GUNDAM BUILD FIGHTERS TRY-Episode 1: The Boy Who Calls The Wind (ENG sub)

Gundam Build Fighters Season 2 Release Date: Coming This Month

Gundam Build Fighters Season 2 Release Date: 'Gundam Build Fighters: TRY' Coming this Month Anime Fans Awaits

The second season of the much awaited Gundam Build Fighters is set to release this month, October 2014, by TV Tokyo.

Gundam Build Fighters is just one of the many viral anime series in Japan and around the world. The first season aired back in 2013 and is made by Sunrise Studios. The studio is also responsible for the first ever series aired on April 1979 that featured mobile suits carrying the, now, iconic name of Gundam. Ever since, the series took off and a lot of fans fell in love with Gundam. Action figures and collectibles have since then spawned. Every year, Sunrise Studios release a Gundam series. This year, 2014, they will be releasing the second season of Gundam Build Fighters named Gundam Build Fighters: TRY.

An official announcement coming from the official website of Gundam Build Fighters revealed the second season and its plotline.

"Seven years have passed since Sei Iori won the 7th Gunpla Battle Championship World Tournament. The Gunpla Battle Championship is now run by Yajima Trading. With new rules and battle modes, the game's popularity has become even more widespread."

New characters will be introduced and new Gundam suits as well. Sekai Kamiki, a young martial artist who travels with his master, will be piloting the Burning Build Strike Gundam. Another new character, Yuuma Kousaka, who is a young Gunpla builder, will be piloting Zeta Gundam, a Lightning Gundam. Completing the list of the main characters is Fuuma Hishino, the only member of the Gunpla Battle Club in their school. Fuuma Hishino will be piloting the Winning Gundam. Together, they will be called as TRY Fighters from which the second season of Gundam Build Fighters get its subtitle name.

Other fans of the anime speculate that the new characters are closely related, in blood maybe, to the preceding season's old characters.

The second season is set to air this month in the Japanese channel TV Tokyo, where the Naruto, Bleach and Ragnarok The Animation spawned. The Gundam Build Fighters: TRY is said to still have 25 episodes to air, the same as the past Gundam Build Fighters season.

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Gundam Build Fighters Try - Becomes a Family Affair

Gundam's remarkably fun model battle spin-off returns October 8th with the sequel Gundam Build Fighters Try. The new series revolves around three-person teams and one of the heroes is Yūma Kousaka (voiced by Yūma Uchida), younger brother of the first season's support character China. While his main mech is the Lighting Gundam, he also has a newly revealed custom "Bearguy F," ('F' as in family) a unique spin on his sister's fan favorite.

Now, is the cub just being cute or is it a secret weapon?!

Another legacy character is Kouroko Sazaki, the no-longer-so-little sister of season 1 minor antagonist Susumu Sazaki. She still worships her big brother and, along with Zeon-cosplaying Team "Vase of the Northern Song Dynasty" brings a custom R-GyaGya to the battle.

Teammates from Odessa Academy include Mahiru Shigure, who has always attended all-girls school and has weird ideas about boys, and net addict Keiko Sano.

Other newly previewed mecha include the Ez-SR Intruder, Ez-SR Eliminator and Ez-SR Shadow Phantom

Also newly introduced are the Seiho Academy's Plamo Club's Daiki Miyaga and Eri Shinoda, who attempt to recreate lead Fumina Hoshino away from the Gunpla Battle Club

The series will be streaming on platforms including Gundam Info, Docomo Anime, Video Pass and Hulu.

In less positive news, while the beloved Ral-san is slated to be featured in the anime, the series site has posted that 66 year voice actor Masahiro Hirose has had to be admitted to the hospital for an extended stay and wished him well in recovery.

Gundam Voice Actor Masashi Hirose Hospitalized

The Gundam Build Fighters Try anime's website announced on Wednesday that voice actor Masashi Hirose is being hospitalized for an extended stay, to treat an unspecified illness. The announcement offers a prayer for his quick recovery. His agency Production baobab posted a similar announcement.

In both Gundam Build Fighters and its Try sequel, Hirose plays the Gundam plastic model expert Ral-san — a name reference to arguably his most famous role, the pilot Ramba Ral in the first Mobile Suit Gundam series and movie trilogy. He also played Ramba Ral in many spinoff anime and game projects, as well as supporting roles in other Gundam projects. The Gundam Build Fighters Try website's announcement does not specify what will happen to Hirose's role in the anime, which will premiere on October 8.

