Mobile Suit Gundam Wing (新機動戦記ガンダムW(ウイング) Shin Kidō Senki Gandamu Wingu, lit. "New Mobile Report Gundam Wing"), is an anime series in the mecha genre directed by Masashi Mukaeda and written by Katsuyuki Sumizawa. It is one of the alternate universe Gundam series, taking place in the "After Colony" timeline. As with the original series, the plot of Gundam Wing centers around a war between Earth and its colonies in space.
Plot
In the distant future, Mankind has colonized space (with clusters of space
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. However, the Alliance oppresses the colonies with
its military power. 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, forcing the colonies to search for
other paths to peace. The assassination also prompts five disaffected
scientists from the Organization of the Zodiac (more commonly referred to as
OZ) to turn rogue after the completion of the mobile
suit prototype Tallgeese.
The story of Gundam Wing begins in the year After Colony 195, with
the start of "Operation Meteor": the scientists' plan for revenge
against OZ. The operation involves five teenage boys, who have each been chosen
and trained by each of the five scientists, then sent to Earth independently in
extremely advanced mobile suits (one designed by each of the scientists) known
as "Gundams" (called such because they are constructed from a rare
and astonishingly durable material called Gundanium alloy, which can only be
created in outer space). Each Gundam is sent from a different colony, and the
pilots are initially unaware of each other's existence.
The series focuses primarily on the five Gundam pilots: Heero Yuy (an alias, not to be confused with the
martyred pacifist), Duo Maxwell, Trowa Barton, Quatre
Raberba Winner, and Chang Wufei.
Their mission is to use their Gundams to attack OZ directly, in order to rid
the Alliance of its weapons and free the colonies from its oppressive rule. The
series also focuses on Relena Peacecraft,
heir to the pacifist Sanc Kingdom, who starts off as a seemingly ordinary girl
until she gets caught up in the conflict between OZ and the Gundams, becoming
an important political ally to the Gundam pilots (particularly Heero) in the
process.
Production
The making of Gundam Wing was influenced by Mobile Fighter G Gundam with the idea of
having five main characters. Originally, the series was meant to be titled Gundam
Meteor after "Operation Meteor." Bandai suggested having a Gundam
with the ability of transforming into a plane-like form. The writers worked
together for one week conceptualizing the characters, mobile suits and first 40
episodes. Director Masashi Ikeda reacted to their work comparing it to the
first Gundam series, Zeta and G all at once. The series
had a bigger focus on drama rather than mechanical which the staff found as one
of the reasons for the show's popularity within the female demographic.
Writer Katsuyuki Sumizawa expressed difficulties in the making of the story
as opposed to his work in novels due to the fact he relayed duties to other members.
However, the handling of the five characters was made easy due to the setting. Early
sketches of the protagonists by Ikeda were handled by character designer Shuko
Murase. He was casted due to his work with Ikeda in Samurai Troopers. The director wanted the
designs to appeal to the female demographic. Originally, Duo Maxwell was set as
the protagonist but was replaced by Heero Yuy. The staff members noted Heero
was too different from previous Gundam protagonists and were afraid he would be
unpopular. The voice casting was more difficult to do than the ones from
previous series due to the different atmosphere.
Following the series' ending, the staff members were asked by the studio to
make a sequel due to its popularity. Neither Tomioka nor Ikeda intended to make
a sequel for Gundam Wing. However, Sumizawa was bothered by the finale
as he felt the series ended abruptly. Tomioka asked Sumizawa if he could write
a continuation which he agreed.
Gundam Pilots / Colony Liberation
Organization
The Gundam pilots from left to
right: Quatre, Trowa, Heero, Duo, and Wufei.
