Happy 30th birthday, Gundam Wing! Waltzing onto Japanese tv screens via TV Asahi for the first time on April 7th 1995. This would be the gateway series for a lot of fans, including myself. - ThreadSky

sharkabytes.bsky.social • 21 hours ago

Happy 30th birthday, Gundam Wing! Waltzing onto Japanese tv screens via TV Asahi for the first time on April 7th 1995.

This would be the gateway series for a lot of fans, including myself.

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dickardo.bsky.social•13 hours ago

i remember talking about this show in 3rd grade when it was on toonami and getting suspended because my elderly teacher thought i said “condom wing”

s4pphy.bsky.social•19 hours ago

Gundam, tenchi muyo and DBZ were my first ever anime

fewrfreyut.bsky.social•18 hours ago

Imo the best gundam series.

johnatron.bsky.social•21 hours ago

I remember coming home from HighSchool, getting stoned before my parents got home, and watching Gundam Wing.

Good times.

calicanadiano7.bsky.social•18 hours ago

One of my top 10 favorites! Happy birthday to it!

jaydradawn.bsky.social•18 hours ago

I was obsessed with this show as a kid. Even in 2016 I named a character of my novel after one from Endless Waltz.

gamergirlslop.bsky.social•21 hours ago

Omg post Zechs wtf ♥️

cristallineclarity.bsky.social•21 hours ago

The original and the best!

azurekite09.bsky.social•7 hours ago

Such an amazing series. I can’t forget the toonami sizzle reels for this series.😍

hdgenes.bsky.social•18 hours ago

I recently did a rewatch of this and the story holds up so well. And the background music lives forever in my mind.

lylewrites.bsky.social•19 hours ago

Gundam Wing was ahead of its time when it came to the dangers and ethical implications of drone warfare.

tamarakama.bsky.social•21 hours ago

I used to watch this and Cowboy Bebop every night while hanging out in The Palace Chat in my own chat server with a group of friends who were also watching them on Cartoon Network Toonami back in the day! 😁💜👍🏻📺📡

sharkabytes.bsky.social•21 hours ago

Aww, sweet memories! I first saw Wing with my anime club. bunch of us gathered around the VHS player and TV that could handle NTSC stuff as the first of the unsubbed tapes and a bunch of scribbled translation notes in somewhat awkward English from our contact in Japan reached us.

rhokitten.bsky.social•14 hours ago

It was my first Gundam series, too. Tallgeese is still one of my top two favorite mobile suits from the greater whole of the franchise ( the other being Hyaku Shiki from Gundam Zeta ). I'll always love-wait it's 30 years old now?!
... when did I get so OLD?

oderigrulez.bsky.social•14 hours ago

Since you mentioned the coolest mobile suit, figured I should post this in case you hadn't seen it: https://youtu.be/imbPV6CJFhk?si=OjOi9Cg5GWvZsI0Z

rhokitten.bsky.social•13 hours ago

I have seen it before, and I absolutely love it 🤣

liuyang61.bsky.social•8 hours ago

Lot's of memory 😇

asbrooks.com•21 hours ago

While the show wasn't my particular cup of tea, it also brought Two-Mix into the pop-culture zeitgeist and for that I will be eternally thankful!

(Rhythm Emotion and of course White Reflection are faves to this day)

sharkabytes.bsky.social•21 hours ago

Yeah, same here! Wing music was some of the first music I downloaded from the net. First midi renditions and then MP3s.

katarjin.bsky.social•21 hours ago

Wing indeed get me into Gundam...not watched it in a looong time.

sharkabytes.bsky.social•21 hours ago

A snap of the sweetly humble web fandom (and likely thirst)

gamergirlslop.bsky.social•21 hours ago

Oh yes, this was the life. Ran a Sailor Moon "image gallery" with my best friend circa 1996 that was just pages of this (that took foreeeeever to load on dial up) 😹

sharkabytes.bsky.social•21 hours ago

Aww, aha, yeah, they really did! You'd sometimes have to chase pop-ups or banners to try and close in time or right click to tell to stop loading.

knuckleduster921.bsky.social•9 hours ago

I had SO many printer pics of the G-Wing boys up in my room as a teen 🤣💖

stellarencore.bsky.social•21 hours ago

Wing having a million promo shots of The Lads doing out of character stuff without even showing the mecha gave my little fanfic heart a LOT to work on back in the day.

sharkabytes.bsky.social•21 hours ago

Aha, same here with mine.

dogunderwater.bsky.social•14 hours ago

holy shit lmao

dogunderwater.bsky.social•14 hours ago

probably have all of these jpegs from this exact site saved on an old hard drive.

