Gundam Ace

*Gundam Ace*
Chief Editor	Hideaki Kobayashi
Categories	Shōnen manga
Frequency	Quarterly (2001–2002); Bimonthly (2003); Monthly (2004–present)
Circulation	120,000 (2017)
First issue	June 25, 2001 (August 2001)
Company	Kadokawa Shoten
Country	Japan
Language	Japanese
Website	Gundam Ace

Gundam Ace (ガンダムエース, Gandamu Eesu) is a monthly Japanese shōnen manga magazine published by Kadokawa Shoten. It largely focuses on the Gundam franchise. There was a Chinese version published by Kadokawa Media (Taiwan) Co., Ltd, discontinued in 2008.

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Gundam Ace started as a quarterly publication from 2001 to 2002, moved to a bi-monthly publication in 2003, and in 2004 it became a monthly publication. The producer is Shinichirou Inoue of Kadokawa Shoten who also produces Newtype and Shonen Ace. The chief editor is Hideaki Kobayashi.

The magazine contains a number of common features found in official fan magazines, including news on upcoming Gundam series and merchandise.

Mobile Suit Gundam-san (Since August 2001)
Mobile Suit Gundam École du Ciel (Since December 2001)
Mobile Suit Crossbone Gundam (Since November 2002)
SEED Club 4-Koma (Since December 2004)
Gundam Unicorn: Bande Dessinée (Since March 2010)
Gundam MSV-R: The Return of Johnny Ridden (Since June 2010)
Gundam Wing: Frozen Teardrop (Since August 2010)
Super-Class! Mobile Fighter G Gundam (Since September 2010)
Gundam Wing Endless Waltz: The Glory of Losers (Since November 2010)
Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam DEFINE (Since August 2011)
Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Re: and Destiny Ninja (Since June 2012)
Gundam MSV-R: The Fabulous Shin Matsunaga! (Since August 2012)
Char's Daily Life (Since September 2012)
People of Gundam (Since December 2012)
Mobile Suit Gundam U.C. 0094: Across the Sky (Since January 2013)
Mobile Suit Gundam: The Nameless Battlefield (Since May 2013)
Mobile Suit Gundam 0083 REBELLION (Since August 2013)
Gundam Build Fighters AMAZING (Since December 2013)
Mobile Suit Gundam Side Story: Missing Link (Since April 2014)
Gundam EXA VS (Since May 2014)
Gundam Reconguista in G (Since October 2014)
Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans And Slayer (Since October 2015)

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Many of the manga titles running in the magazine serve as promotion (adaptations based on recent games, animated series side stories, etc.) or parody the Gundam series/fandom.

Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin
Mobile Suit Gundam: Char's Deleted Affair - Portrait of Young Comet
Axis' Hamaan-san
Mobile Suit Gundam: Lost War Chronicles
Mobile Suit Gundam Gaiden : Sora, senkou no hate ni...
Gundam Legacy
Mobile Suit Gundam: Ixtab of Space
Mobile Suit Gundam École du Ciel (ongoing)
Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Astray
Mobile Suit Gundam SEED X Astray
Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny Astray
Mobile Suit Gundam SEED C.E. 73 Δ Astray
After War Gundam X: Under the Moonlight
Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny -The Edge-
Mobile Suit Gundam: Ore wa Renppou Guren Tai
Mobile Suit Gundam-san
Tony Takezaki's Gundam manga
Inu Gundam
Mobile Suit Buyo Gundam
Imouto Gundam
Mobile Suit Gundam Climax U.C. - Tsumuga re shi kettou
Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ Gaiden: Zion no genyou
Mobile Suit Crossbone Gundam: The Steel Seven
Mobile Suit Gundam MS IGLOO: Revelations 0079
Developers Mobile Suit Gundam Before One Year War
Mobile Suit Z Gundam: Day After Tomorrow - Kai Shinden's report
Gunota no Onna
Operation Troy
The Wings of Rean
Mobile Suit Gundam 00F
Mobile Suit Gundam 00I
New Mobile Report Gundam Wing: Frozen Teardrop (ongoing)
New Mobile Report Gundam Wing: Glory of the Defeated
Arasa OL Haman-sama (The Thirty-ish Office Worker Haman-sama) by Masakazu Iwasaki (since January 2021) – reimagines Haman Karn as a "modern corporate section chief at an apparel company".^[3]^[4]
Ral Meshi ~Ramba Ral no Haitoku Gohan~ (Ral Feasts ~Ramba Ral's Immoral Meal~) by Kazuya Tani (since January 2021) – "gourmet manga showing Zeon ace Ramba Ral tending to the Club Eden night club while the staff are away"^[3]
Amuro to Boku by Osamui Wakai and Satoshi Takemiya (since December 2020)^[3]

