Mobile Suit Gundam/Kidō Senshi Gundam
Genres: action, drama, science fiction
Themes: mecha, military, real robot
Objectionable content: Significant
Plot Summary: In the year Universal Century 0079, humanity lives in space colonies called Sides. Side 3, the Principality of Zeon, has declared war on the Earth Federation. After the initial fighting, an 8-month stalemate occurred. However that stalemate breaks when Amuro Ray stumbles into the Gundam, the Earth Federation’s secret weapon. Now Amuro and the crew of White Base must stand up to Zeon in order to end the war.
Number of episodes: 43
Vintage: 1979-04-07 to 1980-01-26
Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam/Kidō Senshi Zeta Gundam
Genres: action, drama, science fiction
Themes: mecha, military, real robot, Space, Space Battles, space colonies, Space Navy, War
Objectionable content: Significant
Plot Summary: The year is Universal Century 0087. Seven years have passed since the end of the One Year War. In its zeal to stamp out any remaining opposition, the Earth Federation has organized the Titans, an elite fighting force. However, the Titans soon get out of hand, committing atrocities on par with the worst the Principality of Zeon had to offer during the war. In response, dissatisfied citizens, former Zeon soldiers, and even members of the Earth Federal Forces form a resistance group known as the Anti-Earth Union Group, or AEUG. As the next war is brewing, a small AEUG group arrives at Side 7 to investigate the new Gundam Mk. II…
Number of episodes: 50
Vintage: 1985-03-02 to 1986-02-22
Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ/Kidō Senshi Gundam ZZ
Genres: action, comedy, drama, science fiction
Themes: mecha, military, real robot
Objectionable content: Significant
Plot Summary: The year is Universal Century 0088. Directly after the end of the Gryps War, Haman Karn and her army of Zeon remnants on the asteroid Axis begin their quest of reviving the lost empire of the Zabi’s, and proclaim themselves as the Neo-Zeon. With the Earth Federation as hapless as ever, only the Anti-Earth Union Group (AEUG) is able oppose the plans of Neo-Zeon. In need of all the help it can get after being decimated in the previous war and losing many of its key members, the AEUG ship Argama enlists the aid of a young junk collector from the Side 1 colony of Shangri-La named Judau Ashta to pilot its newest mobile suit, the ZZ Gundam.
Number of episodes: 47
Vintage: 1986-03-01 to 1987-01-31
Mobile Suit Victory Gundam/Kidō Senshi V Gundam
Genres: action, drama, science fiction
Themes: mecha, military, real robot
Objectionable content: Significant
Plot Summary: It is Universal Century 0153. On the space colonies located at Side 2, the Zanscare Empire has come to power and it holds onto that power through liberal use of the guillotine. With its forces invading the Earth and its space fleets preparing to subjugate the other Sides, the Zanscare Empire has nothing to fear from the weakening Earth Federation. It is opposed only by the League Militaire, whose state of the art mobile suits and young pilots comprise the only real resistance movement. Now, thirteen-year-old Uso Ewin has been dragged into the war by a battle near his home in Eastern Europe. As the Newtype pilot of the Victory Gundam, he fights not only to defeat the Zanscare Empire but also to find out what has become of his parents, who left him behind when they went into space.
Number of episodes: 51
Vintage: 1993-04-02 to 1994-03-25
Mobile Fighter G Gundam / Kidō Butōden G-Gundam
Genres: action, drama, romance, science fiction, tournament
Themes: fighting, martial arts, mecha, super robot
Objectionable content: Significant
Plot Summary: In the Year FC 60, much of mankind inhabits space colonies which orbit the Earth. Dominance over the colonies is decided once every four years by a large tournament in which each nation sends a single representative to fight the others with a giant robot called a Gundam. Domon Kashuu is selected to represent Neo-Japan in one of these tournaments, but he fights less to ensure his nation’s victory than to find his brother, who has been blamed for the deaths of Domon’s parents and the disappearance of a very dangerous weapon, the Dark Gundam or Devil Gundam.
Number of episodes: 49 + 3 extra
Vintage: 1994-04-01 to 1995-03-31
Mobile Suit Gundam Wing / Shin Kidō Senki Gundam W
Genres: action, drama, science fiction
Themes: mecha, military, real robot, space, space colonies, war
Objectionable content: Mild
Plot Summary: It is the year After Colony 195, and war between the Space Colonies and Earth has begun. To give the colonies an edge, they send 5 young soldiers, trained to perfection, to earth in the most powerful of Mobile Suits-Gundams. With their arrival, the tide of the war changes as they battle against the Earth forces and the Colonies of their origin.
