Author: Brain Platinum/Anitama Cover Source: Mobile Suit Gundam UC
<h4>Sequence: The trajectory of the UC animation</h4>
After entering 2000, in addition to the "Mobile Suit Gundam SEED" series, which has appeared continuously for 10 years, the highest-grossing Gundam works from novels, anime and manga have been "Mobile Suit Gundam UC", which is produced under the banner of the "Cosmic Century" orthodox sequel. The animated version was first released in the cinema for two weeks, and at the same time, including the sale of theatrical limited BD/DVD and the launch of the online paid credit distribution form, which also opened up a new business model. This new attempt has also caused an unprecedented sensation, and the entire works from chapters 1 to 7 after the official sale of the anime BD/DVD have occupied the first place in the weekly BD/DVD rankings. The cumulative shipment of all 7 volumes of BD/DVD is more than 1.9 million pieces, and the cumulative sales of each volume at the current point of time exceed 180,000 copies, which is also the highest record for the Current Gundam series.
The plot of the anime is basically based on Fukui Harutoshi's original novel, although the past of Marietan and Angelo has been partially deleted in the plot, but due to Bandai's arrangement, the addition of the original body that did not appear or the equipment change in the original work has triggered a heated discussion among Gundam's fan base, and in some ways, the age group has been expanded, and friends who have not read the original novel can enjoy the work together without obstacles.
The anime was originally released on August 18, 2007 on "CharaHobby 2007 C3×HOBBY" along with MG's release notice. Subsequently, in April 2009, the animation production decision was officially announced on the waist of the book in volume 8 of the book and the June 2009 issue of GUNDAM ACE, and the animation website was opened. On August 21, the official website was officially opened, and the original winter release of 2009 was changed to spring 2010, and the main production team was announced, and it was also announced that each chapter was released in theaters for about 60 minutes in the form of a full 6-chapter OVA at half a year interval and the release of limited BD/DVD, and the next day on the 22nd, it announced its main voice actor lineup on "GUNDAM BIG EXPO". Of course, after that, we all knew that this "half-year interval" promise was not fulfilled, in exchange for the additional production of Chapter 7. On May 13, 2012, the event "GUNDAM LIVE ENTERTAINMENT Mobile Suit Gundam UC FILM & LIVE 2012 Reader's Theater "hand in hand", led by the voice actor and Hiroyuki Kanono's drama partner, was held, and Fukui and supervisor Kazuhiro Furuhashi announced the decision to produce Chapter 7 of the final chapter of about 90 minutes, which was released in the spring of 2014.
Prior to the pre-release of Chapter 7, ep1 to 6 were also broadcast without abridgement at TV Tokyo, MBS, and Nagoya TV. It has been announced that from April 3, 2016, the OVA series will be reconstituted with new songs, and the OVA series will be reconstituted with the title "Mobile Suit Gundam UC RE:0096" on Nagoya TV, the most original broadcast television station in the "Gundam" series, and its affiliated TV Asahi will be broadcast every Sunday from 7:00 a.m. to 7:30 a.m. Since Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ, Nagoya TV has been involved in the production of the Gundam series (responsible for allocating and managing production funds, production staff, copyright management, and coordinating overall affairs).
Let's talk in detail about Gundam and Nagoya TV.
<h4>Episode 1: Gundam series with Nagoya TV</h4>
Television Nagoya (now renamed メ~テレ) has participated in the Production of the Gundam series, which only ranges from Mobile Suit Gundam (Muji/0079) to TV's third game, Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ. Sunrise's earliest original anime ,Invincible Superman Zambo 3," was produced by Nagoya Television. Today, SUNRISE and Nagoya TV have maintained this relationship with 7:00-7:30 a.m. Children's Time on Sunday (currently broadcasting works are Brave Beats, produced as BN Pictures of the SUNRISE branch, and later by UC RE:0096). The predecessor of the children's time broadcast schedule was 17:30-18:00 on Saturday evening, which was the original Gundam broadcast schedule. This move by UC RE:0096 is, in a sense, a "return."
Ratings statistics of Mobile Suit Gundam in nagoya TV Nagoya area (premiere and rerun)
In terms of theatrical versions, including "Strike Back Xiaya" and "F91", both of which were funded by Nagoya Television, the Gundam series was completely separated from Nagoya Station from 1993's "Mobile Suit V Gundam", and the broadcasting bureau was transferred from Nagoya Station to its core station TV Asahi. In 1996, during the broadcast of Mobile New Century Gundam X, SoftBank, a global media empire under rupert Murdoch, a global media empire news group, single-handedly owned half of the shares to set up JSkyB, a satellite broadcasting platform, and bought all of the shares of TV Asahi held by Wangbunsha, becoming the largest shareholder at the time (this can be seen in son's Wikipedia page). It is said that because of the dissatisfaction of the upper head that "there can be no war scenes in children's animation", the Gundam series has since left the Asahi system, which is one of the reasons why "Gundam X" was tragically "cut off". As for asahina, as for asahi Shimbun, which held the third place in the shares in March 1997, purchased the shares held by the new company and became the largest shareholder since then.
<h4>Episode 2: A huge battle without mercy</h4>
Let's take a look at an article published on May 20, 2004 by a well-known Japanese gossip magazine that likes to deal with political issues, economic issues, corporate issues, bureaucratic or politicians' donation scandals, artist scandals, homicides and other social events, "Weekly Bunka" published an article titled "Mobile Suit Up to 100 Billion Yen Huge Profit Rights" War".
