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Though I haven't read it recently, I enjoyed Episode Zero during the days when Gundam Wing was playing on Cartoon Network. It was a great prequel to the series, giving insight to character histories. Flag Like see review. Jul 25, 2011 Amy rated it really liked it review of another edition.

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Series Description: A new chapter in the Gundam Wing saga unfolds! Resourceful young pilots from the colonies--including a war orphan, a former child assassin, and the child of a traveling circus -- answer the call to fight back against the tyrannical United Earth Sphere Alliance! Before the outbreak of the colony war, forces were working to shape the future and prepare it..more
Published August 1st 2003 by Viz Media (first published January 1st 2002)
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I have no words for how great it feels to sink back into Gundam Wing, one of the first anime I ever watched. Now I'm 10 years older and the characters get better with every revisit. In this volume, we learn about the pilots before they were pilots, from Wufei's wife to Quatre's frustration over his birth. It's amazing to read this, then rewatch the series, understanding where they pilots are coming from. I definitely suggest this manga if you're a fan of the series. It fills in so many details t..more
Gundam Wing is probably the first anime series I ever watched that was completely serious and mostly mature. I've recently started re-watching in on DVD and, after reading Episode Zero, it's an even more epic story.
Episode Zero is aptly named because it is the prequel to the Gundam Wing series. It was also supposed to be an actual pair of episodes for the show, but instead they did two recap episodes of the previous events in the series before the whole Sinq Kingdom and White Fang story-arcs beg
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Jun 15, 2011Airiz C rated it really liked it
I think I have a penchant for prequels, because I tend to like 'origins' stories too much. This is perhaps why I love Episode Zero the most among the Gundam Wing mangas.
The pilots as shown in the TV series are pretty much cloaked with mystery, and this well-written and well-drawn volume sheds light on some of those enigma. We learned who Heero is before he decides to pilot the Wing; we discovered how Duo Maxwell got his name and why he always wears priest's clothes; we found out a little about
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In this manga it is taking place in our world. The unadequate thing is that in this manga there are robots. This robots are the size of skyscrappers. This robots are also very advanced. They are so advanced that they have the same mobility as the human body. The bad thing is that it requieres a pilot. This pilot is located in the head of the robot. The name that they give to this robots are gundams. The pilots of the gundams are bad and evil. Most of the gundam pilots are very greedy. So they fi..more
May 19, 2013Adriana rated it really liked it
I’m a sucker for character’s backstories and tie-in expansions for worlds I’m already a fan of, and this book falls smack dab in the middle of both.
You get to see the pivotal moments that make the Gundam pilots who they are and how eerily connected everything is in the Eve Wars.
The reader gets to see how Heero got his name, how Duo got his braid, Quatre’s silly goggles are explained, Trowas mercenary background, and why Wufei refers to his Gundam as Nataku. Everything is capped off with a quick
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May 22, 2016Juushika rated it it was ok
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A manga miniseries that explores the early lives of the five Gundam pilots, as well as the events that directly precede Operation Meteor. Written by Katsuyuki Sumisawa, the writer of the series, this is the most 'official' of the Gundam Wing manga; it's still not great. Some of the backstories work, but they as often undermine or merely reiterate aspects of the show. Condensing angsty backstories into 30 pages makes them both rushed and heavyhanded. But the Operation Meteor chapter is fantastic,..more
It was nice to see the back-stories of the boys (and Relena). So much more about the show makes sense now. Just little things here and there, but this really helps everything have a deeper meaning. I really enjoyed reading it.
Jun 05, 2011Vicky rated it it was amazing · review of another edition
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Though I haven't read it recently, I enjoyed Episode Zero during the days when Gundam Wing was playing on Cartoon Network. It was a great prequel to the series, giving insight to character histories.
Jul 25, 2011Amy rated it really liked it · review of another edition
Cute and fun, if you're a GW fan. I bought the book just so I could have Wu's story ;)
Aug 07, 2010Zedax rated it really liked it · review of another edition
it was awesome and now I'm into the whole gundam world
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I'm very partial to Gundam Wing in general, but Episode Zero was so spectacular with its backstories. Most impressive, by far, was Wufei's tragic past as it explains future character development.
Jun 04, 2008Nikki rated it liked it
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I love the background we get from this book. Little Trowa is so cute.
THIS MECHA FIGHTING WAR IS AWSOME..this story will keep you reading I won't spoil the fun so get inside that gundam protect the earthfederation from the princubility of zeon
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New Mobile Report Gundam W: Episode Zero
新機動戦記ガンダムW EPISODE ZERO
(Shin Kidō Senki Gundam Wing Episode Zero)
GenreMilitary science fiction
Manga
Written byKatsuyuki Sumisawa
Illustrated byAkira Kanbe
Published byGakken
English publisher
DemographicShōnen
MagazineAnime V
Published1997
Volumes1

