Knight Gundam

The original Knight Gundam

Knight Gundam (騎士ガンダム Kishi Gandamu^?) is part of the SD Gundam franchise, a sub-franchise of the popular Gundam anime.

In Knight Gundam, Gundam mecha and characters are reimagined as knights, sorcerers and other fantasy and medieval European character types. Generally, the series has not been as popular as its counterpart Musha Gundam and as such Knight Gundam productions are rare. Perhaps in an attempt to change this, the Knight Gundam concept received a fair amount of focus in the recent Superior Defender Gundam Force television series.

Outline[]

Knight Gundam is a series that took elements from the then popular Dragon Quest series and role playing games into SD Gundam. The knight style SD Gundam designs are devised by Koji Yokoi and soon Knight Gundam became an independent series like Musha Gundam.

The series first started on Carddas trading cards with the story set in the "Saddarc World" (Carddas spelt backwards). Soon after it expanded to Gashapons, plastic models, manga and games.

The Gundams in the Knight Gundam series are portrayed as living beings just like in the Musha Gundam series. But later on in the series giant robots known as "Kihei"(機兵) were introduced thus creating a weird picture of a Gundam piloting a Gundam. Also different from Musha Gundam, Knight Gundam has important human characters like Knight Amuro and Princess Frau throughout the whole series.

Series list[]

SD Gundam Gaiden[]

Sieg Zion Hen (1989-1990)
Entaku no Kishi hen (1991)
Seikihei Monogatari (1992)
Kikoushin Densetsu (1993)

Shin SD Gundam Gaiden[]

Knight Gundam Monogatari (1994)
Gold Saga (1995)
Gaitoushin Senki (1996)

Others[]

SD Gundam Holy Legend (1997)
SD Gundam Retsuden: Gundam Kishidan (1998)
SD Gundam Eiyuden (2001)

World view[]

Saddrac World[]

The world staging the SD Gundam Gaiden stories. Basically its setting is similar to that of a medieval fantasy role-playing game with swords, sorcery and monsters. As the series progresses, subjects like the Kihei, the Angel Domain, the Twelve Gods become more developed and detailed. The main races that exist in Saddrac World are the MS race and human race. Knight Gundam of the Gundam Clan and Knight Sazabi of the Zeon Clan are examples of the MS race. In Saddrac World there are numerous kingdoms like Lacroa, Munzo and Zabylonia to name a few.

Llion Cardzi World[]

The world staging the SD Gundam Holy Legend story. It too has the same medieval fantasy role-playing game setting but in Llion Cardzi the towns and cities are built on top of huge trees.

Related[]

Respect Gundam - a Knight Gundam 2-page spread drawn by Hiro Mashima is featured.