In other anime, he played the sumo wrestler Rikishiman in the Kinnikuman franchise, Hideyoshi Ushiromiya in Umineko When They Cry, Soichi Ayukawa in Basquash!, Professor Tange in Honey and Clover, Kan Yu in Armored Trooper Votoms, Cole in Taiyou no Kiba Dougram, and Riku Dold III in One Piece.

Japanese Firm Plans to Build Space Elevator by 2050

It looks like Gundam creator Yoshiyuki Tomino isn't the only one making progress on their space elevator! On the eve of the debut of his Gundam Reconguista in G, which, from its inception, revolved around the science fiction-ish concept, a Japanese construction firm has announced their plans to make it a reality.

ABC News Australia reports that Japanese construction firm Obayashi has a 2050 completion date in mind for a space elevator will reach 96,000 kilometers (59,652 miles). Constructed using carbon nanotechnology for its cables, the elevator will carry around 30 people magnetic motor powered robot cars on a journey that will take seven days to finish.

"The tensile strength is almost a hundred times stronger than steel cable so it's possible," Obayashi Research and Development Manager Yoji Ishikawa said.

"Right now we can't make the cable long enough. We can only make 3-centimetre-long nanotubes but we need much more... we think by 2030 we'll be able to do it."

You can read more about the project here.

Gundam Build Fighters Try second season coming soon with all new characters

Gundam Build Fighters is a popular Japanese anime cartoon that’s just about to begin its second season in October. What makes this anime different is its target audience. Most of the Gundam anime TV series have been traditionally aimed at teenagers since the series inception in 1979. Gundam Build Fighters is aimed at elementary school students. As such, this Gundam series doesn’t feature any violent space conflicts, but rather has kids piloting miniature Gundams in virtual reality arenas from popular previous Gundam series. The kids build their Gundams from models and then use the model in the virtual reality arenas.

The quality of their build determines how good their Gundam will be at fighting, and if their parts break when fighting, then they’ll have to repair them. This new season will add many different types of Gundams including (but not limited to), Burning Build Strike Gundam, Zeta Gundam, Lightning Gundam, and Winning Gundam. All of the Gundams in the show are based off of Gundams from other popular Gundam series. Sunrise Inc (the makers of the show) have not revealed too much about this season other than it takes place seven years after the first one and has three all new characters.

Hoshino Fumina is a third grader in junior high who wants to enter the Gunpla Battle Championships. The only problem is you need three people to form a team and enter the Gunpla Battle Championships. She’s also the only member of her schools Gunpla club.

She then is joined by a transfer student to her school, Kamiki Sekai, and a mysterious Gunpla builder Kousaka Yuuma. The three then form a team to enter the Gunpla Battle Championships. Other than that, not much is known about the show other than it’s in the same universe as the first show.

For more information about "Try," visit the official website at (http://gundam-bf.net/).

Gundam Reconguista in G

2nd TV Series Gundam Build Fighters Try Slated for October 2014

The official site for the Gundam Build Fighters anime series is today updated as that for the upcoming sequel Gundam Build Fighters Try with a key visual featuring the three main characters: Kamiki Sekai, Kousaka Yuuma, Hoshino Fumina, and main staff, voice cast, its story background.

The 25-episode 1st TV series was aired in Japan from October 7, 2013, to March 31, 2014. Thanks to the story featuring many popular mobile suits from the successive Gundam series, it pushed the sales of Bandai's Gunpla (Gundam model kits) greatly, so the expectation for the 2nd series is very high.

The story of Gundam Build Fighters Try is set 7 years after the end of the 1st series, when Iori Sei and Reiji won the 7th Gunpla Battle World Championships. Now Seiho Academy's Gunpla Battle Club has only one member, Hoshino Fumina, who is a third grade student in junior high. As the president of the club, she needs two more members to participate in the upcoming All-Japan Gunpla Battle Championships. Oneday she encounters a transfer student named Kamiki Sekai, who has traveled around for Kenpo training with his master. Then joining by a young Gunpla builder Kousaka Yuuma, their challenge to the Gunpla Battle begins....

