A Gundam 3D Billboard Is Taking Over Tokyo’s Skyline

Mobile Suit: Gundam has been the most popular mech franchise in the anime world since the 1970s, with the anime series able to maintain its longevity by introducing countless new mech suits and stories following galaxy-spanning heroes and villains. With the big new series following the young pilot known as Suletta Mercury in The Witch From Mercury, a new billboard is helping promote one of Gundam’s latest video game hits. What makes this billboard especially noteworthy is that it bursts forth into our world.

The Gundam franchise has had a big year in 2022, thanks mostly to the arrival of the latest anime series in the Mobile Suit universe, Gundam: The Witch From Mercury. With the new series taking the opportunity to introduce anime viewers to the first female protagonist in the Gundam verse, this television show from Bandai Namco Filmworks also introduces a universe that isn’t quite like anything that came before. In The Witch From Mercury, Gundams have been outlawed thanks to corporate overlords who see the mech suits as a threat to their supremacy, though Suletta Mercury, a new student at a school where disputes are handled via giant robot battle, had an Aerial Gundam up her sleeve thanks to her family ties.

3-D Gundam

A new video from Gundam: Evolution shows off the 3-D billboard in Japan, with the first-person shooter recently hitting consoles earlier this month and allowing players to choose from many of the mechs that have appeared across the anime universe since the franchise debuted in the 1970s:

The Witch From Mercury and Gundam Evolution are far from the only projects that the mech universe has to help in growing its popularity, with Netflix continuing to work on a live-action adaptation film and an animated sequel in the works for the Hathaway’s Flash series. This latest billboard joins a number of statues that have been erected throughout Japan, with the “Walking Gundam” continuing to take steps while showing how big and beloved the Gundam universe has become over the decades. 

Which anime do you think would work well with a 3-D billboard of its own? Which mech suit do you think stands above all others in the Gundam universe? Feel free to let us know in the comments or hit me up directly on Twitter @EVComedy to talk all things comics, anime, and the world of Gundams.