A “special” trailer for this month’s Mobile Suit Gundam Hathaway: The Sorcery of Nymph Circe anime film has been revealed, previewing the newly announced opening theme song “Snooze” from American artist SZA along with fresh shots and dialogue.
“Snooze” was the Grammy-winning sixth single from SZA’s 2022 album SOS.
Mobile Suit Gundam Hathaway: The Sorcery of Nymph Circe is set to premiere in Japan on January 30 across 426 locations, including 61 spots with IMAX screens. It will get a US release in the future.
The movie is the second instalment of the Mobile Suit Gundam Hathaway film trilogy, which adapts the novels by Gundam creator Yoshiyuki Tomino and is part of the Universal Century setting. The synopsis reads:
The year is U.C.0105, twelve years after Char’s Rebellion. “Mafty” has begun resisting the Federation government’s tyrannical rule by assassinating its high-ranking officials. Its leader is actually Hathaway Noa, the son of Bright Noa, who fought in the One Year War alongside Amuro Ray. A girl named Gigi Andalusia, who displays uncanny powers, has reminded Hathaway of a past trauma. Though he is bewildered by her words, he prepares to carry out an air raid on the Adelaide conference, determined to fulfill Mafty’s goals and lay his own past to rest.
Haunted by past trauma, Hathaway is drawn to the mysterious girl Gigi Andalucia, whose strange powers stir memories within him. While swayed by her cryptic words, he continues preparing for Mafty’s mission — the attack on the Adelaide Conference. Meanwhile, Kenneth Sleg of the Federation Forces prepares a defense operation for the Adelaide Conference and a plan to eliminate Mafty, when he is approached by Handley Yoxon of the Criminal Police Organization with a secret proposal. As Hathaway and Kenneth pursue their respective goals, Gigi also sets off for Hong Kong to fulfill her own role.
The first Mobile Suit Gundam Hathaway film premiered in Japan on June 11, 2021 and was released internationally on Netflix on July 1 of the same year. The original book trilogy was published between 1989 to 1990 under the KADOKAWA Sneaker Bunko label.
Staff (those without brackets beside their names are reprising their roles)
• Director: Shuko Murase
• Scriptwriter Yasuyuki Muto
• Character designer: Pablo Uchida
• Character designer: Naoyuki Onda
• Character designer: Shigeki Kuhara
• Original character designer: Haruhiko Mikimoto
• Mechanical designer: Hajime Katoki
• Mechanical designer: Kimitoshi Yamane
• Mechanical designer: Seiichi Nakatani
• Mechanical designer: Nobuhiko Genma
• Original mechanical designer: Yasuhiro Moriki
• Original mechanical designer: Kazumi Fujita
• Color designer: Takako Suzuki
• Color designer: Yuichi Kuboki (Code Geass: Rozé of the Recapture)
• Background art director: Kinichi Ohkubo (TIGER & BUNNY – The Rising –)
• Compositing director: Yoshihisa Ohyama (GRANBLUE FANTASY The Animation Season 2)
• VFX Director: Manabu Kadono (Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX special technique compositing staff)
• CG director: Ryukow Masuo
• Music composer: Hiroyuki Sawano
• Planning and animation production: Sunrise
Cast
• Kensho Ono as Hathaway Noa
• Reina Ueda as Gigi Andalucia
• Junichi Suwabe as Kenneth Sleg
• Soma Saito as Lane Aim
Source: Press release
