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* OZ (which itself stands for Organization 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]]. |
* OZ (which itself stands for Organization 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]]. |
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* The animation staff snuck several [[Easter egg (media)|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 the TWAIN plugin for [[Adobe Photoshop]]; similarly, in Episode 8, a chip labeled "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''. |
* The animation staff snuck several [[Easter egg (media)|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 the TWAIN plugin for [[Adobe Photoshop]]; similarly, in Episode 8, a chip labeled "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''. |
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* The mobile suit: Wing Gundam Zero is lined up to appear in the new gundam game: "Dynasty Warriors: Gundam" for the Xbox 360 |
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Revision as of 05:27, 30 August 2007
| Mobile Suit Gundam Wing | |
| File:Gundamw.jpg Gundam Wing title screen | |
| Genre | Mecha, Action, Science Fiction |
|---|---|
| Anime | |
| Directed by | Masashi Ikeda |
| Studio | Sunrise |
| Anime | |
| Gundam Wing: Operation Meteor | |
| Directed by | Masashi Ikeda |
| Studio | Sunrise |
| Manga | |
| Written by | Koichi Tokita (art) |
| Published by |  Kodansha |
| Manga | |
| Mobile Suit Gundam Wing: Battlefield Of Pacifists | |
| Written by | Koichi Tokita (art) |
| Published by | Kodansha |
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),[1] was aired across Japan on the anime satellite television network, Animax, and the terrestrial TV Asahi network. It ran for forty-nine half-hour episodes, beginning on April 7, 1995 and ending on March 29, 1996. Directed by Masashi Ikeda and written by Katsuyuki Sumizawa (Yoroiden Samurai Troopers) with music by Ko Otani, 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. It is the second alternate universe in the Gundam media franchise, following Mobile Fighter G Gundam. The plot centers around a war between Earth and its colonies in space; however, in contrast to the Universal Century continuity, the Gundams in Wing are more closely allied to each other than they are to any particular side in the conflict unfolding around them. Gundam Wing was the first anime in the Gundam franchise to be dubbed and released in English, airing on Cartoon Network in the United States in 2000.[2] Since then, the series has also been dubbed into Filipino, French, German, Arabic, Spanish, and Portuguese.
Background
Mankind has colonized space (with clusters of 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. The Alliance rules the colonies with an iron fist. The colonies desire a peaceful resolution to the situation, joining together in a movement headed by the pacifist Heero Yuy. In the year After Colony 175, Yuy is shot dead by an assassin (believed to be Odin Lowe), forcing the colonies to search for other paths to peace. The assassination also prompts five disaffected scientists from the Organization of Zodiac, much more commonly referred to as OZ, to turn rogue after the completion of the mobile suit prototype Tallgeese.
Plot
The story of Gundam Wing begins in the year After Colony 195, with the start of "Operation: Meteor", the scientists' plan for revenge against the OZ military organization. The operation involves five young boys who have each been chosen and trained by one of the five rogue scientists, then sent to Earth independently 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, which can only be created in outer space.
The five Gundam Pilots — Heero Yuy (an alias, not to be confused with the assassinated leader), Duo Maxwell (also an alias), Trowa Barton (another alias, he was previously known as Nanashi (No-Name)), Quatre Raberba Winner, and Chang Wufei — originally have no knowledge of each others' existence. On first meeting any of the other five, each pilot believes the others to be enemy pilots in new OZ mobile suit designs. Once the young pilots realize that they have the same objective of destroying OZ (and in some cases the same mission), they band together to help each other complete their goals.
Media information
Gundam Wing had a run on Cartoon Network's Toonami, premiering on Monday, March 6, 2000 at 5:30 PM EST. It was broadcast in two formats; an edited version shown in the daytime and an uncut version aired at night. Examples of the edits included the removal of blood, obscene language, and the word kill being replaced by the word destroy. (This was extended to Duo's nickname, "The God of Death", with it being changed to "The Great Destroyer", forcing the alteration of two episode titles.) The uncut version, shown at midnight, was completely unedited - a first for Cartoon Network, which at the time had never 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 three-volume OVA series, Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz, was produced in 1997 as a sequel to the TV series; plot-wise, it ends the After Colony saga. 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 has gained some popularity through the emulation of older video games.
Like most Gundam works, Wing has also appeared in the SD Gundam sub-franchise. It was the main focus for Musha Senki and the basis for Superior Defender Gundam Force's interpretation of Lacroa, established hub of the Knight Gundam series.
Cast and characters
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)
- Ending
- It's Just Love! by Rumi Oishi (ep. 1-49)
- Just Communication (Instrumental Version) by Ko Otani (Toonami Broadcast, ep. 1-49; the credits aired over an amended version of the show's first opening)
- Insert songs
Footnotes
- ^ 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.
- ^ "New Mobile Report Gundam Wing". Mecha Anime HQ.com. Retrieved 2007-02-14.
{{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameters:|month=and|coauthors=(help) - ^ Moneca Stori voiced Sally Po throughout episodes 3 to 12 of the English dub. Samantha Ferris, who had previously voiced minor characters in the anime, voiced the character from episode 20 until the end of the series, and in Endless Waltz.
Trivia
 | This article contains a list of miscellaneous information. (June 2007) |
- There were a number of production problems with the series, which culminated with head writer Katsuyuki Sumizawa stepping down from his position about halfway through the show. He became story supervisor. 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.
- 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", Duo's name comes from "two" or "a pair", Trowa's name is from the Japanese pronunciation of the French "trois", meaning "three", "Quatre" French for "four", Wu Fei's "wu" is Chinese for the number five and "fei" means fly which is probably a reference to being a pilot, and Zechs is a variant of the German word for "six", and so on. This is fitting, considering Heero piloted Wing Gundam designated as Gundam 01, Duo piloted Gundam Deathscythe designated 02, likewise, Trowa piloted Gundam Heavyarms which was 03, Quatre piloted Gundam Sandrock, designated 04 and Wufei piloted Gundam Shenlong, designated 05. Moreover, the language origin of the names reflects the origin/nationality of each character. The 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").
- OZ (which itself stands for Organization 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.
- 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 the TWAIN plugin for Adobe Photoshop; similarly, in Episode 8, a chip labeled "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.
- The mobile suit: Wing Gundam Zero is lined up to appear in the new gundam game: "Dynasty Warriors: Gundam" for the Xbox 360
See also
- List of Gundam Wing Episodes
- 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
- Mobile Suit Gundam Wing ({{{type}}}) at Anime News Network's encyclopedia
- AboutGundamWing.com - An archive of Gundam Wing transcript and reference information
