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Chronological Order - Where Movies/OVAs/Specials fit into Series Timeline!


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I'll be adding lists to this topic which tells you where the various Movies, OVAs, and Specials fit chronologically into the timeline of the series. I know a lot of people want to watch things in order and sometimes it's pretty hard to find out or figure out the timeline yourself without getting spoiled to major events etc. So this thread is here to help.

 

If you want, you can help out by posting lists in the same style within this thread.

 

Fairy Tail

Fairy Tail - OVA 01 - Welcome to Fairy Hills!
After the Oración Seis arc (episode 68).

Fairy Tail - OVA 02 - Fairy Academy, Yankee-kun and Yankee-chan!
Random comedy; doesn't fit anywhere, but released around episode 83.

Fairy Tail - OVA 03 - Memory Days
After the Edolas arc (episode 95).

Fairy Tail - OVA 04 - Fairies' Training Camp
Set during the first half of episode 153.

Fairy Tail - OVA 05 - The Exciting Ryuzetsu Land
Around episode 175 or so.

Fairy Tail - OVA 06 - Fairy Tail x Rave
Sometime after the Oración Seis arc (episode 68).

Fairy Tail - Movie 01 - Priestess of the Phoenix
Sometime after episode 123.

 

Gintama

Special 01: Jump Festa 2005
Random tidbits from various chapters released prior to series being greenlit.

 

001-002
Episodes 1 & 2 are anime original to celebrate the adaptation.

 

003-057

 

Special 02: Jump Festa 2008
It's basically a special preview of an imaginary Gintama movie.

 

Gintama: Movie 01 - Benizakura Arc
Note: Episodes 58-61 was remade into the movie with better animation.

 

62-201

 

Special 03: Harumatsuri (2010) ~Dai Hanseikai~
Basically a special/recap of the last 4 years of the anime.

 

202-252

 

Gintama Recaps: The Best of Gintama on Theater 2D
Released between the end of Gintama' (252) and Gintama': Enchousen (253).

 

253-265

 

Gintama x Mameshiba Specials
Special commercials to promote the second movie.

 

Gintama: Movie 02 - The Final Chapter ~Be Forever Yorozuya~

 

Special 04: Jump Festa 2014
Aired just before Gintama° (266) premered.

 

266-295

 

Special 05: Jump Festa 2015
Aired the day before episode 296.

 

Gintama° OVA: Love Potion Arc
Fits after 295 but before 300.

 

296-316

 

317+

 

Gundam Universal Century Timeline

Mobile Suit Gundam Origin I-IV (2015)

 

Mobile Suit Gundam MS IGLOO: The Hidden One Year War (2004)
Mobile Suit Gundam MS IGLOO: Apocalypse 0079 (2006)
Mobile Suit Gundam MS IGLOO 2: Gravity of the Battlefront (2008)

 

Mobile Suit Gundam (1979) (also had 3 recap movies)

 

Mobile Suit Gundam: The 08th MS Team (1996)
Mobile Suit Gundam: The 08th MS Team - Miller's Report (1998)

 

Mobile Suit Gundam 0080: War in the Pocket (1989)

 

Mobile Suit Gundam Thunderbolt (2015)

 

Gundam the Ride: A Baoa Qu (2000)

Mobile Suit Gundam Battlefield Record: Avant-Title (2009)

 

Mobile Suit Gundam 0083: Stardust Memory (1991)
Mobile Suit Gundam 0083: The Fading Light of Zeon (1992)

 

Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam (1985) (also had 3 recap movies)

 

Gundam Neo Experience 0087: Green Divers (2001)

 

Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ (1986)
Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ - Gundam Frag. (2009)

 

Mobile Suit Gundam: Char's Counterattack (1988)

 

All That Gundam (1989)

 

Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn (2010)
Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn RE:0096 (2016) (pretty much same as Unicorn)

 

Mobile Suit Gundam Twilight Axis (2017)

 

Mobile Suit Gundam F91 (1991)

 

Gundam: Mission to the Rise (1998)

 

Mobile Suit Victory Gundam (1993)

 

Ring of Gundam (2009)

Gundam G-Saviour (2000)

Noragami

Noragami (Season 1)
Noragami Aragoto Episodes 1-6
Noragami OVA 2
Noragami OVA 1
Noragami Aragoto OVA 1
Noragami Aragoto Episodes 7-13
Noragami Aragoto OVA 2

 

One Piece

One Piece - OVA 01 - Defeat the Pirate Ganzack!
It's a prequel to the series.

