[Iceman]

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Originally Posted by Shin Densetsu

Probably got more screentime since Trowa was the only seemingly normal pilot out of the main 5. Heero was an emotionless trained assassin, Duo was a happy go lucky deathbringer, Quattre was a pus and Wu Fei wanted war.

Suffice to say once I got into UC Gundam more afterwards, I realized that UC was a lot better. Some AC series are cool and Wing is overrated. I respect it for nostalgia and I was more into back in the day than now. IIRC one of the Ronin Warriors guys wrote the series so having 5 guys as main characters that also ended up appealing to female audiences was not surprising.

I agree with everything you just said except maybe the Trowa part. He had some issues from losing his memory and his hair was weird as hell. Duo was the closest to having it together but maybe I think that because I would react more or less same way he did to things.

I will always love Gundam Wing because it introduced me to Gundam and really kicked off my interest in anime (DBZ too), but I think Gundam is best when it is about large warring factions and the Mobile suits are mostly glorified tanks. 8th MS team is still one of my favorites because of how practical it made things seem. I enjoyed Gundam Seed even tough some characters were annoying and G-Gundam is hilarious but the UC stuff is the best.

if I remember correctly Wing didn't do that great in Japan initially. Hasn't it always been more popular here because of the Toonami factor?