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Crunchyroll Adds Mobile Suit Gundam Wing To Digital Lineup


Wing Zero will enter the fray, this time bearing a familiar orange banner.

Earlier today, Crunchyroll announced that they added Mobile Suit Gundam Wing to their digital lineup. The entire series is available to Crunchyroll members outside of Asian and Italian speaking countries.

Mobile Suit Gundam Wing is an original series from Sunrise, which aired in the Spring 1995 broadcast season. Masashi Ikeda (Doomed Megalopolis, Inuyasha) and Shinji Takamatsu (Daily Lives of High School Boys, Gintama) directed the series, which features character designs by Shukou Murase (Argento Soma, Street Fighter II: The Animated Movie). Katsuyuki Sumisawa (Inuyasha, Yakitate!! Japan) was in charge of series composition.

Crunchyroll describes the show as:

The Revolution Has Begun!

Mankind has moved into space. Thousands of people live on giant orbiting space colonies called “Sides.” However, the Earth Government, which rules the colonies, is unjust and cruel. A group of revolutionaires builds five robotic weapons called Gundams and plans to send them to Earth to begin their fight for independence.

Piloted by five young men, these of freedom of the colonists with them as they descend to Earth to begin Operation Meteor!

Bandai Entertainment originally released Gundam Wing in North America on VHS and DVD. The series received a run on Cartoon Network’s Toonami block in 2001.

Source: Crunchyroll

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