One Piece - Movie 01 - The Great Gold Pirate
Belongs after episode 18.

One Piece - Special 01 - Adventure in the Ocean's Navel
Aired after episode 53.

One Piece - Movie 02 - Clockwork Island Adventure
Belongs after episode 56.

One Piece - Movie 02 Short - Django's Dance Carnival
After the 2nd movie of course.

One Piece - Movie 09 - Episode of Chopper Plus - Bloom in the Winter, Miracle Sakura
Belongs after episode 91 (although features characters not introduced yet...).

One Piece - Movie 03 - Chopper Kingdom of Strange Animal Island
Belongs after episode 102.

One Piece - Movie 03 Short - Dream Soccer King!
After the 3rd movie of course.

One Piece - Movie 08 - Episode of Alabasta - The Desert Princess and the Pirates
Belongs after episode 135.

One Piece - Movie 04 - Dead End Adventure
Belongs after episode 146.

One Piece - Special 02 - Open Upon the Great Sea! A Father's Huge, HUGE Dream!
Aired after episode 149.

One Piece - Special 03 - Protect! The Last Great Performance
Aired after episode 174.

One Piece - Movie 05 - The Curse of the Sacred Sword
Belongs after episode 183.

One Piece - Movie 05 Short - Take Aim! The Pirate Baseball King
After the 5th movie of course.

One Piece - Movie 06 - Baron Omatsuri and the Secret Island
Belongs after episode 223.

One Piece - Special 04 - The Detective Memoirs of Chief Straw Hat Luffy
Aired after episode 253.

One Piece - Movie 07 - Karakuri Castle's Mecha Giant Soldier
Belongs after episode 257.

One Piece - Straw Hat Theater
Aired alongside episodes 279 through 283.

One Piece - OVA 02 - Romance Dawn
It belongs somewhere between episodes 381 and 385.

One Piece - Strong World - Episode 0
Watch before watching movie 10.

One Piece - Movie 10 - Strong World
Belongs after episode 384 (fits best after 429 since the eps are connected).

One Piece 3D: Straw Hat Chase (aka Movie 11)
After episode 489.

Episode of Nami: Tears of a Navigator and the Bonds of Friends
Aired after episode 560 (abridged retelling of the Arlong Park Arc).

Episode of Luffy: Adventure on Hand Island
After episode 574.

Glorious Island
Prequel to Film: Z

One Piece - Movie 12 - Film Z
After episode 578.
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Digimon

 

Digimon Movie 1 - Digimon Adventure Movie
It's a prequel to the Digimon Adventure 01 series.

Digimon Movie 2 - Our War Games
Takes place after the Digimon Adventure 01 series ends, and before Digimon Adventure 02 series begins.

Digimon Movie 3 part 1 - Digimon Adventure 02 Hurricane Touchdown!
This movie takes place sometime before episode 18 of Digimon Adventure 02

Digimon Movie 3 part 2 - Digimon Adventure 02 Supreme Evolution! The Golden Digimentals
This movie is part 2 of the third Digimon movie, and comes after Digimon Adventure 02 Hurricane Touchdown!

