After months (and months, and months) of waiting, Gundam fans waiting for a return to the Universal Century after GQuuuuuuX wrapped up last year are finally getting what they want: The Sorcery of Nymph Circe, the long-awaited next film in Bandai’s adaptation of Hathaway’s Flash, is finally making its way out of Japan.
Today Bandai Namco officially confirmed that Sorcery of Nymph Circe will release in U.S. theaters on May 15, almost four months after the film debuted in Japan on January 30. It marks a pretty hefty wait time for Gundam fans, who’ve gotten used to the simultaneous releases of shows like Witch From Mercury and GQuuuuuuX, as well as the fact that the first Hathaway film debuted on Netflix internationally less than a month after it hit Japanese theaters on June 11, 2021.
Picking up 12 years after the events of the classic Gundam movie Char’s Counterattack, Sorcery of Nymph Circe continues the plight of the young Hathaway Noa (Kensho Ono/Caleb Yen), son of One Year War veteran Bright Noa, as he begins a would-be revolution of his own against the authoritarian rule of the Earth Federation as the head of the terrorist group Mafty. Haunted by his own trauma from having participated in the fight against Char’s rebellion as a child, and swayed by a chance encounter with a mysterious woman named Gigi Andalucia (Reina Ueda/Megan Shipman), Hathaway begins to launch the next step of Mafty’s battle against the Federation regime.
To celebrate the news of the U.S. release, Bandai Namco also released a new collaboration poster, highlighting the film’s crossover with Guns N’ Roses (the film features “Sweet Child O’ Mine” as its end credits theme, part of an international soundtrack that also features “Snooze” by SZA as its opening theme), using the classic iconography of the band to form a cross with the four main Gundams of the Universal Century by the time of Sorcery of Nymph Circe—the original RX-78-2, its successors in the Zeta Gundam and ZZ Gundam, and the Nu Gundam from Char’s Counterattack—as well as Hathaway’s own mobile suit, the Xi Gundam:
Of all the very weird Gundam crossovers there’ve been over the years, this is certainly up there as one of them.
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