Mobile Fighter G Gundam, also known in Japan as , is a 1994
Japanese animated television series produced by
Sunrise and the 5th incarnation of the long running
Gundam Franchise. The series is set in the "Future Century", where
space colonies representing countries have agreed to hold an organized fighting tournament known as the "Gundam Fight" every four years to settle their political differences in place of
war. Each colony sends a representative fighter piloting a giant, humanoid
mecha called a
Gundam to battle on Earth until only one is left, and the winning nation earns the right to govern over all the colonies until the next tournament. The events of
G Gundam follow
Domon Kasshu, the pilot of Neo
Japan's Shining Gundam during the 13th Gundam Fight. Domon's mission is to both win the tournament and to track down his older brother, who is believed to have stolen the mysterious Dark Gundam from the Neo Japan government.