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Mobile Suit Gundam
	Cover of the first Anime Legends English DVD box compilation, featuring the protagonist Amuro Ray and the titular RX-78-2 Gundam
機動戦士ガンダム; (Kidō Senshi Gandamu)
Genre	Mecha, military science fiction, space opera
Anime television series
Directed by	Yoshiyuki Tomino
Produced by	Yasuo Shibue; Hobuyuki Okuma; Wataru Sekioka;
Written by	Yoshiyuki Tomino
Music by	Takeo Watanabe; Yūshi Matsuyama;
Studio	Nippon Sunrise
Licensed by	AUS: Madman Entertainment; NA: Sunrise; UK: Anime Limited;
Original network	Nagoya TV
English network	SEA: Animax Asia; US: Cartoon Network (Toonami), Adult Swim;
Original run	April 7, 1979 – January 26, 1980
Episodes	43 (List of episodes)
Manga
Written by	Yū Okazaki
Published by	Akita Shoten
Demographic	Shōnen
Original run	1979 – 1980
Volumes	2
Novel series
Written by	Yoshiyuki Tomino
Illustrated by	Yoshinobu Aobachi (1979 edition); Haruhiko Mikimoto (1987 edition);
Published by	Asahi Sonorama
English publisher	US: Del Rey Books (former); Stone Bridge Press;
Imprint	Sonorama Bunko
Original run	1979 – 1981
Volumes	3
Anime film series
Directed by	Yoshiyuki Tomino
Produced by	Masami Iwasaki; Masuo Ueda; Takayuki Yoshii;
Written by	Yoshiyuki Tomino
Music by	Joe Hisaishi; Takeo Watanabe;
Studio	Nippon Sunrise
Licensed by	NA: Sunrise;
Released	March 14, 1981 – March 13, 1982
Runtime	139 minutes (I); 133 minutes (II); 144 minutes (III);
Films	3
Manga
Mobile Suit Gundam 0079
Written by	Kazuhisa Kondo
Published by	MediaWorks
English publisher	US: Viz Media;
Magazine	Dengeki Daioh
Demographic	Shōnen
Original run	1993 – 2005
Volumes	12
Manga
Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin
Written by	Yoshikazu Yasuhiko
Published by	Kadokawa Shoten
English publisher	NA: Viz Media (former); Vertical Inc. (current);
Magazine	Gundam Ace
Demographic	Shōnen
Original run	June 25, 2001 – June 25, 2011
Volumes	24 (List of volumes)
Anime film
Mobile Suit Gundam: Cucuruz Doan's Island
Directed by	Yoshikazu Yasuhiko
Written by	Toshizo Nemoto
Music by	Takayuki Hattori
Studio	Sunrise
Released	June 3, 2022
Runtime	108 minutes
Manga
Mobile Suit Gundam 0079 Episode II Luna
Written by	Kazuhisa Kondo
Published by	Kadokawa Shoten
Magazine	Gundam Ace
Demographic	Shōnen
Original run	November 26, 2022 – present
Video games
	List of Mobile Suit Gundam video games;
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Mobile Suit Gundam (Japanese: 機動戦士ガンダム, Hepburn: Kidō Senshi Gandamu), also known as First Gundam, Gundam 0079 or simply Gundam '79, is an anime television series, produced and animated by Nippon Sunrise. Created and directed by Yoshiyuki Tomino, it premiered in Japan on Nagoya Broadcasting Network and its affiliated ANN stations on April 7, 1979, and lasted until January 26, 1980, spanning 43 episodes. It was the first Gundam series, which has subsequently been adapted into numerous sequels and spin-offs. Set in the futuristic calendar year "Universal Century" 0079, the plot focuses on the war between the Principality of Zeon and the Earth Federation, with the latter unveiling a new giant robot known as the RX-78-2 Gundam piloted by the teenage civilian mechanic Amuro Ray.

In 1981, the series was re-edited for theatrical release and split into three films. The characters were designed by Yoshikazu Yasuhiko, and Kunio Okawara was responsible for the mechanical designs, including the eponymous giant robot, the RX-78-2 Gundam. The first film was released on February 22, 1981. Tomino himself also wrote a trilogy of novels that retell the events of the series. Two manga adaptations of the series have also been written by two manga artists.

Despite initial low ratings that caused the series' cancellation, the popularity of Gundam saw a boost from the introduction of Bandai's Gunpla models in 1980 and from reruns and the theatrical release of the anime, leading to the creation of a prolific and lucrative media and toy franchise. The series is famous for revolutionizing the giant robot genre due to the handling of mobile suits as weapons of war, as well as the portrayal of their pilots as ordinary soldiers. This aspects contrasted with the previous style of portraying hero pilots and their giant super hero robots.

Plot

Set in a fictional universe (Universal Century year 0079 according to the Gundam Calendar), the Principality of Zeon has declared independence from the Earth Federation, and subsequently launched a war of independence called the One Year War. The conflict has directly affected every continent on Earth, also nearly every space colony and lunar settlement. Zeon, though smaller, has the tactical upper hand through their use of a new type of humanoid weapons called mobile suits. After half of all humanity perishes in the conflict and much of Earth's ecosystem, the war settled into a bitter stalemate lasting over eight months.

The story begins with a newly deployed Federation warship, the White Base, arriving at the secret research base located at the Side 7 colony to pick up the Federation's newest weapon. However, they are closely followed by Zeon forces. A Zeon reconnaissance team member disobeys mission orders and attacks the colony, killing most of the Federation crew and civilians in the process. Out of desperation, young Amuro Ray accidentally finds the Federation's new prototype arsenal—the RX-78 Gundam, and manages to beat back Zeon forces. Scrambling everything they can, the White Base sets out with her newly formed crew of civilian recruits and refugees in her journey to survive.

On their journey, the White Base members often encounter the Zeon Lieutenant Commander Char Aznable. Although Char antagonizes Amuro in battle, he takes advantage of their position as Federation members to have them kill members from Zeon's Zabi family as part of his revenge scheme as he is the son of the original of Zeon and the nation’s namesake. Amuro also meets ensign Lalah Sune with whom he falls in love, but accidentally kills when facing Char. When the Federation Forces invade the Fortress of A Baoa Qu to defeat the Zeon forces, Amuro engages on a final one-on-one duel against Char due to each blaming the other for Lalah's death. Having realized he forgot his true enemy, Char stops fighting to kill the last surviving Zabi member, Kycilia Zabi. Amuro then reunites with his comrades as the war reaches its end, leaving behind the Gundam as it was rendered inoperable after his battle. The conflict officially ends when the prime minister of Zeon surrenders to the federation, losing the majority of its industrial capabilities and reverting itself to a republic. However, many remnants of the zeonic military go into hiding and lick their wounds in the hopes retaliating against the federation at a time of their choosing.

Production

The "Mobile Suits" of the show were inspired by the powered armor from the novel Starship Troopers from 1959.^[2] Mobile suits were conceptualized as human-like robots which would not only appeal to children.^[1] Yoshiyuki Tomino's original plot for the anime was considerably much more grim, with Amuro dying halfway through the series, and the crew of the White Base having to ally with Char (who is given a red Gundam), but finally having to battle him after he takes control of the Principality of Zeon. The original concept found expression in a series of novels written by Tomino soon after the show's conclusion, and elements of the storyline weaved themselves into Zeta Gundam and Char's Counterattack.

