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Legendary Comics Launches Kickstarter for Gundam Breaker Battlogue: New Build Graphic Novel
posted on by Rafael Antonio Pineda
Legendary Comics launched a Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign on Wednesday for Gundam Breaker Battlogue: New Build, which it calls the "first ever" official graphic novel for the Gundam franchise produced outside of Japan. The campaign seeks to raise US$80,000 to produce the graphic novel by September 23.
The comic is a standalone story that "extends the legacy" of the Gundam Breaker Battlogue anime. Bandai Namco Entertainment producer Nobuo Masuda, who has worked on the Gundam franchise since the original 1979 Mobile Suit Gundam anime, is writing the comic, while Nelson Daniel is drawing the art.
Gundam Breaker Battlogue project debuted the anime portion of its project in October 2021 on the Gundam YouTube channel in Japan and on Gundam.info outside of Japan. The anime was a six-episode short anime series directed by Masami Ōbari (Gundam Build Fighters: Battlogue, Fatal Fury: The Motion Picture) at Sunrise/Bandai Namco Filmworks.
The Gundam Breaker game series allows players to take various real-life Gundam model kits and use parts from the kits to create their personalized mobile suit. Players can then take their custom mobile suit and fight other players or play cooperative scenarios.
Sources: Press release, Gundam Breaker Battlogue graphic novel's Kickstarter page
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