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SD Gundam World Sangoku Sōketsuden Anime Plays in Japan for 1st Time Next Spring

Sunrise announced on Thursday that its SD Gundam World Sangoku Sōketsuden anime will debut in Japan in spring 2021. The show's Gunpla models will be available in stores in Japan beginning in January.

The new entry in the SD Gundam franchise was targeted for international markets, and was only available previously in 14 countries and territories, including Hong Kong, Taiwan, South Korea, the United States, and Italy.

The anime premiered in July 2019. Crunchyroll streamed the anime, and it describes the story:

Nations once full of pride and glory are now in ruins after suffering great wars repeated over and over again, and it is an age in which the great land is covered in mountains of wreckage. Finally, just as the signs of restoration begin to be seen, a mysterious virus called the “Yellow Zombie Virus” has been spreading across the land for the past several years, and the infected, who lose their self of self, start attacking Mobile Suits one after the next.

In order to protect themselves from the infected coming to attack them, the remaining Mobile Suits are forced to live inside city strongholds. However, behind the fortifications, after the death of the former lord, the lord Dong Zhuo is as domineering as can be.

Takahiro Ikezoe (Sword Gai: The Animation, Show By Rock!!) directed the anime at Sunrise, and Touko Machida (Show By Rock!!, Wake Up, Girls!) was in charge of the series scripts.

The SD Gundam series is a spinoff of the main Gundam franchise that anthropomorphizes the franchise's iconic mobile suit mecha. The spinoff franchise has spawned its own anime, manga, games, and model kits. The previous anime in the franchise was SD Gundam Sangokuden Brave Battle Warriors in 2010.

Source: Gundam.info