How Gundam Finally Conquered America: The Story of Gundam Wing 

That Gundam Wing Toonami promo is still god-tier more than 20 years later. The series was definitely a network-building hit.

It's SO interesting that Wing was originally written and created to appeal to the female demographic, similar to G being marketed for kids the year before. The five young pilots were even designed to emulate a boy band. But both in Japan AND America, ALL demographics ended up digging it beyond expectations

Gundam was my first introduction to the mobile suit franchise. But Gundam Wing was the one I loved and made me want to watch more.

Kid-friendly version: Hiro: I'll destroy you. Original version: Hiro: I'll kill you. From the first episode.

I remember being absolutely blown away by the animation, the tone and the story of Gundam Wing. It truly was so, so different than anything else we had on TV at that time.

When Gundam figures were easily available in almost every US department store, it was heaven for me. There weren't many Gundam figures I didn't grab.

I still remember the music from the Wing’s transformation, as well as that iconic line… “ITS A GUNDAM!”

It blew my teenage mind, an uncut anime available on cable rather then expensive DVDs or expensive tape trading websites.

Gundam Wing was a big deal to me and my friends from high school. It was something we could be openly fans of without being pegged as nerds. The theme of war and hard action compared to American cartoons gave it an air of “grown up” material despite the fact that its core appeal is really no different than something like Transformers or Power Rangers. We were just watching to see the colorful robots punch each other and used the actual mature themes as a deflection.

Everyday of middle school I’d rush home to see this show. Deathscythe and the soundtrack sealed the deal for me. Epic show, I’ve been a gundam fan ever since. Awesome video!

It's really understated how much of an event Endless Waltz was when it came out on Toonami, and to this day Tallgeese 3 is my favorite mobile suit.

I remember seeing the promos for this on CN and being so curious about it. They had character promos, and I thought as a fairly savvy 10 year old "The main character can't be named Heero can he? That's ridiculous!" Safe to say after the first episode I was hooked. This is still my favorite Gundam series. Duo was and still is my boy.

I remember setting up the VCR to record the uncut episodes. That is how old this show is to me. We had to use VCRs to record programs off of cable. No DVR, just magnetic tape using cassettes. But the show was and still is worth it.

I can still remember finding the whole set of 1/144 Gundams hidden in a closet at my house (they were my Christmas presents that I wasn't supposed to know about.) Every weekend, while Mom and Dad were gone to the grocery store, I'd sneak in there and just stare at those boxes. The wait until the holiday seemed like forever. I'm 36 now, still a Gundam fan, albeit more into Universal Century than the alternate timelines. However, once my baby girls grow up a little and I've got some more time on my hands, I've got a couple Master Grade Gunpla to build. Epyon and, my favorite, the Tallgeese. Winglove runs deep.

I’ve said it before and I’ll keep saying it. This is the best Gundam channel on all of Gundam RU-vid.

Watched every day and every night after school, shenlong, Wing zero and tallgeese were my first builds...soundtrack still slaps....man oh man....what a time to be alive. Thanks toy galaxy!

Gundam Wing definitely was brought over at the right time. You had both giant robot fights, but also moody boys who perfectly fit into the boy band model that was dominant at thr time

Hearing Peter Cullen narrated the trailer to Gundam makes me wish we had a Transformers/Gundam crossover.

This is what got me into anime. I remember spending most of the day downloading a 50 mb episode on a 28k modem. I loved this show.

Tallgesse I is my favorite mobile suit of all time. Love the Roman centurion aesthetic.

The words, "after colony 195" are cemented in my head.

Gundam Wing will always be my favorite Gundam series. Despite its flaws, no one can deny the impact in opening 90s audience in the mecha anime genre in the Philippines. No, sadly we don't have Toonami, but they did release Gundam Wing in a local channel. DBZ, Sailor Moon, Yu Yu Hakusho, Rurounin Kenshin, Gundam Wing, I'm so glad I grew up watching these anime! Also, thank you very much for covering everything that happened when Gundam Wing was released in the Western audience. This really shines a new light on Gundam Wing and hopefully new generation of gundam fans would take a look once more on this classic.

Gundam Wing... My fav Gundam series... In a phrase... "Moral ambiguity"... All sides had some valid points.... No bad guys doing evil bcuz they enjoy evil......

