Gundam Wing is one of the first anime programs broadcast on American television that hasn't suffered from too many edits or sound/music changes. It ... is directed at an older audience than most of the current anime offerings on TV (Although kids will no doubt get a hoot out of the giant robot battles). Gundam Wing is the 6th television series. The Gundam series is sort of the Japanese equivalent to Star Trek or Star Wars, and features some parrarels(Most notably the light-saber like 'beam sabers')However, unlike it's brothers on the other side of the Pacific, it doesn't have aliens or faster-than-light travel. It does, however, have a staple of anime-massive mecha(Giant robot). The original Gundam set the stage for later mecha classics such as Macross(AKA Robotech generation one) and Evangelion with it's gritty combat and character focus, as opposed to old mecha shows of the 70s in which a mecha would be controlled by multiple pilots in goofy uniforms and always end it's battle with a ridiculously overpowered weapon(Like in Voltron, for example).