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Data Gundam
Ages of Gundam
Okawara Factory
Gundam Goods Navigation
Gundam Game Information
GUNDAM"ACE"FIX
GAME'S MSV

Most issues of Gundam Ace contain at least one 'free gift' item. These may be used to promote a current Gundam work or based on original manga appearing in the magazine. In the three months leading up to the premiere of Mobile Suit Gundam 00, the magazine gave away a 00 pencil board, sticker sheet and poster. A continuing series has been keychains depicting Mobile Suit Gundam characters as chickens, based on a popular manga of the same concept. Other items given away include CM collection CD-ROMs, exclusive alternate manga cover sleeves and cardboard calendar cubes.

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Time period	Monthly circulation	Sales	Revenue (JPY)^[5]^[6]	Revenue (USD)
2004	211,416^[7]	2,536,992	¥1,775,894,400	$153,364,975
2005	209,292^[7]	2,511,504	¥1,758,052,800
2006	195,500^[7]	2,346,000	¥1,642,200,000
2007	184,750^[8]	2,217,000	¥1,551,900,000
April 2008 to June 2008	180,000^[9]	540,000	¥378,000,000
July 2008 to September 2008	175,000^[10]	525,000	¥367,500,000
October 2008 to September 2009	161,417^[1]	1,937,004	¥1,355,902,800
October 2009 to September 2010	135,417^[11]	1,625,004	¥1,355,902,800
October 2010 to September 2011	133,584^[12]	1,603,008	¥1,122,105,600
October 2011 to September 2012	110,667^[13]	1,328,004	¥929,602,800
October 2012 to September 2013	120,000^[14]	1,440,000	¥1,008,000,000	$19,028,781
October 2013 to September 2014	120,000^[15]	1,440,000	¥1,008,000,000	$19,028,781
October 2014 to September 2015	120,000^[16]	1,440,000	¥1,008,000,000	$18,530,621
October 2015 to September 2016	120,000^[17]	1,440,000	¥1,008,000,000	$18,530,621
October 2016 to September 2017	120,000^[2]	1,440,000	¥1,008,000,000	$9,184,510
Total known sales		22,337,266	¥17,277,061,200	$199,911,612

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Removed mention of same-sex marriage in The Witch from Mercury

In the July 26, 2023, issue of Gundam Ace magazine an interview with Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch from Mercury's voice cast included a quote from Kana Ichinose in which she referenced Suletta and Miorine's marriage. While the wedding itself was not depicted on-screen, the characters are shown wearing wedding rings in the final scene of the series, with Suletta's sister Eri referring to herself as Miorine's sister-in-law. Miorine was also directly referenced as Suletta's wife by the official English-language Gundam Twitter account on the day of the finale.^[18] Previously, this account also posted tweets either in support of the main characters' romantic relationship or with an implied condemnation of other fan 'ships' with the heroines.

Following the release of the magazine interview, the hashtag スレミオ結婚 (SuleMio Marriage) trended in Japan.^{[citation needed]}

However, days later the digital version of the Gundam Ace interview was edited to remove the direct reference to marriage, causing an immediate backlash from fans who claimed the characters' status as a married couple was being deliberately censored.^[19]^{[unreliable source?]}

On July 30 a statement was released by Kadokawa, publishers of Gundam Ace, in which they claimed the discrepancy was a "proofreading mistake" and that the marriage reference was based on "editorial speculation".^[20] An accompanying statement was released on the official Witch from Mercury website in which these claims were repeated, in addition to implying the events of the series are open to interpretation by viewers,^[21] leading to angry or confused responses from fans and general viewers who pointed out Suletta and Miorine’s marriage was objectively confirmed both in the anime's final scene and by the characters' voice actors in an audio commentary for the final episode, and as such no room for 'interpretation' exists.

