Kidou Senshi Z Gundam I: Hoshi wo Tsugu Mono

The Animation Kobe (アニメーション神戸) was an event established by Kobe in 1996 to promote anime and other visual media. The Animation Kobe Awards (アニメーション神戸賞) were given annually until 2015 by Kobe and the Organizing Committee to creators and creations.

Animation films released in Japan from September of the previous year to August of the event year become candidates. The candidates are selected not only from Japan, but also from other countries. However, the committee sees more importance in a point of view promoting young creators of Japan.

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This is a canonical watch order that is geared towards a first time viewer of Gundam. I myself experienced the series in this order, which preserves the canonical order, but mends it slightly to preserve watching experience and prevent burnout. Included will be double-ups of series, which means the TV and Compilation movie versions and/or OVAs. Most of those "rewatches" will come after a period of time, slid into the timeline in a way that prevents serious burn-out. Realistically you can swap around any of them for their relative compilation, but first will always come the "preferred" version.

There is nothing in this list I would call spoilers, but I do give some slight generalized opinions which may lead, or alter your own experiences. If you want to go in blind, just look at the show. The blurbs are there to decide if you aren't sure when you want to watch something, not to give you anything before you watch.

I will also be forced to keep a side list since the max number of items in a single list is 50. Until more Gundam content is released, it mostly has small 5-10 minute things that don't really add to the canon in anyway. However, Gundam is approaching a point where if 2-3 more series release this list will get tight. Here is a link to that list: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/12271

I want to clarify that I am not some super Gundam fan, and I began making this list from the beginning of my watching experience. It thus offers a glimpse into what watching Gundam in 2022 should be like for the open-minded, anime history inclined weeb. If you know nothing (or very little) about Gundam this is the perfect place to start in order to grind out the main Universal Century timeline.

If you have any questions (or suggestions to improve since I'm not a hardcore Gundam fan) please feel free to message me.

These are the anime that appear in Super Robot Wars Z for PlayStation 2.
Like Super Robot Wars W, this is considered one of the best written games in the franchise.

A compilation of anime that began airing during the month of May.

this month is most notable for its two samurai shows, samurai champloo directed by Cowboy Bebop Legend Shinichirou Watanabe, and Afro Samurai starring Samuel L Jackson.

See Also:

January: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/15005
February: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/15006
March: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/15017
April: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/15029
June: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/15041
July: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/15044
August: ttps://myanimelist.net/stacks/15051
September: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/15053
October: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/15101
November: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/15102
December: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/15104

These are all of the anime on which the great mad genius Yoshiyuki Tomino served as lead director.

1979 - 2005

Full list of all Gundam anime in order of release date. List will include EVERY entry including summaries

For those confused about where to start and what to watch regarding the long-running science fiction mecha franchise.

Gundam (1979) through Char's Counterattack (1988) should be considered akin to the Original Trilogy of Star Wars - this is the original story that every fan should watch to completion.

War in the Pocket (1989) through Turn A Gundam (1999) are a sort of expansionary era for Gundam, with new stories being written, with or without series creator Yoshiyuki Tomino, going so far as to create alternate universes to facilitate storytelling without dependence on prior works.

Gundam SEED (2002) and beyond is what I'd call modern Gundam. Relatively sparse compared to the extremely dense '90s period, the past 20 years of Gundam have introduced bigger shows (SEED being the first alternate universe series with a sequel) and more types of stories, such as Build Fighters/Divers, which feature ordinary kids fighting in a virtual environment using real-world Gundam model kits (Gunpla) as their avatars.

Note that I'm only going to review shows up through SEED Destiny, as that's one I'm currently watching and I haven't seen anything past that.

Char's Counterattack is one of the most famous works from the Gundam series and considered to be a masterpiece of the mecha genre. As a conclusion to the rivalry of Char Aznable and Amuro Ray of UC Gundam, you must first witness the evolution of their relationship in order to fully understand the emotional impact of their final confrontation. For that, here's a list with the most essential series in chronological watch order to immerse yourself in the fascinating world of UC Gundam.

The intent of this stack is to provide a complete history of Sunrise animation in a single course, meant to fit inside the framework of a 3 credit class with an expectation of 90 hours of out-of-class material over the period of a 15 week semester.

Adaptions of manga, or novels will be mostly excluded unless the creators themselves worked at Sunrise like in the case of Dunbine, or Arion. This means extremely notable, and historically important series, such as Cyborg 009, Ultraman, City Hunter, Inuyasha, Planetes, Sgt. Frog, and Gintama will all be excluded, despite the critical artistic contribution of this works on Sunrise's style. A truly dedicated academic would, at the minimum, watch some of the City Hunter, Inuyasha, Sgt Frog and Gintama side content since they were incredibly important on influencing Sunrise studio direction.

This course would ideally be taken alongside a thrice per week hour long lecture, breaking down the lineage of Sunrise's works, and how they influenced one another to build what we have today. As a result, there may be a series you feel is critical, or exceptionally great, but it will be excluded in favor of discussing the series role and relationship to the studio due to the limitations watching long form weekly series made for weekly broadcast. Sunrise is unique in that many of their major series have movies, or OVAs that summarize or recap the main franchise to give viewers a soft entry to understanding the work. However, there are of course serious works like Giant Gorg, Vifam, Pazer World Galient, Ronin Warriors, Jushin Liger, the entirety of the critically influencial Brave Series, most alternative Gundam series (which would be left to their own "Gundam" course), Garasaki, Infinite Ryvius, s-CRY-ed, Big O, Tiger & Bunny or even Love, Live! that would be discussed in class even if they aren't going to be watched.

This is a developing experiment, so please contact me if you have any suggestions, or questions.

Every cinema or direct to video anime film that came out in 2005.

2004: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/34949
2006: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/34953

Part 2: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/34952

The Universal Century (UC) is the original continuity in the Gundam multiverse (yes, it's a multiverse). This is for all those people that doesn't know how to start because of the BIG amount of titles.
Sorry if there is a grammar mistake, my writing in english is not the best.

Works in which Yoshikazu Yasuhiko served as either director or character designer.