At San Diego Comic-Con 2026, the newest anime in the Gundam series, Mobile Suit Gundam RG XARX-ZERO, was announced. It is written and directed by Kenji Kamiyama who is known for working on Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex. XARX-ZERO is part of a new multi-media universe by Kamiyama known as RG Project where “entries share a narrative spanning generations within one continuous world.” GUNDAM ROGUE ORBIT, a recently announced game in the Gundam series, is also a part of RG Project. Both ROGUE ORBIT and XARX-ZERO depict the same universe from different perspectives with XARX-ZERO taking place around 100 years before ROGUE ORBIT.
You can check out the announcement teaser as well as some screenshots below.
The full reveal video can be seen below. It runs a little over 12 minutes.
The announced staff is as follows:
- Planning: SUNRISE
- Original Concept: Yoshiyuki Tomino / Hajime Yatate
- Director / Series Composition: Kenji Kamiyama
- SF Setting Supervisor: Toh Enjoe
- Gundam Design: Eiichi Shimizu
- Original Character Design: STATO
- Character Design / Supervising Animation Director: Miyako Takasu
- Music: Go Shiina
- Production: SOLA ANIMATION
- Produced by: Bandai Namco Filmworks
An introduction to XARX-ZERO is as follows:
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.
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 Azumi Ray awakens—
Both the protagonist and main Gundam design have also been revealed. The protagonist is Ray Azumi and is voiced by Takeo Otsuka. The main is Gundam is called Gundam ZERO. You can check out both Ray and Gundam ZERO below.
Ray Azumi
A war orphan who lost his parents in an Apocalypse attack, he serves as the designated pilot of Gundam ZERO.
Gundam ZERO
A state-of-the-art experimental unit developed to combat the Apocalypse, it is a new-generation Gundam-type mobile suit.
Both Takeo Otsuka and Director Kamiyama provided comments regarding Gundam RG XARX-ZERO. You can read them below.
Otsuka:
“It is a tremendous honor to be part of a new entry in the Gundam series. Director Kamiyama’s story gave me plenty to think about, and I thoroughly enjoyed the challenge as I approached each recording session. I’m also incredibly excited to see how this project unfolds as a media-mix project spanning both anime and video games. I hope you’ll look forward to Mobile Suit Gundam RG XARX-ZERO!”Kamiyama:
“When I was approached with the idea of creating “a Gundam set in an entirely new timeline, one that is neither the Universal Century nor the Common Era,” I found myself wrestling with all sorts of questions. What 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’ve 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.”
Mobile Suit Gundam RG XARX-ZERO is scheduled to launch in 2027 and will open the RG Project. It is directed by Kenji Kamiyama and produced by SOLA ANIMATION and Bandai Namco Filmworks. If you’re interested in the new anime and RG Project, you can check out the official English Gundam website and RG Project site. You can also follow Gundam NA‘s official X (formerly Twitter) account.