Number of episodes: 49
Vintage: 1995-04-07 to 1996-03-29
After War Gundam X / Kidō Shin Seiki Gundam X
Genres: action, adventure, drama, romance, science fiction
Themes: mecha, post-apocalyptic, real robot, war
Objectionable content: Significant
Plot Summary: When one space colony declared its independence from United Nations Earth, the devastating 7th Space War, an all-out war between Earth and space, resulted. The UNE responded to the Space Revolutionary Army with mobile suits, called Gundams. However, the SRA forces played their trump card and dropped hundreds of space colonies onto the Earth, plunging the planet into a seven-year-long nuclear winter. The UNE collapsed, but the SRA was unable to invade the Earth in the aftermath of the colony drop. Fifteen years have passed. The year is now After War 0015, and a New UNE has sprung up on Earth to restore order. In space, the colonial leaders have been rebuilding their own forces as well. By chance, fifteen-year-old Garrod Ran has discovered an old UNE mobile suit, the Gundam X, and now he uses it to help out the Vulture ship Freeden in its struggle to keep the powers that be from repeating the mistakes of the past.
Number of episodes: 39
Vintage: 1996-04-05 to 1996-12-28
Turn A Gundam
Genres: action, drama, science fiction
Themes: mecha, real robot, space, steampunk, war
Objectionable content: Significant
Plot Summary: The year is Correct Century 2345. The civilization of Earth is at about the level it was during World War I. Long ago, humanity traveled through space, but the people of Earth have long forgotten about that. However, an advanced civilization still exists in cities on the moon, and now this Moonrace, in desperate need of resources, sets its sights back on its home planet. Three Moonrace teenagers, Loran Cehack, Keith Laijie, and Fran Doll, are sent to make sure that a return is even feasible, and are followed two years later by the invading Dianna Counter forces. Now, five thousand years after humanity first traveled into space, a new war is brewing between the Earthlings defending their homes, the Moonrace looking to settle on Earth, and other members of the Moonrace who believe a return to Earth may revive a nightmare from humanity’s forgotten past…
Number of episodes: 50
Vintage: 1999-04-02 to 2000-04-14
Mobile Suit Gundam Seed
Genres: action, drama, science fiction
Themes: genetic enhancement, mecha, military, real robot, space, space colonies, tragedy, war
Objectionable content: Significant
Plot Summary: Heliopolis, a so-called neutral space colony was holding a top-secret weapons research facility, producing Gundams for the Earth Alliance. ZAFT, which is composed of Coordinators (genetically modified/upgraded humans), attacks Heliopolis, stealing 4 out of the Alliance’s 5 Gundams. In the battlefield, civilian Kira Yamato stumbles upon the Strike, the last remaining Gundam of the alliance, and is forced to pilot it. In the midst of battle he encounters his best friend, Athrun Zala, as one of the hijackers of the 5 Gundams, who sides with ZAFT. Being a Coordinator, he is the only one who can pilot the Gundam. But Kira is not with ZAFT, even though they’re his own kind, nor the Alliance. Since the Alliance is the only place he could turn to at the time, he sides with them. He pilots the Gundam to protect his friends, and to fight his best friend, which pains both of them. It’s a war between individual beliefs.
Number of episodes: 50 + 1 extra
Vintage: 2002-10-05 to 2003-09-27
SD Gundam Force
Genres: action, adventure, comedy, science fiction
Themes: mecha
Objectionable content: None
Plot Summary: The land of Neotopia is attacked by the Dark Axis, evil invaders from another dimension who wish to conquer this land. Neotopia’s answer: the secret Super Dimensional Guard and their defenders, the Gundam Force. Led by Captain Gundam, the Gundam Force and its team of Gundams with special abilities are aided by a boy named Shute as they stop at nothing to defend the land from the Dark Axis and to defeat them once and for all.
