New Gundam TV series with a Kamen Rider-ass sounding name, Gundam GQuuuuuuX (pronounced like G-Quarks)! Sunrise x Studio Khara, dir. Kazuya Tsuramaki, co-written by Hideaki Anno and Yoji Enokido, mecha design by Ikuto Yamashita. Looks like a wild one! - ThreadSky

tomaznable.bsky.social • 95 days ago

New Gundam TV series with a Kamen Rider-ass sounding name, Gundam GQuuuuuuX (pronounced like G-Quarks)! Sunrise x Studio Khara, dir. Kazuya Tsuramaki, co-written by Hideaki Anno and Yoji Enokido, mecha design by Ikuto Yamashita. Looks like a wild one!

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kiaayomahkwa.itch.io•95 days ago

No, sorry, it's actually G-Quacks.

muffinlord.bsky.social•95 days ago

these characters look straight out of a card battle anime

shrikedan.bsky.social•95 days ago

I just liek to call it G-Qux.

tomaznable.bsky.social•95 days ago

Yamashita is of course primarily known as the Evangelion mecha designer, but he has touched Gundam (albeit briefly) in the past. But still, nothing like being the primary designer of a new series!

tomaznable.bsky.social•95 days ago

Between the duels of G-Witch and now the apparent focus on "Clan Battle" in GQuuuuuux, truly the Build Fighters concept has just fully looped back in on the Gundam franchise. Though I suppose G Gundam deserves some credit as well.

tomaznable.bsky.social•95 days ago

Now I'm going to be honest, I don't love this thing in stills, and it's a bit hard to parse visually. It does seem like it could be slick in animation though. We'll see.

tomaznable.bsky.social•95 days ago

Now I'm going to go out on a limb here and say this thing's probably not a UC show, though we do get some pretty clear nods to UC imagery and weapons.

tomaznable.bsky.social•95 days ago

And if you prefer your Gundam war-flavored, I'd say this seems like a promising tease

tomaznable.bsky.social•95 days ago

I am very annoyed my trip to Japan ends literal days before this

augustoch.bsky.social•95 days ago

I love how the feet works.

mugennoken.bsky.social•95 days ago

G Gundam definitely has something here, they even have a specific head removal win condition.

sakokuotaku.bsky.social•95 days ago

Pretty jazzed for this after seeing the trailer and roster working on it.

badideas.bsky.social•95 days ago

That is the coolest Zaku I’ve ever seen

dwoboyle.bsky.social•95 days ago

Petition to called it G-QU6X for short.

zephyrworkshop.bsky.social•95 days ago

searching up this show is how i found out you had a bluesky lmao

tomaznable.bsky.social•95 days ago

Yup, this is where I'm at these days!

toysdream.bsky.social•95 days ago

Technically "QuuuuuuX" is pronounced like "kwux" - rhymes with "crux." It's a variation of the metasyntactic variable "qux" used by computer programmers. (I don't know *why* they picked it but that's the derivation.)

mau752005.bsky.social•95 days ago

I'm pretty sure it's just meant to be GQ Axe since well, the gundam has an axe

ozkai.bsky.social•94 days ago

Mark works with Sunrise.

tomaznable.bsky.social•95 days ago

For some reason my mind inserted a long vowel in there
I'm going with Quawks

errow.bsky.social•93 days ago

The u's are silent as the title is written phonetically underneath in katakana as an acronym: ジークアクス, or G-QX ("ジー" being G, "ク" being Q and "アクス" being X).

"Gundam Quantum Variable" (X being the most commonly used variable in math) is my best guess for the full name unless its a new technology.

jessidhia.dev•95 days ago

That would be “quux”, but the katakana reading is still completely unrelated. It’s pronounced more like “Quacks”.

yog-shi.bsky.social•95 days ago

Gotta watch the show to find out, it's the crux of the matter

jet0.bsky.social•93 days ago

https://bsky.app/profile/jet0.bsky.social/post/3lclpkuvfym26

tomaznable.bsky.social•93 days ago

It's an interpretation I've seen around and considered myself – and it would make sense if the leaks bear out and it's based on a version of UC where Zeon won the OYW. But even in that case I don't think it's one or the other, it would be an intentional play on words specific to how katakana works.

tomaznable.bsky.social•93 days ago

Personally I'm very intently looking forward to the first time the official English pronunciation is confirmed in a dub or trailer or something to see where the "ku" bit is emphasized to break up the word.

toysdream.bsky.social•93 days ago

Unfortunately, this double meaning only works in Japanese - it's not a translatable pun. (The same applies to the ガンダムGP-羅刹 in the "Build Fighters" series; we gave up and rendered that as "GP-Rase-Two" rather than trying to retain the "Rakshasa" meaning.)

jet0.bsky.social•93 days ago

Well it doesn't have to "work in English". My point was that the title isn't QuuuuuuX. It's GQuuuuuuX.