"We need gunDAM pilots" 🤣🤣

Gundam Wing was my absolute jam when it hit the US. 15-year old me was absolutely blown away by everything about it. It got me hooked on the other Gundam series as well, and I still build Gunpla to this day. One thing not mentioned in this video that also blew my mind was the opening and closing theme songs by Two-Mix. I absolutely loved those songs, even downloading them from online sources (RIP Napster, the only way I could find such music in rural New York at the time), burning them onto CDs and listening to them on the way to school, field trips, etc. Those songs instilled a lifelong love of J-Pop in me that I still indulge in to this day. Thanks for the heady nostalgia trip!

I loved Gundam wing back on Toonami and cartoon network

Back when I was in college, when Gundam Wing originally aired, my roommate and I and a couple of friends would head downstairs like clockwork every night to the rec room to watch the uncensored Midnight Run version. I have the series and Endless Waltz on DVD.

Wing was my start with Gundam, Universal Century is what kept me. I started building gunpla in 2000 and now I'm still building gunpla. Wing was the rallying point for a lot of us in the US with Gundam but 0079, 08th MS Team, 0080, 0083, G and SEED on Toonami and Adult Swim only furthered our love of Gundam here in the West.

Gundam, the pinnacle of childhood and my introduction to model kits! I have not stopped since.

Yep I remember toonami Peter Cullen and his Narrating made it awesome, I saw one episode and knew why kids enjoyed it

That opening with Just Communication is absolute perfection.

Turn A Gundam is so good. Hope it gets shown here soon.

If you are piloting a Mobile Suit Gundam in space, SHEATH is the best underwear to protect your little WING ZERO.

I remember watching Gundam Wing back in the 2000s ... it was no Voltron, but in a good way. Also, that US toy commercial has about the gun-damned funniest pronunciation of "Gundam" anyone has ever heard.

The soundtrack...The animation...Awesome show. Will stay burned into my memory for a long time.

Wing may have brought Gundam to the U.S, but Mobile Fighter G Gundam really cemented it being here.

I'm 38 and Im still a fan my favorite Gundam Series. We need a live action movie that's not G-Savior

My first Gundam series was Gundam 0083 Stardust Memory. However, Gundam Wing helped cement my passion for Gundam. Favorite Mobile Suit from the series was the Heavy Arms. Love that Gattling Gun arm!

Gundam Wing was the 1st gundam show I saw as a kid. It sparked an immediate love for the franchise and mech anime in general. Something that I only keep enjoying more and more with age.

Being born in 88, Power Rangers hit the right buttons at the exact right time, and looking back, it seems that Gundam Wing was almost a natural evolution for a kid who wanted to seem more "grown up." Instead of 5 superpowered teens with their respective giant robots saving the world from aliens, we now had 5 emotionally-compromised teens with their respective giant robots fighting a space war with no aliens whatsoever. it was quite the leap.

Gundam Wing was my introduction to Gundam, I would watch Toonami every weekday after high school and Gundam Wing grabbed my attention straight away. I still have my Tallgeese 1 kit I bought all those many years ago, and with it being my all-time favorite mobile suit, I've collected quite a few other examples of it in both action figure and model form. Those trailers Toonami made for all of their shows did incredible jobs of promoting each and really building up the hype for them all, I still go back and watch them every now and then because they're just so well done. Looking back on it, it's staggering to me how thoroughly anime has taken hold in commercial culture here in America, because I still remember a time when I'd have to get up at 6am just to see a single episode of Dic's Sailor Moon dub back in the early 90s, and I couldn't talk to my friends at school about anime because they'd have no idea what the hell I was talking about. You really have to credit Cartoon Network and Toonami for planting the seeds and encouraging the growth of anime in the US - I have no doubt anime would still be in the dark ages in the US without them.

When Gundam Wing was announced I was SO hyped. I had vaguely heard of Gundam through fanzines, but that was my first real exposure and I had never seen anything like it. And hell yeah I bought some kits! Or rather…I bought a big Wing Gundam Custom kit that turned out to be a bootleg with a red face and red wings 🤣

I saw Gundam Wing and I clicked harder and faster on a notification then I think I ever have

After growing up on Power Rangers and then getting into anime fighting robots thanks to Toonami's airings of Voltron and Robotech, Gundam Wing was an easy attention-grabber for 9-year-old me. It really was a nice contrast to DBZ too (plus Pokemon), being more complex yet still loaded with action. The English dub of GW was also much more accurate than DBZ too, besides being far less Americanized than Voltron and Robotech (not that it mattered to me back then, since I didn't know the difference between anime and American cartoons). I used to have that big toy version of the Wing Gundam from this video's ad at 9:07 too, but I eventually lost its wings (boo hoo).

