New Space Age Highway Patrolman Gundam BLESS

New Space Age Highway Patrolman Gundam (新しい宇宙時代の高速道路警察ガンダム), also known as just Highway Patrolman Gundam is a new science-fiction and comedy animated television series in the long-running Gundam franchise by Sunrise. It aims to be a call-back towards 80's mecha and other earlier space anime, such as Heavy Metal L-Gaim and Mobile Suit ZZ Gundam, and as such features similar aesthetics and themes.

Three months before the premiere of the anime series itself, a pilot manga titled The Seacress, detailing the maiden voyage of the titular cruiser, was released.

Story
The year is Space Age 0052, a mere twenty years after the failure of the first intended Interplanetary Transport Network. The tragedy that occured during the construction of said network has pushed the progress of space travel back, but the world is yet again ready for the second attempt at creating the network, which will allow safe and efficient travel from the Earth to even Jupiter, creating once and for all a "space highway" that will connect everyone using the advanced CRESS technology, a field of physics dubbed the 'photon dive science' which was founded more than 50 years ago.

The father of a young boy of only nine years old, Gekijo Guingue, leaves Earth on the space cruiser the Seacress to contribute in the construction of the second Interplanetary Transport Network (ITN).

We move forward ten years later, and it is now S.A. 0062...

In space, there is news of an infamous pirate group "VOYNICH-CLASS", which started appearing two years ago. They continue to harass and obstruct the construction of the ITN, and is only barely repelled by standard Earth military forces, as they have come to possess the Seacress-class vessel, the Hemlock, as well as "mobile-suits", former construction machines, outfitted with CRESS technology. Their objective seems to be holding the ITN as leverage to exchange for the original copy of the "Voynich Manuscript", an old yet priceless manuscript of unknown origins owned by one of the backers of the ITN project, the European Murdoc Banking Company.

In retaliation, the Banking Company in collaboration with the GUND Corporation sends out the sixth and newest Seacress-class vessel, the newly-completed Burningbush, as well as a special asortment of crew hired from the private military contractor "Sea Devils", as well as other sources. Their objective is the safeguarding of the space highway under construction, as well as the subduing of the pirates.

Enter the 19 years old Gekijo, now having made a name of himself as a bright, and upcoming CRESS sport pilot. With unknown intentions, he decides then to join the Burningbush...?!

SMC Burningbush "Sea Devils Corps."

 * Gekijo Guingue
 * Levin Armeray
 * Spence Crown
 * Harms Way
 * Jo Roberts
 * Tekkou Izumo

VOYNICH-CLASS

 * Captain Franky
 * Bloody Mary

SMC Burningbush "Sea Devils Corps."

 * TTIC-081 Accordio
 * TTIC-090 Spine
 * TTIC-090L Spine (Levin Custom)
 * TTVR-03 Kowloon
 * GUMD-5T Caligula
 * GS/AS-1GB Gundam Bless

VOYNICH-CLASS

 * TRIM-TT Humpty Trumpty

Opening, Endings and Insert Songs
Openings: Endings: Inserts:
 * Highway Patrolman by Home Made Kazoku
 * Ganymede Reprise Ver. by The Frank Brothers
 * Glory Dreamers by Home Made Kazoku
 * MISS COMMUNICATION by Pop☆Girls
 * Starway by Nth

Episodes

 * Patrol 01 : Midnight Mile
 * Patrol 02 : Quest of Honor
 * Patrol 03 : Highway Patrolman
 * Patrol 04 : Darkness of Space

Trivia

 * The anime contains references to the Bruce Springsteen song, "Highway Patrolman", as it not only features the song name in the title and as the name of the first opening, but there are characters in the anime named Jo Roberts and Franky.