Kidou Senshi Gundam Thunderbolt 2nd Season

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.

2016 - present

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

Anime with OST's that will make you shout, sob or even make you doubt your existence...

This is part 2! Check out part 1 here: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/11695

⦿ Alternate Versions (Universal Century)

> Mobile Suit Gundam: 0079 (TV):
Mobile Suit Gundam I (Movie)
Mobile Suit Gundam II: Soldiers of Sorrow (Movie)
Mobile Suit Gundam III: Encounters in Space (Movie)

> Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam (TV):
Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam: A New Translation - Heir to the Stars (Movie)
Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam: A New Translation II - Lovers (Movie)
Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam: A New Translation III - Love Is the Pulse of the Stars (Movie)

> Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn (OVA):
Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn RE:0096 (TV)

> Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin (OVA):
Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin - Advent of the Red Comet (TV)

> Mobile Suit Gundam Thunderbolt (ONA):
Mobile Suit Gundam Thunderbolt: December Sky (Movie)
Mobile Suit Gundam Thunderbolt: Bandit Flower (Movie)



⦿ Mobile Suit Gundam Franchise Total Episodes: 964 episodes (TV Series + ONA)

> Main Series (726 Episodes):
Mobile Suit Gundam: 0079 (43)
Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam (50)
Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ (47)
Mobile Suit Victory Gundam (51)
Gundam Reconguista in G (26)
Turn A Gundam (50)
Mobile Fighter G Gundam (49)
After War Gundam X (39)
Mobile Suit Gundam: Wing (49)
Mobile Suit Gundam: SEED (50)
Mobile Suit Gundam: SEED Destiny (50)
Mobile Suit Gundam: 00 (50)
Mobile Suit Gundam: AGE (49)
Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans (50)
Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch from Mercury (24)

> Series Connected to the Universal Century (49 Episodes):
Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn RE:0096 (22)
Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin - Advent of the Red Comet (13)
Mobile Suit Gundam: Thunderbolt (8)
Mobile Suit Gundam: Requiem for Vengeance (6)

> Gundam Build Series (101 Episodes):
Gundam Build Fighters (25)
Gundam Build Fighters Try (25)
Gundam Build Divers (25)
Gundam Build Divers Re:Rise (26)

> SD Gundam Series (137 Episodes):
SD Gundam Force (52)
SD Gundam Sangokuden Brave Battle Warriors (51)
SD Gundam World: Sangoku Soketsuden (10)
SD Gundam World Heroes (24)



⦿ Not Included in Interest Stack (Not Watching)

> Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ (Universal Century)
> Mobile Suit Victory Gundam (Universal Century)
> Mobile Suit Gundam: Twilight Axis (Universal Century)
> Mobile Suit Gundam: MS IGLOO (Universal Century)
> Gundam Evolve (Universal Century)
> Mobile Suit Gundam: Requiem for Vengeance (Universal Century)
> Gundam Reconguista in G (Regild Century)
> Turn A Gundam (Correct Century)
> Mobile Fighter G Gundam (Future Century)
> After War Gundam X (After War)
> Mobile Suit Gundam: AGE (Advanced Generation)
> Model Suit Gunpla Builders Beginning G (Anno Domini)
> Gundam Build Fighters
> Gundam Build Fighters Try
> Gundam Build Divers
> Gundam Build Divers Re:Rise
> SD Gundam Force
> SD Gundam Sangokuden Brave Battle Warriors
> SD Gundam World: Sangoku Soketsuden
> SD Gundam World Heroes

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.

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.

OVAs made in the 2000s and beyond that carry on the spirit of the 80s/90s OVA -- a fun, standalone story told in a short amount of time, supported by great production values.