Even after all these years, Wing still has the most realistic/militaristic looking mook suits. Take the Leo for instance, it just looks like it was designed by the military and not some kind of pseudo samurai.

I loved Gundam Wing so much when I was a kid and it's still one of my most favorite animes to this day. I also have most of the US merch that came out for it back in the early 00's, even the pinball machine (yes, that is a thing).

I'll never forget how Hot Gundam became in 2001. I myself was just happy Gundam 0080,0083 and the 1st 3 Gundam Movies were released in the states...dubbed! It all changed when GW hit the waves and it was insane! Modelkits and figures were sold out fast, many fans were diving into anime and whenever Scott McNeil came to a con, he was an instant Media Darling!

It aired on Friday nights on YTV in Canada. I remember loving the opening song...IN the original Japanese

Gundam Wing was my very first Gundam series and my gateway drug into the wider world of mecha anime. I'll never forget flipping through the channels one day and catching an episode on Toonami just as a legless, incomplete Vayeate suddenly activated its beam cannon and nearly succeeded in blowing away the five Gundam scientists, stopped by its brother unit Mercurius's remote-guided "planet defensors" just in the nick of time! Ninja Turtles and Power Rangers had been fun as a kid, but this Gundam stuff was on a whole 'nother level. I was instantly hooked and I've been a lifelong Gundam fan ever since. Wing isn't my favorite series in the franchise by a long shot these days, but it will always hold a special place in my heart.

This was some nice Guncannon. love me some Gundam and have been a life-long fan ever since Wing came out. Iron Blood Orphans was my most recent and I loved it.

I was in 8th grade when Gundam Wing came out. It had cool robots, a very political story and cool characters. It took me a bit of time to get into as a kid, but it's become one of my favorite series in the Gundam brand.

GUNDAM. IS. MY. S**T!!! I was THE target demographic when Toonami first started airing GW. I was a fan of DBZ before that, but after I saw Gundam DBZ seemed like it was for babies. I instantly fell in love with Gundam, started getting the model kits and everything. GW was awesome because the characters actually CHANGED and evolved, people died and STAYED dead, there was nuance and political intrigue. Let’s be honest the most character development in DBZ was when a dude’s hair turned yellow and his eyes turned blue. Gundam always had more depth and complexity. And look, no shame on DBZ; it’s a totally different kinda show than Gundam, I only draw comparisons because Gundam came on right after DBZ. I have a theory that most of my friends secretly liked Gundam more than DBZ too, but we just never told each other because DBZ was super popular at the time and we didn’t wanna be outcasted from our already nerdy outcast friend group for not liking DBZ as much as GW. Though we all liked both anyway. Still there was a weird nerdy peer pressure to like one more than the other. Dumb kid thoughts. After GW Toonami aired the original series, in part. I don’t think they ran it in entirety though, it under performed. I think a large part of that may have been backlash to the dated animation. But honestly I absolutely loved it, and I still love the UC Gundam timeline to this day. It’s literally a sprawling epic masterpiece. At any rate Gundam is still under appreciated by Americans. It’s pretty popular but it should be HUGE and I don’t know why it never took off quite like Attack on Titan or DBZ or Naruto or One Piece. Whatever, those few of us in the know know what’s really real. Gundam is like Game of Thrones meets Battlestar Galactica, who wouldn’t love that? Cheers to those of us who KNOW!

I'd think that for everyone outside of Japan, Gundam Wing is their introduction to the Gundam franchise. I had the old Wing and Wing Zero model kits before, and when they released the Master Grade versions of both, I jumped on the opportunity to get into a preorder list to get both. I still have all of them, and my collection has slowly grown from not just Gundam Wing kits but to also have some that came from other series, and including the Universal Century series. Gundam Wing may not have the best Gundam story, but it has Gundam that really looks good (both TV version and Endless Waltz version, in my opinion).

I was able to collect all main Gundam Wing gunpla in No Grade 1:144 scale in my first few years working in 2003! It was my entry into the GunPla Collecting & Building hobby. 18 years later... still collecting and building GunPla!

