Mobile Suit Gundam Wing 新機動戦記ガンダムＷ (New Mobile Report Gundam W) Genre Mecha, Action, Science Fiction Manga Authored by Hajime Yatate, Yoshiyuki Tomino Publisher Kodansha Panini Comics Pika Édition TokyoPop Serialized in Original run October 1995 – May 1996 No. of volumes 3 volumes TV anime Directed by Masashi Ikeda Studio Sunrise Network Animax, TV Asahi GMA Network (1998) Cartoon Network Hyper YTV Tele 5 M6 Cartoon Network Original run April 7, 1995 – March 29, 1996 No. of episodes 49 OVA: Gundam Wing: Operation Meteor Directed by Masashi Ikeda Studio Sunrise No. of episodes 2 Released April 25, 1996 & October 10, 1996 Runtime OVA/Movie Gundam Wing - Endless Waltz (1997) Mobile Suit Gundam Wing, known in Japan as New Mobile Report Gundam W (新機動戦記ガンダムW, Shin Kidō Senki Gandamu Uingu?), is a televised anime series, which aired across Japan on the anime satellite television network, Animax, and the terrestrial TV Asahi network. 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. Contents 1 Background 2 Plot 3 Media Information 4 Trivia 5 Main characters 5.1 Gundam Wing Pilots 5.2 Other major characters 6 Episode guide 7 Openings, Endings and Insert Songs 8 Cast 9 See also 10 External links Background 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 United Earth Sphere Alliance. Unfortunately, the Alliance rules the colonies with an iron fist. The colonies wanted a peaceful resolution to the situation, with the movement being headed by the pacifist Heero Yuy. Unfortunately, in the year After Colony 175, he is shot dead by an assassin's bullet, forcing the colonies to search for other means of obtaining peace. This prompts five scientists from the Organization of Zodiac, much more commonly referred to as OZ, to turn rogue after the completion of the mobile suit prototype OZ-00MS Tallgeese. Plot Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow. The story of Gundam Wing begins in the year After Colony 195, with the start of Operation: Meteor, or the scientists' revenge against the OZ military organization. It centers around five young boys who have been chosen and trained by the five rogue scientists, then sent to Earth in extremely advanced Mobile Suits, one designed by each of the scientists, known as "Gundams". Their Mobile Suits are called Gundams because they are constructed from a rare and astonishingly durable material known as Gundanium alloy. The five Gundam Pilots, Heero Yuy (his code name, not to be confused with the name of the assassinated leader whom he is named after), Duo Maxwell, Trowa Barton, Quatre Raberba Winner, and Chang Wufei, originally have no knowledge of each others' existence, and, on their first meeting, each pilot believes the others to be new OZ mobile suit designs. Once the young pilots realize that they have the same objective of destroying OZ and in some cases, are given the same mission, they band together to help each other complete their ultimate goal. Spoilers end here. Media Information 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). The uncut version, shown at midnight, was completely unedited, making history for Cartoon Network, which, at the time, had never before shown an unedited anime. 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, in 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. 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. Trivia There were a number of production problems with the series, which culminated with head writer Katsuyuki Sumizawa quitting about halfway through the show. As a result, the backstories for the main cast, which were intended to be animated as part of the series, were cut, eventually becoming the manga, Episode Zero. Rumors state that director Ikeda also quit some time into the show, replaced by Shinji Takamatsu (who would go on to direct Gundam X), but this remains unconfirmed. A fair number of the characters' names are puns off of various languages' words for numbers. For example, Heero's name derives from Japanese words for "one" and "alone", Zechs is a variant of the German word for "six", and so forth. This trend was somewhat continued in the various spinoffs, with G-Unit's Adin Barnett (from the Russian word for "one") and Tiel's Impulse's Tiel Noembreux (from the French word meaning "numerous"). Many Gundam Wing fanfiction authors have adopted this into a shorthand denoting the romantic pairings in their stories; for example, "1xR" means that the story promotes the pairing of Heero and Relena, "3x4" means Trowa and Quatre, and so forth. OZ (which itself stands for Organisation of the Zodiac) names its production-model mobile suits for the signs of the Western Zodiac. The major exception to this rule is the ground-combat Tragos, whose name comes from the Greek word for "goat", and can be considered a stand-in for