Mobile Suit Gundam Wing (2000– )

A squadron of giant robot pilots of a beleaguered Earth colony bring the war to their oppressive home planet.

Stars:

Mark Hildreth, Brad Swaile, Ted Cole

Cast

Series cast summary:
Mark Hildreth	...	Heero Yuy (13 episodes, 2000)
Brad Swaile	...	Quatre Raberba Winner (10 episodes, 2000)
Ted Cole	...	Chang Wufei (9 episodes, 2000)
Kirby Morrow	...	Trowa Barton (9 episodes, 2000)
Scott McNeil	...	Duo Maxwell (8 episodes, 2000)

Storyline

In the future, humanity has constructed several space colonies. But the corrupt Treize and his organization Oz have manipulated the United Earth Sphere Alliance into controlling earth and its colonies with an iron fist. To counteract this extreme measure, rebel colonies launch Operation: Meteor; an attempt to smuggle Mobile Suits made of Gundanium alloy to earth to combat the corruption and free earth and the colonies from Oz's control. One of these "Gundams" is piloted by Heero Yuy, who is shot down and is forced to blend in to enemy society. Now up against social issues with a girl named Relena and Oz and its puppets, Heero must unite with other rebels and save his people.

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Plot Keywords:

space | mobile suit | giant robot | robot | conspiracy | 

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Genres:

Animation | Sci-Fi

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Certificate:

TV-PG

Details

Official Sites:

Bandai Entertainment gundamofficial.com [us]

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

6 March 2000 (USA)

Also Known As:

Gundam Wing

Filming Locations:

Lompoc, California, USA

Company Credits

Production Co:

Ocean Group, Sunrise

Technical Specs

Runtime:

30 min 30 min (49 episodes)

Color:

Color

Did You Know?

Trivia

Several references to the Universal Century were hidden in Gundam Wing as "Easter eggs". In one scene, Wing's monitor reads "Charging M-Particles" (a reference to the mega-particles that make up the beam rifle blasts in the Universal Century). Later, when Quatre looks over Sandrock's blueprints, the Gundam is said to possess a Movable Flame (sic), Gundarium Theta, and ALICE Mk-II (a reference to the photonovel Gundam Sentinel).

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Goofs

When Sally Po is introduced, she talks in a high-pitched, almost little girl-like voice. In later episodes, her voice is far more gruff.

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Quotes

Chang Wufei: I will determine justice!

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Connections

Referenced in Superhero Movie (2008)

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Soundtracks

"Rhythm Emotion"
Performed by Two-Mix

User Reviews

The Best and still the coolest....

I have just recently purchased collection one of this awesome series and even after just watching three episodes, I still am mesmerized by sleek styling of the animation and the slow, yet thoughtful actions of the story-telling. I am still a fan.....with some minor pains.

Though this installment into the Gundam saga is very cool and has what the previous series had-a stylish satiric way of telling about the wrongs of war and not letting go of the need to have control or power over everything(sound familiar?), I have to say that this one gets a bit too mellow-dramatic on continuing to explain the lives of the main characters and their incessant need to belly-ache about every thing that happens and what they need to do to stop the OZ group from succeeding in their plans(especially the character called Wufei...I mean he whines more than an American character on a soap opera. Get a counselor,will ya?)

Besides for the over-exaggerated drama(I think that mostly comes from the dubbing of the English voice actors), this series is still very exciting and will still captivate me once again. I mean it can always be worse. It could be like the recent installment, SEED......eeeewwww, talk about mellow-dramatic....I'll chat about that one later.