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A second Hatsune Miku concert will take place in the Gundam Metaverse. “Just Communication”, which was the opening for Gundam Wing, will be one of the songs in her set list.

The concert will take place from April 23 to May 18, 2025. You can catch the afternoon show from 3:00 PM JST (11:00 PM PDT a day earlier/2:00 AM EDT) or 11:00 PM JST (7:00 AM PDT/10:00 AM EDT). Each concert will last around thirty minutes, and it’s free. Aside from “Just Communication” and other songs from the Gundam series, Miku will also sing popular original songs from Vocaloid producers.

Here is the set list for the second Hatsune Miku concert in the Gundam Metaverse:

1. “Fly! Gundam” - Mobile Suit Gundam
2. “Vampire” - DECO*27
3. “Senbonzakura” - Kurousa-P
4. “Flying in the Sky” - Mobile Fighter G Gundam
5. “World Is Mine” - ryo
6. “Just Communication” - Mobile Suit Gundam Wing

To listen to the concert, you’ll need to move to the live area from the main lobby within the Gundam Metaverse. Speaking of the main lobby, a virtual recreation of the life-sized Gundam that’ll be displayed at the Gundam Next Future Pavillion event in Osaka and Kansai will appear in the digital space from April 21 to May 20, 2025.

The Gundam Metaverse is available on web browsers you can access via Chrome, Edge, and Safari (iOS only).

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Namco Bandai announced that the Gundam Metaverse Live Hatsune Miku collaboration event will be held during the next Gundam Metaverse project, which is scheduled to appear between December 4-8, 2024. The live performance is set to celebrate the 45th anniversary of the Gundam series.

The live event will feature the popular Vocaloid and virtual idol Hatsune Miku performing alongside a Gundam mobile suit. More details about the live performance will be revealed at a later date. Additionally, a pre-registration campaign is underway, during which people can win various prizes including Gunpla, keychains, t-shirts, and hats. The performance will be part of the Gundam Metaverse 3rd Project. Pre-registrations for the third Gundam Metaverse project are now open until the end of December 4, 2024 from the project’s official website.

Originally teased in February 2022 and later revealed in March of the same year, the Gundam Metaverse project received its first limited-time opening in October 2023, although it was subject to a series of CAD files leaks. Meanwhile, the second limited-time opening was successfully held in 2 blocks throughout March 2024.

The Hatsune Miku live performance in collaboration with the Gundam Metaverse 3rd Project limited-time opening will be held sometime between December 4-8, 2024.

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The Gundam Metaverse has temporarily suspended s of its client files. Bandai Namco will announce on its website and Twitter when you can get them again. While they did not state the exact reason for the suspension, it’s likely due to the CAD files from the Gundam Metaverse project leaking to the public.

On October 18, 2023, some of the limited Gunpla that was supposed to only be accessible through the Metaverse project appeared on social media. Bandai Namco had not correctly encrypted or secured the files. This made it easy for people to grab them and leak them online. These files show figures and parts, which means that with them, people could 3D print out their own Gunpla.

Bandai Namco first revealed the Metaverse project in 2022. It’s a giant community for fans of Gundam, whether it’s Gunpla, games, or the anime. Some of the projected ideas for the Gundam Metaverse included C2C business transactions and speaking with AI characters. You would need a Bandai Namco ID to . Public access to the Metaverse is still open, and it’ll close on October 23, 2023.

s are temporarily unable to client files for Gundam Metaverse. Bandai Namco will inform the public via official channels when s are available again.

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While the The Witch from Mercury anime appeared, another other major component of the 3rd Gundam Conference event was the Gundam Metaverse. As announced in February 2022, Bandai Namco is moving forward with its plans to create an IP metaverse, starting with the brand. Based on a presentation and press release, Bandai Namco intends for it to become a "platform of opportunities" for fans worldwide to connect with each other.

The first step in the making of the metaverse is the creation of "virtual communities" for each "category" of Gundam engagement. These include things like Gunpla (Gundam plastic model kits), video games, anime productions, and music. Each will be linked by the existing Bandai Namco ID system.

Then, virtual spaces will be constructed. These will be modeled after Gundam's signature space colonies. Each will link to the Gundam Metaverse hub. Collectively, this cluster of colonies will be called Side-G. How these virtual colonies will be accessed by s was not specified. Bandai Namco promised that the virtual spaces would be linked somehow to the real world.

One example of such a Gundam Metaverse space was a concept illustration of a possible "Gunpla Colony" virtual world. It is patterned after The Gundam Base Virtual World, a virtual space tested in 2021. It took the form of a virtual reality Gundam-themed mall. The Gunpla Colony would take this concept further, with personalized rooms for s and ways for them to scan their physical gunpla models to be used in battle. This would possibly like the concept of the Gundam Build Divers anime. Limited access tests for the Gunpla colony are planned for Autumn 2022.

Another example colony is the Esports Colony. This will be a virtual space based on existing Gundam multiplayer games like Gundam Battle Operation 2 and the Gundam Evolution.

Perhaps the most telling portion of the Gundam Metaverse presentation dealt with Bandai Namco's plans to expand its virtual space. In a section dealing with its plans for the near future, it stated that it will urge third party companies to " the Gundam market" it's building. Bandai Namco is looking at companies that will "allow general s to conduct C2C business using the Gundam brand in the form of -generated content (UGC)." The goal is building out the Gundam Metaverse in such a way as to preserve "character rights" while expanding the Gundam brand through IP "co-created with fans."

"C2C" is a business model that means "Customer-to-Customer." It indicates a scenario in which individual customers interact and transact directly with each other. This is often in a way mediated by the business. Online marketplaces like eBay, Craigslist, and Etsy are considered C2C businesses. In online games, functions like in-game auction houses are a non-traditional form of C2C. However, when C2C is mentioned alongside a metaverse concept and "-generated content," it could be interpreted as a euphemism for planned cryptocurrency integration such "Play-to-Earn" mechanics or NFTs and other forms of digital asset trading. Bandai Namco didn't specifically mentioned crypto or NFTs in connection to the Gundam Metaverse. In the past, it expressed interest in them.

Bandai Namco is planning the first limited tests of the Gundam Metaverse in Autumn 2022.

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