Number of episodes: 52
Vintage: 2003-09-01 to 2004-03-05
Mobile Suit Gundam Seed Destiny
Genres: action, drama, psychological, science fiction
Themes: genetic enhancement, mecha, military, real robot, space colonies, tragedy, war
Objectionable content: Significant
Plot Summary: Cosmic Era 73. Though the signing of a peace treaty brought the war between the Naturals and Coordinators to an apparent close, tensions fueled by the continued threat of Blue Cosmos continue to run high. During a conference between PLANT chairman Gilbert Dullindal and Orb representative Cagalli Yula Athha concerning the threat of a new military arms race, an Alliance special forces team attacks the ZAFT base they’re meeting at and makes off with three new Gundam mobile suits. Forced to pursue them, Shinn Asuka of ZAFT and Athrun Zala of Orb set out aboard the new space battleship Minerva, and engage the retreating Alliance strike team in combat. But just as they catch up to the fleeing ship, the crew of the Minerva receives word of an even greater catastrophe in the making, which will undoubtedly re-ignite the brutal war between the Naturals & Coordinators all over again.
Number of episodes: 50 + 1 extra
Vintage: 2004-10-09 to 2005-10-01
Mobile Suit Gundam 00
Genres: action, drama, science fiction
Themes: mecha, military, space battles, war
Objectionable content: Significant
Plot Summary: It is the year A.D. 2307. Fossil fuels on Earth have been depleted entirely, with mankind turning to the next available power source: solar energy. During this time, 3 orbital elevators with solar power generation systems are built, each under control by the Union of Solar Energy and Free Nations (formerly United States of America), the Human Reform League (Russia, China and India) and the Advanced European Union. However, not all countries are able to enjoy the benefits of this system, leading to widespread resentment and war. Arising out of the conflict, a mysterious military organization known as Celestial Being appears, dedicated to end all warfare using Mobile Suits called Gundam. This begins the stories of Gundam Meisters (pilots) Setsuna F. Seiei, Lockon Stratos, Allelujah Haptism and Tiera Erde as they are thrown into conflict between the 3 superpowers and the various other factions.
Number of episodes: 25
Vintage: 2007-10-06 to 2008-03-29
Mobile Suit Gundam 00 Second Season
Genres: action, drama, science fiction
Themes: mecha, military, real robot, war
Objectionable content: Significant
Plot Summary: 2312 A.D. Four years have passed since the final battle between Celestial Being and the UN Forces. Humanity, after having established the Earth Sphere Federation, forms an independent security force, A-LAWS, separate from the formal Federation army to further unify nations and the will of mankind. But in reality it is simply inhumane oppressing anti-government powers, doctrines, and ideologies in the name of unity. Setsuna F. Seiei, after surviving the battle four years ago, has decided to once again fight with his Gundam.
Number of episodes: 25
Vintage: 2008-10-05 to 2009-03-29
Mobile Suit Gundam UC/Kidō Senshi Gundam Unicorn
Genres: action, drama, science fiction
Themes: mecha, military, real robot, war
Objectionable content: Significant
Plot Summary: The year is U.C. 0096. Three years have passed since the end of the Second Neo Zeon War. It is said that the Vist Foundation manipulates the Earth Federation and Anaheim Electronics from behind the scenes. Hoping to create a new world, the Foundation attempts to hand over a certain secret to the Neo Zeon remnants known as the Sleeves. This will mean the opening of Laplace’s Box, which holds a great secret tied to the origins of the Universal Century. The exchange between the Vist Foundation and the Sleeves is to take place at the manufacturing colony Industrial 7. This is the home of the student Banagher Links, who rescues a girl he sees falling through the colony’s zero gravity area. The girl gives her name as Audrey Burne and says she wants to prevent a war, spurring Banagher to step into the conflict surrounding Laplace’s Box—almost as if he is drawn in by his own bloodline.
Number of episodes: 8
Vintage: 2010-02-20 to 2014-06-06
SD Gundam Sangokuden Brave Battle Warriors
Genres: adventure
Themes: historical, mecha, parody, war
Running time: 12 minutes per episode
Number of episodes: 51
Vintage: 2010-04-03 to 2011-03-26
Mobile Suit Gundam AGE / Kidō Senshi Gundam AGE
Genres: action, drama, science fiction
Themes: mecha, multiple protagonists, real robot, space, war
Objectionable content: Significant
Plot Summary: Hundreds of years of human colonization of space have finally resulted in a period of lasting peace. However, fourteen years ago, a mysterious foe, the UE (Unknown Enemy), suddenly appeared. Since then, this cruel yet mysterious enemy has destroyed space colonies, and routinely attacked other targets. A victim of their attack of the space colony Ovan, Flit Asuno was given a family heirloom by his dying mother, the AGE Device memory unit, which contained plans for a mobile suit. In hope of protecting others from the tragedy that had befallen him, Flit began to develop this suit with the help of the Earth Federation in the space colony Nora, and named this suit “Gundam” after the legendary suit developed by his family many years ago. It is now the year A.G. (Advanced Generation) 115. When the UE suddenly attacks Nora, Flit must pilot the Gundam to fight against the UE, thus beginning the Asuno family’s century-long battle to protect humanity from the invaders.
