Back in November, plans changed for the first part of the Mobile Suit Gundam Hathaway anime film, which was originally lined up for a July 23, 2020 premiere.
According to Sunrise producer Naohiro Ogata, while the novel was written as a sequel to Tomino’s 1988 novel Mobile Suit Gundam Char’s Counterattack – Beltorchika Children (based on his rejected first draft for the 1988 film Mobile Suit Gundam Char’s Counterattack), the upcoming anime will be produced as a sequel to the Char’s Counterattack anime film.
The trilogy is based on Yoshiyuki Tomino’s Mobile Suit Gundam: Senkou no Hathaway / Hathaway’s Flash novel, which was published across three volumes by Kadokawa Sneaker Bunko from 1989 to 1990.