Gundam Build Fighters Try is scheduled to premiere on TV Tokyo and its affiliates in October 2014. You can check the images of the three characters: Sekai, Yuuma, Fumina here, and the three mechanics: Build Burning Gundam, Lightning Gundam, Winning Gundam here.

Main voice cast:

Kazumi Togashi as Kamiki Sekai

Yuuma Uchida as Kousaka Yuuma

Yui Makino as Hoshino Fumina

Aya Endo as Kamiki Mirai

Main staff:

Director: Shinya Watada (Love Live!, Aikatsu! episode director)

Series composition: Yosuke Kuroda (Maken-Ki! Two, SoniAni: Super Sonico The Animation)

Character design: Kenichi Onuki (Metal Armor Dragonar, Gundam Build Fighters)

Character design cooperation: Suzihito Yasuda (DEVIL SURVIVOR 2 the ANIMATION)

Mecha designs: Kunio Okawara, Junya Ishigaki, Susumu Imaishi, Kanetake Ebikawa, Shinya Terashima, NAOKI
Music: Yuki Hayashi, Asami Tachibana

Planning: Sunrise

Planning cooperation: Bandai Hobby Product
Department

Production cooperation: Asatsu DK

Production: TV Tokyo, Sunrise, Sotsu

Dynasty Warriors Gundam Reborn

The most famous mecha of the Mobile Suit Gundam franchise pile up in this battlefield brawler that once against takes its ethos from the Dynasty Warriors series. Over a hundred different robots are available to unlock and control during the game's crossover missions and recreations of established Gundam series.

Gundam is often at war with itself. At its most meaningful, it's a revolving mythos of savage conflicts amid orbital colonies. It's a space-robot melodrama proving that technology and exploration do nothing to keep otherwise decent people from slaughtering each other. Yet every Gundam creation is also an instrument for selling toys, models, merchandise, and a sweeping glamorization of the very violence that Gundam tries to critique.

Dynasty Warriors Gundam Reborn picks its side early. It nets over a hundred mecha from various points on Gundam timelines, and it sets them free in wide battlefields largely devoid of obstacles or intelligent foes. Hordes of Zeon Zaku, Federation GMs, and other standard-issue mobile suits cluster throughout the stages and fall quite easily before your arsenal of beam sabers, laser cannons, homing missiles, remote funnels, and anything else a mobile suit can carry into battle. And Reborn isn't too concerned about what any of the ensuing destruction might mean.

Will Gundam fans enjoy it? That depends on just what they like about Gundam.

Reborn keeps with the Dynasty Warriors ideal of crafting an elaborate stress-ball coated in fan bait. The individual foes are irrelevant; an average level's playtime spins the tally of destroyed enemy suits rapidly into the hundreds. Dynasty Warriors Gundam Reborn is about wrecking things in quick and stylish fashion, whirling through ranks of porcine, cyclopean Zakus who might raise a heat hawk axe on the higher difficulty levels. And you'd better enjoy that sort of rapid victory, because there's plenty of it in Dynasty Warriors Gundam Reborn.

There's a solid foundation in the gameplay. It's easy to jet around the battlefield, rocket into the air, and switch between close-range strikes and big-robot firearms. That makes for a nice little power fantasy at first, but repetition takes hold in every stage. Whether in wider arenas or cramped asteroid-base hallways, you soon fall into a familiar rhythm of smashing through dozens of enemies with each combo, thus building up a meter to pull off the really impressive, screen-filling attacks. Reborn makes small improvements: a Burst system with variable power-ups, battleship partners who carpet-bomb the playfield, and a greater variety of SP attacks. Yet that only helps so much when the opposition's dull in spirit and defense. Multiplayer modes include both split-screen play and online cooperation, but they're hampered by odd restrictions. Co-op players can only tackle stages they've already finished, which lessens the appeal of exploring the game together. Monotonous gameplay is always better shared.

The designers try to beat back the tedium with level objectives: portions of the playfield must be captured, legions can be paralyzed by destroying their commanders, and you're often called on to take out specific enemies or protect a teammate (Kayra Su has to get back safely now that she's just told her boyfriend she loves him, after all). The major antagonists put up more of a fight than the usual beam-saber meat, marking the only times a sensible player might be in danger of losing. That holds for much of the game. There's effort in places but a good deal of laziness in between. It feels cheapest when space battles play out on flat-plane battlegrounds, as though everyone's locked into an invisible terra firma.