Gundam Wing got me into Gunpla. I remember building those No-Grade 1/144 kits. They weren't very accurate appearance-wise but my 10-year-old self just imagined them looking like they did in the show. Those kits were also fragile. I kept breaking my Wing Zeros and Wing Gundams, haha.

I was about 15 when Toonami aired Gundam Wing, it gave me the ultimate chills, and when I got to see it a second time late night, it was simply mind blowing.

Duo and his Death Sythe Gundam is my favorite part of the show. He can crack one liners in one moment and go mad the next.

To OG Gundam series and now Gundam Wing(w/including little info of G Gundam)series is so beloved here🇵🇭especially in 90's kids like myself growing up in this show it's good know for the other generation to know whom start liking to watch all series or just collect all Gunpla kits😊 BTW My favorite are Gundam Wing MS are Epyon, Deathscythe, Tallgeese (1 to 3)and Wing Zero Proto/Custom and Thank you Toy Galaxy for this review and hopefully in 2022 MORE Gundam histories come to Merry Christmas 🎄☃️

Gundam Wing aired my senior year of highschool and I remember skipping a college tour specifically to watch the premier. Then stay up till midnight to tape the Uncut version. God I love this show!

Seen Gundam,,there was no question clicking🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

So many Gundam model kits over here, the vast majority from Gundam Wing. I remember convincing my coworkers to make a lunch trip to an import shop just so several of us could pick up Perfect Grade Wing Zero Custom kits from Endless Waltz - much fun was had!

I remember being in middle school and coming back home from outdoor Ed. ready to watch DBZ on toonami, turned the TV on to cartoon network and toonami came on and the Gundam wing ad came on and I got chills immediately, that cold music and animation, I was in complete shock, first time I saw Wing Gundam I fell in luv with it, to this day Wing Gundam is my favorite Gundam of all time. The seriousness of the series made me treat every episode as if it was a private meeting and I couldn't be bothered while the show was on. Heero Yuy was one of the main reasons I kept watching the show, he cared about nothing more but defeating his opponent and his elevation throughout the show was amazing and incredible, he started out being very careless but slowly became his own person and started to care about what he wanted to care about, starting his mission with 01 Wing Gundam and eventually ending his journey with the iconic 00 Wing Gundam zero custom. As a kid i wanted a Wing Gundam model kit so bad but toysRus was sold out, I remember being with my Dad one day jus driving around and he stopped at a shopping center to go to a auto shop, and I saw a store near by that had anime posters on the window, I told em I'll be in there and I ran. When I entered the store there were Gundam kits everywhere, and when I kept looking there it was, a 1/144 scale Wing Gundam kit, but I noticed it wasn't the same packaging as the one in toysRus, it seemed a bit older plus everything was in Japanese, eventually my dad got it for me and I was on cloud 9. Now as an adult I have tons and tons of kits to high grades to master grades to real grades you name it, before as a kid I didn't really take painting my kits or any of that stuff serious I just wanted to build them but now as an adult I have my own shit and now I have my own area where I build and paint my kits and now I'm serious about model kits today and it's so cool and fun

The Musketeers of Gundam. *STILL* waiting on their last chapter FROZEN TEARDROP to be adapted into an OVA

Portman-THEW! Love the nod to the Portmanteau Master, Thew Adams.

It had a very big impact on my younger years. It was pandora's box to every other Gundam and mech related show from Japan. Gundam Wing was such a big hit with my friends and strangers alike growing up in the USA. Rather odd now that here in Japan, they love Seed and OG but Wing is nothing but an after thought.

Gundam Wing was my intro to Gundam. I loved it! I have since watch plenty other Gundam titles and spend over 1000 hours thinking about Gundam in general!

even though its not my favorite gundam series, wing will always hold a special place in my heart. i remember liking anime way before wing came out, but it never really clicked what anime was in my young mind. when wing came out it all made sense. i rushed home from middle school to watch it and record the uncut version on vhs at night. i would bug my parents about setting up a paypal account so i could buy gundam wing cds on ebay, opening my eyes to different styles of japanese music. i bugged them to take me to toys r us just so i could buy any wing models they had on the shelves. fridays i would go to my friends house and we would play gundam battle assault on the ps1 or an emulated version of gundam endless duel on his pc and then go play D&D till sunrise. thanks in major part to gundam wing im a full blown otaku for life. if young me seen what ive become i would be shocked. thanks japan....

I loved Gundam Wing as a kid. I remember going over to my friends place every Friday to watch the latest episode on Toonami before our weekly D&D sessions.

