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Gundam the Origin I's 1st 7 Minutes English-Dubbed & Subtitled
posted on by Egan Loo
The official English Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin anime began streaming the first seven minutes from the first volume with either English dubbing or English subtitles. Both versions begin with 30 seconds of untranslated Japanese advertising before running the unedited beginning of the anime.
ACJ) announced this month that it will offer the Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin original video anime series worldwide simultaneously via rental streaming, followed by worldwide pre-orders for the Blu-ray Disc release.
ACJ will start the paid streaming of Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin on its platform dubs will be available, as well as English, French, Korean, Traditional Chinese (Taiwan), Traditional Chinese (Hong Kong) and Simplified Chinese subtitles, worldwide except in Japan and China.
ACJ is also offering the Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin Volume 1 Blu-ray Disc Collector's Edition (Export Version) for pre-order on February 4 worldwide outside Japan. This limited edition will ship on April 24 with bonus features, Japanese and English dubbing, and subtitles in Japanese, English, French, Korean, Traditional Chinese (Taiwan), Traditional Chinese (Hong Kong), and Simplified Chinese for US$94.99.
The main cast in English and Japanese includes:
Mayumi Tanaka as Casval Rem Deikun (Young Char Aznable)
Megumi Han as Artesia Som Deikun (Young Sayla Mass)
Shinshū Fuji as Sasro Zabi
Akeno Watanabe as Kycillia Zabi
Eizō Tsuda as Zeon Zum Deikun
Ayumi Tsunematsu as Astraia Tor Deikun
Shigeo Kiyama as Ramba Ral
Miyuki Sawashiro as Crowley Hamon
Chafūrin as Jimba Ral
Shuuichi Ikeda as Char Aznable
Akio Ohtsuka is narrating the Japanese version.
The first installment, "Blue-Eyed Casval," will play for two weeks in 10 Japanese theaters, starting on February 28. Those theaters will offer advance sales of the installment on Blu-ray Disc. There will also be a premiere screening on February 15 in Tokyo's Hibiya Kōkaido.
The story will be trailer in May.
Code:Breaker) is composing the music. The rest of the staff is as follows:
- Original Work: Yoshiyuki Tomino
- Mechanical Design: 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 anime adapts releasing the series.
