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The story of Gundam Wing begins in the year After Colony 195, with the start of "Operation: Meteor", the scientists' plan for revenge against the OZ military organization. The operation involves five young boys who have each been chosen and trained by one of the five rogue scientists, then sent to Earth independently in extremely advanced Mobile Suits, one designed by each of the scientists, known as "Gundams". Their Mobile Suits are called Gundams because they are constructed from a rare and astonishingly durable material known as Gundanium alloy, which can only be created in outer space.

The five Gundam Pilots Heero Yuy (an alias, not to be confused with the assassinated leader), Duo Maxwell (also an alias), Trowa Barton (another alias, he was previously known as Nanashi), Quatre Raberba Winner, and Chang Wufei originally have no knowledge of each others' existence. On first meeting any of the other five, each pilot believes the others to be enemy pilots in new OZ mobile suit designs. Once the young pilots realize that they have the same objective of destroying OZ (and in some cases the same mission), they band together to help each other complete their goals.

Gundam Wing was very popular in Japan during its run. After the show ended, two OVAs, compiling various scenes from the series along with a few minutes of new footage, were released in 1996 as Gundam Wing: Operation Meteor I and II. A three-volume OVA series, Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz, was produced in 1997 as a sequel to the TV series; plot-wise, it brought the After-Colony saga to a close. In 1998 a movie version of the OVA series was made, with new footage and a different ending theme (Last Impression).

Gundam had a run on Cartoon Network's Toonami, premiering on Monday, March 6, 2000 at 5:30 PM EST. In the promos leading up to the broadcast, Peter Cullen narrated the back story, evoking memories of Voltron's opening credits. It was broadcast in two formats; an edited version shown in the daytime and an uncut version aired at night. Examples of the edits included the removal of blood, obscene language, and the word kill being replaced by the word destroy, though the word "death" was mostly left intact. (This was extended to Duo's nickname, "The God of Death", with it being changed to "The Great Destroyer", forcing the alteration of two episode titles.) The uncut version, shown at midnight, was completely unedited - a first for Cartoon Network, which at the time had never shown an unedited anime. Reception for the uncut version was a factor in the eventual creation of Adult Swim, which joined the network on September 2, 2001.

Despite the editing, Gundam Wing was a huge success in North America, and along with Dragon Ball Z, led to a rise of popularity in anime throughout the early 2000s.[original research?] All Gundam Wing episodes have been released on VHS and DVD in the US. Differences between the two video systems is that the episodes on VHS contain the edited version shown on Cartoon Network while the episodes on DVD contain the unedited version and each volume is labeled "Operation 1-10." Endless Waltz was also dubbed and shown on Cartoon Network and was later released on a DVD that contains both the OVA and movie versions.

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