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Mobile Suit Gundam Wing - Operation 1

Mobile Suit Gundam Wing - Operation 1

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Rating: 5 stars
Summary: GUNDAM WING IS AS GOOD AS DRAGON BALL Z
Review: AMAZING VISUALS, GREAT STORY LINE, THEY KEPT ALL THE JAPANESE COMERCIAL CUTS, THE VOICE OVER IS AMAZING, AND THEY EVEN KEPT THE JAPANESE MUSIC! GET GUNDAM WING ALL YOU OTAKU'S!

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: Seen the entire series
Review: Not the best of the Gundam series, that honor would go to Zeta Gundam or Stardust Memories. However it's a decent intro to the Gundam series if you like pretty looking teenage boys (I however do not...). This series easily could have lost 10 or so episodes and been a lot better. The mecha designs are decent the Tallgeese and the Wing Zero are two of the best designs of the series. You all should know this series runs about 49 episodes and really doesnt end with 49. There is another 3-part OVA called Endless waltz that finishes (somewhat anti-climactically) the series.

But the kids should love it...

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: WOW!
Review: This is an awesome Anime. It is my second favorite next to Sailor Moon. The episodes are soooo exciting. Only, at the end of each episode they leave you at cliffhangers! You should definately get this Tape!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Gundam Wing : Operation 1
Review: Gundam Wing: Operation 1 is a great start to an excellent anime series. If you are an anime fan, this is a MUST SEE. Humans from earth want to live peaceful lives, so they build colonies in outer space. The ruler, a kind man who works for peace, was assasinated by OZ, a group of people who think a ruler who works for peace is dangerous. The government soon takes over the colonies over one by one. Five young men and there Mobile Suits called Gundams are sent to earth desguised as shooting stars. Four make it to the earth safely, but the government cathes on, and delays one of them, the piolet Heero. The plot is smart, and the show is exciting and keeps you watching and that definitely deserves five stars!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: If you like sci-fi ANIME, you must own this video
Review: Not only is the animation beautiful, but the storyline is great too. I haven't actually seen the DVD version yet, but I have watched all episodes on Toonami on the Cartoon Network. Gundam Wing is a must for Sci-fi Anime fans!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: gundam wing
Review: Gundam wing; five piolets of mobile suits; mission; destroy government planes= great anime! this is one of the best anime's that I have ever seen. The plots may be hard to understand when the narrorator is explaining it at the beginning, but it basically explains itself as the show continues. The best epiosode I've seen so far is episode 3. The show contains violence yes, but not much in my opinion, but I don't suggest this to kids who are very young, around five (being I'm 14).

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Excellent!
Review: I think this one great! It is the very first one in the series. It tells why there are Gundam suits and so forth. You will love it if you love Gundam wing.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Gundam Wing Series Review!
Review: A series for all Gundam fans to own! One of the BEST Gundam Saga's ever made! I truly encourage everyone to watch it in Subtitled format, the dubb however is good, i give it a B-. Character's, art action? This series has it all!

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: Not bad, but...
Review: Ah, Gundam Wing. Like many other Americans, this was the series that got me "into" anime (unless you count the time I spent watching DBZ, but I'm trying to forget that particular bit of fandom). One of the spinoffs from the original UC (Universal Century) Gundam storyline, Gundam Wing takes place in the AC (After Colony) timeline, giving it no connection to its predecessors... or so Bandai would have you think. Although GW was my first anime series and will always hold a certain place in my heart (somewhere far, far above DBZ), after a few more years I decided it was time to look back on it with a more critical eye. My perceptions had changed with experience.

It's not that Gundam Wing is a BAD series... it's just not very good. I don't need to bore you with too many story details, since the plot is summarized perfectly well in the Amazon review above. It echoes the conflict of the UC timeline (spacenoids versus Earthlings, although neither term is present here.) The problem is entirely in the execution; Gundam Wing is very slow and repetitive.

Let's take it from the top. The series spans 49 episodes. Fifteen to twenty of these could be cut without impairing the story one bit. These extra episodes are generally interludes in which one of the Gundam pilots meets the people - usually townspeople or guerilla fighters in some wartorn part of the world. After a couple of these, however, you realize that they're all pretty much the same: a Gundam pilot lands, talks to some people, hears a little speech about how great Total Pacifism (tm) is, and then is forced to fight to save his new friends from a sudden onslaught of bad guys. Conversations between the rivals Heero and Zechs follow a similar pattern, with lots of harping about the nature of rivalry and conflict (I lost count of the times somebody said "Why are we fighting this meaningless battle?" during the series.) Ultimately these speeches are nothing but filler - they sound nice until you realize that there's very little substance to them; they're there solely to make the series sound more intellectual than it actually is.

The politics of the story are similarly repetitive; the Earth and colonies are seized by a series of evil organizations, with another always appearing to replace its destroyed predecessor. You learn nothing about any of these groups, and don't really care when a hated enemy suddenly becomes the Gundams' ally.

Fans of UC Gundam will notice many suspiciously familiar events and characters. Zechs and Relena, children of a murdered visionary who end up on opposite sides of the conflict, replace Char Aznable and Sayla Mass from Gundam 0079. Heero, Zechs' rival, is intended to echo Amuro Ray - although while Amuro was human (sometimes annoyingly so), Heero is a flat and lifeless character. The Zero System replaces the superhuman Newtypes. Colonel Bask's colony laser from Zeta Gundam appears in two different incarnations here. The original concept for Operation Meteor (described in Endless Waltz) is a blatant recycling of Operation Stardust and the Zeon colony drop, while the final battle on the Libra battle station is a ripoff of the finale to Char's Counterattack. Even Endless Waltz continues the tradition, with Treize's daughter Mariemeia and her captor Dekim Barton replacing Mineva Zabi and Hamarn Karn of Zeta Gundam and ZZ.

The series' "action" is very weak, consisting of invincible Gundams mowing down hordes of hapless enemies - combat seems entirely too easy, and there's very little sense of danger at any time. About halfway through there's a brief stretch where the Gundams inexplicably start losing, but it's only a couple of episodes before they're back on top again. To top it off, the animation is pretty choppy, and there are many scenes where the same clip of animation is pasted onto different backgrounds to represent different locales.

I could go on, but you're probably getting the picture. Although GW is still a decent show, it lacks the intensity and depth that makes other anime series (the UC Gundams among them) great. It's fun mindless entertainment, but once you move on to something smarter (Cowboy Bebop was my next series), you probably won't look back. Not bad as an introduction to anime, and a good serious show for younger viewers... but those who demand MORE will look elsewhere.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Gundam wing
Review: I have seen the hole gundam wing searys on cartoonnet work and ever cents i hav seen the first one this has become my fav anime. and then i got my best friend in to this anme. and know i am working on buying the hole colection and i only need 3 more and ill have it. but anyways. if you have never seen gundam wing. its about bunch of 15 yearold kids tryign to make a difrents bye fighting. and it has hummer, drama, love and action in it. and there has been many gundam shows mad but out off all the gundam shows made. i think Gundam wing is the altoment best out of the gundam shows. I highly recomend you buying this.


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