Starting tomorrow, prominent Tokyo landmarks — with their fixed steel columns and beams — will likely be feeling a bit inadequate as a new, mobile player is set to rise up and illuminate the capital's skyline.

Near the Rainbow Bridge, on the manmade peninsula of Odaiba, a "life size" rendition of a Gundam robot will stand guard as a representative member of the influential "Mobile Suit Gundam" television series, which this year is celebrating its 30th anniversary. The 18-meter-high armored figure, replicated right down to its double-nozzle jet pack, sits as the centerpiece of the Green Tokyo Gundam Project, an event aimed at raising funds for the Tokyo Metropolitan Government's push for a more environmentally friendly future.

Along with its numerous off-shoots and films, the sci-fi animation is set in an uncertain period of conflict in which robot vehicles, or "mobile suits," are captained by children and used as weapons.