Highlights
- Netflix released a four-and-a-half-minute clip of Gundam: Requiem for Vengeance at Geeked Week 2024
- The teaser clip sets the series in November, eleven months after the start of the Revolutionary War, later known as the One Year War. Not hard to do the math on that.
- Gundam: Requiem for Vengeance is the first of the franchise to be animated using Epic Games’ Unreal Engine 5 and the CGI is truly next level.
Netflix’s Gundam: Requiem for Vengeance
The Gundam franchise spans 45 years of films, series, and manga. It defined the mecha-warrior-robot-suit-in-military-setting narrative in 1979 and, since then, has become a global phenomenon. Netflix’s newest chapter, Gundam: Requiem for Vengeance, is the 59th production in the franchise. Think about that. Fifty. Ninth.
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For Geeked Week 2024, and to build even more anticipation for the October 17 release, Netflix dropped a clip from the battlefront where forces from the Principality of Zeon are marching into Cluj-Napoca Base in Romania. Assuming the Earth Federation Forces have abandoned the base, they are taken unawares and must call for airborne backup.
Sentinel Two squadron, known as the “Red Wolves” under the command of Iria Sorari (Celia Massingham), answers the call. Sorari orders the mobile suits to drop and we get a beautifully detailed sequence of preparatory routine.
As each soldier activates their suit, the sheer scale of the mecha-robots is immense. Just as they’re about to deploy, Earth Federation Forces fire antiaircraft weaponry at them, disrupting the jump protocols.
Nice Try, Feds
It’s a solid tactic but Gundams never say die. Oh wait, that’s not quite right. In any case, the Red Wolves leap from their rapidly disintegrating aircraft and join the fray on the ground, presumably reversing the fortunes of the battlefield through the sheer fact they are GIANT. FREAKIN. ROBOTS.
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The clip’s cinematography leaves nothing on the table and hints at so much more. The opening setting moments are stunning in their photorealism and the literal bird’s eye view provided by the lone, perfectly-articulated raven is a clever device to lift audiences above the conflict. That is, until the Gundam suits take us down with them.
Gundam: Requiem for Vengeance premieres on Netflix on October 17.
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