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35-623: Victory Gundam is set in UC 0153, and succeeds the Federation Force and Crossbone Vanguard conflict of Mobile Suit Gundam F91 . The Earth, still loosely controlled by the greatly weakened Earth Federation , comes under attack by BESPA, the armed forces of the space colony-based Zanscare Empire. Only a ragtag resistance movement, League Militaire, stands in BESPA's way as they swiftly conquer much of space and start their invasion of Earth, with

70-433: A collaboration to develop a live-action Gundam film. Brian K. Vaughan was brought in to write and serve as an executive producer for the film. In April 2021, it was reported that the project had landed at Netflix and that Jordan Vogt-Roberts had been hired to direct. In October 2024, it was announced that Jim Mickle would be the new director and writer, and that Netflix is no longer involved. Manga adaptations of

105-408: A decline, Bandai 's Gundam toy sales ultimately increased as a result of the show, but still missed its targets of 10 million units sold. This compounded with the fact that the show had failed to attract its target audience led to a cancellation of Sunrise's next Gundam series, which was under production at the time and was to be a war story featuring a conflict between Earth and Mars colonists, with

140-521: A few fictional elements to function (such as Minovsky Physics ). Most of the Gundam animation (including the earliest series) is set in what is known as the Universal Century (UC) calendar era , with later series set in alternate calendars or timelines . Although many new Gundam stories are told in their parallel universe with independent timelines (giving them greater creative freedom),

175-538: A fictional era, with a new calendar adopted after a drastic event or chain of events and typically involve a major conflict involving Earth and space colonies (and in some cases the Moon and terraformed planets). An exception is the Gundam Build timeline, which is set in an alternate present time where all other Gundam installments are fictional. At the 2018 Anime Expo , Legendary Pictures and Sunrise announced

210-854: A full-size RX-78-2 Gundam model was constructed and displayed at Gundam Front Tokyo, in the Odaiba district; it was taken down on March 5, 2017. A new statue of the Unicorn Gundam was erected at the same location, now renamed The Gundam Base Tokyo. Bandai , Gundam 's primary licensee, produces a variety of products. Other companies produce unofficial merchandise, such as toys, models and T-shirts. Products include Mobile Suit In Action (MSiA) action figures and Gundam model kits in several scales and design complexities. Each series generally has its own set of products, MSiA and model lines such as Master Grade and High Grade Universal Century may extend across series. The most popular action-figure line has been

245-403: A gun powerful enough to hold back enemies like a hydroelectric dam holding back water. In keeping with the concept, Gundams are usually depicted as prototypes or limited-production, with higher capabilities than mass-produced units, which are often referred to simply as mobile suits . Most Gundams are large, bipedal, humanoid vehicles controlled from a cockpit by a human pilot. The cockpit

280-529: A limited time (usually to promote a DVD release). Common content includes character and mecha listings, lists of related merchandise and pay-for-download content. Special pages are frequent, often presenting downloadable wallpaper or a small game. The Superior Defender Gundam Force website has a game in which players take the role of villain Commander Sazabi, attempting to blast his subordinate with weapons. Since 1980, Gundam has also appeared in

315-482: A rift between the director and Sunrise for many years. The entire series was released on DVD in Japan on January 23, 2004. The limited-edition DVD box release was notable for containing an interview of Tomino titled, "This DVD should not be bought as it is not intended to be seen!!" ( 「このDVDは、見られたものではないので買ってはいけません!!」 ) . Tomino has also made a similar comment on a Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam DVD interview. Years after

350-399: A spinoff of Gundam which began during the mid-1980s, features super deformed designs and emphasizes comedy and adventure. Model Suit Gunpla Builders Beginning G , Gundam Build Fighters , and Gundam Build Divers feature contemporary settings and use Gunpla as plot elements. Except for Mobile Suit Gundam 00 , which follows the current calendar era , all Gundam series are set in

385-628: A whole industry of plastic model kits known as Gunpla which makes up 90 percent of the Japanese character plastic-model market. Academics in Japan have viewed the series as inspiration; in 2008, the virtual Gundam Academy was planned as the first academic institution based on an animated TV series. As of March 2020, the franchise is fully owned by Bandai Namco Holdings through subsidiaries Sotsu and Sunrise. The Gundam franchise had grossed over $ 5 billion in retail sales by 2000. By 2022,

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420-493: A working title of Polca Gundam ( ポルカガンダム ) . Instead, Sunrise would go on to create Mobile Fighter G Gundam . The Bandai acquisition of Sunrise was also in the planning stages during Victory Gundam ' s development, with the former looking to address the declining popularity of the Gundam franchise, which was a main source of revenue for them. Years later, Tomino would lament the fact that he had started production of this series not aware of that situation, which caused

455-423: Is located in the torso , while the head serves as a camera to transmit images back to the cockpit. Most of the series' protagonists are Newtypes , genetically advanced humans adapted for space. Newtypes have psychic abilities that enable them to sense each other across space and to utilize special mobile suits. The series itself has been described as a space opera . Mobile Suit Gundam reportedly pioneered

