30 years ago today Gundam Wing was ready to change anything

Thirty years ago in Japan today heero yu scandalously torn the Relena Peacecraft birthday invitation and threatened to kill her“And that was more than the story of the Memeto, which was changed forever. Will only take shy five more years to happen but Gundam had laid the foundations for his first big hit outside Japan – and brought his big robots and even more big ideas to All -new audienceS

Issued in Japan on April 7, 1995 – to celebrate Gundam 16th anniversary of franchise on the same day –Gundam Wing was the second immersion of franchise in the world alternative Beyond the emblematic primary continuity of the series, Universal centuryS His predecessor, Mobile fighter g gundamhad come out where, by this time, Gundam He was Jide, trading with a widely astropolitical worldwide construction for more influences on Shonen and Super Robot. Wing He will then return to Jiving, establishing a precedent that virtually every alternative Universe series follows by: new characters, new setting, but topics and stories that would resonate, and get in withIdeas created for the first time in these stories of Universal Century.

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Set during the year after the colony 195, Wing establishes a familiar Gundam Scenario: Humanity has advanced in the stars and in a series of space colonies within the solar system, but the disagreement between the last desire for a reasonable rule away from the first caused a period of violent tension. Unlike the universal century, the colonies are the main characters and the heroic perspective here, as a group of scientists working together to build five gundams, powerful mobile costumes and send them to the ground with young, specially trained pilots, they are not initially aware of each other, but are dedicated to their mission at all.

If G Gundam had extrapolated the franchise to one of its most affected potentials then Wing was intrigued by the closer aspects of what was done Gundam First of all, a story of youth and war, of the policy of peace-and perhaps even further rooted by this one, to a large extent avoids fantastic ideas such as the track of Newtipism, to depict a more grounded reality, but of course giant robots filmed the ever-loving hell. Wing Instead, he found his fantasy in the high melodrama of his interpersonal relationships, giving the five members of the Gundam team – Heero, Kuatar, Trowa, Wu Fai and Duo Fairi, destroyed relationships that created a lot Amuro, and of Fujoshi’s vein, before being interested in charm and amuro. Wing more than most Gundam There are broadcasts Vapor to promotional works of art The depiction of the cast in Slice of Life Scenaries or in boy groups).

But in Japan, beyond this layer that is interested in the five boys themselves, Gundam Wing It was just a limit. What did you do Wing Important will not happen more for five years when it became the first Gundam series tonnam– Include a Western audience not only for his own vision for what Gundam It was, but for many what the franchise was completely. Riding a wave of anime interest that exploded with the likes of Pokemon and Dragon before that, Gundam WingArrival in 2000 was another landmark in strengthening the popularity of the media in the West. Without its adaptation, GundamThe place outside of Japan would be very different – a phantamentally changing relationship that has evolved over the past 25 years to the site Gundam Movies hit the theaters around the world and the latest shows on the franchise broadcast day and date.

Then it may be appropriate that this Wing30th anniversary falls on the eve of a new era for GundamS Gquuuuux., The last show In the franchise-only by itself, transferring the line of storytelling to alternative universes and direct links to the universal century in compelling ways– Supposed this week, a new generation that will be tested by Gundam Fans around the world. Access to the brighter world of Gundam in the years as it can take off some of the Wing“Nostalgic shine; this is a show that becomes more and more muted as it continues, and its best ideas are explored in more interesting ways elsewhere in franchise. But even then it is still difficult to imagine a better series to introduce the world with Gundam Overall, at a time, at the perfect time, to get a generation of nascent anime fans – a gateway that showed you that giant robots are extremely cool, but that the ideas behind them can be even more housing.

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