Heero Yuy (ヒイロ・ユイ Hiiro Yui, spelled Hiiro Yui in the
original Japanese version) [EZ, W, BT, BP, EW, FT]
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Nationality:
Japanese
The protagonist of Mobile Suit Gundam Wing,
and the pilot of the XXXG-01W Wing Gundam and the XXXG-00W0 Wing Gundam Zero. During the series,
very little of his past is revealed, although according to the manga Episode
Zero revealed that he was once a nameless protégé of the assassin Odin Lowe
until the assassin's death during a failed mission. Shortly thereafter, the
nameless boy (Heero) was taken in by Doctor J and trained as a Gundam pilot. On
the onset of Operation Meteor,
Doctor J gave him the code name "Heero Yuy" after the martyred leader
of the colonies. Although he speaks in a monotone voice and appears cold,
reckless and emotionless, some believe that Heero is actually a very
kind-hearted young man who feels sympathy for the oppressed space colony
citizens. Though his true feelings for Relena are never fully explained, he has
vowed to protect her from any danger (even though, ironically enough, he
originally threatened to kill her when she learned of his mission). Heero Yuy
was voiced by Hikaru Midorikawa
in Japanese and Mark Hildreth
in English.
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Nationality:
American
The pilot of
the XXXG-01D Gundam Deathscythe and the XXXG-01D2 Gundam Deathscythe Hell. He is
cheerful, amicable and goofy, but this is a front to cover up his tragic past.
In "Episode Zero", it was revealed that he chose his name to
commemorate a boy he admired named Solo; they had been part of a street gang
together. Solo had told the young Duo that they would always be together, but
Solo later died from a disease that swept the colony. Duo took his last name
from the Maxwell Church, a home for war orphans run by Father Maxwell and
Sister Helen, a Catholic priest and nun. He lived in the church until it was
destroyed during an Alliance attack, in what became known as "the Maxwell
Church Massacre". Duo was the only survivor because he was not there
during the attack; he had gone to steal a mobile suit from a nearby military
base to drive out a group of Colony rebels hiding in the church. Mementos of
Duo's lost loved ones are his distinctive 3-foot braid (a reminder of Sister
Helen, who carefully braided his long hair as a child) and the priest's clothes
that he usually wears. He refers to himself as Shinigami (the "God of Death" in the
original Japanese version or the "Great Destroyer" in the edited
English dub), because anyone who gets close to him eventually dies. Duo later
became a member of the Sweeper Group, an engineer, a hacker of great skill, and
finally a Gundam pilot after meeting Professor G. Duo Maxwell was voiced by Toshihiko Seki in the Japanese version and by Scott McNeil in the English dub.
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Nationality:
Unknown (some official sources say Latin, others say Eastern European, others
Russian, and one unofficial source says British)
The pilot of
the XXXG-01H Gundam Heavyarms; he is also known as
"Nanashi" (名なし?, "No-Name"). His age is
maintained by some sources as 15, but his physical appearance suggests that 17
or 18 would be a more appropriate number. Trowa is a stoic young man who has
spent almost his entire life on the battlefield. Reserved by nature, he can be
seen to be as emotionless like Heero, but is in fact a warm-hearted person who
is very protective of those he cares about. Nanashi took the name "Trowa
Barton" after the real one (the son of Dekim Barton) was shot and killed
by the assistant of Doktor S, the creator of Gundam Heavyarms, when they were unwilling
to proceed with Operation Meteor. Besides being a Gundam pilot, Trowa is also
an accomplished acrobat, which serves him well in his cover identity as a clown
in a travelling circus. Trowa is assumed to be Triton Bloom, Catherine Bloom's
long-lost brother that was believed to have died years ago as an infant. There
is only a little evidence of this: in the Episode Zero manga, the baby
shown being thrown from the cart's wreckage in the bombing that killed
Catherine's family has Trowa's trademark bangs, and according to official
sources, Trowa has "a burn scar on his back that he didn't get in
battle", but if the names of the pilots do relate to numbers, it would
seem more likely that this was true. Trowa Barton was voiced by Shigeru Nakahara in Japanese and Kirby Morrow in English.