Reborn never lacks in volume, at least. Like its predecessors, it isn't about what you do—it's about the characters and mobile suits you use to do it. With massive lineup of mecha and characters, there's plenty to customize with acquired schemata and pilot abilities. The various machines all look great, even if they've lost the cel-shaded look of Dynasty Warriors Gundam 3, and the pilot roster covers just about every series. Yet there's clear favoritism toward the popular and recent. The original Gundam series, the newly concluded Gundam Unicorn and the Gundam Seed universe get most of the attention, while fans of Gundam 0080: War in the Pocket, The 08th MS Team, G-Gundam, or (should they exist) Gundam X will find either paltry selections or nothing at all to suit them. But there's no pleasing everyone, at least not until Bandai reaches Dynasty Warriors Gundam 19 and includes every single robot from the franchise.

Rather than assemble any new broad storyline, Reborn is content with tributes and recreations. The bizarre all-star crossover of Dynasty Warriors Gundam 3 is absent, and instead Reborn brings back the Official Mode to trek through six Gundam tales. The original Mobile Suit Gundam, Zeta, and Char's Counterattack are all staples of this Gundam buffet, and Gundam Unicorn is, for better or worse, their modern successor. Gundam Seed and its sequel, SEED Destiny, round out the story mode. Remember Gundam Seed, that just-sorta-there series with the boring lookalike Hisashi Hirai character designs? And remember how SEED Destiny alienated even people who liked the original SEED? Well, Dynasty Warriors Gundam Reborn will remind you.

Each varied storyline attempts to compress a TV series or movie into a few hours of robot combat, and none of them succeeds. Plots emerge from jarring combinations of talking character cutouts, decent-enough mecha cutscenes, battlefield conversations, and washed-out framegrabs of the original animation. It's rapid and uninspiring, though at least it doesn't bog down on minutia (it's the opposite of Fist of the North Star: Ken's Rage 2, which spent too much time on forgettable jobber villains). For the Gundam fan, it's strange to see familiar stories crammed into CliffsNotes; Char's Counterattack, being a movie, lasts about three battles here. The newcomer may wonder just why Gundam is popular at all.

Aside from the major storylines, Reborn offers an Ultimate Mode that pays no heed to continuity. Characters from different series trade a few expository lines before diving into original missions and variations on Gundam anime scenes. There's little life in any of it, though it's amusing to see Bright Noa's portrait grimace through his lines with the same contractual apathy that Harrison Ford shows Star Wars.

Besides, there's something unnatural about the whole concept of Dynasty Warriors and Gundam mixing. The triumphant melees and massive enemy pileups of Dynasty Warriors fit some anime series just fine. Knocking around rival pirates suits the adventuresome tone of One Piece, and an estimated 95 percent of Fist of the North Star involves glowing ubermenschen slaughtering Mad Max thugs who prey on the innocent. That doesn't quite work with Gundam, which often portrays enemies as sympathetic, heroes as remorseful, and conflict as all-destroying.

Even when indulging in hey-kids clips of cool robots dicing up enemy mecha, Gundam's never far from reminding the viewer, often ham-fistedly, that war is never pretty. But Reborn thinks it is. And so the game buries halfhearted attempts at drama under the indulgent chaos of battle. It's tough to deliver meditations on humanity's inescapable vileness while keeping a four-digit tally of the mobile suits the player destroys, each mecha presumably holding a pilot. Perhaps all of them ejected just in time.

As Reborn is a digital-only release, Bandai Namco Games went with a somewhat cheaper localization than prior games. There's no English voice track, and the game's translation has some odd typos. The Japanese verison's anime-accurate soundtrack is also absent in places, replaced with largely humdrum battle anthems. Still, Gundam fans can take heart in one thing: with Bandai's anime plans derailed in North America, games like this may be the only way they'll release the likes of Gundam X, Gundam ZZ, or Turn A Gundam.

Dynasty Warriors Gundam Reborn does little more than its assigned duty as a playground for battle-mecha carnage. It's enjoyable in quick little brawls, never outright terrible but always a bit tedious. It falls short of capturing what really makes Gundam interesting—the clash of ideals, the inevitable tragedies, and the slick mecha battles that you can't enjoy with undiluted innocence. Reborn doesn't really try for that. It's a toybox full of Gundams, and you can rummage through it and play until boredom catches you. But it will soon enough.