Gundam RG XARX-ZERO heads to North America in April 2027

Sunrise has opened the official English site for Mobile Suit Gundam RG XARX-ZERO, a reimagined Gundam from director Kenji Kamiyama, and confirmed an April 2027 launch in North America. The site says information for other regions will follow.

The world XARX-ZERO is built on

The story begins with an Autonomous Interstellar Object arriving from another galaxy and delivering three revelations to humanity: gravity control, faster-than-light communication and cognitive materialisation. The discoveries trigger an age of unprecedented prosperity and send people out across the solar system, until the same object runs rampant less than a decade later and spawns an aggressive, self-proliferating ecosystem that humanity comes to call the Apocalypse. Three months of fighting in orbit above Earth end with the planet abandoned, and the year is marked A.A. 1, the first year After Apocalypse. By A.A. 45, children born on the Moon and in the space colonies have never known life without it.

Ray Azumi and Gundam ZERO

The protagonist is Ray Azumi, a war orphan who lost his parents to an Apocalypse attack and has been designated as the pilot of Gundam ZERO. Takeo Otsuka provides his voice. The machine carries the model number XARX-0 and is described as a state-of-the-art experimental unit developed to fight the Apocalypse.

Part of something bigger

XARX-ZERO is one half of the RG Project, which spans anime and games. The companion title Gundam Rogue Orbit has its own official site, and Sunrise is presenting the pair as a single science-fiction world built around Kamiyama’s direction.

Our opinion

The most interesting thing about XARX-ZERO is not the mobile suit. Sunrise has handed a reimagining of its flagship franchise to Kenji Kamiyama and asked him to build a world that exists across an anime and a game from day one, which is a far more ambitious bet than another timeline reboot. The premise, a golden age delivered by an object that then turns on its beneficiaries, is well-trodden science fiction, but it gives the series a clean hook: a generation that has never known anything except the Apocalypse. Whether it earns the RG badge will come down to the writing, and announcing a North American date with nothing said about Japan yet is an odd way to open a Gundam anime.