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Director: Seiji Mizushima (Fullmetal Alcemist, Dai-Guard)
Series Composition: Yosuke Kuroda (Honey & Clover II, Demonbane)
Character Design: Yun Kouga (Loveless, Earthian)
Animation Character Design: Michinori Chiba (Basilisk, Someday’s Dreamers)
Mechanical Design: Kunio Okawara (Several Gundam series), Kanetake Ebikawa (Full Metal Panic!, Vandread, Gigantic Formula), Takayuki Yanase (Toward the Terra, Zegapain)
Conceptual Mechanical Designs: Hitoshi Fukuchi (Blue Gender, Gin-iro no Olynssis), Kenji Teraoka (Code Geass, Ghost in the Shell SAC, Great Dangaioh)

Not exactly a stellar cast. The only worrying thing to me is Yosuke Kuroda as Series Composition. While I enjoyed both H&CII and Demonbane, niether had really good pacing, which I assume is the job of a series compositor. Correct me if I’m wrong. Also, some new story information has been released and translated on /m/, so here it is:

“The setting is Earth 300 years from the present day, in 2307 AD. The series depicts the protagonist, Setsuna F. Seiei, who pilots a mobile suit (Gundam Excia) for a mysterious private militia (Celestial Being), going against a whole world where conflicts never cease and the struggle to eradicate war.”

Setsuna F (Fanron) Seiei:

A Gundam Meister for Celestial Being. He grew up in the war torn middle east and was discovered by Celestial Being at the age of 14 to have the special potential as a pilot. He doesn’t speak much and comes off as a cool young man. He is now 16 years old.

Celestial Being:

The mysterious organization that strives to end all wars and change the world with only 4 Mobile Suits. Aside from the aim to put an end to all warfare, they have no ties to any government, is strictly non-profit and subscribes to no particular ideology.

MS-GUNDAM:

Super weapons created independently by Celestial Being, they are a second-generation technology compared to anything the two superpowers in the world have to offer. They are machines made to take out entire armies individually.

Solar Generator:

A top secret technology being researched, this is the common name for the Energy source GN Drive. When mass is destroyed without the discharge of gun particles, a great amount of positron and photon are generated. Smaller units have also been designed, and the special advantage is the non-generation of excess heat. The GUNDAM units are powered with this technology.

GN Particles:

A sort of mutation neutrion discovered by chance, it is the origin of the research behind the GN Drive. When the GN Drive is in operation, these particles are automatically generated. When they’re in the air they have the special property of shutting down all radar systems completely.
The director Mizushima also makes a few comments about the direction the show is taking. Apparently the decision to set the show in 2307 AD is to force a sense of realism into the series and a stronger connection to our real world. Since it follows the same timeline as ours, the worldview and settings will be more similar to the real world than that of a standard Gundam series, which is a new direction they’re aiming for. There also appears to be two major superpower factions in the world: The Union (America leading Japan, Canada and Australia) and People’s Reform Federation ( and it’s comprised of China, Russia and India?).

It’s like Gundam Wing 2.0 meets Dancouga Nova.