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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).
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Two years after the release of forty-nine episodes, Gundam Wing was a venture to attract a new generation of cartoon-watchers. The show\'s initial airing in the United States is accredited to Cartoon Network\'s Toonami schedule block.
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All 49 episodes of Gundam Wing aired on Cartoon Network's popular action cartoon station, Toonami. Now the series are finished, leaving a chance for the movie Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz to air as a conclusion to the Gundam Wing series. Months later, the movie released on home video on DVD and VHS. The Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz DVD has both versions of the movie, the OAV version and the full movie version with never before seen footage (Watch the movie version ! It has the complete details !), complete with tons of extras, including the trailers to other anime series like Crest of the Stars, Cowboy Bebop, Outlaw Star, and Gundam 0083: Stardust Memory (the latest among the U.C. Gundam series) On the year After Colony 195, there was a war between the Earth and the Space Colonies.
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The story of Gundam Wing begins in the year After Colony 195, with the start of "Operation: Meteor", the scientists' plan for revenge against the OZ military organization. The operation involves five young boys who have each been chosen and trained by one of the five rogue scientists, then sent to Earth independently in extremely advanced Mobile Suits, one designed by each of the scientists, known as "Gundams". Their Mobile Suits are called Gundams because they are constructed from a rare and astonishingly durable material known as Gundanium alloy, which can only be created in outer space.
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Following the events of the series, four of the Gundams, including Wing Zero, are collected and sent towards the sun for disposal. When the Barton Foundation begins to perform the original Operation Meteor, Quatre sets out to retrieve the four Gundams, sending Wing Zero to rendezvous in space with Heero at the end of the second episode, following his efforts to prevent the de-orbiting of Colony L3 X18-999.
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[O]f note, though it's not really a feature, is the inclusion of the original opening and closing credits for Gundam Wing, which you don't see on the Cartoon Network. The opening is the Japanese pop group Two-Mix's very danceable "Just Communication" and the end credits feature the sappy, though in a cute and cuddle sort of way (though isn't all J-pop cute an cuddly?), "Just Love."
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