In previous series Tomino worked in, villains were alien agents. Mobile Suit Gundam was the first of his work which featured humans as antagonists. The director commented he wanted to tell a story about war.^[1] He aimed to expose through art the horrors of the Japanese wartime aggression in Manchuria in 1939. Tomino did not wish to revise history and wanted to use the story to force viewers to confront the tragic realities of war. The director was originally unwilling to discuss the message of his work, expecting the viewers to reach their own conclusion. Additionally, he commented he "packed his frustrations" when making Gundam.^[3]

Tomino met mechanical designer Kunio Okawara when he first worked in two television series from Sunrise. Tomino liked Okawara's work and asked him to collaborate with him in his upcoming project. Originally, the anime would be called "Gunboy" but it was renamed Mobile Suit Gundam.^[4] The White Base, the mothership of the protagonist crew members, is designed with a 3 plane view method by Kunio Okawara, however, it is not specially designed for the anime series Gundam, it was actually a salvaged design from the anime Invincible Steel Man Daitarn 3.^[5] The idea of having a space carrier from Tomino is partly inspired by the earlier science fiction anime Space Battleship Yamato, which he claimed to be a fan of.^[5] It was intended to be in a more realistic black color, but was changed to white by the order of Sunrise, who similarly ordered the main mecha, Gundam, changed from a grayish white to white, red, blue and yellow. Director Tomino showed great disgust in the color change, also noticing the unrealistic non-aerodynamic design of it after the show was on air, said in an interview that such design would never appear in the real world, since it would be a sitting duck from fighter aircraft. Tomino still held a grudge 10 years after the show aired and stated in an interview in Newtype 1989 April issue that the imaginary enemies of Gundam are Sunrise, sponsors and television stations.^[6]

Tomino compares the machines with religious history in Japan, most notably the worship of Buddha statues located in temples. The relationship between the pilot and the mobile suit has also been compared with the Formula One drivers who rely on machines to achieve a goal.^[7] In order to give the mechas fast movements, most of the fights were situated in space where there was low gravity. This led to the creation of space colonies as a common setting. In order to explain how a person as young as Amuro could pilot the Gundam, the team came up with the idea of Newtypes.^[1]

Media

Anime

In February 1980, Mobile Suit Gundam was aired in Italy, the first country to broadcast the show outside Japan.^[8] Mobile Suit Gundam was also later aired by the anime satellite television network, Animax, across Japan, with the series continuing to be aired on the network currently, and later its respective networks worldwide, including Hong Kong, Southeast Asia, South Asia, and other regions.

Hoping to capitalize on the success of Gundam Wing from the previous year, Bandai Entertainment released a heavily edited and English-dubbed version of Mobile Suit Gundam, premiering on Cartoon Network's Toonami weekday afternoon after-school action programming block across the United States on Monday, July 23, 2001. The series did not do as well as Wing but the ratings were high enough for the whole series to be aired and to spawn an enormous toy line. Due to 9-11, Cartoon Network, like many other American TV stations, began pulling, and editing, war-themed content and violent programming, resulting in the cancellation of the series. However, the series finale was shown as part of Toonami's "New Year's Eve-il" special on December 31, 2001.^[9] On Saturday, June 8, 2002, the series would later air on their late-night Adult Swim block, starting over from the first episode, but it was again pulled before completing its run because of low ratings.

On May 30, 2006, Bandai Entertainment re-released the English dub of the TV series in a 10 volume DVD set.^[10] There was no Japanese audio track included, apparently because Yoshiyuki Tomino felt that the original mono mix was in too poor of a condition to use.^[11] However, in 2007 the original series was released on DVD in Japan, which sold over 100,000 copies within a month's time from December 21, 2007 to January 21, 2008.^[12]

Only one episode out of the 43 episodes ("Cucuruz Doan's Island") had never been dubbed nor aired. This was at the request of Yoshiyuki Tomino, as he felt that it was not on par with the other episodes, resulting in the episode becoming a "lost episode" of sorts.^[13] Despite this, the episode was included on Japanese DVD and Blu-ray releases, and was dubbed in Italian in the early 1980s.

At the 2010 New York Comic Con/New York Anime Festival, Bandai Entertainment announced that they would re-release Mobile Suit Gundam with both the original Japanese audio and the English dub. Bandai released it in two sets in the summer of 2011.^[14] The first set was released on September 13, 2011.^[15]

Following the closure in 2012 of Bandai Entertainment, the series went out of print. At their New York Comic Con 2014 panel, Sunrise announced their plans to re-release all of the Gundam series on home video in North America, starting with the original series. They would be distributed via Right Stuf Inc.^[16] They released the series on Blu-ray and DVD in October 2015.^[17]

On July 25, 2015, British anime distributor Anime Limited announced they would release Mobile Suit Gundam in cooperation with Sunrise for the first time in the UK on DVD and Blu-ray.

Novel

In 1979, before the end of the anime, Yoshiyuki Tomino himself created the first novelizations of the original Gundam anime series. The novels, issued as a series of three books, allowed him to depict his story in a more sophisticated, adult, and detailed fashion. Along with this adaptation came several major changes to the story. For example, Amuro is already a member of the Federation military at the time of the initial Zeon attack on Side 7, and the main characters in the Federation serve on the White Base-class ships Pegasus and Pegasus II rather than the Pegasus-class White Base.^[18] Additionally, the war continues well into the year UC 0080 in the novels, whereas it concludes at the beginning of that year in the anime series. In the novel Amuro Ray is killed in the final attack against the Zeonic stronghold of A Baoa Qu when his RX-78-3 is pierced through the torso by a Rick Dom's beam bazooka. This occurs as Char's unit attempts to warn him about Gihren's intention to destroy the fortress and take the Federation's offensive fleet along with it. Char and the crew of Pegasus II (White Base), along with handpicked men under Kycilia Zabi's command, make a deep penetrating attack against the Side 3 and together kill Gihren Zabi, after which Kycilia is killed by Char. Tomino later lamented that had he known that the anime's ending would be different and that another series would be made, he would not have killed off Amuro in the novels.

The three novels were translated into English by Frederik Schodt and published by Del Rey Books in September 1990. At the time, there were no officially recognized romanizations of character and mecha names, and a variety of different spellings were being used in the English-language fan community. In the original three novels, therefore, Mr. Schodt wrote the name "Char" as "Sha." "Sha" is a transliteration of the Japanese pronunciation, although Mr. Tomino later publicly confirmed at Anime Expo New York 2002 that the name was originally based on the French name Charles Aznavour, a popular French-language singer. (The 2004 edition of the English translation revealed that Schodt felt that the "Char" rendering "seemed too close" to Aznavour's name.) He also rendered "Zaku" as "Zak," and (after consulting with Tomino) "Jion" as "Zeon," instead of "Zion," which was in use in some circles. Some North American fans, already attached to particular spellings, took great umbrage at Schodt's renditions, forgetting that in the original Japanese most character and mecha names are written in katakana, and that there were, therefore, no "official spellings." Many years later, when the Gundam series was finally licensed in North America, the rights holders came up with a unified list of "official spellings" for English-language material, and some of these spellings include Schodt's renditions, as well as the renditions to which certain North American fans were attached.

In 2004, Frederik Schodt revised his original translation of the books, which had been out of print for nearly a decade. What had been a three volume set in the 1990 Del Rey edition was re-released by Stone Bridge Press as one single volume of 476 pages (with a vastly improved cover design), titled Mobile Suit Gundam: Awakening, Escalation, Confrontation. Since the rights holders in Japan by this time had created a unified (although still evolving) list of romanized character and mecha names, Schodt was able to use it, and Amuro's rival in the novel thus became "Char" and not "Sha"; the popular Zeon Mobile Suit, similarly, became "Zaku," and not "Zak".^[19]

Films

Following the success of the Mobile Suit Gundam TV series, in 1981 Tomino reworked the footage into three separate compilation films. The first two films, Mobile Suit Gundam I (also known as Mobile Suit Gundam The Movie) and Mobile Suit Gundam II: Soldiers of Sorrow, were released in 1981. The third film, Mobile Suit Gundam III: Encounters in Space, was released in 1982.

