The promotion for the upcoming October debut of Gundam AGE got a bit more international as the promotional video that was previously released and was restricted to just Japanese sites (which, as we all know, is a kind of silly thing to do when you’re really trying to reach an international audience who buys lots and lots of model kits) has now been put out there for all to see and it has captions as well. Little is known about the series overall though the staff is starting to take shape. ANN is reporting that Susumu Yamaguchi will be directing it based off of a series composition by Akihiro Hino who got a lot of recognition for the Professor Layton and the Eternal Diva movie script.

Plot summary: The story will span a century and three generations of Gundam pilots. In the year A.G. (Advanced Generation) 101 — several hundred years after humans migrated to space colonies — an Unknown Enemy (UE) suddenly attacks the space colony Angel and destroys it. The calamity and the huge loss of life became known afterward as “The Day the Angel Fell From the Skies.”

Seven years later, the war with the UE comes to the once peaceful colony where seven-year-old Furitto Asuno lives. When Furitto loses his mother to the war, he is entrusted with the “AGE Device,” a memory unit which has been handed down from generation to generation in his family. On the device are the designs for “Gundam,” an ancient mobile suit known as a savior. Furitto resolves to build the Gundam.

In the year A.G. 115, 14-year-old Furitto is at the Earth Federation base Arinsuton on the space colony Nora. For seven years, Furitto has continued developing with the base’s engineers, and at last the “Gundam” is complete. The Gundam is equipped with the AGE System, which allows the unit automatically evolve. However, the UE has arrived at Nora, and Furitto must fight in the very Gundam he built himself.

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