CGI Gundam Series’ Stunning Second Trailer Reveals Netflix Release
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Mobile Suit Gundam: Requiem for Vengeance, a new CGI anime series in the Gundam series, was announced earlier this year with a brief teaser that didn’t really give much away. Now, a second trailer is finally here, and with it comes the news that the series is coming to Netflix.
The second trailer for Requiem for Vengeance, which was released yesterday, runs for about a minute and a half, and shows us a world devastated by war and left largely abandoned by its populace. We cut away to some military airships – emblazoned with the Zeon emblem – and see some pilots listening to radio chatter, before agreeing to mobilize.
Things move pretty quickly after this. Some shots of a MS-06 Zaku II mobile suit powering up, airships shot down, and then those mobile suits landing in the heat of battle. This is followed by a quiet montage of pilots from Zeon, and then the arrival of the big bad boy, the Gundam, which wreaks havoc immediately on Zeon’s forces.
That’s where the trailer ends, but there’s a lot to break down. Requiem for Vengeance is set during the One Year War on the European front, which is also a war we see in the original Mobile Suit Gundam series. In that series, though, Zeon were the bad guys, and this time we’ll be seeing what it was like for soldiers on the other side.
The series will consist of six episodes, each lasting about 30 minutes, which is a little bit shorter than most Gundam series, but most Gundam series don’t look like Requiem for Vengeance. It’s been created in Unreal Engine 5, a 3D production tool that’s more typically used for video games but has been used to great effect here, too.
It’s been a busy time for the Gundam series, as it approaches its 45th anniversary. Last month it was revealed that one of Gundam’s most popular anime series is making a return, with a new movie based on the very popular Iron Blooded Orphans series now in production. Gundam is also touring the US and giving out free stuff as part of a promotion that started with an Italian racing team putting Gundam on an F1 car. Wild stuff.
And as mentioned in the opening paragraph, the series is headed to Netflix globally, though a release date is still, sadly, not known yet. Netflix’s trailer for the series ends with a card that says it’s “coming soon” but that doesn’t really give us much to go on, and could mean anything from two weeks to six months. All we can do is wait and see.
While you wait though, there’s plenty of other Gundam to catch up on. If you can’t decide where to start, you can use this handy flowchart that recommends the best Gundam for you.
