Mobile Suit Gundam Wing

Mobile Suit Gundam Wing
Original Title	新機動戦記ガンダムW (Shin Kidō Senki Gandamu Uingu)
Original Language	Japanese
Dubbing Studio	Westwood Studios
Voice Director	Michelle Porter
Translation & Adaptation	Paul Baldwin Kathleen Westlake
ADR Production	Ocean Productions
Recorded	1999-2000
Dub Country	Canada
Original Country	Japan
Episodes	49
Year	1995-1996
Chronology
Successor	Mobile Suit Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz

Mobile Suit Gundam Wing, known in Japan as New Mobile Report Gundam Wing (新機動戦記ガンダムW Shin Kidō Senki Gandamu Uingu), is a mecha anime series produced by Sunrise. It was directed by Masashi Ikeda and written by Katsuyuki Sumizawa. The series is chronologically set in an alternate universe titled "After Colony", one of the multiple parallel continuities of the Gundam franchise. It originally aired in Japan from April 7, 1995 to March 29, 1996 on TV Asahi.

Synopsis The United Earth Sphere Alliance is a powerful military organization that has ruled over Earth and space colonies with an iron fist for several decades. When the colonies proclaimed their opposition to this, their leader was assassinated. Now, in the year After Colony 195, bitter colonial rebels have launched "Operation Meteor," sending five powerful mobile suits to Earth for vengeance. Built out of virtually indestructible material called Gundanium Alloy, these "Gundams" begin an assault against the Alliance and its sub organization OZ. One Gundam, whose pilot has taken the name of the slain colony leader Heero Yuy, is forced to make a crash landing into the ocean after an atmospheric battle against OZ's ace pilot Zechs Marquise. Upon coming ashore, he is found by Relena Peacecraft, daughter of a peace-seeking politician, who witnesses Heero's descent to Earth. Although neither of them realize it yet, this encounter will have a profound impact on both their lives, as well as those on Earth and in space colonies.

Dubbing History

Gundam Wing was the first series in the Gundam franchise to be aired on American television, premiering on Cartoon Network's Toonami block on March 6, 2000. It was dubbed by Ocean Productions, which would go on to dub the original Mobile Suit Gundam series and several other Gundam shows, movies/OVAs, and video games. Wing was broadcast in both an edited format for its weekday afternoon airings on Toonami (which included the removal of bloodshed and profanity, and replacing the word "kill" with "destroy") and an uncut format for Toonami's Midnight Run, which was a first for anime on Cartoon Network and is often credited with leading to the creation of Adult Swim.

Cast

Image	Character	Seiyū	Dub Actor
	Heero Yuy	Hikaru Midorikawa	Mark Hildreth
	Relena Darlian / Relena Peacecraft	Akiko Yajima	Lisa Ann Beley
	Duo Maxwell	Toshihiko Seki	Scott McNeil
	Trowa Barton	Shigeru Nakahara	Kirby Morrow
	Quatre Raberba Winner	Ai Orikasa	Brad Swaile
	Chang Wufei	Ryūzo Ishino	Ted Cole
	Treize Khushrenada	Ryōtarō Okiayu	David Kaye
	Zechs Merquise / Milliardo Peacecraft	Takehito Koyasu	Brian Drummond
	Lucrezia Noin	Chisa Yokoyama	Saffron Henderson
	Catherine Bloom	Saori Suzuki	Moneca Stori (eps. 2-13)
			Cathy Weseluck (eps. 35-43)
	Lady Une	Sayuri Yamauchi	Enuka Okuma
	Sally Po	Yumi Tōma	Moneca Stori (eps. 3-12)
			Samantha Ferris (eps. 20-49)
	Mareen Darlian		Lisa Ann Beley
	Vice Minister Darlian	Akio Ōtsuka	Michael Dobson
	Marquis Weridge	Kinryū Arimoto	Don Brown (ep. 11)
			Ward Perry
	Mike Howard	Hiroshi Ishida
	Dorothy Catalonia	Naoko Matsui	Cathy Weseluck
	Duke Dermail Catalonia	Osamu Katō	Michael Dobson
	Jay Null / Doctor J	Minoru Inaba	Don Brown (eps. 5-31)
			Ward Perry (eps. 47-49)
	Professor G	Yuzuru Fujimoto	Brian Drummond
	Doktor S	Shinya Ōtaki	David MacKay
	Instructor H	Takashi Taguchi
	Rashid Kurama	Kazuhiro Nakata	Paul Dobson
	Atta	Tomokazu Seki	Michael Dobson
	Ahmad	Isshin Chiba	Don Brown
	Abdul	Toshiyuki Morikawa	Ward Perry
	Lieutenant Nichol		Paul Dobson
	Pagan	Hiroshi Naka	Ward Perry
	Hilde Schbeiker	Kae Araki	Marcy Goldberg
	Sylvia Noventa	Kumiko Nishihara	Samantha Ferris
	Tubarov Bilmon	Yūji Mikimoto	Richard Newman
	Quinze Quarante	Osamu Ichikawa	David MacKay
	Sedici	Junichi Sugawara	Don Brown
			Scott McNeil (ep. 41)
	Narration	Akio Ōtsuka	Campbell Lane
	Preview Narration	Hikaru Midorikawa	Mark Hildreth

Episodic Characters

Image	Character	Seiyū	Dub Actor	Episode
	Marshall Noventa	Keiji Fujiwara	Paul Dobson	7
	Inspector Acht	Yū Shimaka		14-15
	Gwinter Septem	Keiichi Nanba	Don Brown	22
	Count Townsend	Kinryū Arimoto	Michael Dobson	29

Additional Voices

• Tony Alcantar
• Lisa Ann Beley
• Don Brown
• Ian James Corlett
• Michael Dobson
• Paul Dobson
• Saffron Henderson
• Mark Hildreth
• Leslie Hopps
• David Kaye
• David MacKay
• Scott McNeil
• Brent Miller
• Richard Newman
• Mark Oliver
• Ty Olsson
• Ward Perry
• Michael Sicoly
• Moneca Stori
• Brad Swaile
• Dave Ward

Notes

• Don Brown became unavailable for some reason after Episode 40, and most of his roles were recast. The lone exception is Ahmad in Episode 49, which was likely recorded prior to his unavailability.
• Bandai's VHS release of the series featured the edited version that aired on Toonami, while their DVD release featured the uncut version that aired on Toonami's Midnight Run.

Transmission

Date(s)	Channel	Country
2000-2001	Cartoon Network (Toonami)	United States
2000-2001	YTV	Canada
2001	Cartoon Network (Toonami)	United Kingdom
2001-2003		Australia

Video Releases

Distributor	Year	Format	Contents	Region	Country
Bandai Entertainment	1999-2000		The Complete Series	NTSC	United States
			16 Volumes
	1999-2001		The Complete Series	1 NTSC
			10 Volumes
	2006		The Complete Series
			2 Volumes
Nozomi Entertainment	2017		The Complete Series	A DVB-T
			2 Volumes

External Links

• Mobile Suit Gundam Wing at the Internet Movie Database
• Mobile Suit Gundam Wing (anime) at the Anime News Network's encyclopedia