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Amazon Prime Video acquired the streaming rights for Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX. It’ll start releasing the episodes starting on April 9, 2025, which when the show begins.

Not only does Amazon Prime Video have the distribution rights within Japan, but viewers in over 240 countries will be able to watch it as well using the streaming service. In a follow-up post, the X (formerly Twitter) for Prime Video Anime cleared up any possible confusion and stated that this is the television show. It is not Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX Beginning, which is the compilation movie of the first few episodes and is currently still in theaters. 

Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX is a collaboration project between Sunrise (Gundam series) and Studio Khara (Evangelion). It takes place in an alternate history of the original Gundam timeline, in which Zeon had won the One Year War after Char stole the White Gundam (now the Red Gundam). Five years after the war, Amate Yuzuriha, a high schooler, enters the world of Clan Battles, which are illegal mobile suit duels. However, the reappearance of the Red Gundam shakes up Amate’s life even further.

Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX will start airing from April 9, 2025, and we can watch it via Amazon Prime Video.

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On August 20, 2024, FromSoftware announced that the Prime Video anthology show Secret Level will feature an all new story set in one of the universes of Armored Core. The series, being developed by the same creative team as Love, Death & Robots, will feature 15 shorts from various video games.

Armored Core s a list of many other famous games to appear in installments in Secret Level, including Mega Man, Dungeons & Dragons, Warhammer 40,000 and Pac-Man. The tweet announcing this FromSoftware game's involvement also showed off a mech racing across an icy wasteland and a picture of a human character who resembles actor Keanu Reeves.

You can see the official tweet here:

This isn't the first time the Armored Core property has gone beyond the video games. Numerous model kits have been made of famous Cores from the series. A novel called Armored Core: Brave New World appeared in Japan.

Blur Studio, the production company behind Love, Death & Robots and Secret Level previously did work on films like James Cameron's Avatar, created trailers for Batman: Arkham City and Batman: Arkham Knight, and redid the cutscenes for the Master Chief Collection version of Halo 2.

Secret Level will be streaming on Amazon Prime Video on December 10, 2024, and the Armored Core episode will be a part of the show.

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Prime Video has released a new teaser trailer for Like A Dragon: Yakuza, its live-action adaptation of the first Yakuza (Like A Dragon) game. The trailer is available on the official YouTube channel for the video streaming service.

You can watch the teaser trailer for Like A Dragon: Yakuza here:

It starts with a sequence of Kiryu receiving his iconic back tattoo. The imagery and animation feel like this will be something people will see every episode as part of the opening. This scene is interspersed with flashes of gang violence in the setting of Kamurocho, the booming night life scenes, fights, and the yakuza walking around.

Here is a short interview with Masayoshi Yokoyama, the director and executive producer at RGG Studio:

Yokoyama stated that he worried the live-action adaptation would be nothing more than an imitation of the original game. He said that he wanted viewers to watch it as if this was their first time experiencing the Yakuza story. However, his conversation with director Masaharu Take quelled these fears and he trusted Take to produce something fun. In fact, after watching it, he felt jealous because of how the cast and crew created something new from the setting that the RGG Studio came up with 20 years ago. His hand was even shaking when he took a smoke afterwards. But there was still a lot of respect for the original story in a lot of aspects of the show. Yokoyama stated that both newcomers and veterans of the game series can enjoy the story.

Amazon Prime first announced Like a Dragon: Yakuza in June 2024. It will start Ryoma Takeuchi as Kiryu Kazuma, the main protagonist of the Yakuza series. There will be six parts in total, and the first half will appear on October 25, 2024. The second half of the show will start streaming on November 1, 2024. It’ll take place over the 1995 and 2005, showing the various eras of Kiryu’s life, and the new key visual reflects that.

Like A Dragon: Yakuza will appear exclusively on Prime Video from October 25, 2024.

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A new live-action Like a Dragon: Yakuza series will appear on Amazon Prime Video on October 24, 2024. Ryoma Takeuchi will star as Kiryu Kazuma.

This will be a six-part series, with the first half appearing on October 25, 2024. The second half will air on November 1, 2024. There will be subtitled and dubbed versions of the show. It’ll take place between two time periods—1995 and 2005—and follow both Kiryu’s childhood and his adult life in the yakuza.

Masaharu Take (100 Yen Film) and Kengo Takimoto (Kamen Teacher) are the directors. As mentioned earlier, Takeuchi will be Kiryu, the protagonist and the Dragon of Dojima. Takeuchi’s known for his role as Shinnosuke Tomari, the main character of Kamen Rider Drive. He also starred in Love You as the World Ends as Hibiki Mamiya, and voice-acted as Tim Goodman (Justice Smith) in Detective Pikachu.

Because of the two time periods above, it seems that Like a Dragon: Yakuza on Amazon Prime will also cover the events of the first Yakuza game. The Like a Dragon film (Takashi Miike) which came out in 2007 also focused on that entry. This film had a somewhat comedic and campy tone to it, though. So this live-action series seems to be a more grounded adaptation. According to Masayoshi Yokoyama (head of RGG Studio and executive producer), the games let you see the world through a subjective lens, this show will let you experience the events from an objective perspective.

Like a Dragon: Yakuza will come out on October 24, 2024.

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Sunrise has announced that it will bring Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Freedom to Netflix and Prime Video in early June 2024 in Japan. People will be able to watch the mecha anime movie on both subscription-based digital movie platforms as many times as they like, as long as the movie remains available there.

As of Sunrise's Japanese announcement, only the respective official Japanese X s for Netflix and Prime Video have confirmed the addition of this movie. It is yet to be known whether other countries and regions with access to the platforms will also get Gundam SEED Freedom on the same day or not.

The movie was available to watch in Japanese theaters from January 26, 2024, until May 23, 2024. It broke the 1 billion yen mark within the first three days after release. In its recent announcement, Sunrise added that the movie had grossed 4.82 billion yen (~$30.69 million) with around 2.88 million tickets sold in Japan as of May 22, 2024.

Gundam SEED Freedom has also broken the record as the most-grossing Gundam movie in Japan. The previous holder was the 1982 compilation movie Mobile Suit Gundam III: Encounters in Space with 2.3 billion yen recorded.

Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Freedom will be available on Netflix and Prime Video in Japan on June 8, 2024.

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