Two minutes. That's the entire ask, and it spends every second of it flexing. This is Gundam's 30th anniversary short doing exactly one thing: putting mobile suits on screen at a level of polish and color work that makes you want to rewind it three times before the tea gets cold. There is no story here. No arc, no character to root for, nothing resembling a plot, and anyone who shows up expecting one is going to feel cheated. What you get instead is pure animation as celebration, motion and light thrown at you fast enough that you barely register the cuts. It's a birthday card from a franchise that knows its fans will read every frame. Watch it, get the chills, then go rewatch the actual series it's toasting.

To mark the 30th anniversary of Gundam, Sunrise produced this short promotional special. It brings together the headline Gundam of each main series from the franchise's first thirty years for a single joint mission outside any official continuity: working together, they help guide an FF-X7 into orbit. The piece appeared on DVD song collections of Gundam opening and ending themes covering the 20th and 21st centuries, offering a compact mecha and sci-fi celebration of the metaseries.