The full content cannot be found here, only partial excerpts. It talks about nagoya's statement that "we will not pay any royalties in the future." This is Nagoya's very strong attitude towards the Gundam series advertising agency Chuangtong, while saying, "We are not afraid of lawsuits." Subsequently, Bandai, another major shareholder, also intervened in the tripartite negotiations between the two.
Some viewers may not understand, what is the relationship between Nagoya Tai and ChuangTong and SUNRISE and Bandai. Complicated to say. At that time, the contract was like this, regarding the copyright proceeds of the Gundam series, the proceeds directly obtained through animation (such as DVDs) were collected in SUNRISE's pockets, while the proceeds through toys and character peripherals were distributed to Nagoya TV through the creation of the advertising agency, and it was written that Chuangtong occasionally did not have rights and interests for a period of time during the nearly 10 years, or even did not distribute them at all in Nagoyadai. Nagoya Tai said that "there should be no time limit on the contract book" and asked Chuangtong to produce the contract document, which resulted in a closed door. Later, Nagoya Tai negotiated through Bandai, and Tsutomu paid the part that Nagoya Tai deserved (although the specific amount is not known, some people think that the money may be only 1/3 of what should be paid), after paying these money, Tsutomu still has a "this is the end" attitude, Bandai said in the negotiation, "Whether you win or lose this lawsuit, the ultimate victim will always be the image of 'Gundam'", Nagoya Tai finally had to compromise. SUNRISE still pays the relevant royalties to Nagoya Tai, while Chuang Tong Na refuses to pay with a "contract expiration" attitude.
On Chuangtong's Wikipedia page, the issue of the ownership of the copyright of Mobile Suit Gundam was specifically mentioned. The status quo is the window for creating exclusive commercialization rights. In recent years, the focus of his business has been on animation planning and production and copyright management. Somatsu contributes to Gundam mainly from the perspective of the person responsible for "investment" (as a result, most of the subsequent series of works after V participated as production co-production, and some of them were Dentsu and ASATSU DK (now labeled ADK).)
Also in the game, especially the Super Robot Wars series (hereinafter referred to as SRW), when it comes to SUNRISE works, the combat animation is changed from the real system scale to the SD scale, and the producer of the SRW series, Takanobu Terada, said in an interview when talking about the Gundam series, "The real-scale battle animation involves the copyright issue of the original animation, and the SD scale gundam can be used as the copyright of the SD Gundam series in general." In other words, the royalties are cheaper than the real scale of the SD equivalent (but at the beginning of Super Robot Wars Z, other creations except Gundam have added real-scale animation, and the Gundam series in Super Robot Wars Z has also added real-scale battle images).
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<h4>Final episode: The other side of the rainbow</h4>
Mobile Suit Gundam UC, volume 11, is scheduled for release on March 26 and is a collection of short stories. From the product introduction, it can be confirmed that "War After the War" contains the PS3 game special edition bundle and the setting data set "GREAT WORKS BOX III." It is not known whether there will be a newly written short story and whether "UC RE:0096" will be added to the broadcast from April 3.
After calculating the length of all 7 chapters of the OVA series (in minutes, 58+59+59+59+59+53+59+90) is 437 minutes. 437÷24 (determined to be 2 quarters, 24 words) ≈ 18.2. In addition, op and ED total 3 points, each episode is 21.2 minutes, which means that the new standard screen is about 1 episode and 3 minutes in an episode of about 24 minutes. Or the degree of 22.5 words + 1.5 words of the new regulation. Or add to the episode EX "One Hundred Years of Solitude" and make a new composition.
On the official website set up by Nagoya Television, we also saw a message from Harutoshi Fukui (with the original address).
This spring, Mobile Suit Gundam UC returned to the screen as a TV anime. It can also be screened on the Nagoya series of television stations that broadcast the original GUNDAM. The screening time also mentions the time slot of 7 o'clock in the morning every Sunday, which is also the trend of the times. Being able to play it at a time that suits the kids instead of late at night is important for UC.
So surely someone has to ask if UC is "Gundam for Adults"? Why do you suddenly say you want to show it to children now? Such questions... Is there anything that particularly appeals to small children? If you have such a question, you are right. From the perspective of current market sales, the way UC was broadcast this time can indeed be regarded as nonsense to some extent.
However, UC, which was originally launched for the original Gundam generation, that is, for the higher age group, has also achieved a real response among young people who are mainly middle and high school students as the main theme as the plot progresses. In addition, the original Gundam itself was also a work for teenagers aged 16 to 19 at that time, and a series of social effects that began with the Gangpura boom were also supported by elementary school students at that time. Looking back on this process, is the broadcast plan that now seems a bit nonsense containing some element of breaking through the current sense of occlusion? In short, I believed it with a semi-serious attitude.
When I started planning a novel ten years ago, I had no idea that I would one day be animated by TV. And the future in front of me may also contain possibilities that I could not imagine ten years ago... Therefore, I hope that you can share the UC that was re-formed in the form of Gundam TV with your family and friends. With the beast of possibility that is still there.
All in all, we can all see that this is just the beginning of a new round of money scams.
<h4>episode EX: The possibility of potential</h4>
Finally, there are some speculations and lusts about the author, the TV broadcast of "UC RE:0096" means the end of the previous group "Brave Beats", and this group of producers will be assigned to the production of other works, or after the end of UC, BB will restart later. There is also the production team of UC, which is sunrise's strongest production group 1. From tomio's previous comments by Yuki Tomino, Naohiro Kosimata, and various STAFFs, we can also see that there are also "big moves" in group 1, such as the total episode of "Gundam Reconguista in G" or the theatrical version, or the animated impossible "Flash Hasavi", or...
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