New Mobile Report Gundam Wing: Episode Zero (新機動戦記ガンダムW EPISODE ZEROShin Kidō Senki Gundam W Episode Zero), released in the United States as Mobile Suit Gundam Wing: Episode Zero, is a manga miniseries based on the anime series Mobile Suit Gundam Wing, featuring stories set mostly before the events of that tale. Unlike other Gundam Wing manga, which are not necessarily considered as being in continuity, Episode Zero has the distinction of being written by Katsuyuki Sumizawa, who was also the writer of the anime series, and thus carries a higher level of credibility. Akira Kanbe handled the art duties for this project.

Episode Zero can technically be considered canon, since it was originally going to be included in the Gundam Wingtelevision series. Director Masashi Ikeda specifically asked Sumizawa to pen the main characters' backstories, and they were to be included in the series following episode 27 ('The Locus Of Victory And Defeat'). However, due to production scheduling being the 'worst ever' (in Sumizawa's own words) and his withdrawing as a scenery director, Episode Zero's tale kept being delayed and pushed back. Though it was later intended to play some role in episode 31 ('The Glass Kingdom'), the problems persisted, and the Episode Zero story ended up being left out of the anime series entirely.[1]

Background information[edit]

Episode Zero reveals a generous amount of information regarding what led the five protagonists of the series to become Gundam pilots, and what occurrences shaped some of the traits they are best known for. It also features notable information on certain other key characters and events that composed the Gundam Wing story.

One of the most prominent tales is told within Issues 2 and 3, in which it's discovered that a younger Heero once fought alongside Odin Lowe—the man who, years earlier, was responsible for the assassination of the colonial leader Heero Yuy.

A battlefield assault by Heero later on in the tale puts Treize in the hospital, where he would be tended to by Leia Barton—the future mother of his child (who would become the main antagonist of the Endless Waltz story that takes place years later).

Pournami poovaiya thevathaya tamil karaoke songs. The stories involving Trowa and Wufei are, unexpectedly enough, romantic tragedies, as each meet young women who will have significant impacts on their lives. Trowa's story also implies that Catherine Bloom, the circus performer he meets during the series, is in fact his long-lost older sister, who he was separated from as an infant during an attack by the Alliance which presumably killed their parents, and that Trowa's real name is actually Triton Bloom.

The focus is more on origin in the cases of Duo and Quatre. 'Duo Maxwell' is revealed to not be Duo's given name; instead, 'Duo' was taken by the young orphan in memory of a childhood friend named Solo, who died from a severe illness, and 'Maxwell' was taken afterwards from a kind priest named Father Maxwell, who, along with a nun named Sister Helen, ran an orphanage out of the Maxwell Church. Sister Helen and Father Maxwell played a large role in the childhood of Duo, acting in parental roles until they (and the entire orphanage) were made casualties of an Alliance attack on rebels within the church (which was later known as the Maxwell Church Massacre), despite young Duo's best efforts to keep his new family alive.

Quatre, in contrast, has possibly the least tragic past out of all the pilots. Contrary to what he believes, he is not, in fact, the product of test-tube reproduction (his 29 elder sisters, however, are). His mother, Katherine, died in childbirth due to complications from living in space affecting the body's ability to give birth safely. As he refers to himself as a test-tube child in the series, it can be assumed his father and sisters never told him about his mother.

The histories of the two surviving Peacecraft family members, Relena and Zechs Merquise, are unveiled as well. As the Sanq Kingdom fell, only two members of the royal family survived: the children, Zechs and Relena. Relena was adopted by the Darlian family and raised as their own. The story implies that Relena and Zechs met prior to the series, which is how Zechs knew that his little sister was still alive (although she did not know him, having not been told about her true identity until the series). Also appearing in the story is a young boy who briefly attends Relena's school (apparently on an undercover mission) and greatly resembles Heero.

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The manga also features undetailed cameos from notable characters in the series, such as Lucrezia Noin (in Heero's story) and Sally Po (in Wufei's story).

Toward the end, the five heroes gather for a brief new mission that is set after Endless Waltz, an event which ends in a cliffhanger but with a promising connotation. The work concludes with an affectionate parting message from writer Sumizawa himself to the fans of Gundam Wing.

Wing Gundam Zero

References[edit]

  1. ^Op-Ed http://op.kiriska.com/reviews/manga/gundam-wing-episode-zero/
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