Bandai Namco Filmworks will begin screening the Mobile Suit Gundam Hathaway: The Sorcery of Nymph Circe anime film in U.S. theaters, starting on May 15, 2026. The second anime film in the Mobile Suit Gundam Hathaway trilogy premiered in Japan on January 30, 2026.
A new English dub trailer confirming the May 15 U.S release date was also released.
In celebration of its U.S. theatrical release, a special collaboration art with American rock band Guns N’ Roses has been unveiled, whose song “Sweet Child O’ Mine” is being used as the film’s ending theme song It features the Xi Gundam design with one of the band’s signature visual art.
The production staff for The Sorcery of Nymph Circe includes Shuko Murase as director, Yasuyuki Muto as scriptwriter, Haruhiko Mikimoto as original character designer, Kinichi Ohkubo (TIGER & BUNNY – The Rising –) as background art director, Yoshihisa Ohyama (GRANBLUE FANTASY The Animation Season 2) as composting director, Manabu Kadono (Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX special technique compositing staff) as VFX director, Ryokou Masuo as CG director, and Hiroyuki Sawano as music composer. Sunrise is handling the animation production and planning.
Pablo Uchida, Naoyuki Onda, and Shigeki Kuhara are serving as the character designers, with Hajime Katoki, Kimitoshi Yamane, Seiichi Nakatani, and Nobuhiko Genma as mechanical designers. Yasuhiro Moriki and Kazumi Fujita are credited as original mechanical designers, while Takako Suzuki and Yuichi Kuboki (Code Geass: Rozé of the Recapture) are the color designers.
Meanwhile, the anime’s voice cast stars:
- • Kensho Ono as Hathaway Noa
- • Reina Ueda as Gigi Andalucia
- • Junichi Suwabe as Kenneth Sleg
- • Soma Saito as Lane Aim
The first movie of the Mobile Suit Gundam Hathaway trilogy was released in Japan on June 11, 2021. It began streaming internationally on Netflix later in July of the same year.
The anime film trilogy adapts the novels by Gundam creator Yoshiyuki Tomino and is part of the Universal Century setting. The original book trilogy was published between 1989 to 1990 under the KADOKAWA Sneaker Bunko imprint.
The synopsis for The Sorcery of Nymph Circe is described as:
The year is U.C.0105, twelve years after Char’s Rebellion. “Mafty” has begun resisting the Federation government’s tyrannical rule by assassinating its high-ranking officials. Its leader is actually Hathaway Noa, the son of Bright Noa, who fought in the One Year War alongside Amuro Ray. A girl named Gigi Andalusia, who displays uncanny powers, has reminded Hathaway of a past trauma. Though he is bewildered by her words, he prepares to carry out an air raid on the Adelaide conference, determined to fulfill Mafty’s goals and lay his own past to rest.
Haunted by past trauma, Hathaway is drawn to the mysterious girl Gigi Andalucia, whose strange powers stir memories within him. While swayed by her cryptic words, he continues preparing for Mafty’s mission — the attack on the Adelaide Conference. Meanwhile, Kenneth Sleg of the Federation Forces prepares a defense operation for the Adelaide Conference and a plan to eliminate Mafty, when he is approached by Handley Yoxon of the Criminal Police Organization with a secret proposal. As Hathaway and Kenneth pursue their respective goals, Gigi also sets off for Hong Kong to fulfill her own role.
Source: press release
