Gundam fans have been waiting for the news of where the newest entry in the franchise will call its home, but the answer was one most unexpected. Most fans probably predicted Crunchyroll, the home of The Witch from Mercury, or Netflix, the home of Requiem for Vengeance. It turns the platforms most associated with Gundam won’t be getting them and instead Amazon Prime will get them.
Amazon Prime has struggled significantly in the anime streaming game compared to its competitors. They started getting in the anime business with the launch of Anime Strike in 2017, which was shut down in 2018. Fans rejected this streaming service within a streaming service because they had to pay a subscription for it on top of the regular Amazon Prime subscription fees, something that no other streamer has done. Probably their biggest anime titles, and the reason GQuuuuuuX is coming to Amazon Prime, were the Rebuild of Evangelion films that were also from Studio Khara. There appears to be a possibility that Studio Khara and Amazon Prime have a special relationship.
Amazon Prime getting a new Gundam could lead to them having their second major anime hit after the Evangelion films. Well, not counting those Anime Strike titles like Made in Abyss and Land of the Lustrous that became much more widely viewed after leaving Amazon Strike for other platforms. They are currently streaming the under the radar fantasy title Übel Blatt with very little promotion.
There is no news on which studio will dub the new Gundam.
Amazon Prime says the show will be dubbed in ten languages, which North American fans assume includes English, Spanish, and French. Amazon Prime has also revealed that dubs will release on the same day as the subtitled version. Major huge AAA anime titles rarely stream on Amazon Prime and usually stream on the competing apps. We’ll see if Gundam can make Amazon Prime more of a force in the anime streaming wars.
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