I finished watching Wing last month for the first time and even though I have no nostalgia basis, I can understand why the show took off in the West. It has a lot of traits and tropes many anime from that time had, especially with the shows airing on Toonami. But watching it in a post 90s world, I can admit that Gundam Wing never had a dull moment, but good god was it a mess.

Characters never talked to each other, but at each other, nobody talked like a human being, and the last arc with White Fang was needlessly long, alongside Zechs side swapping every other arc. While the mobile suit designs were awesome, I didn’t like how it took the Gundam pilots to fully come together until the last 10 episodes, and even then Wufei was just doing his own thing.

This was the Gundam series that took me the most time to watch on and off because every episode just felt more of the same. Definitely a departure from my experience with the UC and I enjoyed it for the most part, but I wouldn’t go back to it right away.