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 KidÅ
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 future (specifically, After Colony 195)
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. Four
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 to the series. While the series fared
modestly well in Japan, it found greater success in the United States
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.
Gundam Wing (新機動戦記ガンダムW(ウイング), Shin KidÅ
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 future (specifically, After Colony 195)
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. Four
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 to the series. While the series fared
modestly well in Japan, it found greater success in the United States
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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