| Mobile Suit SD Gundam | |
| Ja Kanji: | 機動戦士SDガンダム |
| Ja Romaji: | Kidō Senshi Esudī Gandamu |
| Genre: | Mecha, Comedy, Action, Parody |
| Type: | film |
| Director: | Osamu Sekita |
| Music: | Norimasa Yamanaka |
| Studio: | Sunrise |
| Released: | March 12, 1988 |
| Runtime: | 20 minutes |
| Type: | ova |
| Studio: | Sunrise |
| First: | May 25, 1988 |
| Last: | October 25, 1990 |
| Runtime: | 30 minutes per OVA |
| Episodes: | 5 |
| Type: | film |
| Mobile Suit SD Gundam's Counterattack | |
| Director: | Shinji Takamatsu Tetsuro Amino |
| Music: | Osamu Totsuka |
| Studio: | Sunrise |
| Released: | July 15, 1989 |
| Runtime: | 24 minutes |
| Type: | ova |
| Mobile Suit SD Gundam: SD Gundam Legend | |
| Director: | Tetsuro Amino |
| Music: | Toru Okada |
| Studio: | Sunrise |
| First: | March 25, 1990 |
| Last: | March 21, 1991 |
| Runtime: | 28 minutes per OVA |
| Episodes: | 4 |
| Type: | film |
| Mobile Suit SD Gundam: Musha, Knight, Commando: SD Gundam Emergency Sortie | |
| Director: | Takeyuki Kanda |
| Studio: | Sunrise |
| Released: | March 16, 1991 |
| Runtime: | 16 minutes |
| Type: | film |
| Mobile Suit SD Gundam: Dawn of Papal, Episode 103: Suginamu's Bride | |
| Director: | Takeyuki Kanda |
| Studio: | Sunrise |
| Released: | August 22, 1991 |
| Runtime: | 16 minutes |
| Type: | film |
| Mobile Suit SD Gundam Festival | |
| Director: | Takashi Imanishi Tetsuro Amino |
| Studio: | Sunrise |
| Released: | March 13, 1993 |
| Runtime: | 81 minutes |
is a series of animated shorts released in theaters and as original video animation between 1988 and 1993 by Sunrise. Part of the SD Gundam media franchise, the anime was based on the popular Gashapon capsule toys and model kits being released by Bandai at the time.
The shorts initially parody stories and characters from the Gundam franchise with super deformed forms of Gundam characters and mecha. Starting with 1989's Mobile Suit SD Gundam's Counterattack, the series began featuring a regularly appearing set of SD Gundam characters based on existing SD Gundam toys, Carddass trading cards and manga series, notably from the Command Gundam, Knight Gundam, and Musha Gundam sub-franchises.
Mobile Suit SD Gundam was released as a series of shorts accompanying feature films by Sunrise, or in OVA form. Eventually a feature film and a TV series were also made.[1] The complete list of works are as follows:[2]
Released with . Contains the following shorts:
The video release includes the two shorts from the theatrical release above, in addition to a new episode:
Includes the following shorts:
Released with . First animated appearance of the SD Sengokuden sub-series, which is based on the Musha Gundam toy line. Includes the following shorts:
Includes the following shorts:
Includes the following shorts:
Includes the following shorts:
A series of four OVAs adapted from the manga series, SD Gundam Gaiden Sieg Zion Hen, featuring Knight Gundam:
Released with Mobile Suit Gundam F91. Features the first ever team-up of Command Gundam, Knight Gundam, Musha Gundam, who work together with a young girl named Riplin to fight evil. Video release contains SD Gundam Scramble along with two new segments:
A feature-length movie divided into multiple parts as follows:
An 8-episode TV series,, was aired on TV Tokyo from February to March 1993, compiling the various Mobile Suit SD Gundam shorts as well as some variety segments. The show achieved a TV rating of 8.06% in the Kanto region.
All of the animated shorts, with the exception of SD Gundam SD Wacky Races, were later re-released in a DVD-BOX in Japan on July 22, 2007.