Gundam Wing Guide, Meaning , Facts, Information and Description

New Mobile Report Gundam W (also known as Mobile Suit Gundam Wing) is a televised Anime series, which ran for 49 episodes beginning in 1995. The series was loosely based on the original 1979 Gundam series, Mobile Suit Gundam, created by Yoshiyuki Tomino and Hajime Yatate.

Gundam Wing is one of the alternate universe Gundam series, taking place in the After Colony timeline, year 195. The story centers around the pilots of extremely advanced Mobile Suits known as "Gundams" because they are constructed from Gundamium alloy. They represent the space colonies, against an organization on Earth known as OZ (an acronym for Organization of Zodiac) which is (at least initially appearing to be) heading an attempt to take over the space colonies.

The series is also well known for its unexpectedly large female fanbase, who have produced a surprising bulk of yaoi fanwork, including doujinshi. The naming scheme for such slashing is based on the number each character's name is derived from. Hence a HeeroXDuo story is 1X2, with Heero being dominant.

The producers of the series grudgingly acknowledge the existence of the fanwork, but their reaction appears mixed, particularly due to the large amount of merchandise these fans buy.

Due to the popularity of the series, two OVAs compiling various scenes from the series along with a few minutes of new footage were released in 1996 as Gundam Wing: Operation Meteor I and II. A brand new, 3 volume OVA series, Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz was made in 1997 as a sequel to the TV series and closes out the After Colony saga.

Manga sidestories have also been produced.

A prequel detailing the events leading up to the launch of the Gundams to Earth, is . A sequel manga, following Endless Waltz is called . A coincident storyline is presented in .

The Gundam Wing, Battlefield of Pacifists, and Endless Waltz manga series are published in English by TokyoPop, while Blind Target, Ground Zero, and Episode Zero are published by Viz Communications.

Characters

The Gundam Wing characters include the Gundam pilots and many other side characters all of which have names which mean a number in some other language.

Gundam Pilots

• Heero Yuy (Real name: Unknown), Japanese of origin, Heero is the pilot of the Wing Gundam and Wing Gundam Zero. He is often called the perfect soldier. He speaks in a monotone voice and never shows any emotion. The boy was trained from youth to be a merciless killing machine so that he could efficiently pilot his Gundam. His devotion to the completion of his mission is his defining characteristic. The few things about his past that are known is that he was once taken care of by Odin Lowe, an assassin. After Odin Lowe died, he was taken in by Professor J, who trained him to become a Gundam pilot.

• Duo Maxwell, American of origin, Duo is the pilot of the Gundams Deathscythe, Deathscythe Hell, and Deathscythe Hell Custom (the original Deathscythe was destroyed and all of the pilots got revamped models of their Gundams for Gundam Wing - Endless Waltz). He is a flamboyant fifteen year old who dresses in black and wears a priest's collar. His hair is worn in a waist-length braid. He calls himself Shinigami or The God of Death. The reason for this handle is that when he was younger, whoever got close to him died shortly after the encounter. Therefore, he believed that Death followed him.

• Trowa Barton (Real name (assumed): Triton Bloom), nationality unknown, but probably European of origin, Trowa is the pilot of Gundam Heavyarms. In his off time he works in a circus as a clown and high wire act. He is another very quiet pilot and rarely speaks more than three lines consecutively. Trowa seems to have many problems with amnesia. He does not remember his past or his name and is again beset with temporary amnesia during the series. He has been a soldier on the battlefield as long as he can remember and was known only as "no-name." Trowa took the name of Trowa Barton, Dekim Barton's son, after the original Trowa was shot by Dr. S for intending to carry out Operation Meteor with the Heavyarms. Trowa is assumed to be Catherine Bloom's long lost brother, who was feared dead in an incident long ago.

• Quatre Raberba Winner, Arabian of origin, Quatre is the pilot of the Gundam Sandrock. He is a very kind young man who loves animals and is the greatest believer in pacifism of the five Gundam pilots. He believes that Earth and the colonies should not be fighting. He has twenty-nine older sisters. All of his sisters were test tube babies, because of the numerous problems experienced in natural pregnancy during the colonists' first arrival in space. The problem was later solved, and Quatre is the only child who was born naturally and is the heir to the Winner family.

• Chang Wufei(張 五飛), Chinese of origin, Chang is the pilot of Gundam Shenlong("神龍"=God Dragon) which he calls Nataku. Later in the series he pilots the Gundam Altron("二頭龍"pinyin:Ertoulong, Double-headed Dragon). Chang despises weakness in character and body. When he was younger he was too weak to save his wife. (Chang is a member of the Dragon clan in which members are obligated to marry at the age of 13.) He fights for justice and named his Gundam after his wife, who believed that she was a war god.

• Zechs Marquise, (real name: Milliardo Peacecraft), Northern European of origin, Millardo Peacecraft, who uses the nom de guerre Zechs Merquise, is a pilot for the Oz organization and is the pilot of the Tallgeese. Later in the series, he pilots a mobile suit called Epyon which has the same program as Wing Zero. Millardio is the son of the family that ruled a pacifist nation in Europe. In , Milliardo/Zechs switches sides and allies himself with the Gundam pilots.

• Lucrezia Noin, (prefers to be called Noin) Italian origin, at the beginning of the series she was an instructor at OZ's Lake Victoria Academy. It was mentioned in the series that she got the 2nd highest grade in the history of Lake Victoria Academy (Zechs got the highest although he claims that it was only because Noin let him.) Later, she joins Zechs in the war. Upon Zechs' request she becomes Relena's guardian and acts as her head of security. She also helps the gundam pilots whenever she can. She pilots a white Taurus suit as part of Sanq's defense.

• Treize Khushrenada, Aryan of origin, the leader of OZ and a member of Romefeller.

• Lady Une, German of origin, Treize's second in command. She is completely devoted to him. Initially in the series, Une suffers from multiple personality disorder, having one personality that is a complete pacifist and another that is a battle hardened soldier. Later in the series, Une somehow reconciles the two personalities into a single personality that is committed to bringing peace, but realistic in that she understands that force is needed to bring it about.

• Dorothy Catalonia, a teenage girl who greatly supports the war and believes that humans only truly know how to fight. Her beliefs put her at odds with the total pacifist ideals of Relena. She is granddaughter of the leader of Romefeller, Duke Dermail, and as such is a cousin of Treize Khushrenada.

Followed by: After War Gundam X

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