I actually had seen Gundam prior via a friend from Japan. Granted they were raw VHS, and I had no idea about the story, but I still love the action. I actually got that 3 tape movie compilation of the original Gundam on VHS as well as 0080 and 0083 before Wing came out. I also remember the traveling semi truck from Bandai in 2000 that parked at Walmart featuring a mobile display of every product imaginable. Toys, Models, video games, VHS and DVD.

Smashed the like button and comment before the video even started because it's Gundam wing and you never do a bad video

Gundam Wing got me interested in the Gundam world. But Mobile fighter G Gundam got me hooked. "This hand of mine glows with an awesome power! Its burning grip tells me to defeat you! Here I go! Shining Finger! Gets me hyped every time.

It's funny thinking about it now, but I remember watching shows like RoboTech and Voltron from back in the day and never knew they were from Japan. MS Gundam Wing is what got me into Japanese anime.

Any Gundam contents are always appreciated!

Gundam Wing was serious business. Getting in front of the tv at that evening time slot was my sole priority at 12 years old. Nothing since has come close to that in cartoons.

Ah yes. Thank you for bringing back good memories Dan. I remember being 8 and eagerly awaiting 7 o clock on a school night for Toonami to start. I'd eat some cookies and watch Dragon Ball Z,then laugh at Tuxedo Mask getting bailed out by Sailor moon,then finally end my night with Gundam Wing and tell all my friends at school about what I'd seen the next day. Nostalgia city, resident of one.

Bringing me right back to my Freshman year of High School with this episode. I had a friend who was telling me I was going to love Gundam Wing when it aired. After episode 1, I was hooked. Great video guys!

Gundam Wing is the series that made me go Dub over subs. Lt. Noin's voice in the Japanese grated on me everytime she spoke.

Not from the US, but Gundam Wing was my entry point into the Gundam franchise as well. Loved it a lot. Captured my imagination with its realism compared to previous Gundam shows IMO.

And right now a Japanese company made a life size Gundam robot. It's really huge and really cool.

Still remember when it aired. Remember them advertising Gunpla during Smackdown. It’s mid in comparison the other shows (I would argue everything Wing did 00 did better), but you have to remember it wasn’t competing with other Gundam shows and other anime. It was competing with Scooby Doo reruns.

Gundam Wing was definitely how I found out about Gundam. My brother and I, along with our entire D&D circle, started watching Gundam Wing and DBZ (and, once I got everyone else to give it a try, Tenchi Muyo!) and got a bit obsessive about them. (And we weren't exactly kids; we ranged from 20 to 28.) My brother started buying up the DVDs and lots of snap-together Gunpla kits, so every weekend during our D&D games we would be circled by tiny versions of Heavyarms, Sandrock, Deathscythe Hell, and Wing Zero. And I'd have my insanely cool McFarlane Toys Ryoko and Tenchi action figure besides me. (I'm still a bit obsessive about Ryoko... 😍) PS - Who else thinks the G Gundam creators had seen Robot Jox?

I want to take some time to say a big thank you Dan Larson! Your videos have been so great this year, and you are still a huge favorite of mine! You have been a huge help, to me with all the wacky stuff going in the real world, Toy Galaxy always makes a fantastic fantasy escape when I need it! So glad you covered Gundam Wing, and I'm glad you included some Power Rangers clips too, since I'm a huge PR fan! Keep on making great videos, and I'll keep on watching them for sure!

Thank you so much for this. So many memories…

I remember being hyped for the Toonami block Cartoon network when I heard Gundam Wing was going to be on, was wanting Gundam to finally come to the USA. On a side note, I heard part of the success of Gundam Wing in Japan was that the characters were attractive to the female audience, which was what the creators wanted to add more viewership.

Wow, I had just watched the Mobile Suit Gundam video this morning, and this pops up in my notifications right before quitting time! Like I mentioned there, making Gundam Wing the first series in the franchise the entry point from the view of Bandai Entertainment USA, and getting it to air on Toonami, was a winning strategy. It better fit with DBZ and Sailor Moon, but I did overlook the significance of the uncut version being aired during the Toonami Midnight Run block. I forget which early episode it was, but I remember watching the scene where Heero was locked down to a examination table and could hear something dripping in the room, yet there was nothing to be seen. Had to wait up a few hours to see that episode re-air to see... yep, that was Heero bleeding while laying unconscious. It was crazy to me. In any case, I was able to buy a VHS with the first 3 episodes on it, some of the action figures (sadly not the Tallgeese III 😔), and some packs of the trading card game; I still have them. Since then, I dove deeper into the franchise and have it as one of my top favorites. Gundam Wing is now more likely to be my 5th or 6th favorite Gundam series, but I may never have had any interest if not for it airing when it did.