Each of the three films is largely composed of old footage from the TV series, however Tomino felt that some things could be changed for the better. Tomino removed several aspects of the show which he felt were still too super robot-esque for the real robot series he intended Gundam to be, such as the Gundam Hammer weapon. The G-Armor upgrade parts were also completely removed and replaced in the narrative by the more realistic Core Booster support fighters, and Hayato receives a RX-77 Guncannon at Jaburo to replace the disadvantaged RX-75 Guntank. The third film also includes a substantial amount of new footage expanding on the battles of Solomon and A Baoa Qu.

The first Gundam film, upon release on 22 February 1981, drew a large crowd of 15,000 people at its premiere, leading to concerns from police and media that it could lead to social unrest from a riotous crowd. The event is considered a turning point in the history of anime, referred to as "the day that anime changed" according to Asahi Shimbun newspaper.^[20] The first film grossed ¥1.76 billion, and Gundam II grossed ¥1.38 billion.^[21] Encounters in Space was 1982's fourth highest-grossing Japanese film, with a distribution income of ¥1.29 billion^[22] and a total box office gross of ¥2.31 billion.^[23] Collectively, the trilogy grossed ¥5.45 billion at the Japanese box office.^[21]

In 1998, the three compilation films were first released directly to VHS subtitled into English as part of Bandai's AnimeVillage releases, which makes them among the first Gundam works released in English. A year later, Bandai released an English dub of three compilation films in 1999. Featuring the voice of Michael Lindsay as Amuro Ray, and Steve Blum as Char Aznable. Due to the dub mispronouncing the word Gundam as "Gun-dam", and the Principality of Zeon being called the "Duchy of Zeon", Sunrise prevented it from being re-released after its debut on VHS. The films were released again in North America on May 7, 2002 in DVD format, available separately or in a boxed set. These are also available only with re-done Japanese audio with English subtitles, the DVDs identical to the 20th anniversary release of the film compilation in Japan. The original Japanese voice cast members rerecorded their lines with the exception of those who were deceased. The 20th anniversary release was digitally remastered and many of the sound effects were replaced, most notably the futuristic gun sounds being replaced by louder machine gun sound effects. Also, the music soundtrack, while not remixed was rearranged and in some cases removed from some scenes. The vocal songs are rearranged also, especially in the closing credits of the second and third films.

Bandai Visual has announced the re-release of the Mobile Suit Gundam films on DVD from new HD masters and with the original, theatrical, mono audio mix. This boxed set was released in Japan on December 21, 2007.^[24]^[25] On May 18, 2010, Bandai Entertainment re-released the 20th anniversary version of the trilogy under their Anime Legends label.^[26]^[27] As with the TV series, the films were re-released in North America under Sunrise themselves with distribution from Right Stuf Inc.^[16]

The trilogy of films were distributed on DVD in the United Kingdom by Beez Entertainment in 2005 in Japanese and with a selection of subtitle tracks including English. Anime Ltd. has since acquired the UK license and has released a limited edition Blu-ray box set of the film trilogy (limited to 500 units) as an exclusive, sold only on their AllTheAnime.com store. It was released on March 27, 2017, in Japanese with English subtitles only.

A animated film adaptation based on the "Cucuruz Doan's Island" episode titled Mobile Suit Gundam: Cucuruz Doan's Island (Japanese: 機動戦士ガンダムククルス·ドアンの島, Hepburn: Kidō Senshi Gandamu Kukurusu Doan no Shima) was released on June 3, 2022.^[28]

Manga

There have been three manga series based on Mobile Suit Gundam. One was written by Yū Okazaki between 1979 and 1980 and compiled into two volumes.^[29] Another is Mobile Suit Gundam 0079 by Kazuhisa Kondo. It was published in Dengeki Comics from 1993 to 2005 in a total of twelve tankōbon volumes.^[30] Viz Media published its first nine volumes in English between 2000 and 2003. The third manga is Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin by anime character designer Yoshikazu Yasuhiko. It was published from June 2001 to June 2011 in Kadokawa Shoten's Gundam Ace magazine and collected in a total of 23 tankōbon volumes. The series was first released in English by Viz Media but was dropped before it was completed; it was then released by Vertical from March 2013 to December 2015.

Besides adaptations, there is a popular parody yonkoma manga titled Mobile Suit Gundam-san, which was written and drawn by Hideki Ohwada and serialized in Kadokawa Shoten's Gundam Ace magazine since 2001. This manga was adapted into an anime in 2014. Ohwada also created a spinoff manga, Gundam Sousei (ガンダム創世), which follows Yoshiyuki Tomino and the Sunrise staff as they work to make the television series and the compilation films. This series was serialized in Kadokawa Shoten's Gundam Ace magazine from 2009 to 2011 and compiled in the Gundam-san tankōbon starting in Volume 5. Kadokawa released two tankōbon volumes collecting Gundam Sousei chapters as The Men Who Created Gundam (「ガンダム」を創った男たち, "Gundam" wo Tsukutta Otoko-tachi). Denpa published The Men Who Created Gundam in English in June 2022 as an omnibus volume.

A continuation of the Mobile Suit Gundam 0079 manga, titled Mobile Suit Gundam 0079 Episode II Luna, began serialization in Kadokawa Shoten's Gundam Ace magazine on November 26, 2022.^[31]

Video games

(For the list below, only video games featuring mobile suits that appeared in the One Year War, or related variations are included.)

There have been many video games based on or with mobile suits from the original Gundam series. Of these, the following have been released in North America:

Gundam Battle Assault, Gundam Battle Assault 2
Gundam Side Story 0079: Rise From the Ashes
Mobile Suit Gundam: Journey to Jaburo
Mobile Suit Gundam: Zeonic Front
Mobile Suit Gundam: Federation vs. Zeon
Mobile Suit Gundam: Encounters in Space
Mobile Suit Gundam: Gundam vs. Zeta Gundam
Mobile Suit Gundam: Crossfire (Mobile Suit Gundam: Target in Sight in Japan and Australia)
MS Saga: A New Dawn (Mobile Suit Gundam: True Odyssey in Japan)
Dynasty Warriors: Gundam, Dynasty Warriors: Gundam 2, Dynasty Warriors: Gundam 3 (Gundam Musou in Japan)
Dynasty Warriors: Gundam Reborn (PlayStation 3 only)

Games that have been unreleased in countries outside Japan^{[citation needed]} include:

Gundam 0079 The War for Earth
Mobile Suit Gundam (1993 arcade game)
Mobile Suit Gundam: Spirits of Zeon ~Dual Stars of Carnage~
Mobile Suit Gundam: Spirit of Zeon ~Memory of Soldier~
Quiz Mobile Suit Gundam: Monsenshi
Giren's Greed (series)
Mobile Suit Gundam: Lost War Chronicles
Mobile Suit Gundam: Climax UC
Mobile Suit Gundam: The One Year War
Mobile Suit Gundam: Path of the Soldiers (also referred to as Ace Pilot)
Gundam Battle (series)
SD Gundam G Generation (series)
SD Gundam: Scad Hammers
Mobile Suit Gundam: Operation: Troy
Mobile Suit Gundam: Bonds of the Battlefield
Mobile Suit Gundam: Gundam vs. Gundam

Reception, influence and legacy

Gundam was not popular when it first aired, and in fact came close to being cancelled. The series was originally set to run for 52 episodes but was cut down to 39 by the show's sponsors, which included Clover (the original toymakers for the series). However, the staff was able to negotiate a one-month extension to end the series with 43 episodes.^[32] When Bandai bought the copyrights to build plastic models for the show's mecha, which was a relatively new market compared to the old Chogokin series Clover was making, things changed completely. With the introduction of their line of Gundam models, the popularity of the show began to soar. The models sold very well, the show began to do very well in reruns and its theatrical compilation was a huge success.^[33] Audiences were expecting another Super Robot TV show, and instead found Gundam, the first work of anime in an entirely new genre: the Real Robot genre.^[34] The Anime ranked #2 on Wizard's Anime Magazine on their "Top 50 Anime released in North America",^[35] and is regarded as changing the concept of Japanese robot anime and the turning point of history in Japan.^[36]

