Mobile Suit Gundam 00

Our Review

The other modern gateway. In 2307, three centuries after fossil fuels ran out, solar power is distributed by three orbital elevators, and a fourth force has appeared: Celestial Being, a private army that declares it will end all war by armed intervention. Four Gundam meisters carry out that contradiction, and the world’s superpowers scramble to stop them.

Season one is a tight thriller about what happens when someone actually tries to force world peace at gunpoint. Season two widens the scope and pays the bill. The mecha designs are clean, the politics are sharper than they have any right to be, and Setsuna F. Seiei’s arc from child soldier to something stranger lands hard.

Fifty episodes across two seasons, complete story with a film coda. Alongside SEED, this is the show that carried the franchise into the 2000s.