490-572: Is the official Japanese site. Its English-language counterpart is the US-maintained Gundam Official. In 2005, the website hosted the Gundam Official User Forum. The forum was based on the existing fan forum, Gundam Watch, using many of its staff. When the project was retired, Gundam Watch was reborn and became Gundam Evolution. A number of series-specific websites have been created, often available for

525-560: The Game Boy and more recently, in the mobile game Super Robot Wars X-Ω and the Compati Hero Series as well as appearing in various Gundam crossover games. Earth Federation (Gundam) Gundam ( Japanese : ガンダムシリーズ , Hepburn : Gandamu Shirīzu , lit. Gundam Series ) is a Japanese military science fiction media franchise . Created by Yoshiyuki Tomino and Sunrise (now Bandai Namco Filmworks ),

560-1128: The Gundam series have been published in English in North America by a number of companies, such as Viz Media , Del Rey Manga and Tokyopop , and in Singapore by Chuang Yi . Gundam has spawned over 80 video games for arcade, computer and console platforms, some with characters not found in other Gundam media. Some of the games, in turn, inspired spinoff novels and manga. Primarily made of plastic, but sometimes paired with resin and metal detail parts, hundreds of Gundam scale plastic models , aka Gunpla, have been released. They range in quality from toolless-build children's toy kits (Entry Grades) to hobbyist and museum-grade models, and most are in common scales such as 1:35, 1:48, 1:60, 1:100 or 1:144 scale. Various Grades exist to target hobbyists, ranging from smaller sized kits such as High Grade and Real Grade, to larger Master Grade and finally Perfect Grade model kits. The Real Grade (RG) Gundam series combined

595-613: The Japan Self-Defense Forces has code-named its developing advanced personal-combat system Gundam. Based on a December 16, 2023 survey conducted by Nikkei Entertainment , the fanbase of Gundam within Japan has an average age of 42 years, and a male-to-female ratio that skews 90:10. The impact of Gundam in Japan has been compared to the impact of Star Wars in the United States . Hajime Katoki Too Many Requests If you report this error to

630-594: The Kadokawa Sneaker Bunko label. This adaptation generally follows the plot of the anime but is notable for additional scenes and dialogue that contain graphic sexual references. In addition, the Victory 2 Gundam does not appear in the novel. Instead it is replaced by a Victory-type with a mounted Minovsky Drive. The "Bugs", which were the automatic manslaughtering weapons of Gundam F91 , also make an appearance. A more lighthearted manga adaptation of

665-712: The Media Comic Dyne and MS Saga magazines, and was later republished in 2012 by Kadokawa Shoten, which included two side-stories from Gundam Ace involving Kai Shiden, and a parody story of Gundam Wing . A spin-off to the series by Yuichi Hasegawa, Mobile Suit Victory Gundam Outside Story ( 機動戦士Vガンダム外伝 , Kidō Senshi Vikutorī Gandamu Gaiden ) , titled Mobile Suit Victory Gundam Outside Story: Escape Plan Edition ( 機動戦士Vガンダム外伝 脱出計画編 , Kidō Senshi Vikutorī Gandamu Gaiden Dasshutsu Keikaku-hen ) during serialization and republished in 2012 as Mobile Suit Victory Gundam Project Exodus ( 機動戦士Vガンダム プロジェクト・エクソダス ) ,

700-412: The real robot subgenre of mecha anime . In contrast to its super robot cousins, Mobile Suit Gundam attempted realism in its robot design and weaponry by running out of energy and ammunition or malfunctioning. Its technology is derived from actual science (such as Lagrange points and the O'Neill cylinder in space, and the use of helium-3 as an energy source) or feasible technology requiring only

735-486: The DVDs, Tomino reiterated his disdain for the series in promotional materials, claiming that he wished to "deny [the show] completely" and asked that viewers of the set "find what went wrong with 'Mobile Suit V Gundam'." In 2016, Sunrise released the series on both Blu-ray and DVD in North America via Right Stuf Inc. in two sets. A series of five novels were written by director Yoshiyuki Tomino and initially published under

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770-700: The Gundam Fix series, which includes the mecha in the animated series, manga and novels and accessories to create an updated version. In addition to Master Grade and High Grade Gundams, Bandai released a 30th-anniversary series of Gundam models in 2010. After the introduction of the RG Gunpla line, Bandai released the Metal Build series in March 2011 (beginning with the 00 Gundam). Bandai maintains several websites to promote Gundam projects; Gundam Perfect Web

805-493: The Master Grade's detailed inner structure with additional colour separation, making the 1:144-scale series complex in design and compact in size, with the final goal of retooling a Gundam to what they might would look like in real life, similar to the real-life Gundam Front Tokyo RX-78-02. Promotional 1:6 or 1:12 scale models are supplied to retailers and are not commercially available. For Gundam 's 30th anniversary,

