Today Gundam Wing was ready to change everything today 30 years ago

Today in Japan, Heero Yuy tore the birthday invitation of Relena PeaceCraft and famous thirty years ago threatened to kill her– And it was more than just the Meme story that was changed forever. It would only take shy of another five years to happen, but Gundam had laid the foundations for his first great success outside of Japan – and brought his big robots and even greater ideas to a whole new audience.

Published on April 7, 1995 in Japan – to celebrate them Gundam Franchise 16 -year anniversary on the same day –Gundam wing was the second slump in the franchise into the world From alternative schedules Beyond the legendary primary continuity of the series, The universal century. His predecessor, Mobile fighter G GundamUp to this point in time, where Gundam Had sued that broad astropolitical world construction for more shop and great robots acted. wing Then it would return to Jiving and create a precedent that has been pursued practically every alternative universe series since then: new characters, new surroundings, but topics and stories that with and and and be in conversationIdeas that are established for the first time in this Universal Century stories.

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Set in the year after the colony 195, wing Defines a familiar festival Gundam Scenario: Humanity has developed into the stars and in a number of space colonies within the solar system, but the contradiction between the latter, which would like to be independent rule from the former, triggered a time of violent tensions. In contrast to the universal century, the colonies here are the protagonists and heroic perspective. A group of scientists works together to build five gundams, powerful mobile suits and to send them together with young, specially trained pilots who were not originally aware of, but devoted themselves to their mission to clear the colonies of the militaryism of Earth’s Militarism from Earth’s Militarism.

If G Gundam the franchise then extrapolated one of its most increased potential wing was fascinated by the rooted more aspects of what had done Gundam First and foremost, a story about youth and war, about the policies of peace and maybe even rooted, they avoid largely fantastic ideas such as the Psionica of Newtypism, to present a grounded reality, but of course one in which huge robot shot apart the always loving hell. wing Instead Found Its Fantasy in the High Melodrama of Its Interpersonal Relationships, Giving the Five Members of the Gundam Team – Heero, Quatre, Trowa, Wu Fei, and Duo A Feisty, Fractored Relationships that Created Plenty of Drama (And, Inevitably In the Vein of Fujoshi Interest Before It with char and amuro, Plenty of Material for a Thriving fan Shippers – There’s a Reason Why Perhaps wing more than most Gundam Shows has Swaths of advertising works Representation of the line -up in scenarios or boy bands).

But in Japan, beyond this layer of interest on the five boys themselves, Gundam wings was just a marginal success. What made wing Important would not happen for another five years when it became the first Gundam Series on Air on Toonami– Disturbing the western audience not only to his own vision about what Gundam Was, but for many the franchise was overall. A wave of anime interest ride, which had exploded with articles as exploded Pokémon And Dragon ball Previously, Gundam wingsThe arrival in 2000 was another landmark to anchor the popularity of the medium in the West. Without adjustment, GundamThe place outside of Japan would be very different – to change a relationship that has developed in the past 25 years, where now Gundam Films met in the cinemas around the world and the latest shows in the franchise Air Day and Date.

It may then fit that, that wingThe 30th anniversary falls on the eve of a new era for Gundam. GquuuuuuxPresent The latest show In the franchise etwas, which litteres the line of the alternative beginning and direct connections to the Universal Century fascinating– will begin this week, a new generation that is experienced Gundam Fans all over the world. Access to the broader world of Gundam In the years since May, some have decreased from something wingnostalgic shine; It is a show that is always confused thematically over time, and his best ideas are examined elsewhere in the franchise in an interesting way. But even then it is still difficult to imagine a better series that the world presented Gundam At a perfect moment to score a generation of aspiring anime fans – a goal that showed them that huge robots were extremely cool, but that the ideas behind it could be even cooler.

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