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Bandai Head: No Plans for 2009 Gundam TV Series (Updated)
posted on by Egan Loo
The Gpara.com website reports that Bandai President and CEO Kazunori Ueno said on Wednesday that "there are no plans to broadcast [another franchise]?" There will be a short movie produced to mark the anniversary at August's Gundam Big Expo convention in Tokyo.
Bandai's parent company, Tokyo Big Sight convention center on Odaiba, just four train stops away from Shiokaze Park. Finally, the "Soul G" phase will be a Gundam 30th anniversary commemorative live concert which the promoters aim to hold in 2009. The overall theme for the anniversary project is "Always Beginning."
The Gundam Ace manga magazine.
Sunrise has produced event anime shorts to mark Gundam's anniversaries in the past. On the 10th anniversary of Gundam, the Mobile Suit Gundam MS IGLOO: The Hidden One Year War computer-graphics project.
Image © Sotsu, Sunrise
Update: Background information added.
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