How will Tsurumaki Kazuya, Enokido Yoji and Anno Hideaki face Gundam? [Fujitsu Ryota’s Anime Gate V 115th episode]

“Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuX -Beginning-” is currently being screened as a huge hit. This work is a reconstruction of some episodes for theater screening ahead of the TV series’ broadcast, and the story is still just beginning. However, it is definitely a very exciting introduction.

This time, I would like to think about various ways to draw auxiliary lines based on the first impressions of this work. This is not about predicting where the story goes. It’s more like a brain training session. It could be said that while looking at the cards dealt in your hand, you can think about what kind of hand you can make. If you have the idea in front of the card that was handed to you first, you can decide the position of the next card. “Change hands” or “Do you want to go with your hands as they are?” In any case, you can deepen your dialogue with the work.

There are two possible auxiliary lines for this work. One is the auxiliary line drawn from past works by creators. The other is the auxiliary line that is included as a series of works.
As has already been pointed out, “GQuuuuuX” is a previously written “Aiming for the Top 2!”, directed by Tsurumaki Kazuya and scriptwriter Enokido Yoji. There are some parts that remind you of “. For example, “Top 2! ‘ was a story about two people, Nono and L’Arc, but GQuuuuuX is centered around two people, Machu (Amate Yuzuriha) and Nyaan. You can also feel the unevenness of the two of them in common.
Other than these surfaces, there is another related point. That’s a critical way of keeping distance over the previous works.

“Tsurumaki Kazuya talks about “Aiming for the Top 2!”, published on the web I am Anime, “Moe” in the sense that it is fabricating information” (http://www.style.fm/as/13_special/mini_070130a. Reading the shtml), director Tsurumaki’s previous film, Aiming for the Top! “For me, “Aim for the Top!” is a story about otaku theme, so I wanted to make that sequel too.” Of course, this is one of the themes of stacked multiplexing, but “Aim for the Top 2!” There is no doubt that this is the point of “.

Taking this statement into consideration, the “sequel” is more about how to read the subject of the previous work and how to inherit and change it, rather than how to inherit and change the setting. I understand. This “Aim for the Top 2!” Considering his comments about “, the reference to Mobile Suit Gundam in “GQuuuuuX” is not merely a setting operation, but rather intimately with which elements of Mobile Suit Gundam were scooped up as the subject. I think it has something to do with it.

“Aim for the top 2! What’s interesting about this is that Anno Hideaki is in charge of the storyboard for episode 4, “Revival!! The Legendary Buster Machine!” This fourth episode is based on the previous work, “Starting!! An unfinished final weapon!”, and the story is about to “Aim for the Top!”, which had previously been far apart. ‘ and ‘Aim for the Top 2! This is also an episode that reveals how the world of ” is connected.” It may be a coincidence, but when I think about Anno’s part-time job in GQuuuuuX, I think “Aim for the Top 2! The fact that he is in charge of episode 4 of ” is strangely in line with it and is interesting.

“Aim for the top 2! Episode 4 of ” is a turning point in the story, and the values ​​of the world of the work that have been portrayed up until then are turned over, with the main character Nono at the center of this story. Nono’s own drama is also at a turning point here.

In this turning point scene in the story, Nono hums a small song. This is probably the movie version of “Aim for the Ace!” I think it’s a quote from “. The movie version of “Aim for the Ace!” In “, there is a moment when the main character, Oka Hiromi, develops a great deal of strength as a player during the match. At that time, Hiromi unconsciously hums the song “Lalala.” After this moment, Oka Hiromi goes beyond, alongside his admired senior, Ryuzaki Reika. Nono’s relationship with L’Arc, whom she also admires as her older sister, changes.

Thinking about it this way, it also sounds like Oka Hiromi’s “Lalala” resonates with the soundtrack “Colony Girlfriend (I_006A)” from “GQuuuuuX” via Nono. Of course, the voice of “Lala” in Mobile Suit Gundam has a special meaning, so it would be a common way to take it to think about its relationship. However, since the main focus is on two female characters with different personalities, I think I might think too much about it, but I can’t help but feel the afterimage of Oka Hiromi in the singing voice of “Lalala.” I’d like to take a look at the future situations that this song will be used in.

From the auxiliary line of the series, I would like to list “Mobile New Century Gundam X.” Originally broadcast in the mid-1990s, Mobile Suit Gundam G Gundam, New Mobile Suit Gundam W, and Gundam X are three titles with a strong feel to it, “Gundam Theory of Gundam by Gundam,” among them, “Gundam X.” ‘ is a series with an extremely high level of Gundam theory.

Let me quote an interview with director Takamatsu Shinji, which is included in “Mobile Suit Gundam Complete Collection Part 2” (published by Kodansha/2002-8-1).
“The war in “There was a war once…” is a metaphor for the “Phenomena of Gundam.” And the new century has arrived. Please declare a new century in Shinjuku (lol). However, it was a war that destroyed itself. That’s what happened before. And it’s no longer there now. And 15 years have passed. In the wilderness where there is no pen pem grass growing, Kawasaki (quoted by: scriptwriter Hiroyuki) has created the character Galord. Garod is a character who is not bound by Gundam. It’s not Gundam that will create the world from now on. (Omitted) However, Tifa, who fell in love with Garodo, was a Newtype. This “Newtype” represents the symbol of Gundam. ”

In this interview, director Takanashi also said that he wasn’t aware of that at first, but that when he created the story he liked, many things ended up signing. Director Takamatsu then said, “I realized that I was the one who had his soul drawn by Gundam.”

Gundam X is AW (After War) 0015, 15 years have passed since the 7th War of the Worlds ended. This is a comparison with the fact that Gundam X was broadcast in 1996, 15 years after the 1981 “Declaration of the New Century of Anime” (the event for Mobile Suit Gundam that took place before its theatrical release). There is. The story then converges over the curse of the Newtype that binds Tifa (= the curse called Gundam).

Gundam X (as a result) became a story surrounding the “curse of Gundam,” and director Tsurumaki said, “Aim for the Top!” ‘ is taken as a “story of an otaku” and “Aim for the Top 2! It is very similar to inheriting and changing this in “. From this, the question arises, how will director Tsurumaki (and Enokido) face the “curse of Gundam”?