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When Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch From Mercury ended earlier this year, it did so by taking a step forward in the franchise’s history that few other series had the chance to make explicit in their own prior examinations of queer love. But after parent company Bandai pushed back on what was, in the show, a textual affirmation, the series’ own director has pushed back in turn to remind us: those women are married, dammit.Jujutsu Kaisen 0 Has Infectious Good EnergyHiroshi Kobayashi, a director who worked on both seasons of…

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The Endless Waltz comes to a close Bandai Namco has announced it’s sunsetting its team-based first-person shooter Gundam Evolution. The giant mech battles come to a close on November 29, 2023, when service will end. As announced in a blog post, there will still be some updates leading up to the closure of Gundam Evolution. Season 6 will still roll out more content on August 23, with two maps and a new unit. A final season will also go live on October 25, adding a new unit and map. “We wanted to create a title that…

While Street Fighter 6 was the talk of the show floor at Summer Game Fest Play Days, another fighting game also managed to impress me at the event. That title was JoJo's Bizarre Adventure All-Star Battle R, a fighting game based on the popular and heavily-memed anime and manga series JoJo's Bizarre Adventure. The original JoJo's Bizarre Adventure All-Star Battle was first released in Japan in 2013, scoring a rare perfect score from the popular Japanese outlet Famitsu. Anime fighting games vary wildly in quality, but…

Image: SunriseTurn A Gundam is another series set in an alternate Gundam universe, but with a twist that will pay off several connections to Gundam’s main continuity if you’re familiar with it—but it’s not necessary to have that knowledge coming into it. With a wildly different aesthetic to what came before it—the show is set on an Earth where, after a catastrophic apocalypse, society has been rebuilt to roughly turn of the 20th century technology, and features mecha designs by the legendary artist Syd Mead—Turn A looks…

This past weekend The Witch From Mercury brought a surprisingly rapid-fire end to the latest Gundam show—and in one of its most satisfying moves, finally delivered on the sapphic love story it set up from the get-go. But in truly making queer love the heart of its endgame, the series also pushed a closer examination of one of the franchise’s most enduring ideas.Hurricanes and Climate | Extreme EarthThat idea is a human evolutionary path known as the “Newtype.” First established in final arcs of the original Mobile Suit…

Pride month is a time for members of the LGBTQ+ community and their allies to both celebrate the progress queer people have made across the world and to take a stand and resist the bigoted movements that still seek to challenge, diminish, and eradicate them. It’s also a pretty good time to get on board with the premiere lesbian mecha drama of the year, Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch From Mercury.Jujutsu Kaisen 0 Has Infectious Good EnergyI should state that for as much I have previously commented, and will continue to…

Welcome back to Toy Aisle, io9's regular round up of the coolest new toys around. This week, TMNT’s Michelangelo goes Gundam Heavyarms, Rise of the Beasts’s Optimus Prime and Optimus Primal get slick new Transformers toys, and Hasbro is turning Twister into... an AR game? Check it out!A Transformer Is Headed to the MoonImage: LegoLego DC Batmobile Batman vs. The Joker Chase and Batwing: Batman vs. The JokerLego has already given us fantastically detailed versions of both the 1989 Tim Burton-era Batmobile and Batwing, but…

Mobile Suit Gundam’s nearly 50-year history exists in part down to two things: creator Yoshiyuki Tomino has long professed that it is female fans who kept interest in the cancelled original series strong, while of course the evolution of Gunpla model kits likewise helped transform what could’ve been a one-off into an anime juggernaut. So what happens when you combine the two? A very good year for Gundam.Jujutsu Kaisen 0 Has Infectious Good EnergyBandai Namco released its yearly earnings reports for the end of FY2023, and…

Outside of occasional YouTube availability, the inability to consistently stream the first three series of the iconic Gundam franchise—Mobile Suit Gundam, Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam, and Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ—has been a source of frustration for fans. But, at long last, that’s changed.Bryce Dallas Howard on a Feature Star Wars Film and Book of Boba FettAlthough in recent years the first three shows that make up the vast Gundam franchise have made their way to streaming in the U.S. in fits and starts, this week Crunchyroll—as…