Mobile Suit Gundam 0080: War in the Pocket Premieres

The seven-part original video series Mobile Suit Gundam UC begins release, a Sunrise-animated adaptation of Harutoshi Fukui’s light novels set decades after the original Mobile Suit Gundam.

Sunrise begins releasing Mobile Suit Gundam: The 08th MS Team, a One Year War-era OVA following Ensign Shiro Amada as he leads a Ground Type Gundam unit while falling for an enemy Zeon pilot.

Sunrise previewed its new Gundam television series with this short prologue, premiered at a fan event months ahead of the show's broadcast, showing test pilot Elnora Samaya running trials on the Gundam Lfrith at the Vanadis Institute's asteroid facility while her young daughter celebrates a birthday nearby. The prologue plants the mobile suit and mother-daughter relationship that the full series, The Witch from Mercury, builds its story around that October.

Sunrise's Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin OVA begins release, adapting Yoshikazu Yasuhiko's manga retelling of the years before the One Year War through Char Aznable and the Zabi family's rise to power.

The Attack on Titan OVA collection premieres, three bonus episodes bundled with the manga and Blu-ray releases that fill in side stories around the Survey Corps and the 104th Training Corps.

Production I.G's Kaiju No. 8 compilation film opens in Japan, recutting the first season around a new sequence in which intelligent kaiju attack a Defense Force base.

The anime film Umamusume: Pretty Derby - Beginning of a New Era releases in Japan, following freestyle racer Jungle Pocket ("Pokke") as she trains under veteran coach Tanabe to take on the Triple Crown races.

One Piece Film: Strong World Episode 0 premieres, a prequel OVA bundled with the Strong World movie's Blu-ray release that flashes back more than twenty years to the clash between Shiki the Golden Lion and Gol D. Roger.

Sunrise previews this Gintama' special at Jump Special Anime Festa 2014, a short bonus episode bringing the Yorozuya crew back together one more time.

Studio Khara debuts a new short Evangelion animation at the "EVANGELION:30+" 30th-anniversary fan event in Yokohama Arena, marking three decades since Neon Genesis Evangelion's original broadcast.

Production I.G spins Kaiju No. 8's eccentric Division 1 captain Gen Narumi off into a short original anime about his days off the battlefield.