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Sunrise Will Move to a New Office Named White Base

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Sunrise new office White Base will have Gundam Char and Love Live Honoka at meeting room

Sunrise has announced that it will move to a new office located at Fujisawa Building in Ogikubo, Tokyo, Japan. The company will name the new office White Base after the iconic warship headed by Bright Noa in Mobile Suit Gundam. [Thanks, Game Watch!] The new White Base office will host multiple divisions and anime studios related to Sunrise and Bandai Namco. Before settling on this consolidated office, the studios were scattered across over 20 locations. The companies hope that the office becomes a place where like-minded individuals from all the studios can gather. The new meeting room will be the most defining feature of the White Base office. Sunrise has decorated its walls with two well-known characters from the company’s flagship franchises. They are Char Aznable from Mobile Suit Gundam and Honoka Kousaka from Love Live!

Sunrise Music and Sunrise’s head offices will be the first ones to occupy the new White Base office on October 25, 2021. Sunrise will move its production studios into the office gradually from November 2021 to March 2022. Bandai Namco Pictures will also join in January 2022. And finally, Sunrise Beyond — the studio currently working on AMAIM Warrior at the Borderline — will complete the office’s roster in June 2022.

Kite Stenbuck
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Kite is a Japanese translator and avid gamer from Indonesia, Southeast Asia who learned the language mostly by playing Japanese games from the PS1 era. He primarily translates news about Japanese games and anime straight from Japan. After initially starting with a focus on Dynasty Warriors communities from the mid-2000s, he eventually joined Siliconera in 2020. Other than Dynasty Warriors, Kite is also a big fan of Ace Combat and other games featuring mechs, especially Gundam.