# What is the best Gundam series?

> Hard-edged war stories, tournament brawls and toy-model spin-offs all share the same white-and-blue mobile suit. Universal Century purists and newer fans rarely agree here.

*By YPB Team · Published October 28, 2026 · https://youpick.best/ranking/what-is-the-best-gundam-series*

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## Current results (no votes yet)

1. **Mobile Suit Gundam** — score 1000/1000
   Yoshiyuki Tomino's 1979 original that invented the 'real robot' war drama of the One Year War.
2. **The 08th MS Team** — score 874/1000
   A 1996 OVA series about a ground-combat unit in the One Year War's jungles.
3. **War in the Pocket** — score 668/1000
   The 1989 OVA Gundam 0080, a poignant war story seen through a child's eyes.
4. **Gundam X** — score 668/1000
   A 1996 post-apocalyptic series set after a devastating colony drop.
5. **Iron-Blooded Orphans** — score 668/1000
   A gritty 2015 story of child soldiers fighting for survival and independence on Mars.
6. **Gundam Build Fighters** — score 565/1000
   A 2013 spin-off about kids battling with Gunpla model kits.
7. **G Gundam** — score 565/1000
   A 1994 martial-arts spin where nations settle disputes through Gundam Fight tournaments.
8. **Victory Gundam** — score 565/1000
   Tomino's notoriously bleak 1993 Universal Century series.
9. **GQuuuuuuX** — score 565/1000
   A 2025 alternate-history series from Studio Khara reimagining the One Year War.
10. **Gundam 00** — score 565/1000
   A 2007 series about the private militia Celestial Being trying to end all war by force.
11. **Gundam Wing** — score 439/1000
   The 1995 series about five teenage pilots that became the franchise's breakout hit in the West.
12. **Gundam ZZ** — score 439/1000
   The 1986 sequel to Zeta following Judau Ashta in the First Neo Zeon War.
13. **The Witch from Mercury** — score 439/1000
   A 2022 series set at a mobile-suit academy, the first mainline Gundam with a female lead.
14. **Gundam SEED** — score 439/1000
   A 2002 reimagining of the war between Naturals and Coordinators that revived the brand for a new generation.
15. **Gundam Unicorn** — score 439/1000
   A lavish 2010 OVA series continuing the Universal Century after Char's Counterattack.
16. **Zeta Gundam** — score 0/1000
   The darker 1985 sequel following Kamille Bidan during the Gryps Conflict.
17. **Turn A Gundam** — score 0/1000
   Tomino's 1999 pastoral epic designed to unite every Gundam timeline.
18. **Gundam SEED Destiny** — score 0/1000
   The 2004 sequel to SEED, continuing the Coordinator conflict with a new protagonist.

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