Mobile Suit Gundam 00 Second Season In US

What a joyful day for anime fans from all over North America this is - the TV network Sci Fi (which will soon be renamed into Syfy, for reasons mostly unknown to us) is going to air the second season in the new Mobile Suit Gundam 00 series starting Monday. The latest animation in Sunrise's franchise premiered in Japan sometime last October, and ended in March. News of an upcoming theatrical release sent shivers down everybody's spineless spine at the end of the said broadcast.



Both seasons of Mobile Suit Gundam 00 are set in a real-world universe, where mankind has split into several factions (three, to be more precise), and where a mob of angry folks named the Celestial Being are desperately trying to pick a fight with the Gundams and their freaky pilots. As we can see, we have a classical toe-to-toe holocaust, pimped with explosions, giant fluffy robots, and all the bad guys a script writer can muster. It should be fun for mecha fans, indeed.

As for the crew behind the scenes, we have some pretty big names to share, like director Seiji Mizushima (Pwn Metal Alchemist), Yousuke Kuroda (Honey and Clover), and Yun Kouga (Loveless and Earthian manga). Not bad at all.

Thanks ANN for the scoop.