Mobile Suit Gundam is widely credited with the maturation of the giant robot anime genre and for weaving a complicated and unerringly human story about love, war, and the hope for peace among the stars. And on top of the new movie, the streamer has also brought the first three Gundam compilation films from the 1980s - Mobile Suit Gundam I, Mobile Suit Gundam II: Soldiers of Sorrow, Mobile Suit Gundam III: Encounters in Space - to the service for the first time.
Between news about tentpoles like Umbrella Academy and Stranger Things, Netflix took the opportunity of its five-day “Geek Week” to drop an even more vital announcement: the company had acquired the streaming rights to Mobile Suit Gundam Hathaway, the latest feature-length anime in the long-running Mobile Suit Gundam franchise, and the first of a planned trilogy of movies by Shūkō Murase ( Witch Hunter Robin, Gangsta).