Is Kidou Senshi Gundam Thunderbolt good to watch with a friend?
A quiet night. Kidou Senshi Gundam Thunderbolt (Mobile Suit Gundam Thunderbolt: December Sky) is a web series (ONA) from Fall 2015 by Sunrise Inc.: 4 episodes, about 1.2 hours in total, finished, 7.77/10 across the listing sites.
Watching it together: a quiet night. Tagged psychological, tragedy and not comedy: this wants attention and the right mood, not background chatter. Rule: heavy drama or psychological tags without comedy → quiet night.
This verdict comes from rules over the title's format, length and tags, not from a review — the rule that fired is named above.
The facts
- Type
- Web series (ONA)
- Episodes
- 4
- Episode length
- 18 min
- Total time
- about 1.2 hours — one evening
- First aired
- Fall 2015
- Status
- Finished
- Studio
- Sunrise Inc.
- Score
- 7.77/10 across the listing sites
- Tags
- action, manga adaptation, drama, gore, mecha, military, psychological, robots & AI, sci-fi, seinen, space, tragedy, violence, war
Data from anime-offline-database (ODbL) as of 2026-07-04; the score is the median of the scores the anime listing sites give it, on a 1–10 scale.
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Quick answers
- How long does it take to watch all of Kidou Senshi Gundam Thunderbolt?
- About 1.2 hours for all 4 episodes at 18 min each — one evening; at two episodes a night that is 2 evenings.
- How many episodes does Kidou Senshi Gundam Thunderbolt have?
- 4 episodes of 18 min.
- Is Kidou Senshi Gundam Thunderbolt finished?
- Yes, Kidou Senshi Gundam Thunderbolt is finished (4 episodes), so you can watch the whole thing at your own pace.
- Is Kidou Senshi Gundam Thunderbolt good for a group?
- Better for two than for a crowd. Kidou Senshi Gundam Thunderbolt is tagged drama, psychological, tragedy; it rewards paying attention, which a group rarely does.
- Where is Kidou Senshi Gundam Thunderbolt listed?
- Kidou Senshi Gundam Thunderbolt is on AniList (id 21458) and MyAnimeList (id 31973); Queue Up keys it by its AniList id and shows it when it is on either of your lists.
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