The official website and Twitter account for the Mobile Suit Gundam SEED anime film titled, Mobile Suit Gundam Seed FREEDOM, has announced that Win Morisaki, member of J-pop group PrizmaX, has been cast as Griffin Arbalest.
The theme song titled, "Freedom" will be performed by Takanori Nishikawa (the artist also known as T.M. Revolution) with producer t.komuro (Tetsuya Komuro).
Mobile Suit Gundam Seed the Movie: FREEDOM premieres in theaters in Japan on January 26, 2024.
Mobile Suit Gundam Seed the Movie: FREEDOM premieres in theaters in Japan on January 26, 2024.
NEW CAST ANNOUNCEMENT:
Win Morisaki as Griffin Arbalest
4TH PV:
🎥#ガンダムSEED シリーズ最新作
— 機動戦士ガンダムSEEDシリーズ (@SEED_HDRP) November 19, 2023
『機動戦士ガンダム #SEEDFREEDOM』
2024.1.26 ROAD SHOW🌅
*┈┈┈┈┈┈┈*
第4弾PV解禁🎉
*┈┈┈┈┈┈┈*
主題歌が「FREEDOM」#西川貴教 with t.komuroに決定‼
第4弾PVは、主題歌を乗せた映像でお届け✨#TakanoriNishikawa #TetsuyaKomuro pic.twitter.com/0lQq5knSkS
The cast includes:
Sōichiro Hoshi as Kira Yamato
Rie Tanaka as Lacus Clyne
Akira Ishida as Athrun Zala
Nanako Mori as Cagalli Yula Athha (replacing Naomi Shindoh)
Kenichi Suzumura as Shinn Asuka
Maaya Sakamoto as Lunamaria Hawke
Fumiko Orikasa as Meyrin Hawke
Kotono Mitsuishi as Murrue Ramius
Takehito Koyasu as Mu La Flaga
Tomokazu Seki as Yzak Jule (or Joule)
Akira Sasanuma as Dearka Elsman
Houko Kuwashima as Agnes Giebenrath
Ayane Sakura as Toyah Mashima
Houchu Ohtsuka as Alexei Konoe
Jun Fukuyama as Albert Heinlein
Michiko Neya as Hilda Haken
Taiten Kusunoki as Herbert von Reinhard
Junichi Suwabe as Maas Symeon
Kentarō Tone as Liu Shenqiang
Misato Fukuen as Redelard Tradoll
Yūichi Nakamura as Shura Serpentine
Yukari Tamura as Aura Maha Khyber
Hiro Shimono as Orphee Lam Tao
Sumire Uesaka as Ingrid Tradoll
Yoshitsugu Matsuoka as Daniel Harper
??? as Griffin Arbalest
Mobile Suit Gundam Seed director Mitsuo Fukuda is directing the film at Bandai Namco Filmworks. Fukuda also co-wrote the script along with his late wife Chiaki Morosawa and Liu Goto. Hisashi Hirai is designing the characters.
Other staff members include:
Mechanical Design: Kunio Okawara, Kimitoshi Yamane, Kazutaka Miyatake, Junichi Akutsu, Manabu Shintani, Shiba Zen, Takuya Io, Hiroyuki Taiga
Mechanical Animation Director: Satoshi Shigeta
Color Key Artist: Akemi Nagao
Art Directors: Shigemi Ikeda, Yukiko Maruyama
CG Directors: Mitsuhiro Satō, Kensuke Kujida, Tomohiro Fujie
Monitor Works: Azusa Tamura, Jirō Kageyama
Compositing Director of Photography: Takeshi Katsurayama, Shigenori Toyooka
Editing: Yukiko Nojiri
Sound Director: Sadayoshi Fujino
Music: Toshihiko Sahashi
Crunchyroll streams the series and describes it as:
In Cosmic Era (C.E.) 70...
"The tensions mounted between the Earth Alliance and the ZAFT Forces caused by the 'Bloody Valentine' tragedy have erupted into an all-out war." The Earth Alliance's mobile armor forces and tanks launch...mobile suits are destroyed one after another...
"It seemed a foregone conclusion that the Earth Alliance, with its superior numbers, would be victorious. But this initial assessment proved to be false. Almost 11 months have passed since the conflict began, with no end in sight..."