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New Mobile Report Gundam Wing

The series Trowa Barton comes from is known as New Mobile Report Gundam Wing (Shin Kido Senki Gandamu Uingu) in Japan and as Mobile Suit Gundam Wing in America. It is an animation from Japan, also known as anime, which is part of the Gundam metaseries. The Gundam metaseries features giant robots which have fallen under the genre term "mecha". It all started by the first series called Mobile Suit Gundam (Kido Senshi Gandamu) which was created by Yoshiyuki Tomino and Hajime Yatate. It was released in 1979 by Sunrise Studios. The series eventually extended into prequels, sequels, alternate universes and side stories.


Gundam Universe Timelines:
Universal Century (UC)
Future Century (FC)
After Colony (AC)
After War (AW)
Correct Century (CC)
Cosmic Era (CE)
Anno Domini (AD)


New Mobile Report Gundam Wing takes place in the alternate universe timeline After Colony. The series is loosely based on the first Gundam series and is thus not considered an original story in itself. Many fans of the UC Gundam series notice similarities in events and character roles that appear in Gundam Wing to earlier Gundam series. Basically, Gundam Wing is a more modern and less complex take on the original series to fit the changing times.

The series begins in the year After Colony 195. By this time man has colonized space. Earth is orbited by Colonies that are clustered in the five Earth-Moon Lagrange points in space. The Colonies, however, are oppressed greatly by Earth, where the nations have united as the United Earth Sphere Alliance. The Alliance uses Mobile Suits to control the populace.

The Colonies, however, are peaceful. Twenty years earlier they tried to find a resolution to the situation by the leadership of a political pacifist known as Heero Yuy. Instead, Heero Yuy was assassinated which in turn led five scientists who were once members of the Alliance's Mobile Suit development team to disband and flee after finishing a Mobile Suit called Tallgeese.

Now that twenty years have passed, the scientists are ready to seek revenge against the Alliance and OZ, a military organization for the Alliance. The plan is called "Operation Meteor" which was first focused on dropping a Colony on Earth and sending the Gundams to take control over Earth while it was in a state of chaos. The scientists and the pilots, however, took matters into their own hands and made the operation into guerilla war against the Alliance military instead.

The show in turn follows the war from beginning to end and how one's actions affects and changes others.


Gundam Pilots:
Heero Yuy (Pilot 01 of Wing Gundam)
Duo Maxwell (Pilot 02 of Gundam Deathscythe)
Trowa Barton (Pilot 03 of Gundam Heavy Arms)
Quatre R. Winner (Pilot 04 of Gundam Sandrock)
Chang Wu Fei (Pilot 05 of Gundam Shenlong)

Gundam Engineers:
Doctor J (Creator and engineer of Wing Gundam)
Professor G (Creator and engineer of Gundam Deathscythe)
Doktor S (Creator and engineer of Gundam Heavy Arms)
Instructor H (Creator and engineer of Gundam Sandrock)
Master O (Creator and engineer of Gundam Shenlong)

Lead OZ Members:
Treize Khushrenada (OZ's Leader)
Lady Une (Treize's right-hand)
Zechs Merquise (OZ's top ace pilot)
Lucrezia Noin (Academy instructor)

Romefeller Foundation:
Duke Dermail (Head of Romefeller)
Chief Engineer Tsubarov (Chief weapons developer)
Dorothy Catalonia (Dermail's granddaughter)

Other Important Characters:
Relena "Darlian" Peacecraft (Lead female)
Sally Po (Alliance officer)
Howard (Alliance engineer who worked on Tallgeese)


New Mobile Report Gundam Wing was directed by Masashi Ikeda who even wrote one of the scripts himself. The three official script writers were Katsuyuki Sumizawa, Akemi Omode and Katsuhiko Chiba. Shuko Murase did the character designs. Mecha designs were by Kunio Okawara and Hajime Katoki.

Gundam Wing was first aired in Japan by TV Asahi and Animax on April 7, 1995 to March 29, 1996. It was later dubbed and was aired in America by Cartoon Network on March 6, 2000 to May 11, 2000. The series consisted of forty-nine episodes.

A two-volume OVA was released from April 25, 1996 to October 10, 1996 after the show ended and was called Operation Meteor I & II: Odds & Evens.

Later a three episode OVA series was released as a sequel. It was called New Mobile Report Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz (Shin Kido Senki Gandamu Uingu: Endoresu Warutsu) in Japan and was released January 25, 1997 to July 25, 1997. A year later it was released as a movie with new scenes on August 1, 1998. On November 10, 2000 it was shown in America titled as Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz.


Sources:
Wikipedia: Mobile Suit Gundam Wing. Airing Dates.
Epguides: Mobile Suit Gundam Wing. Airing Dates.


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