything feels pretty over done.nn GQuX really feels diffrent, it feels like something TRIGGER would have made, very wild and over the top. It doesnt even really look like a Gundam show and I honestly love all the changes to the show. I forsee this being my favorite Gundam Show to date which currently is Origins, I really just hope they do not botch this. nnI also am really curious if they are going to do what DBS did with the DBZ-battle of gods movie which was the same events but spread out into a season vs 1 movie... or if it will be a 1-1 copy and paste from the anime, hard to tell honestly. I may update my score when I rewatch this as well.
• User Ouiouibaguetting (Score: 6/10):
  Callbacks to the original 0079 were great, but Char's new VA reads a bit flat; maybe it's just me. The second half, or the 0085 segments, have so many ideas and remnants from Evangelion and Utena that are being forced over onto GQuuuuuux. No, we don't need another Nagisa Kaworu(basically what Shuji is) for the Gundam universe, and I'm saying this as a huge Evangelion fan. The good thing is Amate's character has some shining moments that gives me hope that her character buildup has potential far beyond mediocrity like Suletta was in WFM. Here's to hoping that the tv series version will be better, but ifthey keep fixating on this clan battle thing that already did not work out in WFM, it will fail exactly like how WFM did.

Forum Topics:

• Is this the edited version of the first 3 episodes aired in theaters ?
• Kidou Senshi Gundam: GQuuuuuuX - Beginning Episode 1 Discussion

External Links:

• Official Site
• @G_GQuuuuuuX
• AniDB
• ANN
• Wikipedia
• Wikipedia

Related Anime/Manga:

• Kidou Senshi Gundam: GQuuuuuuX (anime - Alternative Version)
• Kidou Senshi Gundam (anime - Parent Story)