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"Gundam Ace Magazine Unveils 3 New Gundam Manga". 28 August 2023.
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"Nobuo Tobita Reprises His Role as Kamille Bidan for OL Haman-Sama Manga". 23 July 2022.
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"The "Gundam Ace April 2017 Issue" on sale now!". GUNDAM.INFO: The official Gundam news and video portal. February 25, 2017. Price: 700 yen
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"The "Monthly Gundam Ace July 2018 Issue" Now on Sale!". GUNDAM.INFO: The official Gundam news and video portal. May 26, 2018. Special price: 700 yen
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"Men's Manga". Japanese Magazine Publishers Association. June 2008. Retrieved December 31, 2017.
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"Men's Manga". Japanese Magazine Publishers Association. September 2008. Retrieved December 31, 2017.
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"2010 Japanese Manga Magazine Circulation Numbers". Anime News Network. January 17, 2011.
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"JMPAマガジンデータ : 男性コミック". Japan Magazine Publishing Association. Archived from the original on October 14, 2012. Retrieved October 14, 2012.
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"JMPAマガジンデータ : 男性コミック". Japan Magazine Publishing Association. Archived from the original on October 22, 2013. Retrieved October 22, 2013.
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"Gundam.Info NA Official". July 2, 2023. Retrieved July 30, 2023. Image Description: Suletta Mercury, sitting on the left side of the image, is holding her wife's hand, Miorine Rembran, who is sitting next to her.
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Bowers, Tom (29 July 2023). "Representation, Homophobia and Censorship: Gundam Ace Magazine's Mishandling of The Witch from Mercury Finale". Medium. Retrieved July 30, 2023.
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"月刊ガンダムエース2023年9月号掲載『機動戦士ガンダム水星の魔女』インタビュー記事についてのお詫び". Retrieved July 30, 2023.
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"2009 Japanese Manga Magazine Circulation Numbers". Anime News Network. January 18, 2010. Retrieved July 26, 2016.

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"JMPAマガジンデータ : 男性コミック". Japan Magazine Publishing Association. Archived from the original on December 23, 2019. Retrieved June 21, 2018.

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"Gundam Ace Magazine Unveils 3 New Gundam Manga". 28 August 2023.

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"Nobuo Tobita Reprises His Role as Kamille Bidan for OL Haman-Sama Manga". 23 July 2022.

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"The "Gundam Ace April 2017 Issue" on sale now!". GUNDAM.INFO: The official Gundam news and video portal. February 25, 2017. Price: 700 yen

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"The "Monthly Gundam Ace July 2018 Issue" Now on Sale!". GUNDAM.INFO: The official Gundam news and video portal. May 26, 2018. Special price: 700 yen

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"Manga Anthology Circulations 2004-2006". ComiPress.

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"社団法人日本雑誌協会". Japanese Magazine Publishers Association. February 12, 2008. Archived from the original on February 12, 2008.

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"Men's Manga". Japanese Magazine Publishers Association. June 2008. Retrieved December 31, 2017.

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"Men's Manga". Japanese Magazine Publishers Association. September 2008. Retrieved December 31, 2017.

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"2010 Japanese Manga Magazine Circulation Numbers". Anime News Network. January 17, 2011.

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"JMPAマガジンデータ : 男性コミック". Japan Magazine Publishing Association. Archived from the original on October 14, 2012. Retrieved October 14, 2012.

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"JMPAマガジンデータ : 男性コミック". Japan Magazine Publishing Association. Archived from the original on October 22, 2013. Retrieved October 22, 2013.

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"JMPAマガジンデータ : 男性コミック". Japan Magazine Publishing Association. Archived from the original on November 17, 2014. Retrieved November 17, 2014.

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"JMPAマガジンデータ : 男性コミック". Japan Magazine Publishing Association. Archived from the original on November 16, 2015. Retrieved November 16, 2015.

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"JMPAマガジンデータ : 男性コミック". Japan Magazine Publishing Association. Archived from the original on October 3, 2016. Retrieved October 3, 2016.

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"JMPAマガジンデータ : 男性コミック". Japan Magazine Publishing Association. Archived from the original on November 9, 2017. Retrieved November 9, 2017.

[18] [18]
"Gundam.Info NA Official". July 2, 2023. Retrieved July 30, 2023. Image Description: Suletta Mercury, sitting on the left side of the image, is holding her wife's hand, Miorine Rembran, who is sitting next to her.

[19] [19]
Bowers, Tom (29 July 2023). "Representation, Homophobia and Censorship: Gundam Ace Magazine's Mishandling of The Witch from Mercury Finale". Medium. Retrieved July 30, 2023.

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"月刊ガンダムエース2023年9月号掲載『機動戦士ガンダム水星の魔女』インタビュー記事についてのお詫び". Retrieved July 30, 2023.

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"月刊ガンダムエース2023年9月号掲載のインタビュー記事についてのお詫び". g-witch.net. Retrieved July 30, 2023.

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