Translated by Kait Ubidecarenone and Brackdiamon
December 2009

The singer, Amuro Namie (32), will be doing a collaboration with “Mobile Suit Gundam” in the music video “Defend Love” in her new album “PAST < FUTURE”.

It’s not a pun. “Amuro” and “AMURO” will have their first encounter. Since their names are the same, Amuro stated that she always felt familiarized with Gundam. “If there’s a chance, I would like to do something together with this”. Accepting Amuro’s enthusiasm, the company of the creators of the series, Sunrise, accepted to do the collaboration.

In the MV, the dark green mobile armor Hermes originally rode by Lalah Sune, became a thick pink “Amuro personal Hermes”. And also, the voice actor of Amuro Ray, Furuya Tooru, also participated saying the phrase “You’re Amuro, right? I knew you would come.” It will be enjoyable contents for both parties of fans.

Amuro stated full of joy: “They showed to me many times the process of the animation, but having then doing my own character and my own version of Hermes, made me really happy. I put the image of my own character as the wallpaper of my cellphone. (Laughs)” From Sunrise’s side: “Miss Amuro’s attitude of always doing new things, made us feel empathy. Using this as an opportunity, We hope a new Gundam to increase its contact with many things.”

The theme of “Defend Love” is “world peace”. In 4 minutes and 24 seconds, there’s a message “It’s wrong to use it for the war”, or “We can’t misuse the weapons”.