The main cast and staff were also announced alongside a teaser trailer.
Bandai Namco Filmworks announced a brand new Mobile Suit Gundam anime at the Gundam Showcase 2026 at the San Diego Comic-Con. Titled “Mobile Suit Gundam: RG XARX-ZERO”, the series will be released sometime in 2027.
The cast and staff of the anime have also been revealed along with a teaser trailer.
Mobile Suit Gundam: RG XARX-ZERO
Premiere window: 2027
Animation studio: Sola Animation
Streaming service: TBA
What do we know about the Mobile Suit Gundam: RG XARX-ZERO anime so far?
Voice actor Takeo Otsuka is voicing the anime’s protagonist Ray Azumi. The protagonist is described as the permanently assigned pilot of Gundam Zero, and an orphan of war who lost his parents in an apocalypse attack.
Kenji Kamiyama, known for Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, Star Wars: Visions' “The Ninth Jedi”, and Eden of the East is directing the Mobile Suit Gundam: RG XARX-ZERO anime at Sola Animation. Kamiyama is also writing the series scripts. The Ghost in the Shell and Godzilla Singular Point’s Toe Enjoe is collaborating on the project’s world building in a sci-fi setting.
Eiichi Shimizu is designing the Gundam units. Stato created the original character design, while Miyako Takasu is adapting them into the anime and also serving as the chief animation director. Gō Shiina is composing the music, while Joseph Chou and Yasufumi Kobashi are producing.
The official Gundam website describes the anime’s story as (machine translated):
Thanks to three blessings brought from outside the solar system, humanity experienced unprecedented prosperity and expanded its territory throughout the entire solar system.
Gravity control, faster-than-light communication, and the materialization technology of images—the interstellar travel-capable object that brought these three blessings, however, went out of control less than 10 years after its discovery, giving rise to an aggressive, self-replicating system.
People associated this unknown ecosystem with the apocalypse.
After three months of fighting, the battle lines became deadlocked in orbit. Humanity was forced to abandon Earth, and this year was recorded as the first year of the After Apocalypse (AA).
In AA45, children born on the moon and in colonies have come to live with the existence of the Apocalypse as a part of their daily lives.
On the moon, a young boy named Azumi Ray awakens.
The Mobile Suit Gundam: RG XARX-ZERO anime is part of the RG Project, which expands the Gundam initiative to a new universe. The previously announced Gundam Rogue Orbit game also takes place in the same universe, but is set 90 years after the RG XARX-ZERO anime.