Despite being released in 1979, the original Gundam series is still remembered and recognized within the anime fan community. The series revolutionized mecha anime,^[37] introducing the new Real Robot genre, and over the years became synonymous with the entire genre for many. As a result, for example, parodies of mecha genre commonly feature homages to Mobile Suit Gundam, thanks to its immediate recognizability.^[38]

The series was the first winner of the Animage Anime Grand Prix prize, in 1979 and the first half of 1980. In the top 100 anime from Animage, Gundam was twenty-fourth.^[39] The magazine Wizard listed the series as the second best anime of all time.^[40] By the end of 2007, each episode of the original TV series averaged a sales figure of 80,928 copies, including all of the different formats it was published in (VHS, LD, DVD, etc.).^[41] The first DVD box set sold over 100,000 copies in the first month of release, from December 21, 2007 to January 21, 2008.^[42] As part of the 30th Anniversary of the Gundam series, the company officially announced a project on March 11, 2009 called Real-G, a plan to build a 1:1 real size scale Gundam in Japan. It was completed in July 2009 and displayed in a Tokyo park then taken down later.^[43] The 18-meter tall statue was reconstructed in Shizuoka Prefecture and was taken down in March 2011.^[44] In August 2011 it was dismantled only to reopen in Odaiba, Tokyo on April 19, 2012.^[45]^[46] It stood Odaiba along with a gift shop called "Gundam Front Tokyo" until it was dismantled in March 2016.

Most of the critical response to the series has been due to the setting and characters. John Oppliger observes that the characters of Amuro Ray, to whom the young Japanese of that time could easily relate, and Char Aznable, who was "simply [...] fascinating", made a major contribution to the series' popularity. He also concludes that "in many respects First Gundam stands for the nostalgic identifying values of everything that anime itself represents".^[38] The series has been praised by Anime News Network for the way it portrays war with Amuro facing traumatic moments as a result of killing enemy soldiers in his becoming of a soldier.^[47]^[48] The series is also notable for having humans from a different race as antagonists rather than evil creatures. However, the animation has been noted to have notoriously aged when compared with series seen in the 2000s.^[48]^[49]

Mecha anime creator Shoji Kawamori attended Keio University in the same years as Macross screenwriter Hiroshi Ōnogi and character designer Haruhiko Mikimoto, where they had a Mobile Suit Gundam fan club called "Gunsight One", a name they would use years later as the call sign of the bridge of the SDF-1 spaceship from their first Macross anime television series. In fact, The Super Dimension Fortress Macross mecha anime series was inspired by Gundam in several aspects during its early development.^[50] Guillermo del Toro has cited the series as an influence on Pacific Rim.^[51]

American musician Richie Kotzen, former guitarist from Poison and Mr. Big, released an album called Ai Senshi ZxR in 2006 in Japan. The album consisted of covered music from the Gundam series and original songs. American musician Andrew W.K. also released an album called Gundam Rock on September 9, 2009, in Japan. The album consists of covered music from the Gundam series to celebrate its 30th anniversary.^[52]

Background research

The background research of Mobile Suit Gundam is well praised in its field. The positions in which the colonies (sides) are located in orbit are called Lagrangian points, and are real world solutions to the three-body problem. The colonies (sides) are based on the O'Neill cylinder design for space habitats.^[53]^[54]^[55] The Gundam franchise was a major contributing factor to the fame of the O'Neil cylinder in Japan.^[56]

Rides

"Gundam the Ride: A Baoa Qu" was an amusement park attraction at the Fuji-Q Highland Amusement Park located in Fujiyoshida, Yamanashi, Japan. It was a dark ride for the park. Gundam the Ride, which opened to the public on July 20, 2000, was based on Mobile Suit Gundam. Set during the final chaotic Battle of A Baoa Qu, Gundam the Ride places its riders in an Escape Launch Shuttle about to leave the battleship Suruga.

The animation of Gundam the Ride used mostly computer graphics, however, all human characters were hand-drawn cel animation, similar to the style current Gundam video games are done in. All of the character designs for Gundam the Ride were done by Haruhiko Mikimoto. The ride's characters make a cameo appearance in the video game "Encounters in Space" while the player (playing as Amuro Ray in his Gundam) is making his way through the Dolos.

The ride closed on January 8, 2007 and replaced with "Gundam Crisis Attraction" The main feature of this attraction is a full size 1:1 Gundam model, lying flat inside the venue. Instead of sitting in a movable cockpit and watching a CG movie, it requires participants to carry handheld devices throughout the attraction to find certain pieces of information, similar to a scavenger hunt, in order to activate the Gundam. The interior of the attraction is a mock-up of a Federation ship, and employees remain in-character inside of the ride.

Notes

^ Series creator and director Yoshiyuki Tomino requested that episode 15 be removed from international release, as he believed that the episode was not on par with the rest of the anime. As a result, there are only 42 episodes officially released in North America. Italy was the only region to officially release the episode outside Japan.