Number of episodes: 49
Vintage: 2011-10-09 to 2012-09-23
Gundam Build Fighters
Genres: action, comedy, science fiction, slice of life, tournament
Themes: mecha
Objectionable content: Mild
Plot Summary: Sei Iori is a Gunpla builder whose family runs a hobby shop in a small town. He aspires to be a Gunpla Battle champion like his father, but despite his exceptional building skills, he lacks the combat abilities to compete with other contestants. Then one day, he meets a mysterious boy named Reiji, who helps him improve his confidence in participating in Gunpla Battles. Together, Sei and Reiji battle their way to the 7th Gunpla Battle World Tournament.
Number of episodes: 25 + 1 extra
Vintage: 2013-10-07 to 2014-03-31
Gundam Build Fighters Try
Genres: action, comedy, science fiction, slice of life, tournament
Themes: martial arts, mecha
Objectionable content: Mild
Plot Summary: It has been seven years since Sei Iori won the 7th Gunpla Battle Championship World Tournament. Gunpla Battle is now more popular than ever, with new rules and new ways to battle. Fumina Hoshino is the president of the Gunpla Battle Club at Sei’s old school, Seiho Academy, and a big fan of the game, but unfortunately, she cannot attend the upcoming All-Japan Gunpla Battle Championship tournament without a three-person team. Desperate to participate, she meets transfer student and young martial artist Sekai Kamiki, as well as a young Gunpla builder named Yūma Kōsaka. The three decided to join up to form Team “TRY FIGHTERS”, a new team of Gunpla builders and fighters that will together face the challenge of winning the tournament.
Number of episodes: 25
Vintage: 2014-10-08 to 2015-04-01
Mobile Suit Gundam-san/Kidō Senshi Gundam-san
Genres: comedy, science fiction
Themes: mecha, parody
Plot Summary: An anime short adaptation of the 4-coma manga of the same name, putting the Gundam characters in mundane, yet comical, situations.
**Number of episodes:**13
Vintage: 2014-07-06 to 2014-09-28
Gundam Reconguista in G/Gundam G no Reconguista
Genres: action, comedy, science fiction
Themes: Mecha, politics, real robot, religion, war
Objectionable content: Significant
Plot Summary: The year is Regild Century (R.C.) 1014. A millennium has past since the catastrophic end of the Universal Century era. Mankind has rebuilt itself and, through the lessons learned from the previous era, managed to sustain a long lasting peace. However conflict has once again arisen, resulting from disagreements regarding the world’s only space orbital elevator, the Capital Tower, and its role as the sole means by which nations on Earth obtain energy. During a routine training session while ascending the Capital Tower, Capital Guard pilot cadet Bellri Zenam, tasked with protection of the Tower, fights off an attacking space pirate, Aida Rayhunton, and helps capture her mobile suit, the G-Self. Strangely, Bellri finds out that he is one of the only three individuals to be able to pilot this mysterious mobile suit. Seemingly chosen by the G-Self, Bellri is thus drawn into a brewing conflict that will have consequences for the entire world.
Number of episodes: 26
Vintage: 2014-08-23
Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans / Kidō Senshi Gundam: Tekketsu no Orphans
Genres: action, drama, science fiction
Themes: dystopian, Mecha, military, politics, War Drama
Objectionable content: Significant
Plot Summary: 300 years after a great conflict between Earth and Mars known as the “Calamity War,” a woman named Kudelia sets out on a journey to Earth to speak for the independence of the Martian city of Chryse, which is under the control of the Earth government. Escorting her is the private security company CGS members Mikazuki Augus and Orga Itsuka. When a group named Gjallarhorn attacks CGS and Cordelia, Orga sees this as a chance to rebel against CGS and launch a coup. Mikazuki and Orga are thrust into a new conflict. To fend off Gjallarhorn, Mikazuki rides an old mobile suit from the Calamity War, powered by a nuclear reactor, the Gundam Barbatos.
