Despite it being late on a Tuesday night, the show was a huge success. Gundam’s latest work proves to be far more popular than any other anime. What’s the key to its popularity?

On May 29, Bushiroad’s Anime Data Insight Lab released a ranking of the most talked about anime works for the first week of broadcast in the spring of 2025, revealing that.

As expected, nationwide broadcasts are exciting. How much attention is being paid to the latest Gundam work?

The survey focused on Google Trends search volume data and utilized a variety of data sources, including social networking services (SNS) and various rankings, for analysis. As a result, when “Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuX” was set as the base value of 100 in the ranking of topics for the first broadcast week of spring anime, it took the top spot with a difference of more than twice that of the second-place work.

In an analysis limited to new anime only, “Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuX” stood out with a difference of nearly four times that of the second-place work, resulting in an overwhelming result. In third place and below were ” After Dinner Mysteries,” “Witch Watch,” ” LAZARUSU,” and “Uma Musume Cinderella Gray,” all of which recorded relative values ​​of more than 20, more than twice the average.

The show is broadcast every Tuesday at 24:29, midweek, which is a tough time for late-night anime, but in all episodes so far, related words for this show have been monopolizing the top 30 on X’s trending rankings, and the topic has been the talk of the town.

In addition to the series’ depth as it celebrates its 40th anniversary, the high level of attention it has received as a co-production with Studio Khara, along with the appearance of characters from previous series, has encouraged fans to spread the word. Since the most recent series has often been broadcast in the evening, concerns have been raised about the excitement leading up to the broadcast. Still, since it is broadcast nationwide on the Nippon Television network, many people have been able to watch it at the same time, and there has been a lot of “live commentary.”

Compared to the past four seasons, “Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuX” recorded a search volume that was about 1.5 times higher than “The Apothecary Diaries,” which was the top in the previous season, and it was found to be the work that attracted the most attention in the past year. The lab’s analysis indicates that this demonstrates the strength of the Gundam IP and the high expectations for the new series.