Hathaway’ Sequel Hits Japan in January

It’s been nearly 4 lengthy years since Mobile Suit Gundam returned us to the astropolitical drama of the Common Century in Hathaway, the primary in a deliberate trilogy of films adapting Gundam creator Yoshiyuki Tomino’s 1989 novel sequence. And now, after years of silence, we lastly know simply when to count on it.

Timed with the franchise’s panel at New York Comedian Con right now, Bandai Namco Filmworks has launched our first prolonged have a look at the second Hathaway movie, The Sorcery of Nymph Circe. Set within the yr 0105 of Gundam‘s primary timeline, the Common Century—many years after the occasions of Cellular Go well with Gundam and its personal trilogy of successors—the story follows Hathaway Noa, the son of the previous captain of the famed White Base in the course of the One 12 months Warfare, Shiny Noa, as he leads a resistance group named Mafty in a struggle in opposition to the more and more totalitarian Earth Federation’s remedy of house colonists.

Sorcery of Nymph Circe will decide up after the occasions of the primary film, the place Hathaway discovered himself at odds with the Federation Commander Kenneth Sleg (Junichi Suwabe), tasked with main the unit meant to destroy Mafty and its chief—just for the each of them to cross paths with the mysterious younger girl Gigi Andulicia (Reina Ueda) within the aftermath of a terrorist assault on an area aircraft. Now circling each Kenneth and Hathaway, Gigi’s affect on the latter will see him shaken as he re-examines his convictions in persevering with the struggle in opposition to the Federation he as soon as fought for as a younger boy.

The primary movie leaned closely into the examination of the renewed political pressure between Earth and the house colonies (a perpetual cycle in Gundam), though in its uncommon moments of mecha motion it managed to ship some of the best the Gundam sequence has to supply. This new trailer, even because it weaves between Hathaway, Kenneth, and Gigi, actually appears to give attention to a bit extra Cellular Go well with motion, so possibly we’ll see a lot extra of the latter this time round.

Cellular Go well with Gundam Hathaway: The Sorcery of Nymph Circe will hit Japanese theaters on January 30, 2026. No date has been confirmed for a U.S. launch, however not like the primary film, which premiered completely on Netflix, the movie is presently anticipated to launch in U.S. theaters.

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