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Mobile Suit Gundam Wing

Japanese mecha anime series

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 24, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
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Mobile Suit Gundam Wing , is a 1995 Japanese mecha anime series directed by Masashi Ikeda and written by Katsuyuki Sumizawa. It is the sixth installment in the Gundam franchise, taking place in the "After Colony" timeline. As with the original series, the plot of Gundam Wing centers on a war in the future between Earth and its orbital colonies in the Earth-Moon system. It follows five teenage pilots of a powerful line of mobile suits who are sent to Earth to wage a guerrilla war against the oppressive United Earth Sphere Alliance. In doing so, they come into conflict with OZ, a secrative branch of the Alliance Military that serve sinister benefactors.

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“Mobile Suit Gundam Wing” enters the record as japanese mecha anime series. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Mobile, Suit and Gundam can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from “Mobile Suit Gundam Wing” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.