Mobile Fighter G Gundam
Early in the show's North American run, Bandai reported that "G Gundam" had the top ratings of any anime show for the period. The company considered the show to be a "hit" at the time. However, officials for Toonami recounted in 2006 that no "Gundam" series earned significant viewer ratings after the first North American airing of "Gundam Wing" in 2000. "G Gundam" received an overall positive critical reception amid its mainstream exposure in the United States. Nonetheless, views on "G Gundam"s plot remain largely mixed. Negative reactions to the plot mostly stem from its stark contrast to preceding "Gundam" entries that have traditionally focused on deep political and social issues in the midst of war. AnimeNation writer John Oppliger considered "G Gundam" to be "the plague of the "Gundam" franchise" and "one of the biggest mis-steps in anime history" due to its elimination of such serious subtext. Both Bamboo Dong of the Anime News Network and Duncan Scott of "Protoculture Addicts" were also initially disappointed for the same reason, with the latter writer feeling that the series features "Gundam" in its title purely for marketing reasons. Derrick L. Tucker of T.H.E.M. Anime Reviews called the series' episodic storyline its "most profound weakness", whereby "the narrative exists to move the viewer from fight to fight". Tucker also found that the potential for its more dramatic themes, such as tension between Domon and Master Asia or Domon's romantic relationship with Rain, is "overshadowed from start to finale by the show's domineering, if repetitive action sets".
Gundam Reconguista in G
In an official livestream occurred after the anime's airing, Tomino stated that the timeline of the series is set 500 years after the events of "Turn A Gundam" (while claiming that it takes place 1,000 years after the UC), to the surprise of producer Naohiro Ogata and others who were with him at the time. This directly contradicts what is established onscreen in the series itself, where it is expressly stated that the Regild Century occurs some 3,000 years after the 1979 TV show, not to mention "Turn A Gundam", where it is stated in both episode 42 and later episodes that the Dark History records seen onscreen in "Turn A Gundam" are 10,000 years old. Additionally, most official published Sunrise materials likewise establish that the events of "Turn A Gundam" take place thousands of years after the UC, and not 500 years.