History Anime / GundamBuildDivers

* GangOfHats: Like some of the teams in ''Try'', several Forces deliberately follow this aesthetic - Rommel's Force is all old-school combatants in Zeon uniforms, there's a ''Gundam Seed''-themed one out there, and there's even one made up entirely of {{Char clone}}s! [[spoiler:Ayame's old team, ''Le Chat Noir'', was themed around SD Gundam models and Tsukasa used it to destroy them from the inside.]]

* CharClone:
** {{Invoked}} in episode 3 as Kyoya disguises himself with a mask. Momoka's suspicious, but Yukio blows it off as masked men are the norm for Gundam.
** Then outright parodied with the Force Iron Masks, which is basically a bunch of guys cosplaying as Char clones throughout Gundam history.

''Gundam Build Divers'' is a 2018 anime series in the ''Franchise/{{Gundam}}'' franchise. It is also served as the third installment of the ''Gundam Build'' series, following the popular ''Anime/GundamBuildFighters'' and ''Anime/GundamBuildFightersTry''.

In the [[TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture near future]], [[MerchandiseDriven Gundam plastic models]] (Gunpla) have become more popular than ever through the release of a VirtualReality game called Gundam Battle Nexus (GBN), where users can "dive" into a MassivelyMultiplayerOnlineRolePlayingGame world and pilot their HumongousMecha first-hand. Middle school students Riku Mikami, Yukio Hikada, and Momoka Yashiro are three such "divers" who [[ToBeAMaster dream of becoming champions]] in the game's yearly PlayerVersusPlayer 5 vs 5 squad [[TournamentArc tournament]], despite their lack of skills, experience, or even a full team. Their luck begins to turn around, however, when they meet a [[MysteriousWaif mysterious girl]] named "Sarah", whose uncanny ability to judge people through their Gunpla starts to give them just the edge they need.

''Gundam Build Divers'' is a 2018 anime series in the ''Franchise/{{Gundam}}'' franchise. It is also served as the third installment of the ''Gundam Build'' series and act as the SpiritualSuccessor of the popular ''Anime/GundamBuildFighters'' and ''Anime/GundamBuildFightersTry''.

* SpiritualSuccessor: While so far standalone, it still develops off the basic ideas of ''Anime/GundamBuildFighters'', which itself was based on the basic ideas of ''[[Anime/ModelSuitGunplaBuildersBeginningG Gunpla Builders Beginning G]]'', which in turn is loosely adapted from the manga ''Plamo Kyo Shiro''.

** Team Avalon is a reference to the name of the legendary island in [[Myth/KingArthur Arthurian Mythology]] where the equally legendary Excalibur was forged and where Arthur himself rests after the Battle of Camlann.

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* GiantSpaceFleaFromNowhere: [[spoiler: At the end of Episode 24, shortly after the Build Divers win the battle and rescue Sarah, a massive Raid Boss comes out of nowhere, guarding the tower used to recreate Sarah.]]

** To Ms. Tori's shock, this is how Break Decals worked - [[spoiler: as it turned out, GBN was built from parts of Gunpla Duel with the rest tossed out. As it turned out, Tsukasa had saved one of the old Gunpla Duel servers and used it as a backdoor to work the Break Decals. For all intents and purposes, Break Decals were undetectable because it was literally built from their system.]]

* AbsurdlySpaciousSewer: Taken UpToEleven with the waterways under Team Avalon's Force Nest, which is wide enough for ''mechs'' to enter. Emilia rightfully suspects a sneak attack from that route.

* FlyingSeafoodSpecial: Taken UpToEleven with Force Lotus, which not only has three customised [[Anime/MobileFighterGGundam Mermaid Gundams]] but a bunch of other mechs that are basically crabs, lobsters etc. with Gundam heads installed. And they operate ''in space.''

* SpiritualSuccessor: While so far standalone, it still develops off the basic ideas of ''Anime/GundamBuildFighters'', which itself was based on the basic ideas of ''[[Anime/ModelSuitGunplaBuildersBeginningG Gunpla Builders Beginning G]]'', which in turn is loosely adapted from the the manga ''Plamo Kyo Shiro''.

''Gundam Build Divers'' is a 2018 anime series in the ''Franchise/{{Gundam}}'' franchise. It is also served as the third installment ''Gundam Build'' series and act as the SpiritualSuccessor of the popular ''Anime/GundamBuildFighters'' and ''Anime/GundamBuildFightersTry''.

''Gundam Build Divers'' is a 2018 anime series in the ''Franchise/{{Gundam}}'' franchise. It is also served as the third installment ''Gundam Build'' seriesband act as the SpiritualSuccessor of the popular ''Anime/GundamBuildFighters'' and ''Anime/GundamBuildFightersTry''.