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^ ^a ^b Gundam Century Renewal Version, Kishosha, March 15, 2000, ISBN 4-87777-028-3
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^ N. Hornyak, Timothy (2006). Loving the Machine: The Art and Science of Japanese Robots. Kodansha International. p. 64. ISBN 978-4770030122.
^ "AntonioGenna.net presenta: IL MONDO DEI DOPPIATORI - ZONA ANIMAZIONE: "Gundam" / "Mobile Suit Gundam"". antoniogenna.net. Archived from the original on May 1, 2012. Retrieved July 18, 2011.
^ http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/edit-list/2002-03-04/cartoon-network-interview Archived September 8, 2007, at the Wayback Machine interview
^ http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/mobile_suit_gundam_vol_1_the_battle_begins/ Archived April 7, 2008, at the Wayback Machine Rotten Tomatoes page of the first volume.
^ http://www.animejump.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=Sections&file=index&req=viewarticle&artid=40&page=1 ("The sound quality of the recordings that remain from First Gundam is quite poor at this time. Because of this, there was no other way but to re-record the First Gundam movies, including the addition of new music. So, there would be no possibility of having the original soundtrack released in the United States.")
^ Otona no Gundam, Adult's Gundam, Nikki Entertainment
^ Tei, Andrew (28 September 2004) [2002]. "Yoshiyuki Tomino Panel – the daddy of Gundam!". Anime on DVD. Archived from the original on 18 October 2004. I asked that it would be skipped. There is a reason, but since the staff is still alive I can't answer it. It's a long story.
^ "Bandai Ent. Adds 1st Gundam TV Series With English Subs". Anime News Network. October 9, 2010. Archived from the original on October 10, 2010. Retrieved October 9, 2010.
^ "Mobile Suit Gundam Complete Collection 1: Anime DVD Region 1 US Import NTSC: Amazon.co.uk: DVD & Blu-ray". Amazon.co.uk. Archived from the original on September 9, 2020. Retrieved September 5, 2017.
^ ^a ^b "Sunrise Partners With Right Stuf to Release Gundam Franchise Stateside". Anime News Network. 2014-10-11. Archived from the original on October 11, 2014. Retrieved October 11, 2014.
^ "Right Stuf, Sunrise to Release Original Gundam TV Anime on Blu-ray Disc". Anime News Network. 2015-07-03. Archived from the original on July 5, 2015. Retrieved 2015-07-05.
^ Tomino, Yoshiyuki (2004). Mobile Suit Gundam. Berkeley: Stone Bridge Press. p. 11. ISBN 1-880656-86-8.
^ Tomino, Yoshiyuki (2004). Mobile Suit Gundam. Berkeley: Stone Bridge Press. pp. 470–473. ISBN 1-880656-86-8.
^ Clements, Jonathan (2017). Anime: A History. Bloomsbury Publishing. p. 167. ISBN 9781844578849. Archived from the original on August 6, 2020. Retrieved February 20, 2019.
^ ^a ^b "ガンダムで映画化された作品を振り返る". データガンダム (in Japanese). 2018-10-11. Archived from the original on 2018-12-15. Retrieved 2018-12-12.
^ "1982年（1月～12月）". Motion Picture Producers Association of Japan. Archived from the original on March 6, 2018. Retrieved March 5, 2018.
^ "日本アカデミー賞にもノミネート映画「ONE ＰＩＥCＥ」が超えた名作アニメ映画". Naver Matome. Naver. 2013-01-24. Archived from the original on July 31, 2015. Retrieved 19 February 2019.
^ [商品詳細 ] バンダイビジュアル株式会社
^ "Gunota Headlines". aeug.blogspot.com. Archived from the original on August 14, 2007. Retrieved August 2, 2007.
^ "Mobile Suit Gundam Trilogy Anime Legends". store.bandai-ent.com. Archived from the original on July 9, 2010. Retrieved 2015-11-11.
^ "Amazon.com: Mobile Suit Gundam Trilogy Anime Legends: Tôru Furuya, Hirotaka Suzuoki, Yoshiyuki Tomino: Movies & TV". amazon.com. 22 June 2010. Archived from the original on September 9, 2020. Retrieved September 5, 2017.
^ Hodgkins, Crystalyn (September 15, 2021). "Yoshikazu Yasuhiko Directs Gundam: Cucuruz Doan's Island Anime Film Opening in 2022". Anime News Network. Retrieved September 15, 2021.
^ 機動戦士ガンダム (サンライズ・ロボット漫画コレクションvol.1) (in Japanese). ASIN 4775914219.
^ 機動戦士ガンダム0079 VOL.1 (電撃コミックス) Kindle版. Kadokawa. 26 November 2013. Archived from the original on September 9, 2020. Retrieved May 28, 2020 – via Amazon.com.
^ Cayanan, Joanna (October 31, 2022). "Kazuhisa Kondō Launches Mobile Suit Gundam 0079 Episode Luna II Manga in November". Anime News Network. Retrieved October 31, 2022.
^ The Legend Story of Gundam, Goods Press, March 15, 2011, ISBN 978-4-19-925031-6
^ Lunning, Frenchy (2006). Emerging Worlds of Anime and Manga, Volume 1. U of Minnesota Press. p. 175. ISBN 978-0816649457.
^ Oricon Style manga and anime interviews and specials Archived December 30, 2008, at the Wayback Machine, Robot anime special, "リアルロボット"というジャンルを生み出した作品が『機動戦士ガンダム』である。(Mobile Suit Gundam, the series that gave birth to the genre named "Real Ro/9bot")
^ "Wizard lists Top 50 Anime". Anime News Network. July 6, 2001. Archived from the original on April 2, 2014. Retrieved 2014-02-02.
^ "Anime Japan 2014". www.anime-japan.jp. Archived from the original on April 3, 2014. Retrieved 2015-11-11.
^ Oppliger, John (June 24, 2008). "Ask John: Which Anime Have Been Ahead of Their Time?". AnimeNation. Archived from the original on August 30, 2008. Retrieved February 1, 2010.
^ ^a ^b John Oppliger (May 16, 2008). "Ask John: Why Are Gundam Fans So Obsessed With First Gundam?". AnimeNation. Archived from the original on May 20, 2008. Retrieved May 30, 2008.
^ "Animage Top 100 anime listing". Anime News Network. January 15, 2001. Archived from the original on April 15, 2019. Retrieved December 23, 2013.
^ "Wizard lists Top 50 Anime". Anime News Network. July 16, 2001. Archived from the original on April 2, 2014. Retrieved December 23, 2013.
^ TVアニメ歷代売上累計平均ランキング最新版TOP25
^ Otona no Gundam Perfect, Nikkei Business Publications January 21, 2008
^ 1/1実物大ガンダム大地に立つ！
^ "静岡の空をそめていく......実物大ガンダム公開直前リポート – ITmedia News" (in Japanese). July 7, 2010. Archived from the original on August 8, 2010. Retrieved September 19, 2010. "Shizuoka ... full-scale Gundam"
^ "Life-Size Gundam Rises Again at Tokyo's Odaiba in Video". Anime News Network. 2012-04-22. Archived from the original on October 29, 2016. Retrieved 2012-05-04.
^ "Giant 60-Foot 'Mobile Suit Gundam' Statue Presides Over DiverCity Tokyo Plaza (PHOTO)". Huffington Post. 2012-05-01. Archived from the original on September 20, 2016. Retrieved 2012-05-04.
^ Shepard, Chris (January 21, 2002). "Mobile Suit Gundam DVD 2". Anime News Network. Archived from the original on December 3, 2013. Retrieved November 28, 2013.
^ ^a ^b Dong, Bamboo (January 27, 2002). "MS Gundam (Dub only) DVD Vol. 3: The Threat of Zeon". Anime News Network. Archived from the original on December 3, 2013. Retrieved November 28, 2013.
^ Wallis, J. Doyle. "Mobile Suit Gundam Movie I". DVDTalk. Archived from the original on December 14, 2013. Retrieved December 24, 2013.
^ "Translation & Cultural Notes". The Super Dimension Fortress Macross Liner Notes. AnimEigo. December 21, 2001. Archived from the original on August 13, 2009. Retrieved February 12, 2012. According to the liner notes of the AnimEigo DVD release of the Macross TV series Gunsight One was also the fanzine title of the Gundam fan club that creator Shoji Kawamori, character designer Haruhiko Mikimoto, and writer Hiroshi Oonogi (members number 1, 2, and 3 of said club) founded while they were students at Keio University in Japan...
^ "Pacific Rim Director Visits Odaiba's Life-Size Gundam in Video". Archived from the original on August 9, 2015. Retrieved August 16, 2015.
^ "Gundam Rock English Cover Album to Ship in Japan". Anime News Network. Archived from the original on September 26, 2009. Retrieved September 16, 2009.
^ Gundam Century, Gundam Science, High Frontier
^ Gundam SF World
^ Mobile Suit Gundam Epoch Vol. 1
^ 王立科學博物館

External links

Official Website: Anime
Official English website at the Wayback Machine (archive index)
Mobile Suit Gundam (anime) at Anime News Network's encyclopedia
Mobile Suit Gundam at IMDb

Preceded by none	Gundam metaseries (production order) 1979–1980	Succeeded by Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam
Preceded by Mobile Suit Gundam MS IGLOO	Gundam Universal Century timeline U.C. 0079–0080	Succeeded by Mobile Suit Gundam: The 08th MS Team Mobile Suit Gundam: Requiem for Vengeance Mobile Suit Gundam Thunderbolt Mobile Suit Gundam 0080: War in the Pocket

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[1] Series creator and director Yoshiyuki Tomino requested that episode 15 be removed from international release, as he believed that the episode was not on par with the rest of the anime. As a result, there are only 42 episodes officially released in North America. Italy was the only region to officially release the episode outside Japan.

[qa-2] "Q&A with Yoshiyuki Tomino". Anime News Network. September 14, 2009. Archived from the original on December 20, 2018. Retrieved November 15, 2013.

[3] Tomino, Yoshiyuki (2004). Mobile Suit Gundam: Awakening, Escalation, Confrontation. Stone Bridge Press. p. 8. ISBN 978-1-880656-86-0. Archived from the original on February 15, 2017. Retrieved September 24, 2016.

[4] Stahl, David (2010). Imag(in)ing the War in Japan. BRILL. p. 335. ISBN 978-9004182981.

[5] "The Mike Toole Show Super Robot Island: Final". Anime News Network. November 18, 2012. Archived from the original on November 20, 2012. Retrieved November 18, 2012.

