Gundam
Gundam is a collective term for the official Universal Century (UC) series like Mobile Suit Gundam and Alternate Universe (AU) series, such as Gundam Wing, made by Sunrise Inc. It is one of the longest running series of animes that feature giant robot mecha in Japan.
Gundam manga is published in English by a variety of companies, such as Viz Communications, Del Rey Manga, and TokyoPop, among others.
The animated Gundam series are (in order of release):
Gundam Worlds:
Most early Gundam works take place in the Universal Century world, which is considered the most developed Gundam world. Later some series take place in alternate worlds: G Gundam takes place in the Future Century calendar system, Gundam Wing takes place in the After Colony calendar system, Gundam X takes place in the After War calendar system, ∀ Gundam takes place in the CC calendar system, and Gundam Seed takes place in the Cosmic Era.
Super Deformed Gundam
Main article: Super Deformed Gundam
Super Deformed Gundam is a super deformed Gundam parody series. These are wild comedic stories that feature characters, machines, and setting from the "real" series. SD Gundam consists of, in order of release:
- Mobile Suit SD Gundam Mk I (1989)
- Mobile Suit SD Gundam Mk II (1989)
- SD Gundam's Counterattack (1989)
- Mobile Suit SD Gundam Mk III (1990)
- Mobile Suit SD Gundam Mk IV (1990)
- Mobile Suit SD Gundam Mk V (1990)
- SD Gundam Side Story (1990)
- SD Gundam Scramble (1991)
- SD Gundam: Dawn Of Paparu (1991)
- SD Gundam Festival (1993)
- SD Gundam Force (2003)
Manga and Book Expansion
There have been expansions to the Gundam universes in the form of novels and manga. One of the most popular ones is Gundam Wing. GW also has a sequel manga, suceeding Endless Waltz, Gundam Seed also features a coincident storyline told in manga form, Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Astray, Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Astray R, Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Astray B, and Side Story of Gundam Z (1986),New MS Senki (1988), Mobile Suit Gundam F90 (1990), Mobile Suit Gundam 0079 (1994), Mobile Suit Crossbone Gundam (1994), Mobile Fighter G Gundam (1994), New Mobile Report Gundam W (1995), After War Gundam X (1996), ∀ Gundam (1999), Char's Deleted Affair (2001), Ecole du Ciel (2002), Mobile Suit Gundam SEED (2002), Earth Federation
Merchandise
Bandai, the primary licensee of the Gundam trademark, makes a variety of products for the Gundam fan. Other companies produce unofficial toys, models, t-shirts, etc.
Categories of products include the Mobile Suit In Action or MSiA action figures, and Gundam Models in several scales and complexity levels. Generally, each series listed above will have its own set of products, although the MSiA and Gundam Models lines, such as United States
- - Contains a vast encyclopedia of Mobile Suits used in all the Gundam series, plus mecha from other anime series.
- - Has archives of characters, mobile suits, and different terms for different series.
