Mobile Suit Gundam Wing
The series aired in Japan on the terrestrial TV Asahi network. It ran for 49 episodes; beginning on April 7, 1995 and ending on March 29, 1996. It received multiple manga adaptations, as well as video games. Four original video animation (OVA) episodes were produced including a retelling of the series, "Operation Meteor", and a direct sequel, "". In 2010, Sumizawa started writing the novel "", another sequel to the series. While the series fared modestly well in Japan, it found greater success in the United States and popularized the "Gundam" franchise in the West.
Yoshiyuki Tomino
In 1996, Tomino wrote and directed "Garzey's Wing", and in 1998 wrote and directed "Brain Powerd". In 1999, he returned to Gundam with "Turn A Gundam" and in 2002, directed two compilations movies for it entitled "Turn A Gundam I: Earth Light" and "Turn A Gundam II: Moonlight Butterfly". Also in 2002, he directed "Overman King Gainer", and in 2005, Tomino directed 3 compilation movies summarizing the events of 1985's "Zeta Gundam". His last major original work in the 2000s was the 6-episode OVA "The Wings of Rean", which first premiered on the Internet across Bandai Channel, the broadcast beginning from December 12, 2005 with the final episode starting on August 18, 2006. Also in 2006, Tomino made a special cameo appearance in Shinji Higuchi's tokusatsu film "Japan Sinks".