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Between redefining the mecha genre and inspiring an full manufacture of exemplary kits, I'd reason Mobile Suit Gundam is 1 of the astir influential anime franchises of each time. Created by Yoshiyuki Tomino, the bid is acceptable successful the acold future, erstwhile elephantine robot suits are utilized arsenic weapons of warfare successful conflicts betwixt Earth and its abstraction colonies. As Japan's reply to Star Wars, Gundam features epic abstraction battles, laser swords, and radical with caput powers, but inactive feels grounded successful its militaristic settings.
Whether you're a seasoned completionist looking to capable gaps successful your mobile suit cognition oregon a full newbie who wants to spot immoderate chill robot fights (and possibly immoderate horrific, poignant explorations of the horrors of war), here's however to ticker Mobile Suit Gundam successful order.
The Gundam franchise has continuously produced anime shows and movies since its inception successful 1979, but not each Gundam are the same. Though the astir fashionable and "fleshed out" Gundam timeline is the original, known arsenic Universal Century (or UC), determination are capable alternate timelines and meta-narratives that you could walk decades trying to drawback up connected everything. At slightest successful this article, we screen 14 timelines total.
Because of these antithetic timelines, and due to the fact that the franchise originated successful anime alternatively than manga oregon books, each portion of media successful Gundam is considered canon (to its ain timeline, astatine least). However, we urge starting with the Universal Century timeline earlier jumping into these alternatives.
Mobile Suit Gundam (1979)
The bulk of the Gundam franchise, including the archetypal series, is connected Crunchyroll. Several movies and shows are besides streaming connected U.S. Netflix. Unfortunately, immoderate entries are simply unavailable to watercourse astatine each — similar the acclaimed, fan-favorite Mobile Suit Gundam 0080: War successful the Pocket. Your champion (legal) stake is trying to way these down connected DVD oregon Blu-ray.
Mobile Suit Gundam successful Order: The Universal Century Timeline
The archetypal Gundam timeline, and the largest successful the franchise, starts with the One Year War betwixt Earth and a federation of abstraction colonies and follows the conflict's effects connected the galaxy.
1. Mobile Suit Gundam - The Origin
2015-2018
An root communicative for Char Aznable successful the years starring up to the enactment of Zeon and the One Year War. It's a fantastic instauration to the Universal Century.
2. Mobile Suit Gundam (aka Gundam 0079)
1979-1980
The amusement that started it all. The archetypal Gundam introduced the mobile suit that gave the franchise its name, and tells an epic communicative of warfare and rivalry betwixt leader Amuro Ray and the charismatic Char Aznable. The compilation movie trilogy is simply a large alternate if the '70s animation and pacing beryllium excessively overmuch for newer audiences.
3. Mobile Suit Gundam MS-IGLOO
2004-2008
A amusement each astir Zeon engineers trying to unreserved their technology, showcasing wherefore they mightiness person mislaid the war.
4. Mobile Suit Gundam: The 08th MS Team
1996-1999
A broadside communicative successful the war, focusing connected a tiny squad, and what I see 1 of the champion Gundam stories. A self-contained communicative with large quality penning and a fascinating look astatine the warfare from a much grounded perspective.
5. Gundam: Requiem for Vengeance
2024
Taking spot successful the past months of the war, the Netflix amusement follows a Zeon aviator tasked with defending the European beforehand against the Federation's forces.
6. Mobile Suit Gundam 0080: War successful the Pocket
1989
A self-contained communicative each astir the realities of war, shown from the position of a kid who initially thinks soldiers are chill erstwhile the horrors of warfare travel knocking astatine his door.
7. Mobile Suit Gundam Thunderbolt
2015-2017
A uncommon glimpse astatine the non-Amuro oregon Char soldiers who risked their lives successful the war. Be warned, don't get excessively attached to the characters.
8. Mobile Suit Gundam 0083: Stardust Memory
1991-1992
What if Gundam was Top Gun? The reply is Stardust Memory, a amusement with large '80s powerfulness ballads, breathtaking combat, a unit of pilots you could easy spot playing volleyball connected the beach, and a large request for speed.
9. Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam
1985-1986
The warfare is over, and the victors person go the caller villains. The amusement blurs the enactment betwixt bully and evil, with a much analyzable story, a large redemption communicative for Char, and adjacent much abstraction fights.
10. Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ
1986-1987
A much humorous Gundam show, a bizarre effort to equilibrium retired the acheronian of Zeta with slapstick drama and a goofy caller radical of characters.
11. Mobile Suit Gundam: Char’s Counterattack
1988
The communicative of Char and Amuro comes to a adjacent with an epic movie. Mostly worthy it for those invested successful the rivalry of the 2 mecha pilots.
12. Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn
2010-2014
In galore ways, this is the decision to the Universal Century, a communicative of a mean lad who becomes a Gundam aviator connected behalf of Zeon, threatening to bring down the Federation. This is simply a uncommon Gundam rubric that was adapted from a novel.
13. Mobile Suit Gundam: Twilight Axis
2017
This abbreviated movie is 1 of the fewer Gundam titles to person a pistillate protagonist. Sadly, the film's abbreviated runtime means it crunches the communicative into specified minutes.
14. Mobile Suit Gundam Narrative
2018
A twelvemonth aft the events of Unicorn, the find of a long-lost Gundam threatens the Federation. This movie features immoderate chaotic Gundam designs.
15. Mobile Suit Gundam Hathaway
2021
It's been 12 years since Char's rebellion, and present a accidental brushwood betwixt a Newtype, an officer, and the lad of a large Federation serviceman from the archetypal bid results successful an breathtaking spy thriller afloat of intrigue.
16. Mobile Suit Gundam F91
2004
The closest Gundam has travel to really being Star Wars, with a protagonist that's fundamentally Darth Vader and euphony that resembles the Imperial March.
17. Mobile Suit Victory Gundam
1993-1994
Even Tomino jokingly rejected this introduction successful the franchise. That being said, the French Revolution inspiration gives this show, astatine the precise least, a chill premise.
18. G-Saviour
2000
A live-action movie astir the Federation and the colonies battling implicit nutrient shortages that serves arsenic impervious that Gundam works champion successful animation.
How to Watch Other Gundam Timelines successful Order
The Cosmic Era Timeline
A timeline focused connected the struggle betwixt mean Earth-born humans known arsenic "Naturals," and genetically altered superhumans known arsenic "Coordinators." This is wherever the SEED bid takes place, which is simply a bully instauration to the Gundam franchise arsenic an alternate to the archetypal show.
1. Mobile Suit Gundam SEED
2. Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny
3. Mobile Suit Gundam SEED C.E. 73: STARGAZER
4. Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Freedom
The Our Century Timeline
What if Gundam weren't existent elephantine robots, but a franchise with merchandise that regular radical are fans of? This is the location of the Gundam Builders franchise, which takes spot successful our reality, and follows fans of Gunpla — integrative Gundam models — that fans usage to combat successful high-tech arenas.
1. Model Suit Gunpla Builders Beginning G
2. Gundam Build Fighters
3. Gundam Build Fighters Try
4. Gundam Build Divers
5. Gundam Build Divers Re:RISE
6. Gundam Breaker Battlogue
The Correct Century Timeline
This is an alternate timeline with a alternatively chill necktie to the UC that is champion near unspoiled. There is lone 1 rubric successful this timeline, which boasts mecha designs by Syd Mead, a charming protagonist, and a unsocial premise that benignant of reminds maine of a western.
1. Turn A Gundam
The Future Century Timeline
The archetypal alternate timeline, Future Century skips the One Year War for a much civilized and exhilarating alternate — a elephantine tournament. Only 1 amusement takes spot successful this timeline, which is the amusement for radical who ever wondered what a Matador Gundam could look like, oregon a Viking Gundam, oregon the best-named Gundam — Tequila Gundam. It's the Gundam equivalent of the Gremlins 2 skit from Key & Peele.
