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Mobile Suit Gundam is starting a new shared universe with a new anime officially titled Mobile Suit Gundam RG XARX-ZERO. Announced at San Diego Comic-Con 2026, the anime will premiere in 2027 and serve as the beginning of a larger story spanning anime, games, and other media.
Kenji Kamiyama, known for directing Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, will direct Mobile Suit Gundam RG XARX-ZERO. Sola Animation is handling animation production.
Here is how Bandai Namco Filmworks describes the anime:
The three revelations delivered by the Autonomous Interstellar Object from another galaxy ushered in an age of unprecedented prosperity, allowing humanity to expand across the entire solar system.
Gravity Control. FTL Communication. Cognitive Materialization. Yet less than ten years after its discovery, the Object that had delivered these three revelations suddenly ran rampant, spawning an aggressive, self-proliferating ecosystem.
Humanity came to see this unknown ecosystem as the Apocalypse.
For three months, humanity fought the Apocalypse to a standstill in orbit above Earth. Forced to abandon the planet, humanity marked that year as A.A. 1—the first year After Apocalypse.
And on the lunar surface, a boy named Ray Azumi awakens—
Mobile Suit Gundam RG XARX-ZERO is part of the newly announced RG Project, which will tell an original Gundam story across different forms of media. Literary author Toh EnJoe is also involved with the project.
The initiative currently brings together Mobile Suit Gundam RG XARX-ZERO and the upcoming high-mobility action game Gundam Rogue Orbit, with both telling stories set in the same universe from different perspectives.
RG XARX-ZERO takes place roughly 100 years before the events of Gundam Rogue Orbit and will establish the beginning of this new timeline and the events that shaped it. Gundam Rogue Orbit then moves the story forward by several generations, into a future affected by what happened during the anime.
Together, the anime and game will form different parts of the same larger story, giving Gundam another original continuity separate from its existing timelines.
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