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Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin Anime's Staff, Key Visual Unveiled

The official website for the told in four parts that will premiere in theaters. The first part, Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin I: Aoi Hitomi no Casval (Blue-eyed Casval), is slated to premiere in spring of 2015.

A 90-second promotional video will run after the theatrical debut of the seventh and Mobile Suit Gundam UC on Saturday.

Code:Breaker) is composing the music. The rest of the staff is as follows:

Original Work: Junichi Akutsu
Production: Ichirō Itano
Chief Animation Director: Hiroyuki Nishimura
Mechanical Chief Animation Director: Takuya Suzuki
Art Director: Yukiko Maruyama
Color Design: Nagisa Abe
Director of Photography: Takeshi Katsurayama
Editing: Masato Yoshitake
Sound Director: Sadayoshi Fujino

The first part will tell the story of Casval Rem Deikun and Artesia Som Deikun (Char and Sayla, before Char became known as the Red Comet) before the One-Year War in UC.0068. The website features several character designs:

Casval Rem Deikun (Young Char Aznable)

Artesia Som Deikun (Young Sayla Mass)

Zeon Zum Deikun

Astraia Tor Deikun

Jimba Ral

Ramba Ral

Degwin Sodo Zabi, Gihren Zabi, Sasuro Zabi

Dozle Zabi, Kycilia Zabi

Char Aznable

Yasuhiko's manga series is itself a re-imagining of Yoshiyuki Tomino and Sunrise's first releasing the series.

[Via: Otakumu]