[GC-6] Gundam Century Renewal Version, Kishosha, March 15, 2000, ISBN 4-87777-028-3

[7] Newtype magazine 1989 April Issue

[8] N. Hornyak, Timothy (2006). Loving the Machine: The Art and Science of Japanese Robots. Kodansha International. p. 64. ISBN 978-4770030122.

[9] "AntonioGenna.net presenta: IL MONDO DEI DOPPIATORI - ZONA ANIMAZIONE: "Gundam" / "Mobile Suit Gundam"". antoniogenna.net. Archived from the original on May 1, 2012. Retrieved July 18, 2011.

[10] ttp://www.animenewsnetwork.com/edit-list/2002-03-04/cartoon-network-interview Archived September 8, 2007, at the Wayback Machine interview

[11] ttp://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/mobile_suit_gundam_vol_1_the_battle_begins/ Archived April 7, 2008, at the Wayback Machine Rotten Tomatoes page of the first volume.

[12] ttp://www.animejump.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=Sections&file=index&req=viewarticle&artid=40&page=1 ("The sound quality of the recordings that remain from First Gundam is quite poor at this time. Because of this, there was no other way but to re-record the First Gundam movies, including the addition of new music. So, there would be no possibility of having the original soundtrack released in the United States.")

[13] Otona no Gundam, Adult's Gundam, Nikki Entertainment

[14] Tei, Andrew (28 September 2004) [2002]. "Yoshiyuki Tomino Panel – the daddy of Gundam!". Anime on DVD. Archived from the original on 18 October 2004. I asked that it would be skipped. There is a reason, but since the staff is still alive I can't answer it. It's a long story.

[15] "Bandai Ent. Adds 1st Gundam TV Series With English Subs". Anime News Network. October 9, 2010. Archived from the original on October 10, 2010. Retrieved October 9, 2010.

[16] "Mobile Suit Gundam Complete Collection 1: Anime DVD Region 1 US Import NTSC: Amazon.co.uk: DVD & Blu-ray". Amazon.co.uk. Archived from the original on September 9, 2020. Retrieved September 5, 2017.

[RightStuf-17] "Sunrise Partners With Right Stuf to Release Gundam Franchise Stateside". Anime News Network. 2014-10-11. Archived from the original on October 11, 2014. Retrieved October 11, 2014.

[18] "Right Stuf, Sunrise to Release Original Gundam TV Anime on Blu-ray Disc". Anime News Network. 2015-07-03. Archived from the original on July 5, 2015. Retrieved 2015-07-05.

[19] Tomino, Yoshiyuki (2004). Mobile Suit Gundam. Berkeley: Stone Bridge Press. p. 11. ISBN 1-880656-86-8.

[20] Tomino, Yoshiyuki (2004). Mobile Suit Gundam. Berkeley: Stone Bridge Press. pp. 470–473. ISBN 1-880656-86-8.

[21] Clements, Jonathan (2017). Anime: A History. Bloomsbury Publishing. p. 167. ISBN 9781844578849. Archived from the original on August 6, 2020. Retrieved February 20, 2019.

[data-22] "ガンダムで映画化された作品を振り返る". データガンダム (in Japanese). 2018-10-11. Archived from the original on 2018-12-15. Retrieved 2018-12-12.

[23] "1982年（1月～12月）". Motion Picture Producers Association of Japan. Archived from the original on March 6, 2018. Retrieved March 5, 2018.

[gundam3-24] "日本アカデミー賞にもノミネート映画「ONE ＰＩＥCＥ」が超えた名作アニメ映画". Naver Matome. Naver. 2013-01-24. Archived from the original on July 31, 2015. Retrieved 19 February 2019.

[25] [商品詳細 ] バンダイビジュアル株式会社

[26] "Gunota Headlines". aeug.blogspot.com. Archived from the original on August 14, 2007. Retrieved August 2, 2007.

[27] "Mobile Suit Gundam Trilogy Anime Legends". store.bandai-ent.com. Archived from the original on July 9, 2010. Retrieved 2015-11-11.

[28] "Amazon.com: Mobile Suit Gundam Trilogy Anime Legends: Tôru Furuya, Hirotaka Suzuoki, Yoshiyuki Tomino: Movies & TV". amazon.com. 22 June 2010. Archived from the original on September 9, 2020. Retrieved September 5, 2017.

[29] Hodgkins, Crystalyn (September 15, 2021). "Yoshikazu Yasuhiko Directs Gundam: Cucuruz Doan's Island Anime Film Opening in 2022". Anime News Network. Retrieved September 15, 2021.

[30] 機動戦士ガンダム (サンライズ・ロボット漫画コレクションvol.1) (in Japanese). ASIN 4775914219.

[31] 機動戦士ガンダム0079 VOL.1 (電撃コミックス) Kindle版. Kadokawa. 26 November 2013. Archived from the original on September 9, 2020. Retrieved May 28, 2020 – via Amazon.com.

[32] Cayanan, Joanna (October 31, 2022). "Kazuhisa Kondō Launches Mobile Suit Gundam 0079 Episode Luna II Manga in November". Anime News Network. Retrieved October 31, 2022.

[Legend_Story_of_Gundam-33] The Legend Story of Gundam, Goods Press, March 15, 2011, ISBN 978-4-19-925031-6

[34] Lunning, Frenchy (2006). Emerging Worlds of Anime and Manga, Volume 1. U of Minnesota Press. p. 175. ISBN 978-0816649457.

[35] Oricon Style manga and anime interviews and specials Archived December 30, 2008, at the Wayback Machine, Robot anime special, "リアルロボット"というジャンルを生み出した作品が『機動戦士ガンダム』である。(Mobile Suit Gundam, the series that gave birth to the genre named "Real Ro/9bot")

[36] "Wizard lists Top 50 Anime". Anime News Network. July 6, 2001. Archived from the original on April 2, 2014. Retrieved 2014-02-02.

[37] "Anime Japan 2014". www.anime-japan.jp. Archived from the original on April 3, 2014. Retrieved 2015-11-11.

[38] Oppliger, John (June 24, 2008). "Ask John: Which Anime Have Been Ahead of Their Time?". AnimeNation. Archived from the original on August 30, 2008. Retrieved February 1, 2010.

[Oppliger-39] John Oppliger (May 16, 2008). "Ask John: Why Are Gundam Fans So Obsessed With First Gundam?". AnimeNation. Archived from the original on May 20, 2008. Retrieved May 30, 2008.

[40] "Animage Top 100 anime listing". Anime News Network. January 15, 2001. Archived from the original on April 15, 2019. Retrieved December 23, 2013.

[41] "Wizard lists Top 50 Anime". Anime News Network. July 16, 2001. Archived from the original on April 2, 2014. Retrieved December 23, 2013.

[42] TVアニメ歷代売上累計平均ランキング最新版TOP25

[43] Otona no Gundam Perfect, Nikkei Business Publications January 21, 2008

[44] 1/1実物大ガンダム大地に立つ！

[45] "静岡の空をそめていく......実物大ガンダム公開直前リポート – ITmedia News" (in Japanese). July 7, 2010. Archived from the original on August 8, 2010. Retrieved September 19, 2010. "Shizuoka ... full-scale Gundam"

[46] "Life-Size Gundam Rises Again at Tokyo's Odaiba in Video". Anime News Network. 2012-04-22. Archived from the original on October 29, 2016. Retrieved 2012-05-04.

[47] "Giant 60-Foot 'Mobile Suit Gundam' Statue Presides Over DiverCity Tokyo Plaza (PHOTO)". Huffington Post. 2012-05-01. Archived from the original on September 20, 2016. Retrieved 2012-05-04.

[48] Shepard, Chris (January 21, 2002). "Mobile Suit Gundam DVD 2". Anime News Network. Archived from the original on December 3, 2013. Retrieved November 28, 2013.

