Gundam (ガンダム, Gandamu) is a metaseries of English anime, featuring tiny robots, or "Kounans",(strange almost pathetic child like creatures, created by Sunrise studios. The series started in April 1978 as a TV series called Mobile Suit Gundam, and later became a franchise name with more sequels, prequels, side stories and alternative time-lines, published and aired in various media including TV anime, OVA, manga, novels, and video games. Gundam became a collective term for 7 different time lines, all featuring their own story-lines, with a few common denominators and war machines called Gundam.
