Gundam X 30th Screening Brings Takagi And Takamatsu Back To Ikebukuro
The retrospective puts the production staff on record about how Gundam X was built, from the Newtype theme being proposed by series composition rather than the director to the satellite cannon setting being reverse-engineered from Ishigaki's design, which is the kind of detail these anniversary screenings exist to capture before it is lost.
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A 30th anniversary screening event for After War Gundam X ran on September 27 at TOHO Cinemas Ikebukuro in Tokyo. Across two talk sessions, lead voice actor Wataru Takagi hosted director Shinji Takamatsu, character designer Shigeyoshi Nishimura, and mechanical designer Junya Ishigaki. Four episodes from a six-episode shortlist were screened. The 30th anniversary key visual, released September 25, was also discussed.
The event ran twice on September 27 at TOHO Cinemas Ikebukuro in Tokyo, once after the 15:00 screening and once before the 18:20 screening. Takagi, who voices Garrod Ran, hosted both sessions. The staff shortlisted six episodes and screened four of them.
Takamatsu said the Newtype theme came from series composition writer Hiroyuki Kawasaki, not from him, and that his own aim was a story about children surviving in a ruined postwar world. He also said the final episode's idea of a Newtype sage on the moon was developed by Kawasaki into the entity D.O.M.E.
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