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Netflix is listing Mobile Suit Gundam Hathaway: The Sorcery of NymphCirce (Kidō Senshi Gundam: Senkō no Hathaway – Circe no Majo), the second film of the Mobile Suit Gundam Hathaway (Kidō Senshi Gundam Senkō no Hathaway) anime project, for releasein India on August 31. The Netflix Anime YouTube channel is streaming an English-dubbed trailer for the film.
Bandai Namco Filmworks describes the second film's story:
The main cast and most of the staff returned from the first film, but YuichiKuboki joined Takako Suzuki as a color key artist. Yoshinori Sayama (Macross Plus, CowboyBebop, Mobile Suit Gundam UC) is credited for display designs after contributing to the first film. Yoshihisa Ōyama was the new film's compositing director of photography, and Manabu Kamitōno directed the visual effects.
American R&B artist SZA's 2022 song"Snooze" serves as the opening theme song for the film. SennaRin performs the insert song "ENDROLL" with Yōhei Kawakami of Alexandros.
The film project is a trilogy, and the second part had a working title of Kidō Senshi Gundam Senkō no Hathaway: San of Bright. The film's producer Ogata elaborated that the Japanese katakana characters "San" (サン) can be read as "sun" or "son." (The film's main character Hathaway Noa is the son of the character Bright Noa.) Ogata stated the second part would have some differences from Yoshiyuki Tomino's original novel series.
The first film opened in Japan in June 2021, after previously being delayed three times. The movie was originally slated to open in Japan in July 2020, but was delayed due to COVID-19. The film was delayed in April 2021, and was then delayed again due to the extended state of emergency declared in Japan. Netflix is currently streaming the film in India.
The firstHathaway film sold 259,074 tickets for 523,943,800 yen (about US$4.77 million) in its first three days at the box office. It ranked at #3 (in terms of tickets sold) in its openingweekend. It eventually became the first Gundam film since 1988's Mobile Suit Gundam: Char's Counterattack to top the 1 billion yen mark. The film has earned a cumulative total of 2,209,628,200 yen (about US$19.57 million) in the Japanese box office as of October 2021. (The Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX -Beginning- anime film has since surpassed its total.)
The film has a four-episode re-cut television broadcast version on Nippon TV'sAnichU programming block, which premiered on January 5.