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Every Gundam Timeline Explained + Watch Order!

TanukiType

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Want to start watching Mobile Suit Gundam but don't know where to start? Here's my beginner guide to help you learn which ones make good entry points (and which ones do not)! An overview of the entire Universal Century timeline itself is given along with all the alternate continuities. Want to start watching Mobile Suit Gundam but don't know where to start? Here's my beginner guide to help you learn which ones make good entry points (and which ones do not)! An overview of the entire Universal Century timeline itself is given along with all the alternate continuities.

Timestamps:
0:00:00 Preface
0:05:25 Universal Century
0:42:17 Correct Century (Turn A)
0:49:43 Future Century (Mobile Fighter G Gundam)
0:53:29 After Colony (Wing)
0:58:01 After War (Gundam X)
1:03:31 Anno Domini (Gundam 00)
1:08:46 Cosmic Era (SEED)
1:13:15 "Regild" Century (Reconguista in G)
1:14:25 Advanced Generation (AGE)
1:17:11 Anno Domini (Build Fighters)
1:19:24 Post Disaster (Iron-Blooded Orphans)
1:22:41 Conclusion

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20 Comments

@TanukiType Creator 5 years ago Pinned

Can someone tell me if the chapters are working? They used to show up, but now they seem to be gone on my end.

@PlaysArk 4 years ago

An hour and 20 of high level Gundam talk, yes my dude. I needed this.

@augm3598 3 years ago

Talking about blue rays like I'm not just gonna pirate all this

@germaineng1682 4 years ago

Amazing how I can't sit through 15 minutes in class but I can sit through this whole video! Thank you for making this video. Ibo got me into Gundam and I gotta say it is the most fulfilling franchise ever

@rcadegaming7274 4 years ago

Actually, 0080: War in the Pocket mostly takes place in 0079. Specifically, around Christmas. Only the very end takes place in 0080.

@bartsimpson83 5 years ago

When I first got into anime in the late 90s, the first full anime series I ever watched was Toonami's first broadcast of Gundam Wing. I managed to tape the entire series and I still have those tapes somewhere. I had already been turned on to serialized storytelling by way of the 90s X-Men cartoon and I was impressed that Gundam Wing was even more mature than that show (in the sense that it told a complex story with lots of twists and turns and loads of subplots and expected the viewer to keep up). Not long after that, I watched the Adult Swim broadcast of Gundam 0083 and at that point I was hooked on the franchise for life.

@Spartan-P 11 months ago

Gundam Wing, G Gundam and SD Gundam were my childhood lol.

@Top_Lad 1 year ago

This really is the best Gundam watch order video on YouTube in my opinion, good job making it TanukiType from almost 4 years ago!

@friscofiacso2375 4 years ago (edited)

Turn A Gundam reminds me of Stephen King's Mid-World which he connected some of his previous novels from different universes he created and blended them into one place.

@ryanhoule4415 3 years ago (edited)

My entry point was Gundam Wing back in the early 2000s. Since then, I’ve seen Endless Waltz, 08th MS Team, Char’s Counterattack, G, SEED, 0080, 0083, SD Gundam Force, Build Divers, Build Divers Re:Rise, the first season of Witch from Mercury, 00, and my personal favorite Iron-Blooded Orphans.

@TheDudemanfu 4 years ago (edited)

You need to watch the other gundams that came before Turn A to get any of the references.
It is also very much required viewing if you are a fan of Tomino Gundam, it's one of his best works.

@davidma6616 2 years ago

I appreciate how thorough and well-spoken you are dude. So many youtubers make decent video essays about all kinds of topics, but random grammor or logical errors here and there will just grind my gears. This was to-the-point, yet extremely thorough with no B.S. A perfect video to get me through a busy day in which I could listen to stuff but not do much else that I wanted. This channel deserves a lot more attension. Easy sub. Will also come back and sub from my hobby channel where I actually upload stuff.

@itsdantaylor 3 years ago

42:15 its funny because Gundam F91 was created, in a way, to make smaller Gundams so they could cut down on plastic (I do like the cannon reasons for the smaller mobile suits in F91 though) but they forgot that if they change the size, they have to change the molds, meaning they couldn't re use any of the previous molds for the 'new' Gundam kits. So that eventually had to be scrapped. Turns out the big wigs ideas in regards to merchandise aren't really thought out very well............no surprise.

@Viknuss 3 years ago

Just watched all of the Gundam UC required viewing. 10/10. Now I'm ready to play Mobile Suit Gundam Battle Operation 2 with an informed opinion.

@MinaStone-wv5uy 1 year ago

7:25 I actually really liked the old animation because it brought the realism more to the front

@Prilliyo 1 year ago

Iron blooded orphans made me cry I'll never watch it again I just can't

@andrewkeller2842 1 year ago

08th MS Bridge Team is the shizzle…

✅Hi-quality, gorgeous animation
✅Interesting characters; design wise & how they’re written
✅Amazing mecha design
✅An amazing, iconic fight scene that is one of the best in the entire UC timeline
✅Getting to see how the love child of M.A.S.H. and Gundam would turn out without ever asking for something like that…