A very Merry Christmas and happy Holidays to everyone on the anime blogging sphere! To celebrate, the tune of the week is the movie theme for the film Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz: Last Impression by Two-Mix!
Tag: Gundam Wing
Mobile Suit Gundam Wing: The Glory of the Losers: Slimmed down Expansion
As a child of the 4kids-Toonami era of western anime, there are a handful of shows that, despite the handicaps of the time, remain landmarks for that generation. Dragon Ball Z, Sailor Moon, Pokemon, all of them vastly important series that shaped an entire generation of anime fans. One of those of course is Mobile Suit Gundam Wing. It is the series that laid the groundwork for Gundam in the west, and too many of my time, is a fond memory even if far better shows have come and gone since then.
That is the anime though, so what about the manga adaptation? One that decides to add a few story beats and re-design the initial five gundams? How does that hold up? Is it better or is it worse? Well after the cut let’s dive into the manga series Mobile Suit Gundam Wing: The Glory of the Losers and find out!
Tune of the Week(ish): Gundam Wing’s Just Communication
Thanks to Irina for reminding me about this theme!
Mobile Suit Gundam Wing might not be the best gundam series, but it’s place among Western fans is marrow deep, having introduced the Gundam (and mecha anime) to this side of the world. I also like to think that it was also the anime that first showed western fans the “anime opening” to the world.
Either way, the music rocks, so the tune of the week is Just Communication by Two-Mix!
New Mobile Report Gundam Wing Endless Waltz: Christmas Caper
It’s almost Christmas, and what better way to celebrate the holidays than with an anime movie about girlish looking boys piloting giant mecha! What? You don’t do that?
Well anyway. This is one of my favorite movies of all time and it takes place during Christmas, so fuck it, it works. After the cut let’s take a dive into the anime film: New Mobile Report Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz.
New Mobile Report Gundam Wing: A Piece of History
The Golden Age of Anime in the West was a time in the late 90s and early 2000s where Anime was actually on television during good hours of the day. It was a landmark moment in the history of anime fandom in the west. Before Crunchyroll, before Funimation, before Fansubs, there was this time and it was one where many people who are part of the anime community today can point to their origins, and there are several shows that came out of this time period that remains bedrocks in the history of many anime fans.
One such series is one of the few that remains untouched since it’s debut all those years ago. A series that introduced an entire genre and franchise of anime to the West, despite being already well developed back in Japan. After the cut let’s take a shallow dive into New Mobile Report Gundam Wing or simply, Gundam Wing.
Shallow Dives in Anime 