Ahead of San Diego Comic Con, Bandai Namco Filmworks let the world know it had a new Mobile Suit Gundam series waiting in the wings to announce. That day has finally come. The anime is called Mobile Suit Gundam RG XARX-ZERO; it’s being crafted by legendary Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex writer-director Kenji Kamiyama; it’ll have a video game tie-in; and it’s coming in 2027. Kamiyama (Eden of the East/Blade Runner: Black Lotus) being tied to the series is a huge deal for anime fans worldwide, still buzzing over the last Gundam anime seeing legendary creatives from Evangelion, Pokémon, and FLCL team up. But for folks who don’t know Kamiyama’s bona fides, his illustrious resume includes, yes, being the director and writer of inarguably the best iteration of GitS, co-director of Netflix’s 2019 Ultraman anime, Ghost in the Shell: SAC_2045, director of The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim, and supervising director of Star Wars: Visions Volume 3. All that to say, Kamiyama taking the helm of the latest Gundam series by Sunrise and Sola Animation spells appointment viewing. Here’s the series’ logline: 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 Ray Azumi awakens— © SUNRISE/SOLA ANIMATION/Bandai Namco Filmworks © SUNRISE/SOLA ANIMATION/Bandai Namco Filmworks © SUNRISE/SOLA ANIMATION/Bandai Namco Filmworks © SUNRISE/SOLA ANIMATION/Bandai Namco Filmworks © SUNRISE/SOLA ANIMATION/Bandai Namco Filmworks © SUNRISE/SOLA ANIMATION/Bandai Namco Filmworks © SUNRISE/SOLA ANIMATION/Bandai Namco Filmworks © SUNRISE/SOLA ANIMATION/Bandai Namco Filmworks © SUNRISE/SOLA ANIMATION/Bandai Namco Filmworks © SUNRISE/SOLA ANIMATION/Bandai Namco Filmworks And here are the rest of the lovely folks behind the anime’s production: Original Concept: Yoshiyuki Tomino, Hajime Yatate 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 As is the case with creatives tasked with creating new series in the prestigious mecha franchise, Kamiyama shared the exciting yet daunting challenge of delivering a show worthy of the Gundam legacy.