Mobile Suit Gundam ΖΖ | |
Cover for the First DVD Boxset
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機動戦士ガンダムΖΖ (Kidō Senshi Gandamu Daburu Zēta) |
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Genre | Mecha, Military science fiction |
Anime television series | |
Directed by | Yoshiyuki Tomino |
Produced by |
Kenji Uchida Juichi Kamiya Mitsushige Inagaki |
Written by | Hajime Yatate |
Music by | Shigeaki Saegusa |
Studio | Nippon Sunrise |
Licensed by | |
Original network | Nagoya Broadcasting Network, TV Asahi, Animax |
English network | |
Original run | March 1, 1986 – January 31, 1987 |
Episodes | 47 |
Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ (Japanese: 機動戦士ガンダムΖΖ Hepburn: Kidō Senshi Gandamu Daburu Zēta?, Mobile Suit Gundam Double Zeta) is a 1986 Japanese anime series and the third installment in Sunrise's long running Gundam franchise. A direct follow up to Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam, it is directed and written by Yoshiyuki Tomino, and he assembled a new team consisting of character designer Hiroyuki Kitazume, who had been one of Zeta Gundam's animation directors, and mechanical designers Makoto Kobayashi, Yutaka Izubuchi and Mika Akitaka. Initially airing on Nagoya Broadcasting Network and affiliated ANN stations in Japan, the series was later aired by the anime satellite television network, Animax, across Japan and its respective networks worldwide, including Southeast Asia, Hong Kong, South Asia, and other regions. The video streaming website Daisuki currently has the rights to stream the series worldwide.Sunrise themselves will release the series on home video via Right Stuf Inc. to North America in 2015.