The box office of the animated film "Gundam: Hathaway's Flash" has exceeded 1 billion, setting a new record for the Gundam series after 33 years

Bandai's evergreen cash cow, the "Gundam" series, obviously does not make money from movies and animations, but the animated film "Mobile Suit Gundam: Hathaway's Flash", which was just released on June 11, has surpassed 1 billion in box office revenue today after two weeks of screening, setting the highest box office record in the history of the Gundam series. Although it doesn't sound like a very impressive number, it is also a breakthrough for the Gundam series in 33 years.

·Mobile Suit Gundam: Hathaway's Flash tells the story of UC105, 12 years after the end of the Second Neo Zeon War. Due to the corruption of the Earth Federation Government and the acceleration of the pollution of the Earth's environment, the inhumane policy of "human hunting" was implemented while forcing civilians to go to space. In this situation, Hathaway, who inherited the ideas of Amuro Ray and Char Aznable and became a warrior who constantly struggled for his inner will and path, met the Federation Army Colonel Kayneth Shrike and the mysterious girl Kiki Andalusia, and this was also an encounter that changed their fate.

In the Japanese animation film industry, it is not difficult to break 1 billion yen at the box office, but this does not include the Gundam series. The last time the box office broke 1 billion yen was in 1988's "Mobile Suit Gundam: Char's Counterattack". After all, Bandai did not make a lot of money from this. However, "Mobile Suit Gundam: Hathaway's Flash" set a new record in just 2 weeks. I believe there will be better performances in the future.