The TV anime series Mobile Suit Gundam AGE is created by studio Sunrise, as usual, with support from game developer Level-5, whose president Akihiro Hino is in charge of the story for this 8th incarnation of the long-running Gundam franchise. The new series will have three generations of "father, child and descendant" as the lead characters. The main characters pilot the Gundam unit to fight against an unknown attacking enemy (UE) and save Earth in a "One Hundred Year War" - an apparent homage to the One Year War of the first Gundam series. The anime is airing in Japan from October 9, 2011.