tomaznable.bsky.social•93 days ago

It's not like that's a detail people have missed, it's that most people are approximating an English pronunciation assuming it's G-QuX as opposed to GQ-uX

toysdream.bsky.social•93 days ago

(It also bears noting that the standard kana rendition of "axe" is アックス rather than アクス, so although this still works as a kana pun it's slightly forced.)

jet0.bsky.social•93 days ago

What. How can they both have not missed what the title means and are at the same time approximating an incorrect English pronunciation? Like I said in my linked post, the title is in English (Siege Axe) and thus the English pronunciation is, well, Siege Axe.

toysdream.bsky.social•93 days ago

Well, yes.

jet0.bsky.social•93 days ago

...yeah and people are going "oh so that's what the title means" to your post. That's why I linked my post.

andrecomics.bsky.social•93 days ago

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nuclearbob.net•95 days ago

G-Quarks. To go with UDTBCS. And Rom.

So if they’re doing metasyntactic variables now, how about compilation movies:
Mobile Suit Gundam G-QuuuuuX New Theatrical Version: Foo, followed by Bar in a year and Baz in a decade.
Then Shin MSGGQX: Gaiden - Spam+Eggs+Sausage+Spam

saga-ce.bsky.social•94 days ago

Just saw a Japanese YouTube theory video explaining that "GQuuuuuuX" could be a reference to Zeon if this new TV series were to be tied to the Universal Century: "Sieg+Axe" (bc Heat Hawk). 😂
What a wild ride!

fungalfinal.bsky.social•95 days ago

finally, a Gundam show just for him

djbod1972.bsky.social•95 days ago

That Haro had a hat on.

davidfoxorr.bsky.social•95 days ago

Interested to see how this plays out, but not sure how into it I will be. Feels a bit too silly low stakes like the Gundam build series. Willing to watch a few though. Getting a jet set radio vibe from the art and movement of the units.

mackenwells.bsky.social•95 days ago

@griffski.bsky.social !

griffski.bsky.social•95 days ago

oh w o w

mackenwells.bsky.social•95 days ago

Having new Anno to look forward to is always a special time

griffski.bsky.social•95 days ago

a rare joy!! i know nothing about gundam but look, i’m willing to learn for anno

mackenwells.bsky.social•95 days ago

A minute of idle curiosity a few years ago has inevitably led me to being obsessed with the Cool Robots and their Sad Pilots universe of shows, so this is a real middle-of-the-venn-diagram moment for me personally. And it looks cool! What a time to be alive

bigbootybabayaga.bsky.social•95 days ago

I’m in.

alphallamallama.bsky.social•95 days ago

@danielwarrenart.bsky.social , have you heard the news? 👆

anniecroakley.bsky.social•95 days ago

It looks amazing, but I gotta be real with you: we're gonna call it G-Cucks. It's inevitable.

rangerdonald.bsky.social•95 days ago

Qwark.

notkoze.trashmammal.club•95 days ago

Oh it’s so great to see you on BlueSky! I missed your Gundam posts on Xitter back when j still had an account

blackgetterrobo.bsky.social•95 days ago

I feel like the dub is going to say "Gee Que Ex" even though G-Quacks is funnier.

tomaznable.bsky.social•95 days ago

I kind of want it to be like "G-Quawks" like with a Long Island accent

gundamplanet.com•95 days ago

wasn't so sure but they knocked the trailer out of the park. music, animation, the whole aesthetic

tomaznable.bsky.social•95 days ago

Yeah, even the stuff I'm not necessarily feeling, I have a lot of faith in Khara to pull out something special.

animeesq.bsky.social•95 days ago

I’m just calling it Shin Gundam

tomaznable.bsky.social•95 days ago

May as well

shinsonicturna.bsky.social•92 days ago

I get what you're going for, but Anno isn't the lead here, he's one of the writers, but him being so famous means lots of people just see him there and say Anno, but this isn't just Anno.

animeesq.bsky.social•92 days ago

I completely understand that, which is why I’ll also accept Gundam Shin Gekijouban.

shinsonicturna.bsky.social•92 days ago

Hell yeah!

des-shinta.bsky.social•95 days ago

I don't know what Kamen Rider series you've seen, but that title has more in common with Tomino naming than anything Toei's done. Rider names are all direct or have a pronunciation or pun logic, whereas I can't make heads or tails with this one.

theyazinator.bsky.social•95 days ago

To be honest…. I shouldn’t be too surprised Anno is heavily involved on a Gundam show. He’s been pursuing working on various works of franchises he’s always loved with Godzilla, Ultraman, Kamen Rider and now Gundam as well as Space Battleship Yamato. Gundam being a bit different as a TV show here.

tomaznable.bsky.social•95 days ago

Enokido is credited with series composition and shares writing credit with Anno. I don't necessarily think Anno is the main guy on this, but I'm sure he'll make himself felt.

theyazinator.bsky.social•95 days ago

Ah got it. For some reason I thought Anno was a big co-writer here. Thanks for the info.

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