Pacific Rim in Order

Watch in release order: Pacific Rim (2013) first, then Pacific Rim: Uprising (2018). Save the Netflix anime Pacific Rim: The Black (2021) for last, since it's a self-contained side story in the same world. Release order and story order match here, because Uprising is set ten years after the original and The Black takes place after both films, so there is no clever reshuffle to learn.

There are two live-action Pacific Rim films: the 2013 original directed by Guillermo del Toro and the 2018 sequel Pacific Rim: Uprising. A two-season Netflix anime, Pacific Rim: The Black, adds to the universe but isn't a feature film.

Yes. Uprising is set about ten years after the original and builds directly on its events, characters, and the lore of the Kaiju and the Breach, so watch the 2013 film first. Mako Mori, Newt Geiszler and Hermann Gottlieb all carry over from the first film, though Charlie Hunnam does not return as Raleigh Becket.

There are only three entries, so there is very little to skip. Do not skip the 2013 original, because Uprising depends on it completely. You can stop after the original if you only want del Toro's film, since it ends on a complete note. The Black is the one genuinely optional entry, which is why we list it last.

In the US as of August 2026, Pacific Rim: Uprising streams on HBO Max, while the 2013 original is rent or buy only through Amazon Video, Apple TV and Fandango at Home. Pacific Rim: The Black is a Netflix original and streams only on Netflix. Subscription rights rotate and differ by country, so check your region before planning a marathon.

It runs after both films in the same continuity, in an Australia that has been evacuated and overrun by Kaiju. It follows siblings Taylor and Hayley Travis piloting a Jaeger called Atlas Destroyer, and none of the film leads return as characters; the only link is the Jaeger's pilot-training archive, which lets Taylor drift with recorded memories of Herc Hansen from the 2013 film. The show never gives an exact year: it opens with the evacuation known as Operation Blackout, then jumps forward five years, so the gap after Uprising (set in 2035) is deliberately left vague. There are 14 episodes across two seasons.

Yes. It was produced by Legendary Television with animation by the Japanese studio Polygon Pictures, and it is set in the same continuity as the films. Being animated rather than live action doesn't put it outside the story; it simply follows different characters in a different part of the world.

No. Del Toro directed and co-wrote the 2013 original. He served as a producer on Pacific Rim: Uprising (2018), which was directed by Steven S. DeKnight.

Not as a film. Steven S. DeKnight has said a third script was written, and in 2024 he described a scrapped version involving a multiverse crossover with Legendary's MonsterVerse, but it did not move forward at the studio. The official continuation arrived in print instead: Pacific Rim: Final Breach, a Legendary Comics graphic novel by Joshua Hale Fialkov and E.J. Su whose first volume was published on May 5, 2026, picks up directly after Uprising and reunites Raleigh Becket with Jake Pentecost.

The screen story is paused rather than finished. The Black ended with its second and final season in 2022, and no third live-action film is in production. Two things are still in motion: Final Breach is planned as three graphic novel volumes, with only volume one out as of August 2026, and a live-action prequel series written by Eric Heisserer is in development at Prime Video with Legendary Television and Amazon MGM. Legendary first announced that series in August 2024, and it found a home at Prime Video in April 2025, but it still has no release date.