The 30th anniversary video for the anime series "Mobile Suit Gundam Wing," which began airing on April 7, 1995, entitled "Mobile Suit Gundam Wing -Operation 30th-" has been released. The video, directed by Toru Iwasawa, features mobile suits and characters that did not appear in the anime, such as the new cloaked Wing Gundam Zero Cloaked Custom, Adin Low, the foster father who taught Heero Yuy how to survive, and Zhang Wufei's wife Mei Lan.
A new key visual based on the eye-catcher from when the anime was broadcast was also released. It was unveiled at the San Diego Comic-Con (SDCC) event being held in San Diego, USA. The video is also available on YouTube.
"Mobile Suit Gundam Wing" was broadcast from 1995 to 1996 as the second installment of the "Alternative Series." It depicts the battles of five young Gundam pilots. In the year AC195, the space colonies carry out a Gundam descent operation, "Operation Meteor," against the Earth Unified Alliance, which is trying to rule them by force. Relena Dorian witnesses one of the Gundam pilots , Heero Yuy, and is caught up in the whirlpool of fate... This is the story. It was also the first Gundam work to be broadcast in the United States.
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Planning and production: Sunrise▽Original work: Hajime Yatate, Yoshiyuki Tomino ▽Director, storyboard and direction: Toru Iwasawa▽Character design: Sakura Asagi▽Mechanical design: Hajime Katoki▽Cockpit design: Junya Ishigaki▽Original design: Shukou Murase, Kunio Okawara, Hajime Katoki, Junya Ishigaki▽Main animators: Juri Toida, Shinya Kujumegi, Kanta Suzuki▽Color design: Nagisa Abe▽Art director: Kenta Masuda▽Director of photography: Kentaro Waki▽Monitor design: Takashi Aoki▽Sound effects: Akihiko Matsuda, Tsuyoshi Ueno▽Editing: Kengo Shigemura▽Production: Bandai Namco Filmworks