Mobile Suit Gundam 00

Mobile Suit Gundam 00 (機動戦士ガンダム00 Kidō Senshi Gandamu Daburuō) is the latest television anime of sunrise long-running Gundam franchise.The series premiered on October 6, 2007 on MBS and TBS's noted Saturday 6:00 p.m. timeslot

It is directed by Seiji Mizushima and written by Yōsuke Kuroda, and features character designs by Yun Kōga. The series was first officially announced by Sunrise during a 15-second trailer, which aired during Terra e...'s June 2, 2007 broadcast. Similar to the Sunrise anime Code geass, Gundam 00 will consist of two seasons, with the first one containing 25 episodes and the second containing 27 episodes. The second season is set to go on air in October 2008.

Mobile Suit Gundam 00 is the first Gundam series to be animated in high definition, and the first to be set in Anno Domini.


The series is set in the year 2307 AD of the Gregorian Calendar. During this time, became exhausted and the distribution of fuels became imbalanced. Humanity must rely on an array of solar power generation systems orbiting the Earth, and supported by three fossil fuels orbital elevator, each one pertaining to one of the three "major powers" on the planet.

The Union of Solar Energy and Free Nations (世界経済連合 sekaikeizairengō?, abbrev. ユニオン Union, lit. World Economic Union), consisting of the Organization of American States, Australisia and Japan, control the elevator located in South America. The Human Reform League (人類革新連盟 Jinrui Kakushin Renmei?, abbrev. 人革連 Jinkakuren, lit. Human Reform Alliance), consisting of China, Siberian Russia, India, the nations of South Asia (excluding the middle-Asian states of Iran, Afganistan and Pakistan), Mongolia, the member states of the ASEAN, Papua New Guinea, the Korean Peninsula, and Taiwan, control the elevator located in the Pacific Ocean. The Advanced European Union (AEU), consisting of Iceland, the islands of the Barents Sea, Greenland, Anatolia and the entirety of the traditional of continent Europe, control an elevator built in the middle of the African continent.

With this infinite source of energy benefiting only the major powers and their allies, constant warfare around the globe for fuels and energy lead to the formation of a private military organization, called Celestial Being (ソレスタルビーイング Soresutaru Biiingu), dedicated to eradicating war and unite humanity with the use of four humanoid machines called Gundams.

Mobile Suit Gundam 00 follows four mobile suit pilots termed Gundam Meisters ( ガンダムマイスター Gandamu Maisutā?), sided with Celestial Being. The protagonist is 16-year old Setsuna F. Seiei (刹那・F・セイエイ?), a quiet, taciturn young man who grew up in the Kurdish Republic, and a Gundam Meister for two years. He pilots the GN-001 Gundam exia, a high mobility mobile suit effective in melee combat.


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