Ahh my childhood.. gundam wing was so cool with the individual mech types and the pilots also stand out. As a young boy during the late 90s early 20s, my fondest memory was watching it on toonami and my mom taking me to the Japanese imports shop to buy a kit. I discovered G Gundam late but also loved it.

Time Warner was killing it during this time period with anime. On Saturday mornings, you had KidsWB! with Pokémon, Yugioh, Cardcaptors, and Megaman NT Warrior. And then during the week, you had Toonami playing DBZ, Sailor Moon, Gundam Wing, Tenchi Muyo, Outlaw Star, and so many other shows.

I kind of missed Gundam Wing when it first aired and only say the Endless Waltz. However, I jumped on G Gundam when it started and loved it, and is still one of my favorite shows from my childhood. The irony is I tried to watch Gundam Wing when I was in college and I couldn't get into it, all of the characters just felt too whiny to me. Also considering how many shows were changed so much to Americanize them I will always give Digimon credit for never trying to rework the show to make it set in America or hiding the fact that it was a Japanese show. Just a thought I had watching this video.

Hey Dan, thanks for another super well researched episode. This series was a big gateway drug for me growing-up. Endless Duel on Super Famicom was HYPE!

Wing Gundam is the only gunpla I actively collect... It aired here in the Philippines earlier than the US and it was my first Gundam series. Speaking of ainme and plastic kits that were popular around that time, there was this anime that became popular here called Let's & Go. It started the 4WD Tamiya model kit racing craze that still is quite popular here until the pandemic hit. Did that craze ever hit the US?

Mobile Suit Gundam, Gundam G, and Gundam Wing are my Top 3 Gundam as a 90's Kid.

I had no idea Gundam Wing had this much of an cultural impact! Grounding the fantastic elements in war drama made it compelling. _Colonel Zecks was right!_ Arcane follows that trend by rooting the ridiculously fantastical League of Legends deep into crime drama. It works insanely well and I binged it twice! The second time with my folks this past Thanksgiving. What’s amazing about that is that we would watch the first 30 minutes of Akira immediately following all of Arcane (it was late and some of us would need to head home, but still). Akira was also something a much older relative (who loves his DC/Marvel) had _never_ seen before! Who knew all of this was thanks to a show on Toonami! Great Stuff, as always!

Please make a Darkwing Duck video. The 2nd wave of its toys was canceled but there are pictures of the prototypes in the internet.

I still remember the day I first saw the televised ad for Gundam Wing. I was a pretty dense kid and thought it was a movie trailer, so I begged my parents to go see it. Although it isn't quite the masterpiece I beheld as a kid, Gundam Wing shaped my childhood and introduced me to one of my favorite franchises of all time. Oh, but the soundtrack is definitely still a masterpiece.

I had heard of Gundam only in whispers before. So when Gundam Wing came to the states I was super excited.😁

i tried to get into gundam, but it's too complicated and messy with the various timelines i'll always have a soft spot for the one with Master Asia and when he turned out to be a villain - came back to the dorms exhausted after a bunch of midterms and happily watched whatever was on at the time - loved the dumb name "Master Asia" , made me laugh

I love Gundam Wing. It was one of my favorite shows on Toonami. I remember hearing many years later that a lot of people apparently found it boring because of the politics, and that I must have been a weird kid because I LOVED all the politics and interpersonal drama as much as the giant robot fights. I got the first 4 episodes on VHS from SunCoast and was surprised to see it had been edited for TV and Hero frequently gets bloody I currently have the entire series on box set and the movie. I also have most of the manga that was available in the US

It's also the series that introduced a generation of tween gals into boys love! I still remember the shipping naming conventions (1 x 2, 3 x 4, etc)

I love you for covering this. THIS WAS MY JAM! Toonami Midnight made me the insomniac I am today. Respect for G Gundam too.

Gundam Wing was my introduction to the franchise as well, and it was odd finding out that G Gundam came before it, because I have a hard time NOT thinking of some of the G Gundam suits as being ripped off of Gundam Wing designs.