Those in their 30’s and 40’s will remember Gundam, the Transformer-like military robots that carried a human pilot in a torso-based cockpit. The franchise was huge in Japan, where the original concept originated, and led to the popularity of anime we see today.
In Japan, there are several life-size Gundam statues, some that even move and light-up at night. It’s a pretty impressive feat considering they stand about 6-stories tall. If you visit Tokyo, it’s a must-see attraction. Now we learn there will be a life-size Gundam built outside of Japan – in China!
The newest Gundam statue will debut in Shanghai, China in 2021. Called the Freedom Gundam, it will be 18.03 meters tall, about as tall as the first one that was built in Tokyo in 2009. The new Freedom Gundam will be built at a mall (LaLaport Mall) in Jinqiao, Shanghai.
In case you’ve forgotten, this is how massively complex and wonderfully popular Gundam universe was (and still is).
| Name | Media | Release date | Timeline and year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mobile Suit Gundam | TV series: 43 episodes. | 1979–1980 | UC 0079 |
| Compilation movies | 1981–1982 | ||
| Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam | TV series: 50 episodes. | 1985–1986 | UC 0087 |
| Compilation movies | 2005–2006 | ||
| Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ | TV series: 47 episodes. | 1986–1987 | UC 0088 |
| OVA: 2 episodes | 2009 | ||
| Mobile Suit Gundam: Char’s Counterattack | Movie | 1988 | UC 0093 |
| Mobile Suit SD Gundam | Movies | 1988, 1989, 1991, 1993 | |
| OVA | 1989–1991 | ||
| Compilation TV series | 1993 | ||
| Mobile Suit Gundam 0080: War in the Pocket | OVA: 6 episodes | 1989 | UC 0079-80 |
| Mobile Suit Gundam F91 | Movie | 1991 | UC 0123 |
| Mobile Suit Gundam 0083: Stardust Memory | OVA: 13 episodes | 1991–1992 | UC 0083 |
| Compilation movie | 1992 | ||
| Mobile Suit Victory Gundam | TV series: 51 episodes | 1993–1994 | UC 0153 |
| Mobile Fighter G Gundam | TV series: 49 episodes | 1994–1995 | Future Century 60 |
| Mobile Suit Gundam Wing | TV series: 49 episodes | 1995–1996 | After Colony 195 |
| Compilation specials | 1996 | ||
| Mobile Suit Gundam: The 08th MS Team | OVA: 12 episodes | 1996–1999 | UC 0079 |
| Compilation movie | 1998 | ||
| Special | 2013 | ||
| After War Gundam X | TV series: 39 episodes | 1996 | After War 15 |
| Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz | OVA: 3 episodes | 1997 | After Colony 196 |
| Compilation movie | 1998 | ||
| Turn A Gundam | TV series: 50 episodes | 1999–2000 | Correct Century 2343-5 |
| Compilation movies | 2002 | ||
| G-Saviour | Live-action movie | 2000 | UC 0223 |
| Gundam Neo Experience 0087: Green Diver | Specialty format movie | 2001 | UC 0087 |
| Gundam Evolve | Animated shorts: 15 episodes | 2001–2007 | |
| Mobile Suit Gundam SEED | TV series: 50 episodes | 2002–2003 | Cosmic Era 71 |
| Compilation specials: 3 episodes | 2004 | ||
| OVA: 2 episodes | 2004 | ||
| Superior Defender Gundam Force | TV series: 52 episodes | 2003–2004 | |
| Mobile Suit Gundam MS IGLOO: The Hidden One Year War | OVA: 3 episodes | 2004 | UC 0079 |
| Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny | TV series: 50 episodes | 2004–2005 | Cosmic Era 73-74 |
| OVA: 1 episode | 2004 | ||
| Compilation specials: 4 episodes | 2006 | ||
| Mobile Suit Gundam MS IGLOO: Apocalypse 0079 | OVA: 3 episodes | 2006 | UC 0079 |
| Mobile Suit Gundam SEED C.E. 73: Stargazer | OVA: 1 episode | 2006 | Cosmic Era 73 |
| Mobile Suit Gundam 00 | TV series: 50 episodes | 2007–2008 | Anno Domini 2307-8, 2312, 2314 |
| OVA: 3 episodes | 2009 | ||
| Movie | 2010 | ||
| Mobile Suit Gundam MS IGLOO 2: Gravity Front | OVA: 3 episodes | 2009 | UC 0079 |
| Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn | OVA: 7 episodes, 1 special episode | 2010–2014 | UC 0096 |
| Compilation TV series: 22 episodes | 2016 | ||
| SD Gundam Sangokuden Brave Battle Warriors | Movie | 2010 | |
| TV series: 51 episodes | |||
| Mobile Suit Gundam 00 the Movie: A Wakening of the Trailblazer | Movie | 2010 | Anno Domini 2314 |
| Model Suit Gunpla Builders Beginning G | Specials: 3 episodes | 2010 | |
| Mobile Suit Gundam AGE | TV Series: 49 episodes | 2011–2012 | Advanced Generation 115-164 |
| Compilation specials: 2 episodes | 2013 | ||
| Gundam Build Fighters | TV series: 25 episodes | 2013–2014 | Our Century |
| Specials: 3 episodes | 2014 | ||
| Mobile Suit Gundam-san | TV series: 13 episodes | 2014 | |
| Gundam Reconguista in G | TV series: 26 episodes | 2014–2015 | Regild Century 1014 |
| Compilation movies: 5 | 2019–TBA | ||
| Gundam Build Fighters Try | TV series: 25 episodes | 2014–2015 | Our Century |
| Movie | 2016 | ||
| Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin | OVA: 6 episodes | 2015–2018 | UC 0068, 0071, 0078 |
| TV series: 13 episodes | 2019 | ||
| Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans | TV series: 50 episodes | 2015–2017 | Post Disaster 323, 325 |
| Mobile Suit Gundam Thunderbolt | OVA: 8 episodes | 2015–2017 | UC 0079 |
| Compilation movies: 2 | 2016–2017 | ||
| Mobile Suit Gundam: Twilight AXIS | ONA: 6 episodes | 2017 | UC 0096 |
| Compilation movie | 2017 | ||
| Gundam Build Fighters: Battlogue | OVA: 3 episodes | 2017 | |
| Gundam Build Fighters: GM’s Counterattack | Movie | 2017 | |
| Gundam Build Divers | Prologue OVA | 2018 | Our Century |
| TV Series: 25 episodes | |||
| Mobile Suit Gundam Narrative | Movie | 2018 | UC 0097 |
| SD Gundam World Sangoku Soketsuden | Net Animation | 2019–TBA | |
| Gundam Build Divers Re:Rise | Net Animation | 2019–TBA | Our Century |
| Mobile Suit Gundam: Hathaway’s Flash | Movies | 2020–TBA | UC 0105 |