[dvdann-49] Dong, Bamboo (January 27, 2002). "MS Gundam (Dub only) DVD Vol. 3: The Threat of Zeon". Anime News Network. Archived from the original on December 3, 2013. Retrieved November 28, 2013.

[50] Wallis, J. Doyle. "Mobile Suit Gundam Movie I". DVDTalk. Archived from the original on December 14, 2013. Retrieved December 24, 2013.

[Gunsight-1-51] "Translation & Cultural Notes". The Super Dimension Fortress Macross Liner Notes. AnimEigo. December 21, 2001. Archived from the original on August 13, 2009. Retrieved February 12, 2012. According to the liner notes of the AnimEigo DVD release of the Macross TV series Gunsight One was also the fanzine title of the Gundam fan club that creator Shoji Kawamori, character designer Haruhiko Mikimoto, and writer Hiroshi Oonogi (members number 1, 2, and 3 of said club) founded while they were students at Keio University in Japan...

[52] "Pacific Rim Director Visits Odaiba's Life-Size Gundam in Video". Archived from the original on August 9, 2015. Retrieved August 16, 2015.

[53] "Gundam Rock English Cover Album to Ship in Japan". Anime News Network. Archived from the original on September 26, 2009. Retrieved September 16, 2009.

[54] Gundam Century, Gundam Science, High Frontier

[55] Gundam SF World

[56] Mobile Suit Gundam Epoch Vol. 1

[57] 王立科學博物館

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v t e Mobile Suit Gundam (1979–1980 series)
Media	Episodes Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin Mobile Suit Gundam: Cucuruz Doan's Island
Characters	Amuro Ray Char Aznable Haro
Mobile weapons	Gundam Zaku

v t e Winners of Animage's Anime Grand Prix
1970s / 1980s	Mobile Suit Gundam (1979–1980) Space Runaway Ideon (1980) Adieu Galaxy Express 999 (1981) Six God Combination Godmars (1982) Crusher Joe (1983) Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (1984) Dirty Pair (1985) Castle in the Sky (1986) Saint Seiya (1987) My Neighbor Totoro (1988) Kiki's Delivery Service (1989)
1990s	Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water (1990) Future GPX Cyber Formula (1991) Sailor Moon (1992) Yu Yu Hakusho (1993–1994) Neon Genesis Evangelion (1995–1996) The End of Evangelion (1997) Nadesico: Prince of Darkness (1998) Cardcaptor Sakura (1999)
2000s	Saiyuki (2000) Fruits Basket (2001) Mobile Suit Gundam SEED (2002) Fullmetal Alchemist (2003) Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny (2004–2005) Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion (2006–2007) Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion R2 (2008) K-On! (2009)
2010s	Inazuma Eleven (2010) Inazuma Eleven GO (2011) Inazuma Eleven GO: Chrono Stone (2012) Attack on Titan (2013) Free! ~Eternal Summer~ (2014) Mr. Osomatsu (2015) Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans (2016) Idolish7 (2017) Case Closed: Zero the Enforcer (2018) Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba (2019)
2020s	Healin' Good Pretty Cure (2020) Jujutsu Kaisen 0 (2021) Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba – To the Swordsmith Village (2022) Birth of Kitarō: The Mystery of GeGeGe (2023)

