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If you search YouTube for “Gundam Channel” in Japanese (ガンダムチャンネル), you may find two channels with very similar names.
One is the Japanese-language Gundam Channel. The other is GUNDAM CHANNEL INTL, the channel this article looks at.
Both are channels that the official Gundam websites point to.
In this article, we look at the channel through YouTube's official data, the channel's description, and the official Gundam websites and their terms of service.
Channel Profile
Channel name: GUNDAM CHANNEL INTL
YouTube: @GundamInfo
Channel created: December 8, 2010
Oldest video: February 21, 2011
Subscribers: about 2.52 million
Videos: 2,038
Total views: about 241.35 million
Measured: October 30, 2026
The subscriber count, number of videos and total views are figures this site measured from YouTube's official data on the morning of October 30, 2026.
The subscriber count is the value YouTube returns rounded to three significant figures. The “channel created” date is the day the account was created on YouTube.
As of October 30, the oldest public video on the channel belonged to a batch of videos introducing mobile suits, uploaded together from February 21 to 24, 2011.
The titles start with a number, as in “001 RX-78-2 Gundam”, with the name of the work the mobile suit appears in added at the end in English.
The numbers run up to 174, with gaps; as of the same date, 77 of those videos were public.
Not the Same as the Japanese-Language Gundam Channel
The official Gundam websites are split by language. On the Japanese-language official website, the YouTube account in the social media section is “@GUNDAM”. That is the Japanese-language Gundam Channel.
The social media section of the English official website, by contrast, points to “@GundamInfo”. That one is INTL.
It shows up in the same section whichever page of the English site you open, so it seems fair to call it a site-wide link.
We measured the two channels at the same time and put them side by side (figures from the morning of October 30, 2026).
GUNDAM CHANNEL INTL
Subscribers: about 2.52 million
Videos: 2,038
Total views: about 241.35 million
Gundam Channel (Japanese-language)
Subscribers: about 1.75 million
Videos: 2,265
Total views: about 615.67 million
INTL has about 770,000 more subscribers, yet the Japanese-language channel has about 2.5 times as many total views.
It's a little intriguing that the numbers point in opposite directions.
INTL was also set up earlier: the Japanese-language channel's account was created in March 2019.
In YouTube's official data, INTL's country field is blank, while the Japanese-language channel's reads “Japan”.
The Japanese-language channel's description listed a streaming schedule from 9:00 p.m. (Japan time), with works arranged by day of the week.
INTL's description carries no such schedule. So if a streaming schedule comes up when you look up “Gundam Channel” in Japanese, it most likely refers to the Japanese-language channel.
Official Websites in Eight Languages, Listed in the Description
INTL's description is written in English. It opens like this:
“Welcome to the official GUNDAM CHANNEL INTL YouTube channel.”
The next line reads: “Enjoy the world of Japan’s famous and popular anime, “GUNDAM” through series titles, trailers, special contents and more!”
Below that, under the label “GUNDAM Official Website”, links to the official websites are listed by language.
There are eight: English, Korean, Traditional Chinese (Taiwan), Traditional Chinese (Hong Kong), Thai, French, Italian and Spanish.
The Japanese-language official website is not among them. In the channel's keywords field, too, besides “GUNDAM” and the Japanese ガンダム, four spellings in Chinese characters were listed: 高達, 鋼彈, 敢达 and 高达.
The Company Named in the Official Website's Terms
The channel's description does not name the company that runs it. So we turned to the official website the channel points to.
The English official website's terms of service open like this:
“"GUNDAM.INFO" (hereafter, the Website) is managed and operated by Bandai Namco Filmworks Inc.”
The Japanese-language terms of service say the same: “"GUNDAM.INFO" (hereinafter, this Website) is managed and operated by Bandai Namco Filmworks Inc. (hereinafter, the Company).” (translated from the Japanese terms)
The English website's footer also carries “©SUNRISE ©SUNRISE・MBS” and “Copyright ©Bandai Namco Filmworks Inc.”
Note, though, that what the terms name is the operator of the website. We could not find an official document saying who runs the YouTube channel itself.
All we can say is this: the official website, which is run by Bandai Namco Filmworks, presents this channel as official.
Incidentally, as of October 30, the heading of the English terms still reads “Gundam.Info Terms of Service”.
That is the same spelling as the channel's handle, “@GundamInfo”, but we found no document explaining where the handle comes from.
The Most-Watched Video Is a Gunpla Promo
On the morning of October 30, 2026, we pulled the view counts for all 2,038 public videos and sorted them from most to least viewed.