1. Mobile Fighter G Gundam
The After Colony Timeline
The timeline that gave Gundam its large interruption successful the U.S. — the messy, campy, iconic Gundam Wing. Five young pilots are sent to Earth independently with Mobile Suits connected a ngo to combat against a hostile Earth connected behalf of the rebellious colonies, but the boys extremity up uncovering kinship successful each different and take their ain reasons to fight.
1. Mobile Suit Gundam Wing
2. Mobile Suit Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz
The After War Timeline
A timeline regarded by immoderate fans arsenic an alternate telling of the Universal Century wherever the One Year War ended successful an adjacent bigger calamity — with 99% of Earth's colonisation dying from colony drops. Only 1 amusement takes spot successful this timeline, featuring a young lad surviving connected post-apocalyptic Earth decides to aviator a Gundam to prevention the beingness of a mysterious miss helium has conscionable met.
1. After War Gundam X
The Anno Domini Timeline
The lone Gundam timeline to usage our calendar, this is the location of the Gundam 00 amusement and movie. The paramilitary enactment Celestial Being tries to escaped the satellite of warfare by creating the astir almighty limb ever. Surprise, it's 5 Gundams. It has immoderate elaborate worldbuilding and is the precise archetypal Gundam introduction to diagnostic existent aliens arsenic antagonists.
1. Mobile Suit Gundam 00
2. Mobile Suit Gundam 00 – Awakening of the Trailblazer –
The Advanced Generation Timeline
Several 100 years aft humanity has colonized abstraction and endured an epoch of long-lasting peace, a caller force appears. This is the location of Gundam AGE, a bid that spans respective decades arsenic the protagonists turn from children to aged veterans.
1. Mobile Suit Gundam AGE
The Regild Century Timeline
Created for the 35th day of the Gundam franchise, this was the archetypal bid that Gundam's creator Yoshiyuki Tomino wrote and directed successful 15 years. This timeline takes spot a millennium aft the Universal Century successful a satellite that is much anti-technology.
1. Gundam Reconguista successful G
The Post Disaster timeline
A post-Iraq War Gundam timeline that focuses connected much grounded subjects similar slavery, colonialism, and kid soldiers (in a overmuch little subtle mode than past shows). This is the location of Iron-Blooded Orphans, 1 of the darkest Gundam shows yet, which is saying a lot.
1. Mobile Suit Gundam Iron-Blooded Orphans
The Ad Stella Timeline
The location of The Witch From Mercury, this timeline is acceptable successful an epoch wherever abstraction has go a firm race, with a multitude of companies investing successful antithetic types of mobile suits. Additionally, Gundams present person a spot of a psychic transportation to their pilots (think synchronization successful Evangelion oregon Pacific Rim) which has caused galore pilots to beryllium killed and Gundams to beryllium banned astir everywhere.
1. Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch From Mercury
The GQuuuuuuX Timeline
Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX Beginning Gallery
Another alternate mentation of the Universal Century. In this timeline, Char Aznable gets his hands connected the White Base and the archetypal RX-78 Gundam alternatively of Amuro Ray, drastically changing the result of the One Year War. This is the location of the astir caller Gundam series, Gundam GQuuuuuuX, which IGN's reappraisal called "exactly the benignant of inventive reimagining of Gundam we deserve."
1. Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX
What's Next for Mobile Suit Gundam?
The gears of Gundam ne'er halt turning. In summation to GQuuuuuuX, a caller Gundam anime acceptable successful the Post Disaster timeline, titled Iron-Blooded Orphans: Urðr-Huntm, is successful the works based connected the mobile crippled of the aforesaid name. A prequel to SEED Freedom, titled Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Freedom Zero, is besides successful development.
And, of course, determination is besides the live-action movie we've been threatened with for a fewer years. Though the movie has (predictably) suffered setbacks, determination is simply a tiny accidental it could genuinely beryllium great. As of now, 1 of the lone details we person is the anticipation of nary different than Sydney Sweeney’s involvement.
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