Gundam AGE: Pirate Mobile Suit Appear!

Entering the 3rd Generational story arc of Mobile Suit Gundam AGE, AGE-3 had debuted with a blast in the series. But seeing the Opening sequence of the 3rd generational arc series, fans had been wondering, who is that pirate-looking  Crossbone-ish mobile suit that is seen in the sequence? CHECK IT OUT!

The above screenshot is the sequence in the opening theme that triggered the question, who is that Pirate-ish/Crossbone-ish looking gundam?

The answer is later revealed, in a magazine scans, revealing the model-kit of, not 1, but 2 of the pirate mobile suits! The pirate crew is revealed to be the group of pirates called the Visidian Pirates, which is featured in a manga series, entitled "Mobile Suit Gundam AGE: Memories of Sid".

The Visidian Pirates is a group of space pirates, that roams around space to search for treasures. The Visidian Pirates are also an enemy to the Earth Federation Force. The manga is said connected to the actual series itself, and had actually made several encounters with the actual series' protagonist. One of them is being a battle in an Asteroid against, Largan Drace(who's in the AGE-1 story arc) leading the Earth Federation Force to apprehend the Visidian Pirates.

As seen in one of the pages from the manga below, the main character of the manga, Wivik Lambro, who was piloting the so-called successor mobile suit to Woolf Enneacle's G-Bouncer, the "G-Xiphos" meets with Asemu, who is piloting AGE-2 Wolf version(white in color, compare to the usual blue, red, white gundam scheme).

It is said that the sequence from the manga pages above could have been the scene that actually happen during Asemu's last mission, which is the episode that enters the 3rd generational story-arc. So, this had made fans speculating that Asemu will be piloting the Visidian Pirate Gundam?

Questions aside, here are the 2 Visidian mobile suits that will appear in the anime series.

The mysterious Pirate Gundam is rumored to be called as Gundam AGE-2 Dark Hound. The name is still tentative.

The second Visidian Pirate Mobile suit is the G-Exes Jackedge, a custom build of Woolf's G-Exes, which had also appeared in the manga as one of the main mobile suits in battle.

The Visidians will make their first appearance in the anime series in the show's 34th episode entitled, "Space Pirate Visidian". In the episode, Diva heads towards Federation's Lunar Base on moon. However, when Diva is approaching the shoal area called Sargasso, they have an encounter with the ship of the notorious space pirate group, Visidian.  It is unsure whether the manga's protagonist, Wivik Lambro will appear in the anime series or not.

Source: Gunjap, Orends:Range