Digimon Movie 4 - Diablomon Strikes Back
This movie takes place after Digimon Adventure 02 series ends, and before Digimon Tamers begins
 
Digimon Movie 5 - Digimon Tamers Adventurers Battle
This movie takes place sometime before episode 22 of Digimon Tamers

Digimon Movie 6 - Digimon Tamers Runaway Locamon
This Movie takes place after Digimon Tamers series ends, and before Digimon Frontier begins
 
Digimon Movie 7 - Digimon Frontier Revival of The Ancient Digimon
This movie comes between episode 19 and 20 of Digimon Tamers series, but was released after the series ended

Digimon Movie 8 - Digimon Savers the Movie: Ultimate Power! Activate Burst Mode!!
This movie has no exact time when it takes place

Digimon movie 9 - Digimon X Evolution
The events in this movie happen before Digimon Savers, but is meant to be seen after Digimon Savers

Digimon Savers OVA - Digimon Savers 3D: The Digital World in Imminent Danger!
Has no exact time when it takes place.

 

 

 

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Correction about Fairy Tail - OVA 06 - Fairy Tail x Rave. I think It happened after the 7 year time-skip since Natsu already wears long sleeves.


And Fairy Tail - OVA 05 happened between the 2 series to be exact.


 


And if someone wants to know, Naruto Road to Ninja cannot be in the timeline because it doesn't fit with the events when he was training in the Island Turtle..


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Correction about Fairy Tail - OVA 06 - Fairy Tail x Rave. I think It happened after the 7 year time-skip since Natsu already wears long sleeves.

And Fairy Tail - OVA 05 happened between the 2 series to be exact.

 

And if someone wants to know, Naruto Road to Ninja cannot be in the timeline because it doesn't fit with the events when he was training in the Island Turtle..

Well OVA 5 saying 175 is the same as saying between the two...

 

As for OVA 6, when researching I saw several sources and hundreds of people agreeing to it fitting after the Oración Seis arc.

 

If you can find evidence that supports your idea; then share it. As for Natsu's clothes; I really wouldn't say that's a good enough reason tbh. People change clothes all the time and considering the OVA came out after the first series had finished airing... that could have something to do with their choice of clothes.

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If you can find evidence that supports your idea; then share it.

Klodoa used a Slot Machine robot in OVA 6 just like what he did during the Key of the Starry Sky arc as Jackpot. :)

 

Oh..and OVA 1-3 is before time-skip while OVA 4-6 (new OP/ED) is after time-skip. Hehehehehe

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Anyone can tell me the chronological order of Gundam series in Cosmic Era and Macross franchise?

So far I've seen Frontier, Zero and Do you remember love. And of course not in order.

Gundam Cosmic Era isn't that large. Just two series with recaps and a handful of specials.

Gundam Seed (2002)

Gundam Seed: After-Phase Between the Stars (2004)

Gundam Seed - Special Edition I - The Empty Battlefield (2004)

Gundam Seed - Special Edition II - The Far-Away Dawn (2004)

Gundam Seed - Special Edition III - The Rumbling Sky (2004)

Gundam Seed MSV Astray (2004)

Gundam Seed Destiny (2004)

Gundam Seed Destiny Final Plus: The Chosen Future (2005)

Gundam Seed Destiny - Special Edition I - The Broken World (2006)

Gundam Seed Destiny - Special Edition II - Respective Swords (2006)

Gundam Seed Destiny - Special Edition III - The Hell Fire of Destiny (2006)

Gundam Seed Destiny - Special Edition IV - The Cost of Freedom (2006)

Gundam Seed C.E.73: Stargazer (2006)

Gundam Seed - Character Theater (2007)

Let me know if I left any entry out.

I know nothing of Macross unfortunately. Perhaps someone else can be helpful in that area.

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Finally went through Gintama and came up with a timeline of where the specials, ovas, and movies likely fit within the series.

 

Gintama

Special 01: Jump Festa 2005
Random tidbits from various chapters released prior to series being greenlit.

 

001-002
Episodes 1 & 2 are anime original to celebrate the adaptation.

 

003-057

 

Special 02: Jump Festa 2008
It's basically a special preview of an imaginary Gintama movie.

 

Gintama: Movie 01 - Benizakura Arc
Note: Episodes 58-61 was remade into the movie with better animation.

 

62-201

 

Special 03: Harumatsuri (2010) ~Dai Hanseikai~
Basically a special/recap of the last 4 years of the anime.

