Mobile Suit Gundam Wing (Season 1)

Mobile Suit Gundam Wing (1995) is a Sunrise mecha anime saga you can watch online on iFILM. The year is After Colony 195: humanity now lives on giant orbiting colonies, and a cruel Earth government holds them under its boot. In answer, a band of rebels builds five towering robot weapons — the Gundams — and drops them onto the planet.

Each machine is flown by one young pilot, and every pilot fights his own private war. There's the quiet, lethal Heero Yuy, the masked aristocrat Zechs Merquise, the cocky Duo Maxwell — their paths cross, ally and then open fire on one another. Operation Meteor begins, but by the halfway point everything flips, and telling liberators from invaders becomes nearly impossible. Politics, betrayals and huge robots are welded into one dense plot where the labels good and evil refuse to stick.

This is one of the most beloved Gundam entries in the West: Wing is the show that introduced a whole generation to the franchise after landing in afternoon TV blocks. Forty-nine episodes, that signature mobile-suit design and a moody, grown-up tone for anyone who still thinks robots are just for kids. Stream Mobile Suit Gundam Wing (1995) online on iFILM.