kamira.bsky.social•20 hours ago

Looks so much like my geocities website where me and a few friends used to write fan-fics.. And the hidden link at the bottom of a random page to take you to the smut stories :D

gimmecat666.bsky.social•18 hours ago

I still have a binder full of stuff I printed from these fan sites. We didn’t have a computer at home so my aunt let us use hers. I probably owe her a fortune on ink

vorde89.bsky.social•21 hours ago

Oh man that OP is so good ♡

criticalspark.bsky.social•20 hours ago

Such a great series, it’s what got me into gundam in the first place

thebatman9000.bsky.social•18 hours ago

I want to trade my car in to an initial payment for one of these!

jackpumpkinhead.bsky.social•21 hours ago

The boy band of Gundam. Still one of my favorite series

lewddragon.bsky.social•18 hours ago

Repeating what everyone said the series that got me into Gundam and also Gunpla! It felt like discovering a hidden treasure if you found a kit in Toys R Us. My first gunpla was 1/144th scale of Wing Zero.

marcmck.bsky.social•13 hours ago

Even though I started off as a UC fan, I still have a lot of respect and praise for GUNDAM WING, because it was the first to hit US television and created a whole new generation of fans.

(Plus I had a friend who would cosplay as Duo--and she was perfect!)

heyheyitssteve.bsky.social•12 hours ago

Ahh, my gateway to Gundam too!

And 24 years later, I’ve never looked back.

Happy 30th, Wing!

kazuma.bsky.social•21 hours ago

zechs and treize, an all time fave

gimmecat666.bsky.social•18 hours ago

Zechs was so badass. Like the cooler Chars

everthealtruist.bsky.social•20 hours ago

Treize is such a good character. Any writer would dream of writing a character so charismatic, intriguing, and honestly, surprising. He's built up to be such an evil person, but shows incredible amounts of compassion and insight.

stevebuzinkai.bsky.social•20 hours ago

This the first one I ever watched, and it is still one of my faves.

jonraptorthrust.bsky.social•20 hours ago

Me too! Took me a while to get into it, but when I realized it was more than just giant robots fighting and introducing deeper concepts, I was hooked.

imaginosdesdinova.bsky.social•21 hours ago

I was heavily into Gundam Wing fanfic back in the day and a 1x2 shipper. I was even writing wedding stories about the pairing long before gay marriage was a thing.

doc-herber.bsky.social•12 hours ago

3x4 all the way for me ;) aaaaand ditto.

imaginosdesdinova.bsky.social•11 hours ago

I can get behind that, too. Especially with the scene where Quatre is waving to Trowa from the balcony

bengraven.bsky.social•17 hours ago

It was almost mine, but I could only afford one mech VHS. I was torn between this, Patlabor, and EVA.

sharkabytes.bsky.social•17 hours ago

Oof, that is quite the choice! Which did you go for?

bengraven.bsky.social•17 hours ago

This is actually a true story. Suncoast also had three or four volumes of DBZ and Appleseed but I ended up buying a couple VHS of Tenchi Muyo Universe. About a year later I grabbed the first three VHS of EVA. I didn't get into Gundam until Witch years later, but now I build them.

bengraven.bsky.social•17 hours ago

Tenchi Muyo.

vashbandy.bsky.social•20 hours ago

I adored Gundam Wing! I started watching it in college on the Cartoon Network. I had a work study job in the TV room, and I told people there was a set schedule at midnight and the channel couldn’t be changed from the Cartoon Network until after Gundam Wing & Outlaw Star, lol!

willen88.bsky.social•20 hours ago

While OG Pokemon/Digimon were likely my first known animes, Wing was the first I thoroughly enjoyed.

talknerdy2mepod.bsky.social•6 hours ago

Still my favourite anime and Gundam series!

duskofshieldwall.bsky.social•18 hours ago

"I'll kill you." followed by the hardest OST ever, and all in the first episode. Hiro is one of the goats.

gimmecat666.bsky.social•18 hours ago

I cringe so hard on how much I tried to be like Heero. I absolutely love this series.

maxx-crowley.bsky.social•19 hours ago

Came on right after Dragon ball z.

Good times.

everthealtruist.bsky.social•20 hours ago

Now that show knew how to prepare kids for a world of constant military and political coup de tat's.

marcmck.bsky.social•13 hours ago

That it did!🤣

paradiseregaind.bsky.social•21 hours ago

This was my introduction to Gundam back in the day via Toonami after school. Dragon Ball Z, Robin Warriors, Gundam Wing, and Sailor Moon—good times!

paradiseregaind.bsky.social•20 hours ago

Damn autocorrect. Ronin* Warriors.

gimmecat666.bsky.social•18 hours ago

I could picture a bunch of Robin Williams in armor 😂

oderigrulez.bsky.social•14 hours ago

An important video for many true fans: https://youtu.be/imbPV6CJFhk?si=OjOi9Cg5GWvZsI0Z

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