Number of episodes: 25
Vintage: 2015-10-04
Episodes on Toonami
- Iron and Blood (June 4, 2016)
- Barbatos (June 11, 2016)
- Glorious Demise (June 18, 2016)
- The Price of Life (June 25, 2016)
- Beyond the Red Sky (July 9, 2016)
- As for Them (July 16, 2016)
- Whaling (July 23, 2016)
- The Form of Closeness (July 30, 2016)
- Sakazuki (August 6, 2016)
- A Letter From Tomorrow (August 13, 2016)
- Human Debris (August 20, 2016)
- The Shoals (August 27, 2016)
- Funeral Rites (September 10, 2016)
- Vessel of Hope (September 17, 2016)
- Trail of Footprints (September 24, 2016)
- Fumitan Admoss (October 1, 2016)
- Kudelia’s Decision (October 8, 2016)
- Voice (October 15, 2016)
- The Gravity of Wishes (October 22, 2016)
- Brother (November 5, 2016)
- To the Place of Return (November 12, 2016)
- Not Yet Home (November 20, 2016)
- The Final Lie (November 26, 2016)
- A Future Reward (December 3, 2016)
- Tekkadan (December 10, 2016)
Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn RE:0096 / Kidō Senshi Gundam Unicorn RE:0096
Genres: action, drama, science fiction
Themes: mecha, military, real robot, war
Objectionable content: Significant
Plot Summary: U.C. 0096. Three years after Char’s Rebellion, Banagher Links, a boy living at the manufacturing colony Industrial 7, meets a mysterious girl who calls herself Audrey Burne. Audrey claims that she is trying to stop the Vist Foundation from handing over Laplace’s Box to the Neo Zeon remnants known as the Sleeves, an act which could spark another war, and Banagher decides to help her. But the colony becomes a battlefield as fighting breaks out between the Sleeves and the Earth Federation Forces, who have also come to stop the handover…
Number of Episodes: 22
Vintage: 2016-04-03
Episodes on Toonami
- Departure 0096 (January 7, 2017)
- First Blood (January 14, 2017)
- They Called it Gundam (January 21, 2017)
- Full Frontal’s Pursuit (January 28, 2017)
- Clash with the Red Comet (February 4, 2017)
- Under The Mask (February 11, 2017)
- The Battle at Palau (February 18, 2017)
- Laplace, Where It All Began (February 25, 2017)
- Retribution (March 4, 2017)
- From the Scorching Earth (March 11, 2017)
- Battle at Torrington (March 18, 2017)
- A Private War (March 25, 2017)
- Banagher Links, Soldier (April 1, 2017)
- Clash of the Two Unicorns (April 8, 2017)
- Waiting in Space (April 15, 2017)
- Side Co-Prosperity Sphere (April 22, 2017)
- Nahel Argama Recaptured (April 29, 2017)
- Fateful Battle (May 6, 2017)
- Another Cosmic Glow (May 13, 2017)
- Laplace’s Box (May 20, 2017)
- To the World’s End (June 3, 2017)
- Return (June 10, 2017) FINALE
Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans Season 2
Genres: action, drama, science fiction
Themes: mecha, military, politics, space, war
Objectionable content: Significant
Plot Summary: Learning about the world from her journey to Earth, Kudelia founded Admoss Company to strive for the financial independence of Mars. While inspecting a mining site of halfmetal, Orga Itsuka, leader of Tekkadan hired by Admoss as guards, senses an attack from a new enemy and heads out to confront them, along with Mikazuki in the mobile suit Gundam Barbatos Lupus.
Number of episodes: 25
Vintage: 2016-10-02
Episodes on Toonami
- New Blood (October 7, 2017)
- In the Midst of Jealousy (October 14, 2017)
- Battle Before Dawn (October 21, 2017)
- The Trigger Of Success (November 4, 2017)
- Inauguration of the Arbrau Defense Forces (November 11, 2017)
- Silent War (November 18, 2017)
- My Friend (December 2, 2017)
- Sovereign of Mars (December 9, 2017)
- Vidar Rising (December 16, 2017)
- Awakening Calamity (January 6, 2018)
- Stained Wings (January 13, 2018)
- Battle for Chryse (January 20, 2018)
- Hunter Of Angels (January 27, 2018)
- Counsel (February 3, 2018)
- Lit By A Blazing Sun (February 10, 2018)
- Natural For A Human (February 17, 2018)
- Settlement (February 24, 2018)
- Revealed Intentions (March 3, 2018)
- The Man Who Holds The Soul (March 10, 2018)
- If This Is The End (March 17, 2018)
- For Whom (March 24, 2018)
- Scapegoat (April 7, 2018)
- Promise (April 14, 2018)
- Mcgillis Fareed (April 21, 2018)
- Their Place (April 28, 2018) FINALE
