Kenji Kamiyama's First Gundam: RG XARX-ZERO and Rogue Orbit Share a World
Kamiyama's first Gundam work ties the anime and game into one shared world, with the anime team building the conflict structure that the game team then extended 100 years forward.
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Kenji Kamiyama, directing and writing series composition for Mobile Suit Gundam RG XARX-ZERO, said the anime and the game GUNDAM ROGUE ORBIT share one world, with the game set 100 years later. The game team proposed the enemy concept, and the anime team built the war structure. He kept the tricolor robot and human war as essential Gundam elements. Both projects target 2027.
Kamiyama, whose credits include Ghost in the Shell: S.A.C., The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim, and Star Wars: Visions, said the offer came as a request to direct a new Gundam anime built in parallel with a game. The game side first proposed giant mecha fighting Gundam in a space-monster style; the anime side then built the enemy's existence and the war's structure, and the game side extended that setting 100 years forward. He said the two stories are not directly connected despite sharing a world. He kept what he considers essential to Gundam: a solar system setting, a protagonist piloting a tricolor robot, and being drawn into a war between humans.
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