Kodoani.com – The November issue of Kadokawa’s Gundam Ace magazine revealed on Monday that Yūichi Hasegawa will launch a new manga in the series. Mobile Suit Crossbone Gundam His manga is titled Mobile Suit Crossbone Gundam Karras in the magazine’s next issue on October 26. The manga will focus on the title character Karras, an agent of the Jupiter Empire. The official Twitter account of the Mobile Suit Crossbone Gundam series posted a preview image of the series.
The magazine’s preview hints at other future manga focusing on other characters in the series, naming the Mobile Suit Crossbone Gundam Karras manga the “first manga”.
Hasegawa recently ended the Kidō Senshi Crossbone Gundam X-11 manga on June 24. Hasegawa launched the manga in Gundam Ace in June 2021. Kadokawa published the manga’s first compiled book volume on February 25. The manga’s second compiled book volume is published on Monday.
Hasegawa launched Kidō Senshi Cross Born Gundam Dust in Monthly Gundam Ace in July 2016. Then, the most recent installment in the long-running Mobile Suit Crossbone Gundam series, it changed the “bones” in previous titles to “born”. The manga is set in the previously unpublished time frame of UC 0169. Kadokawa published the manga’s 13th and final volume in March 2021.
Hasegawa launched the original Mobile Suit Crossbone Gundam manga in the first issue of Kadokawa’s Shōnen Ace magazine in 1994, and ended it in 1997. That series is a direct sequel to the Mobile Suit Gundam F91 anime.
Hasegawa published the short stories in the Mobile Suit Crossbone Gundam: Skull Heart manga in Gundam Ace from 2003 to 2004, followed by the Mobile Suit Crossbone Gundam: Steel Seven manga in Gundam Ace from 2006 to 2007. Hasegawa launched Mobile Suit Crossbone Gundam: Ghost in Gundam Ace in 2012 and ended in 2016.