Capricorn. Several references to The Wizard of Oz are present throughout the series. The most obvious example is the OZ organisation, but also notable are a character named Dorothy, a small space force named Scarecrow, and various symbols of characters placed on uniforms and logos. The animation staff snuck several Easter eggs into the series in the form of quick snippets of joke text. In Episode 3, the medical readouts on Heero include the readme file for Adobe Photoshop; similarly, in Episode 8, a chip labelled "Intel Outside" can be seen. There are also several references to the Universal Century timelines, as seen in the mobile suit schematics, such as references to mega particles, movable frames, Gundarium, and the ALICE System from Gundam Sentinel. 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. Main characters Main article: After Colony list of characters Gundam Wing Pilots Heero Yuy Duo Maxwell Trowa Barton Quatre Raberba Winner Chang Wufei Other major characters Relena Peacecraft Zechs Merquise Treize Khushrenada Lucrezia Noin Episode guide Main article: List of Gundam Wing Episodes The Shooting Star She Saw The Gundam Deathscythe Five Gundams Confirmed The Victoria Nightmare Relena's Secret Party Night Scenario For Bloodshed The Treize Assassination Portrait Of A Ruined Country Heero, Distracted By Defeat The Whereabouts Of Happiness Bewildered Warriors Catherine's Tears The Order To Destroy 01 To The Battleground Antarctica The Sorrowful Battle Betrayed By Home, Far Away Tallgeese Destroyed Assault On Barge The Lunar Base Infiltration Grief Stricken Quatre The Fight For Independence Duo, God Of Death Once Again (Edited on Toonami as: Duo, The Great Destroyer Once Again) The Gundam They Called Zero Quatre VS Heero The Eternal Flame Of The Shooting Stars The Locus Of Victory And Defeat Passing Destinies The Heroine Of The Battlefield The Reunion With Relena The Glass Kingdom The God Of Death Meets Zero (Edited on Toonami as: The Great Destroyer Meets Zero) The Lonely Battlefield And Its Name Is Epyon The Return Of Wufei Sanc Kingdom's Collapse Zero VS Epyon The Birth Of Queen Relena Trowa's Return To The Battlefield A New Leader Crossfire At Barge Battleship Libra Target: Earth Go Forth, Gundam Team Signs Of The Final Battle Milliardo's Decision Collision In Space Takeoff Into Confusion 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) Cast Character Japanese Actor English Actor Heero Yuy Hikaru Midorikawa Mark Hildreth Duo Maxwell Toshihiko Seki Scott McNeil Trowa Barton Shigeru Nakahara Kirby Morrow Quatre Rebaba Winner Ai Orikasa Brad Swaile Wufei Chang Ryuuzou Ishino Ted Cole Zechs Marquise Takehito Koyasu Brian Drummond Relena Peacecraft Akiko Yajima Lisa Ann Beley Treize Khushrenada Ryotaro Okiayu David Kaye Lucrezia Noin Chisa Yokoyama Saffron Henderson Lady Une Sayuri Yamauchi Enuka Okuma Dorothy Catalonia Naoko Matsui Cathy Weseluck Duke Dermail Osamu Kato Michael Dobson Catherine Bloom Saori Suzuki Moneca Stori & Cathy Weseluck Sally Po Yumi Touma Moneca Stori & Samantha Ferris Narrator Akio Ohtsuka Campbell Lane See also Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz 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 Mobile Suit Gundam Wing (anime) at Anime News Network's Encyclopedia Mobile Suit Gundam alternate timelines Future Century: Mobile Fighter G Gundam - Mobile Units After Colony: Episode Zero - New Mobile Report Gundam Wing - G-UNIT (Last Outpost) - Endless Waltz List of Characters - Nations and Factions - Mobile Units - Technology - Operation Meteor - Comprehensive Episode Listing After War: After War Gundam X - Under the Moonlight - Mobile Units - List of Characters - Technology CC (Seireki): ∀ Gundam Super Deformed Gundam: Mobile Suit SD Gundam - SD Command Senki - Gundlander - SD Gundam Jikūden - SD Gundam Eiyūden - Superior Defender Gundam Force - SD Gundam G Generation - G Generation Original Units - Gundam: True Odyssey (MS Saga) - Doozy Bots Musha Gundam: SD Sengokuden - Shin SD Sengokuden - Chō SD Sengokuden - Musha Senki - Musha Generation - Mushamaruden - SD Gundam Force Emaki Musharetsuden Zero - SD Gundam Force Emaki Musharetsuden - Musha Banchō Fūunroku Knight Gundam: SD Gundam Side Story - New SD Gundam Side Story - SD Gundam Holy Legend - SD Gundam Retsuden Others: Gundam Evolve - Gundam the Battle Master (Battle Assault) - Manga and Novels Universal Century and Cosmic Era timelines Universal Century - Cosmic Era Search Term: "Mobile_Suit_Gundam_Wing" Categories: Manga series | Anime series | Anime OVAs | After Colony series | Series broadcast by Animax | Shows on Toonami | Anime dubbed into English | Adventure anime | Adventure manga | Drama anime | Drama manga | Mecha anime | Mecha manga | Anime of the 1990s

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