No. 1 is the video titled ”Fun to build GUNPLA” promotional video, posted on September 30, 2014.
It is a 1-minute-31-second Gunpla promotional video, with about 77.07 million views.
It may be a little surprising that the most-watched video is Gunpla footage rather than an episode or a trailer for one of the works.
No. 2 is episode 1 of Gundam Build Divers Re:RISE, posted in 2019, with about 4.75 million views.
No. 1 has about 16 times as many views, so you can see that this promo alone stands far above the rest.
No. 3 is episode 1 of MOBILE SUIT GUNDAM 00 1st season, posted in 2022, with about 4.2 million views.
These two episodes at No. 2 and No. 3, however, are set not to play in Japan. We'll look at that more closely later.
The Same Announcement, Uploaded Separately for Each Language
Scroll through INTL's videos from newest to oldest and you'll see several videos of the same length in a row, with only the language of the title changing.
On INTL, the basic approach seems to be uploading the same announcement as a separate video for each language.
For example, from 8:41 to 8:42 p.m. JST on October 28, 2026, five announcement trailers for GUNDAM BATTLE OPERATION 3 went up, each 1 minute 22 seconds long.
Besides English, the titles are in Korean and Simplified Chinese, plus two labeled separately as “香港繁體中文版” (Hong Kong Traditional Chinese version) and “台灣繁體中文版” (Taiwan Traditional Chinese version).
That means view counts are tallied separately for each language. For this trailer, the one with the English title had about 192,000 views, and the other four about 4,600 to 16,900 (as of the morning of October 30).
Between 9:30 and 10:00 p.m. JST the same day, a stream of about 1 hour 33 minutes, “Gundam Games 40th Anniversary Livestream”, also appears five times, each with its title in a different language.
The next morning, the 29th, a short announcement for the game G Generation ETERNAL went up as three videos, in Korean and in two kinds of Traditional Chinese.
Many Videos Are Set Not to Play in Japan
This may be INTL's most distinctive feature.
YouTube's official data includes each video's region restriction settings, which show the countries where it can be watched.
When we checked all 2,038 videos on the morning of October 30, 2026, 1,351 were set not to play in Japan. That's about 66%, or roughly two-thirds, of the total.
For readers in Japan, that figure may come as a bit of a surprise.
Breaking that down, 947 named Japan as a country where they cannot be watched. The remaining 404 listed the countries where they can be watched, and Japan was not on the list.
The No. 2 and No. 3 episodes mentioned earlier are of the second type. Of the 705 videos uploaded in 2026, 594 were set not to play in Japan.
Note that these are the setting values recorded in YouTube's data. We did not try playing each video over a connection in Japan to confirm them.
“Gundam Series × hololive production Special Collaboration Teaser”, posted on March 20, 2026, carries no such setting.
It had about 2.8 million views, the sixth most on the entire channel (as of the morning of October 30).
However, the follow-up posted on May 15, “Gundam x Hololive production Special Collaboration Update”, was set not to play in Japan.
Even within the same project, each video seems to be handled differently.
The same day, May 15, a video titled “Mobile Suit Gundam SEED FREEDOM ZERO │Coming to theaters in Japan” also went up.
Its title announces the release in Japan, yet this video, too, was set not to play in Japan.
340 Videos in the Early Hours of October 9
INTL's upload numbers vary widely from year to year. There were 77 in 2011, and from 2012 through 2018, roughly 0 to 15 a year.
After that came 105 in 2019, 303 in 2024 and 250 in 2025.
In 2026, the count had reached 705 as of the morning of October 30, nearly three times 2025's total.
Of those, 340 were published in one burst of about 15 minutes, between 4:45 and just after 5:00 a.m. JST on October 9.
Of the 340, 287 are short clips whose titles begin with “【SEED FREEDOM ZERO｜Feb in NA】”. Each title goes on with the name of a character who appears in it, and a number.
Of those 287, 286 were set not to play in Japan.
Of the other 53, 50 have titles made of “【EN Dub】Mobile Suit Gundam SEED - Episode” plus the episode number, and for all 50, Japan is not on the list of countries where they can be watched.
The list for episode 1 names 89 countries and regions, including the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, South Korea and Taiwan. The English dub seems to be released for countries and regions other than Japan.
Posts have continued since that batch, including announcements of new games. The newest video at the time we checked was posted at 10:00 a.m. JST on October 29.
Its name closely resembles that of the Japanese-language Gundam Channel, but it seems fair to say that GUNDAM CHANNEL INTL is an official channel that lines up videos in the languages of various countries, starting with English, and that many of them are set not to play in Japan.
