GUNDAM BUILD METAVERSE

A new Internet service has been born in the world of Gunpla. Within the Metaverse realm, the user can control their own avatar, interact with other users, play Gunpla Battle, and purchase actual Gunpla. Rio Hojo is a boy who has dived into this new world. Studying Gunpla building techniques in the real world with Seria Urutuski, and absorbing Gunpla Battle know-how from Mask Lady in the Metaverse world, he has been honing his skills day by day. After completing his own original Gunpla, the Lah Gundam, Rio happens to encounter some past champions of Gunpla Battle in the Metaverse realm.

PLANNING

SUNRISE

ORIGINAL CONCEPT

Hajime Yatate
Yoshiyuki Tomino

DIRECTOR

Masami Obari

SERIES COMPOSITION

Noboru Kimura

CHARACTER DESIGN

Hirona Okada
Yoriko Goto
Ippei Gyobu

FUMINA DESIGN COOPERATION

Humikane Shimada

CHARACTER DESIGN SUPERVISION

Kenichi Onuki

MECHANICAL DESIGN

Kunio Okawara
Kanetake Ebikawa
Takayuki Yanase
Shinya Terashima
Naohiro Washio
Kotaro Ando(Studio GS)

CHIEF MECHANIC ANIMATOR

Yu Yoshiyama

PLANNING COOPERATION

BANDAI SPIRITS
BANDAI NAMCO ENTERTAINMENT

PRODUCTION

SUNRISE BEYOND

PRODUCED BY

BANDAI NAMCO FILMWORKS
SOTSU

Rio Hojo

A Boy who lives in Hawaii and loves Gunpla. He is interested in Japanese culture, Samurai, Ninja and so forth thanks to the influence from his grandfather who came from Japan. His personality is cheerful and positive. He doesn’t fret even when he’s lost a battle as it’s more important to him to have fun.

Rio Hojo (Avatar)

A Boy who lives in Hawaii and loves Gunpla. He is interested in Japanese culture, Samurai, Ninja and so forth thanks to the influence from his grandfather who came from Japan. His personality is cheerful and positive. He doesn’t fret even when he’s lost a battle as it’s more important to him to have fun.

Seria Urutsuki

Who works at the neighborhood hobby shop and teaches its Gunpla class. She sometimes appears goofy like when she even puts herself up at the classroom. After Rio begged her, she became the boy’s mentor for Gunpla Building. There are rumors that she used to be a famous Builder.

Mask Lady

Rio’s Gunpla Battle mentor existing in the Metaverse. Her skills are first-rate. She’s also so rigorous she never goes easy in practice battles.

LAH GUNDAM

A piece of Gunpla which Rio built using ENTRY GRADE RX-78-2 as its base. It was customized according to the “Japanese spirit” as understood by the boy who grew up in the Aloha State, and “Lah” in its name means “the sun” in Hawaiian. Even though he was a first-timer, the machine was meticulously finished through repeated trial and error, and Rio’s sunny admiration toward Gunpla Battle was incorporated in it.