{"id":2043,"date":"2015-11-16T11:47:37","date_gmt":"2015-11-16T17:47:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/?p=2043"},"modified":"2015-11-16T11:47:37","modified_gmt":"2015-11-16T17:47:37","slug":"gundam-with-a-bebop-flare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/2015\/11\/gundam-with-a-bebop-flare\/","title":{"rendered":"Gundam With A Bebop Flare?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the more recent Gundam Manga, Mobile Suit Gundam Thunderbolt, is starting production on its anime adaptation. Last week they released a teaser for the series. Does it remind you of anything?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LZME_HbF0VI\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s brief, but that music certainly has a Cowboy Bebop vibe to it. It&#8217;s worth mentioning the studio producing Thunderbolt is Sunrise, Inc &#8211; the same one that did Bebop. Plus, the anime&#8217;s official website posted a key visual for the first episode:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/GundamThunderboltVisual.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2044 size-medium\" title=\"But where's Jet and Faye?\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/GundamThunderboltVisual-300x273.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"273\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/GundamThunderboltVisual-300x273.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/GundamThunderboltVisual.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The poster features two main characters, whose designs have a definite Bebop feel to them. The studio release a tagline with the image: &#8220;The two are fated to kill each other.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Thunderbolt is set during the One Year War, the same time as Mobile Suit Gundam (the original series); and it pits characters from the Earth Federation against the Principality of Zeon. I don&#8217;t remember too much about the Gundam Timeline (I believe Gundam Wing took place over a hundred years after this &#8211; although apparently there are multiple timelines, and I&#8217;m not sure they all exist within the same universe).<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t say I&#8217;m a huge fan of the Gundam franchise. I&#8217;ve watched a few series &#8211; some impressed me more than others; but I&#8217;m open to watching more, particularly if it has a Cowboy Bebop feel to it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the more recent Gundam Manga, Mobile Suit Gundam Thunderbolt, is starting production on its anime adaptation. Last week they released a teaser for the series. Does it remind you of anything? It&#8217;s brief, but that music certainly has a Cowboy Bebop vibe to it. It&#8217;s worth mentioning the studio producing Thunderbolt is Sunrise, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[14],"class_list":["post-2043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-cowboy-bebop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2043"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2046,"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2043\/revisions\/2046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}