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Mobile Suit Gundam Wing
File:Gundamw.jpg
Gundam Wing title screen
GenreMecha, Action, Science Fiction
Anime
Directed byMasashi Ikeda
StudioSunrise
Anime
Gundam Wing: Operation Meteor
Directed byMasashi Ikeda
StudioSunrise
OVA/Movie

Mobile Suit Gundam Wing, known in Japan as New Mobile Report Gundam W1 (新機動戦記ガンダムW, Shin Kidō Senki Gandamu Uingu), is a televised anime series. It ran for forty-nine episodes beginning in 1995. Initially directed by Masashi Ikeda and written by Katsuyuki Sumizawa (Samurai Troopers), the series was loosely based on the original 1979 Gundam series, Mobile Suit Gundam, created by Yoshiyuki Tomino and Hajime Yatate.

Gundam Wing is one of the alternate universe Gundam series, taking place in the After Colony timeline. Man has colonized space (with major colonies at each of the five Earth-Moon Lagrange points), and, down on the earth, the nations have united as the Unified Earth Sphere Alliance. Unfortunately, the Alliance rules the colonies with an iron fist. The colonies wanted peaceful resolution to the situation, and this movement was headed by Heero Yuy, but when he is assassinated in the year After Colony 175, the colonies turned to other means. The main character in Gundam Wing, Heero Yuy, took on the code name of "Heero Yuy" after the assassinated leader.

The story of Gundam Wing begins in the year After Colony 195, with the start of Operation Meteor. It centers around five young boys who have been chosen and trained by five scientists, then sent to Earth in extremely advanced Mobile Suits, one designed by each of the scientists, known as "Gundams". They are called Gundams because they are constructed from a rare and astonishingly durable material known as Gundanium alloy.

The naming scheme for the series is based on a numerical system. Each character's name is typically derived from the word for a number in various languages ("Heero" means "one", "Duo" means "two", etc). It is based largely on the French counting system. (Quatre, Treize, Une, etc.) Also, naming of OZ mobile suits were based on the Zodiac (with the exception of the Tragos mobile suit, whose name is derived from Capricorn rather than simply stated as such) as exemplified by Leo, Aries, Cancer, etc.

Due to the popularity of the series, two OVAs, compiling various scenes from the series along with a few minutes of new footage, were released in 1996 as Gundam Wing: Operation Meteor I and II. A brand new, three-volume OVA series, Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz was made in 1997 as a sequel to the TV series and closes out the After Colony saga. A year later, 1998, a movie version of the OVA series was made, with new footage and a different ending (Last Impression).

Manga sidestories have also been produced. A prequel detailing the events leading up to the launch of the Gundams to Earth, is Episode Zero. Several sequel manga, occurring between Gundam Wing and Endless Waltz have been written, titled, Gundam Wing: Blind Target, Gundam Wing: Ground Zero,and Battlefield of Pacifists. A coincident storyline is presented in Last Outpost (G-Unit). The Gundam Wing, Battlefield of Pacifists, and Endless Waltz manga series are published in English by TOKYOPOP, while Blind Target, Ground Zero, and Episode Zero are published by Viz Communications.

Gundam Wing had a run on Cartoon Network's Toonami where it was broadcasted as an edited version in the daytime and an uncut version at night. (ex: blood is edited and the word 'kill' is replaced by the word destroy). Also Duo's nickname the God of Death was edited to the Great Destroyer (which also included altering two episode titles).

In 1996, a fighting game called Gundam Wing: Endless Duel was released for the Super Famicom in Japan. The game was never released in the United States or Europe, but enjoys widespread popularity thanks to the emulation of older video games.

1 The translation New Mobile Report Gundam W is used by the R2 DVD releases in Japan, and thus is used extensively by the English-language fanbase in order to differentiate it from the Universal Century Gundam series. While the use of the term "report" in the title is not necessarily incorrect, it does not convey the full meaning of the original-language terminology. The Japanese word senki (戦記) has a specific meaning of "military history." Some official translations in the past have used the translation New Mobile War Chronicle Gundam Wing as well, and some of the official art uses The New Mobile History Gundam Wing, and at least one Japanese book has used Mobile Suit Gundam Wing.

