Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz
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Endless Waltz DVD cover, featuring the redesigned Wing Gundam Zero
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新機動戦記ガンダムW: ENDLESS WALTZ (New Mobile Report Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz) |
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| Genre | Military science fiction |
| Original video animation | |
| Directed by | Yasunao Aoki |
| Produced by | Atsushi Yukawa Hideyuki Tomioka |
| Written by | Katsuyuki Sumisawa |
| Music by | Kow Otani |
| Studio | Sunrise |
| Licensed by | |
| Released | January 25, 1997 – July 25, 1997 |
| Runtime | 25 minutes (each) |
| Episodes | 3 |
| Anime film | |
| Endless Waltz -Special Edition- | |
| Directed by | Yasunao Aoki |
| Studio | Sunrise |
| Licensed by | |
| Released | August 1, 1998 |
| Runtime | 90 minutes |
| Manga | |
| Written by | Kōichi Tokita |
| Published by | Kodansha |
| English publisher | |
| Demographic | Shōnen |
| Magazine | Comic Bom Bom |
| Original run | March 1998 – July 1998 |
| Volumes | 1 |
| Manga | |
| Mobile Suit Gundam Wing: Ground Zero | |
| Written by | Reku Fuyunagi |
| Published by | Kadokawa Shoten |
| English publisher | |
| Demographic | Shōnen |
| Magazine | Monthly Fantasy Deluxe |
| Original run | August 1998 – September 1998 |
| Volumes | 1 |
| Manga | |
| Mobile Suit Gundam Wing: Blind Target | |
| Written by | Sakura Asagi |
| Published by | Gakushukenkyusha |
| English publisher | |
| Demographic | Shōnen |
| Magazine | Anime V, Looker |
| Original run | July 1998 – January 1999 |
| Volumes | 1 |
Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz, known in Japan as New Mobile Report Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz (Japanese: 新機動戦記ガンダムW: ENDLESS WALTZ Hepburn: Shin Kidō Senki Gandamu Uingu: Endoresu Warutsu?), is the sequel to Mobile Suit Gundam Wing, both of which are set in the "After Colony" timeline, an alternate universe to that of the original Mobile Suit Gundam series. Aside from being a continuation to the Gundam Wing TV series, it also reveals details regarding the pasts of the five Gundam pilots and the true objective behind "Operation Meteor."
Endless Waltz originally premiered in Japan as a three-part OVA in 1997, and it was later released as a theatrical compilation movie in 1998, including additional scenes and an altered musical score.
It is the year After Colony 196, and the battles between Earth and the space colonies have ended. Treize Khushrenada is dead and OZ has come to an end. This gives birth to the Earth Sphere Unified Nation (ESUN) and the Preventers. Seeing they won't be needed anymore, the Gundam pilots (except Wufei) send their suits into the sun. However, this peace would not last, for a rebellion occurs on the newly completed colony, L3 X-18999. Led by seven-year-old Mariemaia Khushrenada, Treize's illegitimate daughter, the rebellion kidnaps Relena Darlian, now the Vice Foreign Minister of the ESUN, during a diplomatic mission to X-18999. As the Gundam pilots investigate further, they discover that Mariemaia is merely a puppet controlled by her grandfather Dekim Barton, a former advisor to martyred colony leader Heero Yuy, who is using X-18999 to go through with the original Operation Meteor, as a contingency plan in case the ESUN doesn't comply. The Gundam pilots must prevent Dekim from seizing power over the ESUN. The Gundams are retrieved from their course to sun to Earth's orbit thanks to Quatre and the Maganacs. The pilots use their Gundams one last time to fight against Dekim's forces, not killing anyone. In the end, Dekim is killed by one of his own soldiers, Earth and its colonies are at peace once again and all mobile suits (including the Gundams) are forever destroyed.
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