Four mecha pilots with god complexes try to end war by blowing up enough stuff. It goes poorly.
Like the Japanese Special Editions of other Gundam and Sunrise anime series, this is the second of three volumes, that will condense the first half of the second season of Gundam 00 into feature-length videos. They all feature some new animated sequences and some partially re-recorded dialogue.
Direction
Mizushima's kinetic space battles hit harder condensed
Score
Kenji Kawai's orchestral grief hits different at cinema volume
Writing
The Lockon identity swap actually lands with room to breathe
Director
Seiji Mizushima
Mamoru Miyano
Setsuna F. Seiei (voice)
Shin-ichiro Miki
Lyle Dylandy / Lockon Stratos II (voice)
Hiroyuki Yoshino
Allelujah Haptism (voice)
Hiroshi Kamiya
Tieria Erde (voice)
Keiji Fujiwara
Ali Al-Saachez (voice)
Tetsu Shiratori
Andrei Smirnov (voice)
Ryoko Shiraishi
Anew Returner (voice)
Ryotaro Okiayu
Bring Stabity / Devine Nova (voice)
Ayahi Takagaki
Feldt Grace (voice)
Miyuki Kawasho
Hiling Care (voice)
Kenji Takahashi
Hong Long (voice)
Hideyuki Umezu
Ian Vashti (voice)
Minami Takayama
Kati Mannequin (voice)
Tokuyoshi Kawashima
Klaus Grad (voice)
Hiroki Touchi
Lasse Aeon (voice)
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The Special Editions were theatrical releases in Japan only, with new footage primarily expanding Allelujah's prison break and the Ptolemaios II launch sequence.
Gundam 00's 'armed intervention' premise directly engaged with post-9/11 interventionism debates, with Celestial Being essentially acting as a hyper-militarized UN that shoots first.
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