Anime Flashback – Gundam Wing

Gundam Wing – from the Gundum series of anime, a storey of 5 boys from  the outer colonies of space..Hero Yuy, Duo Maxwell, Trowa Barton, Quatra Raberba Winner, Change Wufei.  I imagined myself every one of these boys at a time, and boy do I wish I could relive the feeling this cartoon gave me!

These were my cartoon hero’s for a few years in high school when cartoon networks then budding anime section, toonami, aired this series in 2000 and changed my life forever! Talk about a well developed universe, storey, characters, fight scenes, love scenes, everything!  I literally went bonkers for this cartoon, living out the scenes internally as I watched them on the screen. Religiously I watched every episode after school when it came on around 5pm central time. I would fight with my parents if they attempted to feed me or distract me from my watching experience.

I don’t know what it was that drove me so fanatical about this cartoon but I was obsessive. Perhaps the fantasy, perhaps the action…perhaps it was the combination of every element woven so well in this cartoon that made me lose myself for a half hour each day in a world where I could pilot a huge, realistic mobile robotic, “Gundam Suit” and destroy everything in sight!

This cartoon did everything right. It showed you camaraderie, it taught you about the politics of war, albeit in a fictional land and dealing with the complexity of earth and space colonies, it had romance, violence and destruction of unimaginable proportion, espionage, philosophy of peace, the newest technologies all heavily based on real science…

Ah the good days…

Did I ever mention I’m a huge fan of anime? Well If I didn’t, now you know. Another noteworthy anime cartoon, Dragon Ball Z, also deserves my mention.

Sim Dex…showing my nerdy cartoon loving fun side

Cheers!