Mobile Suit Gundam Wing, known in Japan as
New Mobile Report Gundam Wing (新機動戦記ガンダムW,
Shin Kidō Senki Gandamu Uingu?), was an anime series in the mecha genre, and 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.
The series aired across Japan on the terrestrial TV Asahi network and the anime satellite television network, Animax. The series ran for forty-nine half-hour episodes, beginning on April 7, 1995 and ending on March 29, 1996. Masashi Ikeda was the overall director of the series. Katsuyuki Sumizawa (
Yoroiden Samurai Troopers) wrote the scenario for the series and was one of three official script-writers, along with Akemi Omode and Katsuhiko Chiba. Ikeda wrote one script himself and one with Omode and one with Sumizawa. Toshifumi Kawase also wrote three scripts in the latter part of the first half of the series. Kō Ōtani composed the music. The series was loosely based on the original 1979 Gundam series,
Mobile Suit Gundam, created by Yoshiyuki Tomino and Hajime Yatate. Also,
Gundam Wing was the first anime in the Gundam franchise to be dubbed and released in tagalog, airing on GMA 7 in the Philippines during the late 1999 to 2000 period. It then aired on Cartoon Network in the United States and is credited with single-handedly popularizing the
Gundam metaseries among the Western audiences. Since then, the series has also been dubbed into French, German, Arabic, Spanish, Malay and Portuguese.
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