Bandai Visual began streaming a teaser for the upcoming anime of Yasuo Ohtagaki's Mobile Suit Gundam Thunderbolt manga on Friday. The teaser first debuted during the second Mobile Suit Gundam The Origin volume's two-week theatrical run, which also ends on Friday.

Text: The hugely popular comic with 1.4 million copies in print

Text: Mobile Suit Gundam Thunderbolt

Text: The long-awaited anime adaptation!!

Text: This is the worst battlefield in the One Year War



The story is set in the same One Year War in UC 0079 as the first Mobile Suit Gundam anime series. It follows the battles between two ace pilots at the "Thunderbolt Sector," a shoal zone with numerous wrecks of space colonies and warships.

The anime's official website unveiled a visual on Wednesday. The visual features Ensign Io Fleming of the Earth Federation and Sergeant Daryl Lorentz of the Principality of Zeon, along with their respective mobile suits, the Full Armor Gundam and the red Psyco Zaku. The accompanying tagline reads, "The two are fated to kill each other."

This year's 23rd issue of Shogakukan's Big Comic Superior magazine published on Wednesday the mechanical design of the Full Armor Gundam, as well as the character designs of Io Fleming, Daryl Lorentz, the Federation's Claudia, the Zeons' Carla, and the Zeons' "Living Dead Division."