840-546: The advanced mass-produced mobile suit, the Victory Gundam, as the League Militaire's secret weapon. However, BESPA's power continues to grow, using violent means, including public executions with guillotines, to strike fear into those living on Earth. Living peacefully on Earth in the remote Eastern European town of Kasarelia, 13-year-old Üso Ewin and his childhood friend Shahkti Kareen are soon thrown into

875-480: The anime by Toshiya Iwamura was published on the Comic BomBom manga magazine. The serious atmosphere from the show was absent from the manga, replaced by gags, less serious personalities, and more super robot -style action scenes. A gag parody manga by Tsukasa Kotobuki entitled Go! Go! Our Victory Gundam ( いけ!いけ!ぼくらのVガンダム!! , Ike! Ike! Bokura no V Gandamu!! ) was published throughout 1993 to 1994 in

910-418: The annual revenue of the Gundam franchise reached ¥ 101.7 billion per year, ¥44.2 billion of which was retail sales of toys and hobby items. Mobile Suit Gundam was developed by animator Yoshiyuki Tomino and a changing group of Sunrise creators with the collective pseudonym of Hajime Yatate . The series was originally entitled Freedom Fighter Gunboy (or Gunboy ) for the robot's gun, with teen boys as

945-485: The conflict when they encounter ace BESPA pilot Chronicle Asher. Soon, Üso finds himself joining forces with Marbet Fingerhut and the rest of the League Militaire, piloting the Victory Gundam against the BESPA, and soon discovering the horrors of war. Victory Gundam is the fourth Gundam television series and the first of four Gundam television series that aired on TV Asahi and its sister ANN stations in Japan sequentially from 1993 through 1996. In order to attract

980-487: The following countries and regions: Gundam is a Japanese cultural icon and a multi-billion- Yen annual business for Bandai Namco . Annual revenue for the franchise reached ¥54.5 billion by 2006, ¥80.2 billion by 2014, and ¥145.7 billion by 2024. Stamps have been issued, an Agriculture Ministry employee was reprimanded for contributing to the Japanese Misplaced Pages Gundam -related pages, and

1015-499: The franchise features giant robots, or mecha , with the name "Gundam". The franchise began on April 7, 1979, with Mobile Suit Gundam , a TV series that defined the " real robot " mecha anime genre by featuring giant robots called mobile suits (including the original titular mecha ) in a militaristic setting. The popularity of the series and its merchandise spawned a franchise that includes 50 TV series , films and OVAs as well as manga , novels and video games , along with

1050-454: The original UC storyline continues to be popular, with new installments frequently produced ever since. It established the series, setting the standard for hard science fiction in anime; the original Gundam marked the maturing of the giant-robot genre. Nostalgia for the oldest Gundam shows (and its status as a pop-culture icon in Japan) is a factor in its continuing success. SD Gundam ,

1085-589: The primary target demographic. Early production had a number of references to freedom : the White Base was originally "Freedom's Fortress", the Core Fighter was the "Freedom Wing" and the Gunperry was the "Freedom Cruiser". The Yatate team combined the English word "gun" with the last syllable of the word "freedom" to form the portmanteau Gundom . Tomino changed it to Gundam , suggesting a unit wielding

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1120-460: The show was first broadcast in Japan, the show aired on the anime satellite television network, Animax , in Japan and later its respective networks worldwide, including Hong Kong, Southeast Asia, East Asia, and other regions. In 2015, Sunrise released Victory Gundam on Blu-Ray in two box sets using a new HD master and telecine . The sets also included audio commentary, exclusive booklets, and cover art by mechanical designer Hajime Katoki . As with

1155-541: The younger elementary school age demographic that SD Gundam was popular with at the time, the show featured the youngest protagonist in the Gundam franchise, the thirteen-year-old Uso Ewin , and established a setting within Universal Century that was largely independent of previous Gundam works. Unlike previous Gundam series that started off in space colonies, the show starts off in Eastern Europe before moving to space 15 episodes later. The intent of this

1190-522: Was for Tomino to dispel the association between Gundam and space. Nonetheless, the mature themes of the show, as well as the high casualty rate of the main cast, meant that the show would instead attract an older crowd, the young adults who had seen Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam and Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ a decade earlier. The show was nonetheless able to more than double the sales of "real" Gundam models , which had been greatly lagging behind SD Gundam model sales. As SD Gundam model sales had been in

1225-693: Was published in 1994 in the Shōnen Kids magazine and compiled into a tankobon in 1995. The manga occurs during the events of the anime, when Uso travels to Jupiter and encounters an old man by the name of Grey Stoke. A Super Famicom side-scrolling action game based on the show was released in Japan on March 11, 1994. It was developed by Tose and published by Bandai. The series also made appearances in Banpresto 's (now Bandai Namco) Super Robot Wars series, debuting in Super Robot Wars 2G for

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