Mobile Suit Crossbone Gundam Karras, the next installment of Yūichi Hasegawa's Mobile Suit Crossbone Gundam series, launches on Oct. 26.
As detailed on Anime News Network, Hasegawa's new series will be serialized in Gundam Ace magazine and revolve around the titular Karras, who is an agent of the Jupiter Empire. In the Crossbone Gundam universe, the Jupiter Empire is an autocratic military regime and the main antagonistic group of the series. Two preview images released for Mobile Suit Crossbone Gundam Karras refer to it as the "first manga," which suggests any future manga in the series with a connection to Karras and the Crossbone Gundam universe will follow this one.
Previous installments of the Crossbone Gundam manga revolved around a boy named Tobia Aronnax, an exchange student that is headed to Jupiter onboard a spaceship called Smashion. However, a group of space pirates calling themselves the Crossbone Vanguard ambushes the ship, which turns out to be a guerilla group that has formed in resistance of a secret fraction within Jupiter called the Jupiter Empire that intends to conquer Earth. When the Crossbone Vanguard discovers Tobia on the ship, a member named Kincaid Nau rescues him and takes him to meet Berah, the ship’s captain, who explains the situation to Tobia and asks the boy to join them. The boy agrees, becoming a Crossbone Gundam pilot and aiding the Vanguard in their quest to stop the Jupiter Empire.
The Original Mobile Suit Crossbone Gundam Manga Ran From 1994 to 1997
Kadokawa serialized Hasegawa’s original Mobile Suit Crossbone Gundam in their Shonen Ace magazine from 1994 to 1997. The series was a direct sequel to the 1991 animated film Mobile Suit Gundam F91, directed by Yoshiyuki Tomino, one of the principal creators of the Gundam franchise. After the completion of the Crossbone Gundam manga, several additional installments followed, the last of which was Mobile Suit Crossbone Gundam X-11, which launched in Gundam Ace in June 2021 and ended its run on June 24 of this year. The most recent installment before X-11 was Mobile Suit Cross Born Gundam Dust, which launched in July 2016 and took place in the previously undepicted timeframe of UC 0169.
The Mobile Suit Crossbone Gundam manga series has not been officially released in English yet. However, the Gundam franchise's next major anime installment, Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch From Mercury, will have its broadcast debut on Oct. 2. Crunchyroll will stream the series worldwide, excluding Asia.
Source: Anime News Network