Gundam

Rather than following one continuous storyline, Gundam encompasses numerous stories set across different timelines, universes, and historical periods. Some works belong to long-running continuities with events and characters that directly connect across multiple series, films, manga, novels, and other media, while others establish largely independent worlds with their own conflicts, factions, technologies, and interpretations of what a Gundam is.

Across these different settings, Gundam frequently centers on people caught in conflicts much larger than themselves. Pilots, soldiers, civilians, political leaders, and entire societies are shaped by warfare and by competing ideas about humanity's future. Mobile suits provide the franchise's most recognizable imagery, but the machines often serve as vehicles for stories about power, responsibility, ideology, sacrifice, identity, and the possibility of understanding between opposing sides.

Because Gundam has expanded through decades of storytelling and multiple forms of media, there is no single storyline that summarizes every work or one mandatory starting point for every viewer or reader. Some branches can be followed as extended connected narratives, while others can be approached independently. Together, these different interpretations form the larger Gundam franchise represented throughout this Volluble database.