Mobile Suit Gundam Wing

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Mobile Suit Gundam Wing, known in Japan as , 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, 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 '. Several sequel manga, occurring between Gundam Wing and Endless Waltz have been written, titled, ', ',and '. A coincident storyline is presented in . 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 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

• Heero Yuy
  
• Duo Maxwell
  
• Trowa Barton
  
• Quatre Raberba Winner
  
• Chang Wufei
  

Episode guide

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:

• It's Just Love by Rumi Oishi (ep. 1-49)
• Just Communication (Instrumental Version) by Kou Ootani (Toonami Broadcast, ep. 1-49)

Insert Songs:

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

See also

• 
  
• After Colony Timeline
  
• After Colony Nations and Factions
  
• After Colony Mobile Units
  
• After Colony Technology
  
• After Colony list of characters
  

External links

• [Official Mobile Suit Gundam Wing website]
• [mahq.net] - detailed Mobile Suit information
• [Gundam Plus] - information, image gallery
• [Gundam Wing Fanworks]
• [the gwg] - Large image gallery, fanworks and other information
• [Gundam Wing Official Web] - A lot of information about the Mangas, TV Serie, and more.

 

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