The next Gunpla battle takes to a whole new level as Sunrise officially announces during the weekend that Gundam Build Divers: is the new anime series that will air this coming Spring.

Like the previous series such as Gundam Build Fighters and Gunpla Builders series, Gundam Build Divers focuses on Gunpla battles with references to the Gundam franchise as a whole and unlike the previous series where the owners can pilot their Gunplas from a virtual table, in Gunpla Build Divers, the owners became virtually pilots of their own Gunpla inside the Virtual dimension cyberspace and the pilots have their own online avatars when they are in cyberspace which differs from real life.

Gundam Build Divers follows the story of Riku Mikami, a middle school student who dreams of becoming a Diver or an inhabitant of Gunpla Battle Nexus Online (GBN): a virtual cyberspace dimension where people enjoy a variety of missions using their Gunpla, making them virtually pilots of the latter. Together with his friend Yukio "Yukky" Hidaka and Momoka "Momo" Yashiro dive in to the virtual world in their own adventure. Along the way, they meet Sera, a mysterious girl who has an amazing sensitivity to Gunpla and Kyoya Kujo: Team Avalon leader and current champion of Gunpla Force Battle Tournament who virtually pilots the Gundam AGE II Magnum.

Production staff for Gundam Build Divers includes several prominent mecha designers who previously worked on other Gundam series and key visual staff includes:

Planning: Sunrise

Original work: Hajime Yatate, Yoshiyuki Tomino

Director: Shinya Watada

Series composition: Noboru Kimura

Original character design: Kazuhiro Hara

Character design: Juri Toida

Action director: Masami Obari

Chief mecha animator: Shinya Kusumegi, Sakiko Uda

Mechanical design: Kunio Okawara, Kanetake Ebikawa, Jyunichi Akutsu, Jyunya Ishigaki, Ippei Gyobu, Kenji Teraoka, Shinya Terashima, Takayuki Yanase, Naohiro Washio

Music: Hideakira Kimura

Art: Studio Naya

Planning cooperation: Bandai Hobby Division

Production cooperation: ADK

Production: TV Tokyo, Sunrise, Sotsu

The Gunplas featured in the series are custom versions of the Gundams and mobile suits from Mobile Suit Gundam 00, Mobile Suit Gundam AGE, Gundam: Reconguista in G and many more. Check out these Gunplas:

As with the official unveiling of a new Gundam series, Bandai also unveils their product line-up specifically for the series, Gundam Build Divers. Merchandises such as Gunpla and Gashapon toys will be released once the series starts (more on that later). Sunrise also released a 14-minute prologue episode of the series on Gundam.info YouTube channel to get fans interested in the series. Check out the video below.

Okay this got me interested in watching this, as the show looks promising much like the Gundam Build Fighters franchise. Gundam Build Divers airs this coming Spring (I'm assuming this airs in March or April) on TV Tokyo and it will be streamed via Gundam.info YouTube channel.