{"id":780575,"date":"2026-07-23T21:20:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T21:20:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/780575\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T21:20:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T21:20:12","slug":"the-next-mobile-suit-gundam-anime-is-coming-from-the-mind-behind-ghost-in-the-shell-stand-alone-complex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/780575\/","title":{"rendered":"The Next ‘Mobile Suit Gundam’ Anime Is Coming From the Mind Behind ‘Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ahead of San Diego Comic Con, Bandai Namco Filmworks let the world know it had a new Mobile Suit Gundam<\/a> series waiting in the wings to announce. That day has finally come. The anime is called Mobile Suit Gundam RG XARX-ZERO;\u00a0it\u2019s being crafted by legendary Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex writer-director Kenji Kamiyama; it\u2019ll have a video game tie-in; and it\u2019s coming in 2027.<\/p>\n

Kamiyama (Eden of the East\/Blade Runner: Black Lotus<\/a>) being tied to the series is a huge deal for anime fans worldwide, still buzzing over the last Gundam anime seeing legendary creatives from Evangelion, Pok\u00e9mon, and FLCL team up<\/a>. But for folks who don\u2019t know Kamiyama\u2019s bona fides, his illustrious resume<\/a> includes, yes, being the director and writer of inarguably the best iteration of GitS<\/a>, co-director of Netflix\u2019s 2019 Ultraman anime, <\/a>Ghost in the Shell: SAC_2045<\/a>, director of The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim<\/a>, and supervising director of Star Wars: Visions Volume 3<\/a>. All that to say, Kamiyama taking the helm of the latest Gundam series by Sunrise and Sola Animation spells appointment viewing.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s the series\u2019 logline:<\/p>\n

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\u2014the first year After Apocalypse. By A.A. 45, children born on the Moon and in space colonies have never known life without the Apocalypse. And on the lunar surface, a boy named Ray Azumi awakens\u2014<\/p>\n

And here are the rest of the lovely folks behind the anime\u2019s production:<\/p>\n

Original Concept: Yoshiyuki Tomino<\/a>, Hajime Yatate<\/a>
SF Setting Supervisor: Toh Enjoe<\/a>
Gundam Design: Eiichi Shimizu<\/a>
Original Character Design: STATO<\/a>
Character Design\/Supervising Animation Director: Miyako Takasu<\/a>
Music: Go Shiina<\/a>
Production: Sola Animation<\/a>
Produced by: Bandai Namco Filmworks<\/a><\/p>\n

As is the case with creatives tasked with creating new series in the prestigious mecha franchise<\/a>, Kamiyama shared the exciting yet daunting challenge of delivering a show worthy of the Gundam legacy.<\/p>\n

\"KenjiKenji Kamiyama \u00a9 Rebecca McMillan Photography <\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I was approached with the idea of creating \u2018a Gundam set in an entirely new timeline, one that is neither the Universal Century nor the Common Era,\u2019 I found myself wrestling with all sorts of questions,\u201d Kamiyama wrote in a press release. \u201cWhat would replace the Earth Federation and the Principality of Zeon? What would become of the Newtype concept? What about Minovsky particles? And where did war fit into all of this? The more I turned over the question of what fundamentally makes Gundam Gundam, the further I drifted from the creative excitement that should have been driving the project. So I stepped back and reminded myself: I had been given the chance to create my own Gundam from the ground up for a series I\u2019ve loved for years. What could be more exciting than that? Once I found my way back to that excitement, a fresh and unexpected Gundam began to take shape. That Gundam is Mobile Suit Gundam RG XARX-ZERO.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"TakeoTakeo Otsuka \u00a9 SUNRISE <\/p>\n

Takeo Otsuka<\/a> also spoke about the privilege of playing Mobile Suit Gundam RG XARX-ZERO protagonist Ray Azumi.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is a tremendous honor to be part of a new entry in the Gundam series. Director Kamiyama\u2019s story gave me plenty to think about with every episode, and I thoroughly enjoyed the challenge as I approached each recording session. I\u2019m also incredibly excited to see how this project unfolds as a media-mix project spanning both anime and video games. I hope you\u2019ll look forward to Mobile Suit Gundam RG XARX-ZERO!\u201d<\/p>\n

And here\u2019s a closer look at Ray Azumi, RG XARX-ZERO\u2018s Apocalypse war orphan-turned \u201cpermanently assigned pilot\u201d of the Gundam Zero, a \u201cstate-of-the-art experimental anti-Apocalypse mobile suit, which we\u2019re still in awe of the aura of it wearing a cloak in its key visual.<\/p>\n

\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\"Mobile<\/a> \t\t\t \t\t\t\t \t\t\t\tRay Azumi \u00a9 SUNRISE\/SOLA ANIMATION\/Bandai Namco Filmworks \t\t\t\t \t\t\t \t\t\t\t\"Mobile<\/a> \t\t\t \t\t\t\t \t\t\t\tGundam Zero \u00a9 SUNRISE\/SOLA ANIMATION\/Bandai Namco Filmworks \t\t\t\t \t\t <\/p>\n

As Kamiyama and Otsuka noted above, RG XARX-ZERO is a \u201cmedia-mix project\u201d connecting the anime\u2019s tale with Bandai Namco\u2019s upcoming single-player action RPG, Gundam Rogue Orbit<\/a>, which was announced during Summer Game Fest<\/a>. Whatever lies in store for\u00a0RG XARX-ZERO\u2018s story, Gundam Rogue Orbit promises to expand its universe further with a tale set a century after the events of the anime. The game is slated to release on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X\/S, and Steam.<\/p>\n

Mobile Suit Gundam RG XARX-ZERO comes in the wake of Sunrise breathing new life into the franchise with hits like its Revolutionary Girl Utena-esque,<\/a> sapphic as hell<\/a> 2022 series, The Witch From Mercury<\/a>, and its Universal Century rebuild<\/a> in the equally hard-to-pronounce<\/a> 2025 anime Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX<\/a> from Neon Genesis Evangelion<\/a> studio Khara and FLCL and Gunbuster 2: Diebuster director Kazuya Tsurumaki<\/a>. The series also comes following the theatrical release of the second film in the Hathaway<\/a> series, The Sorcery of Nymph Circe<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"Mobile\u00a9 SUNRISE\/SOLA ANIMATION\/Bandai Namco Filmworks <\/p>\n

All that to say, now\u2019s as good a time as any to get into watching (and playing) Mobile Suit Gundam\u00a0when RG XARX-ZERO premieres in 2027.<\/p>\n

Want more io9 news? Check out when to expect the latest Marvel<\/a>, Star Wars<\/a>, and Star Trek<\/a> releases, what\u2019s next for the DC Universe on film and TV<\/a>, and everything you need to know about the future of Doctor Who<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ahead of San Diego Comic Con, Bandai Namco Filmworks let the world know it had a new Mobile…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":780576,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[29381,88,146373,332427,326245,28613],"class_list":["post-780575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-anime","tag-entertainment","tag-gundam","tag-mobile-suit-gundam-rg-xar-zero","tag-mon","tag-san-diego-comic-con"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=780575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780575\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/780576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=780575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=780575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=780575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}