Mobile Suit Gundam Y

Mobile Suit Gundam Y (機動戦士ガンダムY; Kidō Senshi Gandamu Ai) is another series to be set in the long-running Gundam franchise. As noted, the theme of 'love' takes a more central role in the story (this can be seen in how the title, in Japanese, can be read as Mobile Suit Gundam Love).

The series will take place in a period of time in the distant future known as the Gestalt Century.

Currently, it seems that the story will focus on a small-scale war of attrition fought amongst groups of different colonies in the vicinity of Jupiter. How the planet Earth (as it is said will make an appearance) will feature in this series is still unknown.

Story
It is the year 1111 of the Gestalt Century calendar, and conflict for resources are ever-growing...

Aboard the Canaveral Os. colony, Aldrich Reno is the newest addition to the 87th Orbital Interception Squad's mobile forces, though he's not one bit joyous over it all. For one thing, it was neither talent nor skill that led to his new post, but rather a mere absence. What he feared most - this particular Interception Squad's notoriety for supposedly engaging in brutal guerrilla strikes behind enemy lines - became cold hard fact to the young man when he's sent out together with the rest of the boys and girls to raid a supply ship bound for the enemy colony, Hindenburg.

As it turns out, '87' is a terrible number for Aldrich, though not as much as '39' - the squad is ambushed by an enemy squadron while underway, and Aldrich can only watch as the mobile suit painted with the numbers '39' in faded bronze shoot down the rest of his squad, leaving him to be brought back to the enemy command ship as a prisoner. Whilst being interrogated by a highly-irritable senior officer, the lone ship suddenly comes under attack from an unknown enemy. Stray beam fire destroys the block adjacent to the holding cells, and Aldrich didn't think twice when a chance to escape presents itself. However, realizing the ship is soon to go down, he brings along the senior officer, knocked unconscious from the hit, as he searches for the hangar for the faint hope of escaping the ship by mobile suit.

As the ship's defenses and mobile forces go down one after another, Aldrich runs into a young woman hiding in one of the corners of the ship. Ceres May-ling is one of the ship's crew, but she now shakes in fear at the prospect of death. Pitying the girl, Aldrich takes her along in search for a way to get off the ship. When he finds that there are no functional mobile suits left in the hangar - and the closest escape pods are too far away to reach in time - the senior officer suddenly speaks up. Surprised with Aldrich's decision to carry him along, the officer guides Aldrich and Ceres to a locked part of the hangar, containing a fully intact space craft. Without telling him anything, the senior officer urges Aldrich and Ceres aboard, and stays behind to unlock the hangar bulwarks. He watches them fly off as the room goes up in flames.

Aldrich can once again only watch in horror as the attacking ship and its mobile suits completely destroy the Hindenburg command ship, and shoot down the escape pods one-by-one. A few of them gave chase to Aldrich's space craft, but the mobile suit '39' appears and blocks their path, and Aldrich and Ceres continue their escape into the darkness of space without looking back...

...And with that, the exodus to Earth for the ultimate evolution begins, once again.

Characters

 * Aldrich Reno
 * Ceres Liu May-ling
 * Noah Albacky
 * Thirty-Nine
 * 'Y'

Mobile Suits

 * WESD-31LCL Grimalkin
 * QS-023 Julius
 * QT-015 Mycroft
 * QD-017 Balthazar
 * XS-YUNINN-02 YuNWEI II
 * AUI-5T Meteoroid FIVER
 * X-77-X Agareph

Support Craft

 * XK-04 Youngswallow
 * MRM-DEC7 Typhoon Decus

Ships

 * Hindenburg-class

Episodes

 * Episode 1 : The Shroud Ever-Blackening
 * Episode 2 : Greatest Contest of Speed