Quatre Raberba Winner (カトル・ラバーバ・ウィナー Katoru Rabāba Winā) [EZ, W, BT, BP, EW]
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Nationality:
Arab
The pilot of
the XXXG-01SR Gundam Sandrock and the heir to a major
space mining company known as th Winner Corporation. Quatre is a very kind
young man who loves animals, and is the greatest believer in pacifism of the
five Gundam pilots. He has twenty-nine older sisters that were all test tube
babies (according to the Episode Zero manga) due to the numerous
problems experienced in natural pregnancy during the colonists' first arrival
in space created the need for test-tube babies until a cure was developed.
Everyone was then able to produce children naturally sans the Winner family due
to their living in space since the colonies' creation. Quatre's mother
desperately wanted to bear at least one child naturally and so she did though
it cost her life. Quatre was never informed that he was the only child who was
born naturally, and thus had a cold, angry demeanor for a long time (due to
feeling that he and his sisters were just pawns created by his father to
benefit the Corporation and that they could all be replaced at any time).
Quatre is a natural leader as he leads a group of middle-eastern fighters known
as the Maganac Corps. (who are all test-tube babies themselves). The Maganacs
have accepted Quatre as their leader as (in Episode Zero) Quatre saved
their leader Rashid's life when Quatre flushed out a traitor within the Maganac
ranks. Quatre was then given his goggles by Rashid as a symbol of the leader of
the Maganacs. The Maganacs also taught Quatre to have pride in himself, no
matter where he came from, and the young man's kind, gentle nature arose from
that understanding. Despite being a pacifist, Quatre sees the Gundams as a
necessary evil, which has strained his relationship with his father, who followed
the path of absolute pacifism prior to his death. Toward the end of the series,
Heero turns leadership of the Gundam Team over to Quatre. Although Newtypes are
not referenced in the Gundam Wing universe, Quatre seems to sense the
"Heart of Space" (or "Soul of Outer Space") like Amuro Ray was able to. Quatre Winner was voiced
by Ai Orikasa and Brad Swaile (Amuro's voice in Mobile Suit Gundam)
in English.
Chang Wufei (張 五飛 Chan Ūfei, Hanyu Pinyin: Zhāng Wǔfēi, Zhang Wufei in the original Japanese version) [EZ, W,
BT, BP, EW, FT]
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Nationality:
Chinese
The pilot of
the XXXG-01S Shenlong Gundam and the XXXG-01S2 Altron Gundam, he constantly refers to
both incarnations as the deity "Nataku" of whom his late wife Meilan
modelled herself after. Wufei is a fierce warrior descended from a long, proud
line of Chinese warriors and thus despises weakness in character and body. As
evidenced in Episode Zero, when he was younger he was calmer and much
more cerebral, but his unwillingness to fight resulted in the death of his wife
Meilan, a strong girl who took the responsibility of protecting the colony (as
well as Shenlong Gundam) onto herself and was killed in battle. Wufei then
chose to carry out her path of justice in honor of her sacrifice. Wufei looks
down on those who he deems weak and cowardly. Although Wufei preferred to fight
alone, he eventually realized that he needed to team up with the other Gundam
pilots to accomplish his goals. Chang Wufei was voiced by Ryuuzou Ishino in Japanese and Ted Cole in English.
Episode 01
Episode 02
Episode 03
Episode 04
Episode 05
Episode 06
Episode 07
Episode 08
Episode 09
Episode 10
Episode 11
Episode 12
Episode 13
Episode 14
Episode 15
Episode 16
Episode 17
Episode 18
Episode 19
Episode 20
Episode 21
Episode 22
Episode 23
Episode 24
Episode 25
Episode 26
Episode 27
Episode 28
Episode 29
Episode 30
Episode 31
Episode 32
Episode 33
Episode 34
Episode 35
Episode 36
Episode 37
Episode 38
Episode 39
Episode 40
Episode 41
Episode 42
Episode 43
Episode 44
Episode 45
Episode 46
Episode 47
Episode 48
Episode 49 Final
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