Polygon.com / 30.04.25

Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX's director on the sense of the Cold War' he wanted for the series

When Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX (pronounced G-kwuuks), the latest entry in the long-running military sci-fi anime franchise, was first announced in December 2024, the majority of focus was on the fact that none other than Neon Genesis Evangelion creator Hideaki Anno would be working on the series. While Anno is indeed integral to GQuuuuuuX, hes not the director; that would be Kazuya Tsurumaki, the maverick mind behind the epochal anime hit FLCL and 2004s Diebuster. A protege of Annos, Tsurumaki has come into his own over the years as a creator who garners notoriety and respect among his peers and fans, with Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX marking his first major directorial project after co-directing the new theatrical versions of Evangelion alongside Masayuki, Mahiro Maeda, and Katsuichi Nakayama. Polygon spoke to Tsurumaki via an interpreter about the origins behind Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX, his motivations in attempting to tell a Cold War alternate-history version of Yoshiyuki T...
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