Mobile Suit Gundam Thunderbolt Manga Series Set To End.

Yasuo Ohtagaki’s manga series will reportedly end this week after being serialized for 13 years. X(formerly Twitter) user, Manga Mogura, share news revealing that the manga is set to end on September 26, 2025.

Yasuo Ohtagaki first published Mobile Suit Gundam Thunderbolt manga in Shogakukan’s seinen manga magazine Big Comic Superior in March 2012. Sunrise produced an original net animation (ONA) series adaptation which aired between December 2015 and April 2016. A second part was released between March and July 2017. The manga has over 5.5 million copies in circulation.

The series takes place concurrently with Mobile Suit Gundam, during the One Year War but is not canonical to the original anime. In U.C. 0079, the Earth Federation’s Moore Brotherhood and the Principality of Zeon’s Living Dead Division engage in a fierce battle in the “Thunderbolt Sector”, a shoal zone littered with debris from destroyed space colonies, named for its frequent electrical discharges. Since the outbreak of the war, Zeon forces have secured the Thunderbolt Sector as it is a vital supply route to the Zeon-aligned A Baoa Qu asteroid fortress. The story focuses on Federation soldier Io Fleming as he battles Zeon’s best sniper, Daryl Lorenz.