‘Gundam Wing’ Celebrates Its 30th Anniversary Today

Gundam Wing' is now thirty years old.
A fan favorite outside of Japan, Gundam Wing celebrates its 30th anniversary today.
Released on April 7, 1995, in Japan, Gundam Wing was another alternate-timeline Gundam show, specifically that of the After Colony timeline.
It dealt with a team of Gundams piloted by teenage boys sent to Earth to free the colonies in orbit from Earth’s tyrannical dominance.
It was also one of the first times Gundam came Westward in a big way, as Gundam Wing was released on Cartoon Network’s Toonami on March 6, 2000.
While the anime itself was very popular, due to the limited availability of the tie-in model kits, the series wasn’t able to build momentum.
This aspect of the media mix is something that has been rectified in the decades since, and why multiple modern Gundam anime series tend to do far better in the longterm outside of Japan.