Gundam

The Gundam Series (ガンダムシリーズ Gandamu Shirīzu) is a metaseries of anime created by Sunrise studios that features giant robots (or "mecha") called "Mobile Suits" (MS); usually the protagonist's MS will carry the name Gundam.
The metaseries started on April 7, 1979, as a serial TV show called Mobile Suit Gundam. That first TV series has since spawned a franchise that has come to include works released in numerous media. Titles have appeared in the form of multiple television series and OVAs, movies, manga, novels and video games, among other modes. The story from the original 1979 series has been considerably extended with sequels, prequels, side stories and alternate timelines. As a result, the title Gundam has become a collective term for the seven distinct but related timelines that can be pieced together from the stories that appear in the Gundam franchise. Generally speaking, the timelines do not intersect, but they do contain a few common elements such as the titular war machines called Gundam. However, all Gundam timelines and worlds, long after their own anime series, do eventually intersect and combine in the series Turn A gundam .
The original timeline for the Gundam series was the Universal Century (UC) series, which included Mobile Suit Gundam (1979) and Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam (1985). Since the 1990s, alternative timelines have been produced and developed, including the Future Century, After Colony, After War, Correct Century, Cosmic Era, Anno Domini and Advanced Generation timelines.
As of January 21, 2008, the Gundam franchise is a 50 billion yen trademark. A year 2000 press release stated that retail sales of Gundam items had totaled $5 billion. In the 2008 ranking of average sales figures for anime copies sold in Japan (1970-2008 total sales figures averaged by episode), Gundam series were in four of the top five places: Mobile Suit Gundam ranked second, with Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny third, Mobile Suit Gundam SEED fourth, and Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam fifth. Also, Mobile Suit Gundam Wing ranked 18th and Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ ranked 20th. Gunpla's (Gundam Plastic model) holds 90% of the Japan character plastic model market.
Academics in Japan have also viewed the series as inspiration, with the International Gundam Society being the first academic institution based on an animated TV series.

This is a table of Gundam TV series

Name	Media	Year(s)	MSG Date
Mobile Suit Gundam	TV series Compilation movies	1979-1980 1981-1982	U.C. 0079-80
Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam	TV series Compilation movies	1985-1986 2005-2006	U.C. 0087-88
Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ	TV series	1986–1987	U.C. 0088-89
Mobile Suit Gundam: Char's Counterattack	Movie	1988	U.C. 0093
Mobile Suit Gundam 0080: War in the Pocket	OVA	1989	U.C. 0079-80
Super Deformed Gundam	Movie OVA TV series	1988–1989, 1991, 1993 1988, 1990 1993	Unknown
Mobile Suit Gundam 0083: Stardust Memory	OVA Compilation movie	1991-1992 1992	U.C. 0083
Mobile Suit Gundam F91	Movie	1991	U.C. 0123
Mobile Suit Victory Gundam	TV series	1993-1994	U.C. 0153
Mobile Fighter G Gundam	TV series	1994–1995	F.C. 60
Mobile Suit Gundam Wing	TV series Compilation OVA	1995-1996 1996	A.C.195
Mobile Suit Gundam: The 08th MS Team	OVA Compilation movie	1996 1998	U.C. 0079
After War Gundam X	TV series	1996	A.W. 0015
Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz	OVA Compilation movie	1997 1998	A.C.196
Turn A Gundam	TV series Compilation movies	1999-2000 2002	C.C. 2345
Gundam Neo Experience 0087: Green Divers	Specialty format movie	2001	U.C. 0087
Gundam Evolve	Animated shorts	2001–2005	various
Mobile Suit Gundam SEED	TV series Compilation specials	2002-2003 2004	C.E.71
Superior Defender Gundam Force	TV series	2003–2004	Neotopia
Mobile Suit Gundam MS IGLOO: The Hidden One Year War	Movies	2004	U.C. 0079
Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny	TV series Compilation specials	2004-2005 2006-2007	C.E.73
Mobile Suit Gundam MS IGLOO: Apocalypse 0079	OVA	2006	U.C. 0079
Mobile Suit Gundam SEED C.E. 73: Stargazer	ONA	2006	C.E.73
Mobile Suit Gundam 00	TV series Compilation specials	2007-2009 2009	2307-2312 AD
Mobile Suit Gundam MS IGLOO 2: The Gravity Front	OVA	2009	U.C. 0079
Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn	OVA	2010-2013 (In Production)	U.C. 0096
SD Gundam Sangokuden Brave Battle Warriors	Movie TV series	2010	Mirisha
Mobile Suit Gundam 00 the Movie: Awakening of the Trailblazer	Movie	2010	2314 AD
Model Suit Gunpla Builders Beginning G	OVA	2010	2010 AD
Mobile Suit Gundam AGE	TV Series	2011-2012 (In Production)	A.G. 115,140-142,164
Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin	TBA	TBA	U.C. 0079
Mobile Suit Gundam SEED: The Movie	Movie	TBA	C.E.