Gundam Wing
| Mobile Suit Gundam Wing | |
North American cover of the first Gundam Wing DVD volume, featuring the protagonist Heero Yuy and the titular Wing Gundam
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新機動戦記ガンダムW (Shin Kidō Senki Gandamu Wingu) |
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| Genre | Military science fiction, Mecha |
| Anime television series | |
| Directed by | Masashi Ikeda Shinji Takamatsu |
| Written by | Katsuyuki Sumizawa |
| Music by | Kow Otani |
| Studio | Sunrise |
| Licensed by | |
| Original network | TV Asahi |
| English network | |
| Original run | April 7, 1995 – March 29, 1996 |
| Episodes | 49 |
| Original video animation | |
| Operation Meteor | |
| Directed by | Masashi Ikeda |
| Studio | Sunrise |
| Licensed by | |
| Released | April 25, 1996 – October 10, 1996 |
| Episodes | 4 |
| Manga | |
| Illustrated by | Kōichi Tokita |
| Published by | Kodansha |
| English publisher | |
| Demographic | Shōnen |
| Magazine | Comic Bom Bom |
| Original run | April 1995 – April 1996 |
| Volumes | 3 |
| Manga | |
| Battlefield of Pacifists | |
| Illustrated by | Kōichi Tokita |
| Published by | Kodansha |
| English publisher | |
| Demographic | Shōnen |
| Magazine | Haoh Magazine, Comic Bom Bom |
| Published | 1997 |
| Volumes | 1 |
| Manga | |
| Episode Zero | |
| Written by | Katsuyuki Sumisawa |
| Illustrated by | Akira Kanbe |
| Published by | Gakushukenkyusha |
| English publisher | |
| Demographic | Shōnen |
| Magazine | Anime V |
| Published | 1997 |
| Volumes | 1 |
| Serial novel | |
| Frozen Teardrop | |
| Written by | Katsuyuki Sumizawa |
| Published by | Kadokawa Shoten |
| Demographic | Seinen |
| Magazine | Gundam Ace |
| Original run | August 2010 – November 2015 |
| Volumes | 13 |
| Manga | |
| The Glory of Losers | |
| Written by | Katsuyuki Sumizawa |
| Illustrated by |
Hajime Katoki Tomofumi Ogasawara |
| Published by | Kadokawa Shoten |
| Demographic | Seinen |
| Magazine | Gundam Ace |
| Original run | September 2010 – present |
| Volumes | 11 |
Mobile Suit Gundam Wing, also known in Japan as New Mobile Report Gundam Wing(新機動戦記ガンダムW(ウイング) Shin Kidō Senki Gandamu Wingu?), is a 1995 Japanese mecha anime series directed by Masashi Ikeda and written by Katsuyuki Sumizawa. It is the sixth installment in the Gundam franchise, taking place in the "After Colony" timeline. As with the original series, the plot of Gundam Wing centers on a war in the 2220s CE between Earth and its orbital colonies in the Earth-Moon system.
The series aired in Japan on the terrestrial TV Asahi network. It ran for 49 episodes; beginning on April 7, 1995 and ending on March 29, 1996. It received multiple manga adaptations, as well as video games. Two original video animation (OVA) episodes were produced including a retelling of the series, Operation Meteor, and a direct sequel, Endless Waltz. In 2010, Sumizawa started writing the novel Frozen Teardrop; another sequel from the series. While the series fared modestly well in Japan, in the United States it found greater success and popularized the Gundam franchise in the West.
In the distant future, Mankind has colonized space, with clusters of space colonies at each of the five Earth-Moon Lagrange points. Down on the Earth, the nations have come together to form the United Earth Sphere Alliance. This Alliance oppresses the colonies with its vast military might. The colonies wishing to be free, join together in a movement headed by the pacifist Heero Yuy. In the year After Colony 175, Yuy is shot dead by an assassin, forcing the colonies to search for other paths to peace. The assassination prompts five disaffected scientists from the Organization of the Zodiac, more commonly referred to as OZ, to turn rogue upon the completion of the mobile suit prototype Tallgeese.
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