We learned last month that the second season of Mobile Suit Gundam Thunderbolt will indeed be getting a theatrical compilation and now the promotion is getting more formally underway for it. The four episode net OVA has its film version set for a November 18th, 2017 debut as Mobile Suit Gundam Thunderbolt: Bandit Flower. The latest piece of promotion for it is definitely appealing as we get a three-minute trailer for it with the English language version and Japanese subtitles that ramps up the intensity of it all.
Check out our review of the first season in its theatrical form.
The project has Kou Matsuo directing it and working on the scripts with it naturally being animated at Sunrise. Hirotoshi Takaya is on board with the character designs for it.
The Japanese cast includes Yūichi Nakamura as Io Fleming, Ryohei Kimura as Daryl Lorentz, Toa Yukinari as Claudia Palh, Sayaka Ohara as Kara Mitchum, Daisuke Hirakawa as Cornelius Caca, Shunsuke Sakuya as Graham, Mutsumi Sasaki as Burroughs and Hiroshi Tsuchida as J.J. Sexton.
The English cast from the first season of the series includes Max Mittelman as Io Fleming, Johnny Yong Bosch as Daryl Lorenz, Cherami Leigh as Claudia Peer, Tara Sands as Karla Mitchum, Christian La Monte as Cornelius Kaka, Ray Chase as Graham, Scott Williams as Burroughs, Will Barret as J.J. Sexton, Ivan Nemer as Sean Mitadera, Chris Jai Alex as Fisher Ness, Daniel J Edwards as Denver Roche, Wayne Grayson as Keith Meyers, Todd Haberkorn as Layton, Jamieson Boaz as Hoover, Henry Carr as Dried Fish XO, D.R. Carter as Allen and Jake Paque as Brian.
The book, which began in 2012 in Big Comic Superior from Yasuo Ohtagaki, is a side story for the UC timeline set in 0079. It’s aimed at an older audience with more of a science fiction/military design than the traditional action-oriented materials of the last decade or so.
Plot Concept: Federation troops and Zeon forces carry out a fierce battle in the Thunderbolt Sector in what was once Side 4 “Mua”. The Thunderbolt Sector is a shoal zone composed of the debris of destroyed space colonies, named for the electrical discharges from the metal debris. MS pilot Io Flemming is among the Federation soldiers who are dispatched to the area, where Zeon sniper Daryl Lorenz awaits them on the battlefield.