v t e Sunrise television series
1970s	Hazedon (1972–1973) Zero Tester (1973–1974) Reideen The Brave (1975–1976) La Seine no Hoshi (1975) Kum-Kum (1975–1976) Chōdenji Robo Combattler V (1976–1977) Dinosaur Expedition Born Free [ja] (1976–1977) Chōdenji Machine Voltes V (1977–1978) Invincible Super Man Zambot 3 (1977–1978) Majokko Tickle (1978–1979) Tōshō Daimos (1978–1979) Invincible Steel Man Daitarn 3 (1978–1979) Cyborg 009 (1979–1980) Future Robot Daltanious (1979–1980) Mobile Suit Gundam (1979–1980) The Ultraman (1979–1980) Scientific Adventure Team Tansar 5 [ja] (1979–1980)
1980s	Invincible Robo Trider G7 (1980–1981) Space Runaway Ideon (1980–1981) Fang of the Sun Dougram (1981–1983) Combat Mecha Xabungle (1982–1983) Aura Battler Dunbine (1983–1984) Armored Trooper Votoms (1983–1984) Ginga Hyōryū Vifam (1983–1984) Heavy Metal L-Gaim (1984–1985) Giant Gorg (1984) Panzer World Galient (1984–1985) Choriki Robo Galatt (1984–1985) Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam (1985–1986) Dirty Pair (1985) Blue Comet SPT Layzner (1985–1986) Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ (1986–1987) Metal Armor Dragonar (1987–1988) City Hunter (1987–1988) Mister Ajikko (1987–1989) Mashin Hero Wataru (1988–1989) Ronin Warriors (1988–1989) City Hunter 2 (1988–1989) Jushin Liger (1989–1990) Madö King Granzört (1989–1990) City Hunter 3 (1989–1990) Patlabor: The TV Series (1989–1990)
1990s	Brave Exkaiser (1990–1991) Mashin Hero Wataru 2 (1990–1991) The Brave Fighter of Sun Fighbird (1991–1992) Future GPX Cyber Formula (1991) City Hunter '91 (1991) Armored Police Metal Jack (1991) Matchless Raijin-Oh (1991–1992) Mama is a 4th Grader (1992) The Brave Fighter of Legend Da-Garn (1992–1993) Genki Bakuhatsu Ganbaruger (1992–1993) The Brave Express Might Gaine (1993–1994) Nekketsu Saikyō Go-Saurer (1993–1994) Mobile Suit Victory Gundam (1993–1994) Shippū! Iron Leaguer (1993–1994) Brave Police J-Decker (1994–1995) Haō Taikei Ryū Knight (1994–1995) Mobile Fighter G Gundam (1994–1995) The Brave of Gold Goldran (1995–1996) Wild Knights Gulkeeva (1995) Mobile Suit Gundam Wing (1995–1996) Brave Command Dagwon (1996–1997) The Vision of Escaflowne (1996) After War Gundam X (1996) Ganbarist! Shun (1996–1997) Reideen the Superior (1996–1997) The King of Braves GaoGaiGar (1997–1998) Super Mashin Hero Wataru (1997–1998) Outlaw Star (1998) Ginga Hyōryū Vifam 13 (1998) Sentimental Journey (1998) Brain Powerd (1998) DT Eightron (1998) Gasaraki (1998–1999) Cowboy Bebop (1998–1999) Crest of the Stars (1999) Aesop World (1999) Angel Links (1999) Betterman (1999) Turn A Gundam (1999–2000) Seraphim Call (1999) The Big O (1999–2000) Infinite Ryvius (1999–2000)
2000s	Mighty Cat Masked Niyander (2000–2001) Banner of the Stars (2000) Dinozaurs: The Series (2000) Brigadoon: Marin & Melan (2000–2001) Argento Soma (2000–2001) Gear Fighter Dendoh (2000–2001) Inuyasha (2000–2004) Z.O.E. Dolores, I (2001) Banner of the Stars II (2001) s-CRY-ed (2001) Crush Gear Turbo (2001–2003) Witch Hunter Robin (2002) Overman King Gainer (2002–2003) Mobile Suit Gundam SEED (2002–2003) The Big O II (2003) Machine Robo Rescue (2003–2004) Crush Gear Nitro (2003–2004) Tank Knights Fortress (2003–2004) Planetes (2003–2004) Superior Defender Gundam Force (2004) Kaiketsu Zorori (2004–2005) Sgt. Frog (2004–2011) My-HiME (2004–2005) Onmyō Taisenki (2004–2005) Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny (2004–2005) Yakitate!! Japan (2004–2006) Majime ni Fumajime Kaiketsu Zorori (2005–2007) GaoGaiGar Final -Grand Glorious Gathering- (2005) Cluster Edge (2005–2006) My-Otome (2005–2006) Zegapain (2006) Gintama (2006–2010) Intrigue in the Bakumatsu – Irohanihoheto (2006–2007) Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion (2006–2007) Kekkaishi (2006–2008) Dinosaur King (2007–2008) Idolmaster: Xenoglossia (2007) Mobile Suit Gundam 00 (2007–2008) Dinosaur King D-Kids Adventure: Pterosaur Legend (2008) Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion R2 (2008) Battle Spirits: Shounen Toppa Bashin (2008–2009) Tales of the Abyss (2008–2009) Mobile Suit Gundam 00 Second Season (2008–2009) The Girl Who Leapt Through Space (2009) Black God (2009) Inuyasha: The Final Act (2009–2010) Hipira (2009)
2010s	SD Gundam Sangokuden Brave Battle Warriors (2010–2011) Tiger & Bunny (2011) Gintama' (2011–2012) Sacred Seven (2011) Horizon in the Middle of Nowhere (2011–2012) Mobile Suit Gundam AGE (2011–2012) Phi Brain: Puzzle of God (2011–2014) Daily Lives of High School Boys (2012) Natsuiro Kiseki (2012) Accel World (2012) Good Luck Girl! (2012) Battle Spirits: Sword Eyes (2012–2013) Gintama': Enchousen (2012–2013) Aikatsu! (2012–2015, #1–126) Love Live! School Idol Project (2013–2014) Valvrave the Liberator (2013) Battle Spirits: Saikyou Ginga Ultimate Zero (2013–2014) Gundam Build Fighters (2013–2014) Buddy Complex (2014) KERORO (2014) Mobile Suit Gundam-san (2014) Buddy Complex: The Final Chapter (2014) Tribe Cool Crew (2014–2015, #1–24) Gundam Reconguista in G (2014–2015) Gundam Build Fighters Try (2014–2015) Cross Ange: Rondo of Angels and Dragons (2014–2015) Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans (2015–2017) Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn RE:0096 (2016) Love Live! Sunshine!! (2016–2017) ClassicaLoid (2016–2018) Magic-kyun Renaissance (2016) Gundam Build Divers (2018) Double Decker! Doug & Kirill (2018) Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin – Advent of the Red Comet (2019)
2020s	Wave, Listen to Me! (2020) King's Raid: Successors of the Will (2020–2021) Yashahime: Princess Half-Demon (2020–2022) Love Live! Nijigasaki High School Idol Club (2020–2022) SD Gundam World Heroes (2021) Scarlet Nexus (2021) Love Live! Superstar!! (2021–present) Amaim Warrior at the Borderline (2021–2022) Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch from Mercury (2022–2023) Yohane the Parhelion: Sunshine in the Mirror (2023) The Faraway Paladin: The Lord of Rust Mountain (2023) Maebashi Witches (2025)
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v t e Sunrise theatrical features
Pre–2000s	Mobile Suit Gundam I (1981) Mobile Suit Gundam II: Soldiers of Sorrow (1981) Mobile Suit Gundam III: Encounters in Space (1982) The Ideon: A Contact (1982) The Ideon: Be Invoked (1982) Crusher Joe (1983) Dougram: Documentary of the Fang of the Sun (1983) Choro-Q Dougram (1983) Xabungle Graffiti (1983) Arion (1986) Dirty Pair: Project Eden (1986) Bats & Terry (1987) Mobile Suit Gundam: Char's Counterattack (1988) Mobile Suit SD Gundam (1988) The Five Star Stories (1989) City Hunter: .357 Magnum (1989) Mobile Suit SD Gundam's Counterattack (1989) Gunhed (1989) Mobile Suit Gundam F91 (1991) Mobile Suit Gundam 0083: The Last Blitz of Zeon (1992) Mobile Suit SD Gundam Festival (1993) Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz -Special Edition- (1998) Mobile Suit Gundam: The 08th MS Team: Miller's Report (1998) Firefighter! Daigo of Fire Company M (1999)
2000s	Crest of the Stars: SPECIAL (2000) Escaflowne: A Girl in Gaea (2000) Banner of the Stars: SPECIAL (2001) Cowboy Bebop: The Movie (2001) Inuyasha the Movie: Affections Touching Across Time (2001) Turn A Gundam: Earth Light (2002) Turn A Gundam: Moonlight Butterfly (2002) Crush Gear: Kaizaban's Challenge (2002) Inuyasha the Movie: The Castle Beyond the Looking Glass (2002) Inuyasha the Movie: Swords of an Honorable Ruler (2003) Steamboy (2004) Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Special Edition: The Empty Battlefield (2004) Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Special Edition: The Far-Away Dawn (2004) Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Special Edition: The Rumbling Sky (2004) Inuyasha the Movie: Fire on the Mystic Island (2004) Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam A New Translation: Heirs to the Stars (2005) Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam A New Translation II: Lovers (2005) Keroro Gunsō the Super Movie (2006) Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam A New Translation III: Love is the Pulse of the Stars (2006) Kaiketsu Zorori: The Battle for the Mysterious Treasure (2006) Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny Special Edition: The Shattered World (2006) Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny Special Edition: Their Respective Swords (2006) Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny Special Edition: Flames of Destiny (2006) Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny Special Edition: The Cost of Freedom (2007) Keroro Gunsō the Super Movie 2: The Deep Sea Princess (2007) Chibi Kero: Secret of the Kero Ball!? (2007) Keroro Gunso the Super Movie 3: Keroro vs. Keroro Great Sky Duel (2008) Musha Kero: Debut! Sengoku Planet Ran Big Battle!! (2008) Armored Trooper VOTOMS: The Pailsen Files Movie (2009) Keroro Gunso the Super Movie 4: Gekishin Dragon Warriors (2009) Kero 0: Depart! Assembly of Everyone!! (2009)
2010s	Keroro Gunso the Super Movie: Creation! Ultimate Keroro, Wonder Space-Time Island (2010) Chō Denei-ban SD Gundam Sangokuden Brave Battle Warriors (2010) Gintama: The Movie (2010) King of Thorn (2010) Colorful (2010) Mobile Suit Gundam 00 the Movie: A Wakening of the Trailblazer (2010) s-CRY-ed: Alteration TAO (2011) Sacred Seven: Wings of Gingetsu (2012) s-CRY-ed: Alteration QUAN (2012) Tiger & Bunny: The Beginning (2012) Psychic School Wars (2012) Zorori's Big Big Big Big Adventure! (2012) Gintama: The Movie: The Final Chapter: Be Forever Yorozuya (2013) Short Peace (2013) Kaiketsu Zorori: Protect It! The Dinosaur Egg (2013) Tiger & Bunny: The Rising (2014) Aikatsu! The Movie (2014) Love Live! The School Idol Movie (2015) Mobile Suit Gundam Thunderbolt: December Sky (2016) Accel World: Infinite Burst (2016) Zegapain Adaptation (2016) Code Geass Lelouch of the Rebellion (2017–2018) Mobile Suit Gundam Thunderbolt: Bandit Flower (2017) Mobile Suit Gundam: Twilight AXIS Red Trace (2017) Mobile Suit Gundam Narrative (2018) Love Live! Sunshine!! The School Idol Movie: Over the Rainbow (2019) City Hunter the Movie: Shinjuku Private Eyes (2019) Code Geass Lelouch of the Re;surrection (2019) Gundam Reconguista in G (2019–2022)
2020s	Mobile Suit Gundam: Hathaway's Flash (2021–present) Mobile Suit Gundam: Cucuruz Doan's Island (2022) Sand Land (2023) City Hunter The Movie: Angel Dust (2023) Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Freedom (2024) Code Geass: Rozé of the Recapture (2024) Zegapain STA (2024)
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Authority control databases
International	VIAF
National	United States