Bandai Namco Holdings Inc. announced today a promotional video containing parts of the new film for GUNDAM: Next Universal Century that can be experienced in the GUNDAM NEXT FUTURE PAVILION, one of the Pavilions of the Private Sector, for the Expo 2025 Osaka, Kansai, Japan. Also, the synopsis of the story behind this experience, the main visuals, voice casts, and production staffs are listed below. For a limited-time THE GUNDAM BASE store will open on Friday, 11 April 2025, with the GUNDAM merchandise amassing at the Daimaru Umeda store in Osaka. The excitement levels in Osaka/Kansai will be raised through various touchpoints outside the Expo’s venue. The GUNDAM NEXT FUTURE PAVILION will connect people across the globe through GUNDAM and aim to provide the opportunity to think about the “future.”
New promotional video of GUNDAM: Next Universal Century released, available in the pavilion
Large screens with a maximum size of 18m x 8m and the Haptic Floor powered by Sony's Haptics technology will be installed to deliver a delicate and highly immersive sensation for each phase of the pavilion. A 360 degree fully immersive and impressive experience of the New Universal Century and The Future Co-existing with Mobile Suits will be delivered through the new video in high-definition graphics provided by Unreal Engine 5 (*1).
Watch the official video now on the GUNDAM channel:
A.D.2150. Visiting Yumeshima, you join an observation tour of the giant space station Star Jaburo. With Haro as your guide, you board an orbital elevator and begin a journey to an altitude of 36,000 km. At Star Jaburo, circling the Earth in geostationary orbit, various mobile suits are working to continue the advance into space. Then a sudden incident occurs, as something strange happens to the space debris they are trying to remove...
Character | Cast |
|---|
Exce | Gaku Hamada |
Poe | Tao Tsuchiy |
Goolow | Yuki Totsuka |
Ryzn | Sho Kaneta |
??? | Shinji Takeda |
Announcer | Takumi Saitoh |
Department | Staff |
|---|
Planning & Production | SUNRISE |
Original Story | Hajime Yatate, Yoshiyuki Tomino |
Director | Takanori Tsujimoto |
Script/Setting Research/Special Setting Lead | Shigeru Morita (Studio Nue, Inc.) |
Mechanical Design | Kunio Okawara, Mika Akitaka, Takashi Miyamoto |
Marking Design | Hajime Katoki |
Art Setting (Planning) | Tomoaki Okada |
Color Designer | Nagisa Abe |
CG Director | Yusuke Kumano |
Modeling Director | Keito Morita |
Music | Evan Call |
Ending Theme | Evan Call feat. Uyanga Bold “Dream Beyond Forever” |
Produced by | Bandai Namco Filmworks Inc. |
The
GUNDAM NEXT FUTURE PAVILION Cast Special Interview Video Vol.1 will be released on Sunday, 23 February 2025. Please look forward to the messages from the casts and follow the official
GUNDAM channel for more updates and information.
Pavilion Overview
The life in space that is commonly depicted in the GUNDAM series or the futuristic technology that is not developed yet is something the GUNDAM NEXT FUTURE PAVILION interprets as a possibility for the near future. The pavilion will provide new immersive videos and demonstrations with the pavilion space from phase 0 to 7. Participants will be able to enjoy the experience of traveling from the Space Port located at Yumeshima, Osaka to the "Star Jaburo" station via the orbital elevator under the setting of the New Universal Century. In the world where humanity and mobile suits coexist together shown in the video, various mobile suits (*2) like the GUNDAM equipped with the “Glass Feather” backpack and HARO with a new design makes their appearance. The life-sized GUNDAM statue exhibited outside the venue is another highlight as well (*3).
Pavilion Name: GUNDAM NEXT FUTURE PAVILION
Exhibition Period: Sunday, 13 April 2025 ~ Monday, 13 October 2025
*based on Expo’s schedule
Exhibition by: Bandai Namco Holdings Inc.
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Official Social Media X (*1) Unreal Engine 5 is a 3D computer graphics tool developed by Epic Games in the United States
(*2) Mobile suits are humanoid weapons in the GUNDAM series. It is depicted with a new role to co-exist with humanity in the GUNDAM NEXT FUTURE PAVILION.
(*3) The life-sized GUNDAM statue in the pavilion will not have the "Glass Feather" equipment.
How to enter the GUNDAM NEXT FUTURE PAVILION
In addition to the purchase and reservation of the entrance ticket to the Expo 2025 Osaka, Kansai, Japan, you will need to apply for the pavilion reservation (lottery) of the GUNDAM NEXT FUTURE PAVILION.
THE GUNDAM BASE POP-UP WORLD TOUR in Osaka store will open for a limited time
There will be a variety of GUNDAM products, including figures, cards, and miscellaneous goods, centered around the “Gunpla,” the plastic models of the GUNDAM series. The charm of GUNDAM will be spread from Osaka to the world.
Plastic model that partly incorporates recycled resin is released
The kit for the mobile suit from the pavilion video is available
BANDAI SPIRITS Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of Bandai Namco Holdings Inc., will release a plastic model that incorporates chemically recycled resin as part of its raw material. It is a part of the effort to develop environmentally friendly materials and continue creating for a sustainable future. It will be available for sale from April 2025, at THE GUNDAM BASE POP-UP WORLD TOUR in OSAKA at the Daimaru Umeda store.
There are also plans to release various merchandise or a guidebook filled with the charm of the GUNDAM NEXT FUTURE PAVILION.
For more details, read the full release
here or visit Bandai Namco Holdings official
website.
*All images are for illustrative purposes only.
*The contents of the press release are subject to change without any prior announcements.
