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.
Mobile Suit Victory Gundam
"Victory Gundam" is the fourth "Gundam" television series and the first of four "Gundam" television series that aired on TV Asahi and its sister ANN stations in Japan sequentially from 1993 through 1996. In order to attract the younger elementary school age demographic that "SD Gundam" was popular with at the time, the show featured the youngest protagonist in the "Gundam" franchise, the thirteen-year-old Uso Ewin, and established a setting within Universal Century that was largely independent of previous "Gundam" works. Unlike previous "Gundam" series that started off in space colonies, the show starts off in Eastern Europe before moving to space 15 episodes later. The intent of this was for Tomino to dispel the association between "Gundam" and space. Nonetheless, the mature themes of the show, as well as the high casualty rate of the main cast, meant that the show would instead attract an older crowd, the young adults who had seen "Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam" and "Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ" a decade earlier.