Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin V: Clash at Loum (Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin V: Loum no Kaisen), the anime’s fifth episode, will open in Japan on Saturday in 35 theaters — more than double the previous four episodes’ 15 theaters.
Sunrise announced on Friday that “Tanjō Akai Suisei” (Rise of the Red Comet), the sixth episode of the Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin anime and the last in the anime’s “Loum Arc,” will open in Japan on May 5, 2018.
The Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin IV Eve of Destiny anime, the fourth episode in the series, opened in 15 Japanese theaters last November, and it ended the Char/Sayla arc of the anime.
The episode is the first episode in the anime’s “Loum Arc,” which covers the Battle of Loum, the pivotal conflict in the One Year War’s early days before most of the events depicted in the first Mobile Suit Gundam anime.