 

202-252

 

Gintama Recaps: The Best of Gintama on Theater 2D
Released between the end of Gintama' (252) and Gintama': Enchousen (253).

 

253-265

 

Gintama x Mameshiba Specials
Special commercials to promote the second movie.

 

Gintama: Movie 02 - The Final Chapter ~Be Forever Yorozuya~

 

Special 04: Jump Festa 2014
Aired just before Gintama° (266) premered.

 

266-295

 

Special 05: Jump Festa 2015
Aired the day before episode 296.

 

Gintama° OVA: Love Potion Arc
Fits after 295 but before 300.

 

296-316

 

317+

 

As usual, if you feel something is wrong, let me know and why you feel that is so; as I'd like to keep it as accurate as possible.

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On 2/17/2017 at 0:36 AM, indiangamer007 said:

Thoughts on Ghost in The Shell??

Arise, Pyrophoric Cult, and New Movie all fit in that order as part of the Arise series; which is set as somewhat a prequel to the SAC series as it details how Section 9 came to be.

 

Then you've got Stand Alone Complex, SAC 2nd Gig, and Solid State Society in that order.

The Individual Eleven and Laughing Man movies are just recaps of the best arcs in the SAC series.

 

The original 1995 movie and it's sequel GitS 2: Innocence go together in their own sort of 'movie universe'. Definitely worth watching though...

 

Even though Arise is set first in the timeline in several ways... I'd actually recommend you watch the 1995 movie and it's sequel as a starting point to the franchise. Then watch the SAC series, then Arise last. This is the production order, and despite the chronological order, each entity is kind of really it's own thing, and as such Arise really kind of expects you to have knowledge of the series or the characters that you'd likely be missing out on if you tried watching it first.

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Lupin III is similar in a way to something like Scooby Doo where there isn't really an established timeline. The first series starts off with Lupin and Jigen having already known each other and Fukuoka coming into the picture a little later and them later befriending Goemon. But then there also is the TV special Episode Zero which contradicts that because it's an origin story of how everyone met. Every movie with the exception of Legend of the Gold of Babylon (based off pink jacket lupin aka Series 3) and Castle of Cagliostro (lupin wears his green jacket from series 1) is based off the most successful series, series 2. All of the tv specials except for the most recent one (which is part of Series 4) also are based off of series 2 interpretation of lupin. 

 

However the Fujiko Mine series (The Woman called Fujiko Mine) does have an established timeline which is that series plus the jigen gravestone film and the very recent goemon movie.

 

So really watch whatever you like whenever you like. Just know this, Goemon is too OP so he has very little screen time a lot of the time as a result.

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37 minutes ago, vgiannell5 said:

There's also the Dragon Ball timeline. It's very confusing sometimes.

Most of the movies 1-13 don't actually fit anywhere in the timeline that would make sense. You can sorta guess around what time they should fit based on power levels, but they still don't really fit in because often it would just come in the middle of an on-going arc/saga out of the blue and not be consistent at all. While movies 14 & 15 have been retold/expanded upon as the first 26 episodes of Dragon Ball Super. I suppose I could still try my best to place them and make a list at some point though for those curious.

 

As for the original 4 Dragon Ball movies, those are ALL various retellings of the original series story with major or slight differences. So think of them as alternate timelines rather than something to fit within the series timeline.

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On 21/06/2017 at 2:48 AM, Koby said:

Most of the movies 1-13 don't actually fit anywhere in the timeline that would make sense. You can sorta guess around what time they should fit based on power levels, but they still don't really fit in because often it would just come in the middle of an on-going arc/saga out of the blue and not be consistent at all. While movies 14 & 15 have been retold/expanded upon as the first 26 episodes of Dragon Ball Super. I suppose I could still try my best to place them and make a list at some point though for those curious.

 

As for the original 4 Dragon Ball movies, those are ALL various retellings of the original series story with major or slight differences. So think of them as alternate timelines rather than something to fit within the series timeline.

 

I case for movie 13 can made. It can go right after the Bus sage without contradicting anything. Movie 9 could "almost" work.

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