Mobile Suit Gundam Hathaway: The Sorcery of Nymph Circe’s Ending Song is a Guns N’ Roses Tune

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The Mobile Suit Gundam Hathaway X/Twitter account has revealed that the film trilogy’s second installment, The Sorcery of Nymph Circe, uses rock band Guns N’ Roses‘ 1987 song “Sweet Child O’ Mine” for its ending theme song.

The reveal was made on the date of the film’s release (January 30) in Japan. According to the official Gundam website, the rationale for this choice of song is that the “song’s lyrics—filled with tenderness and longing as they portray the complex emotions brought about by the presence of ‘her’—resonate deeply with protagonist Hathaway’s own feelings after meeting an alluring young woman named Gigi, making it a fitting and emotionally resonant ending theme for the film.”

Previously, it was revealed that Sza’s “Snooze” would serve as the opening song, giving the movie two existing western tunes for its theme songs.

The Mobile Suit Gundam Hathaway trilogy adapts the novels by Gundam creator Yoshiyuki Tomino and is part of the Universal Century setting. The synopsis for The Sorcery of Nymph Circe reads:

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.

The first Mobile Suit Gundam Hathaway film premiered in Japan on June 11, 2021 and was released internationally on Netflix on July 1 of the same year. The original book trilogy was published between 1989 to 1990 under the KADOKAWA Sneaker Bunko label.

Staff (those without brackets beside their names are reprising their roles)

• Director: Shuko Murase 

• Scriptwriter Yasuyuki Muto 

• Character designer: Pablo Uchida 

• Character designer: Naoyuki Onda 

• Character designer: Shigeki Kuhara 

• Original character designer: Haruhiko Mikimoto 

• Mechanical designer: Hajime Katoki 

• Mechanical designer: Kimitoshi Yamane

• Mechanical designer: Seiichi Nakatani 

• Mechanical designer: Nobuhiko Genma 

• Original mechanical designer: Yasuhiro Moriki 

• Original mechanical designer: Kazumi Fujita 

• Color designer: Takako Suzuki 

• Color designer: Yuichi Kuboki (Code Geass: Rozé of the Recapture)

• Background art director: Kinichi Ohkubo (TIGER & BUNNY – The Rising –)

• Compositing director: Yoshihisa Ohyama (GRANBLUE FANTASY The Animation Season 2)

• VFX Director: Manabu Kadono (Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX special technique compositing staff)

• CG director: Ryukow Masuo

• Music composer: Hiroyuki Sawano 

• Planning and animation production: Sunrise

Cast

• Kensho Ono as Hathaway Noa

• Reina Ueda as Gigi Andalucia

• Junichi Suwabe as Kenneth Sleg

• Soma Saito as Lane Aim

Source: @gundam_hathaway

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