It’s taken a good while, but the second Gundam Hathaway movie has finally received a new trailer and will be out this Winter.
The first Gundam Hathaway movie was released back in 2021 and was the first in a trilogy that adapted the novels written by Yoshiyuki Tomino.
Set after the events of Char’s Counterattack, it dealt with Bright Noa’s son Hathaway as he leads a new rebel faction called Mafty against the now overly corrupt Federation.
For years, it was thought that Tomino’s Hathaway’s Flash novels were impossible to adapt, but Shūkō Murase pretty much nailed it with the first film, and it looks like he’ll do the same with the second.
However, it does appear that the second film, called The Sorcery of Nymph Circe, will deviate from the novels somewhat, but my guess is that it will be more of a truncation of the story, if the first film is anything to go by.
One additional point of confusion is that both the English trailer (shown below) and Japanese trailer say that this movie will be released “Next Winter”. However, in the description for the Japanese trailer, it sounds like the movie is coming out this Winter, which makes more sense, as the last movie was released in 2021.
What I do hope happens, though, is that this new Gundam Hathaway movie will receive a theatrical release in the US and Europe.
I saw the first film on the big screen, and it made a huge impact. Especially the sections where you see mobile suit combat from the perspective of people on the ground trying to escape the carnage.
In any case, Gundam Hathaway is finally getting its second movie, and from the trailer alone, it looks like it could be equally as special as the first film.
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