Gundam Wing Pilots

Episode guide

Main article: List of Gundam Wing Episodes
  1. The Shooting Star She Saw
  2. The Gundam Deathscythe
  3. Five Gundams Confirmed
  4. The Victoria Nightmare
  5. Relena's Secret
  6. Party Night
  7. Scenario For Bloodshed
  8. The Treize Assassination
  9. Portrait Of A Ruined Country
  10. Heero, Distracted By Defeat
  11. The Whereabouts Of Happiness
  12. Bewildered Warriors
  13. Catherine's Tears
  14. The Order To Destroy 01
  15. To The Battleground Antarctica
  16. The Sorrowful Battle
  17. Betrayed By Home, Far Away
  18. Tallgeese Destroyed
  19. Assault On Barge
  20. The Lunar Base Infiltration
  21. Grief Stricken Quatre
  22. The Fight For Independence
  23. Duo, God Of Death Once Again (Edited on Toonami as: Duo, The Great Destroyer Once Again)
  24. The Gundam They Called Zero
  25. Quatre VS Heero
  26. The Eternal Flame Of The Shooting Stars
  27. The Locus Of Victory And Defeat
  28. Passing Destinies
  29. The Heroine Of The Battlefield
  30. The Reunion With Relena
  31. The Glass Kingdom
  32. The God Of Death Meets Zero (Edited on Toonami as: The Great Destroyer Meets Zero)
  33. The Lonely Battlefield
  34. And Its Name Is Epyon
  35. The Return Of Wufei
  36. Sanc Kingdom's Collapse
  37. Zero VS Epyon
  38. The Birth Of Queen Relena
  39. Trowa's Return To The Battlefield
  40. A New Leader
  41. Crossfire At Barge
  42. Battleship Libra
  43. Target: Earth
  44. Go Forth, Gundam Team
  45. Signs Of The Final Battle
  46. Milliardo's Decision
  47. Collision In Space
  48. Takeoff Into Confusion
  49. The Final Victor

Openings, Endings and Insert Songs

Openings:

  • Just Communication by Two-Mix (ep. 1-40) (YTV Broadcast: 1-49)
  • Rhythm Emotion by Two-Mix (ep. 41-49)
  • Gundam Wings "أجنحة كاندم" (Arabic) [All episodes]

Ending:

Insert Songs:

  • Just Communication by Two-Mix (eps. 3 & 49)
  • Rhythm Emotion by Two-Mix (eps. 36, 38, 39, and 41)

Gundam Wing in Super Robot Wars

Due to its popularity, Gundam Wing is frequently featured in the Super Robot Wars series of video games by Banpresto. The series' first appearance was in 1996's Shin Super Robot Wars, though its presence was limited to Heero, Relena and Zechs as well as Wing, Tallgeese and the Leo. Its more notable appearances include 1999's Super Robot Wars 64, which was actually set in After Colony 195 and featured practically every machine from the series (except the Leo), including ones which have never appeared in the series since, such as Peacemillion, Libra, and Rashid's Maganac. Furthermore, it is actually possible for the player to join OZ and later, the Romefeller Foundation. Another notable appearance was 2000's Super Robot Wars Alpha, which mostly followed the series' plot faithfully but had some noteworthy deviations (OZ working heavily with the Titans of Zeta Gundam, Milliardo allying with Paptimus Scirocco, Vayeate and Mercurius being mass produced instead of the Virgo series, Dorothy piloting Epyon after Milliardo's defection). The game's sequel Super Robot Wars Alpha Gaiden featured the plot of Endless Waltz with equal fidelity (instead of sending the Gundams into the Sun, the pilots hide them on the Moon). Even though its plot was finished at that point, the Wing cast was retained throughout the rest of the Super Robot Wars Alpha timeline and received heavy ties with Daimos (Relena helping with the Earth-Barm negotiations) as well as other Gundam series, with Zeta's Kamille Bidan and Four Murasame joining Preventer and the Gundam pilots helping fight ZAFT and the stolen GAT series Gundams from Gundam Seed.

See also

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