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@ikuzeminna
As requested by @ikuzeminna, Dorothy being her (charming) self while being grabbed!
I learned a new word with this one. The little bursting stars are called "nittles". I remembered them from the old Beetle Bailey comics and found them appropriate.
It's perfect, thank you!
You’d think “Endless Waltz is a Christmas movie” is one of those mildly facetious community jokes like “Die Hard is a Christmas movie”, like the underlying understanding is that it’s not actually a Christmas movie, but people mostly jokingly say it counts by technicality because of testosterone or whatever.
But then on rewatching it there are multiple establishing shots of Christmas trees and decorations and multiple characters comment on the fact that the events of the movie are happening close to/during Christmas multiple times and Mariemaia’s coup just happens to start ON Christmas Day. At some point the movie really is about the Gundam Boys coming together one last time to save Christmas from fascism.
And I think that’s beautiful.
Mariemaia even says she's going to deliver the presents her father left her, then proceeds to drop swaths of Mobile Suits on Brussels lol
I wonder what that makes Relena though if Mariemaia is the fascist Santa stand-in.
...Wait.
WAIT.
The star of Bethlehem.
One of the three gifts of the Magi was gold.
Angels we have heard on high,
deftly nuking your bunker.
And the Preventers are the shepherds and the masses the sheep.
Why does this fit so well?
Is this movie really a Christmas allegory??
FOOLS!!!
LMAO
Heero bullies.
I love how Trowa goes for murder.
Gundam Wing Endless Waltz thank you illustrations by Asagi Sakura.
Scanned by unknown greedy resellers. Edited to the best of my abilities with the existing materials. No AI, just Photoshop. I might try with AI and see how it goes...
It is utterly infuriating that people received these free giveaways and now sell them for +100 USD a piece.
Not one fan had the decency to offer the fandom high-quality scans. I did what I could with the images I could find. I'm sorry, it still looks scanned. 😥🙏
I'm not sure how to feel about the language choices... Next to Wufei, Quatre is a clearly ethnic character. But instead of Arabic, he is given French?
And Trowa Italian? The closest he got to Italy was plunging a motorbike into Sicily's waters. But fine, his origins are unknown, so whatever.
I'm also not sure how to feel about Relena getting German. I'm pretty sure that should be Danish if it's a reference to Cinq. But I guess Japanese would recognize German more easily than Danish.
On a far more important note, I'd like to know why Relena is wearing Heero's clothes.
A Scythe in My Right Hand and You in My Left.
A Gundam Wing novel by Yuka Minakawa.
Released 2005.01.15
A note from the translator: "Definitely not your typical Gundam Wing story, so suit up for a bit of the darker, seedier side of the verse!"
Chapter 01-09, as translated by Zeonic Scanlations:
Download Here
I will share more once it's published.
@lifeaftermeteor @ikuzeminna @thisweekingundamwing
Gundam Wing 30th anniversary Book
To me these are the highlights:
Concise summary of each volume differentiating AC & MC
+ Preventer 7 (AC 197)
The WORLD GUIDANCE
(Finally reconfirming in a simple way that the animated series is NOT in the continuity of EW, GoL & FT)
The parallel Worldview is:
Frozen Teadrop (before AC 195) → GWEW Glory of the Losers (AC 195 from Op Meteor to Eve Wars) → GW Endless Waltz movie (AC 196) → Frozen Teadrop (beyond AC 197 and MC)
After Colony Timeline 001-197 & Mars Century Timeline 0012-0022
Family Trees (Khushrenada & Peacecraft)
Updated Characters Relationships
AC 145-146 Earth Sphere
AC 186-188 Earth Sphere
MC 0022 Mars
When even Sunrise goes "It's an AU!"
have u actually stumbled upon "New Mobile Report Gundam Wing Side Story: A Scythe In My Right Hand, You In My Left Hand" at all? i'm pretty curious about it honestly, given that i only saw some illustrations or artwork within that novel and never actually read it for some reason, hehe...
I'm sorry. I asked around, but no one in my circle of friends could find it.
The only novel I have is the Endless Waltz novelization, in Japanese. As in, a physical copy of it.
The series novelizations that I had read years ago were completely made up stuff you'd nowadays think AI churned out, like Quatre's dad having multiple wives to explain why he had so many daughters. Those were obviously released way before Episode Zero.
As for the side story, sorry. I never bothered looking for it because a Duo and Hilde adventure never piqued my interest. ^^;
Maybe someone else in the fandom knows? I'd try asking @lifeaftermeteor
It rings a bell, and you're right that it was prior to Endless Waltz OVA (the "Scythe" side story came out March 1996 compared to January 1997), but I don't have information beyond what's available in the wiki and About Gundam Wing via WayBack. I also wasn't able to find the scans with quick Googling but did manage to find this (Japanese) video on YouTube.
I will say that there were a slew of manga that came out in between the series release (April 1995) and the OVA that explored various options of side stories, "what comes after," or even more directly what prompts the pilots to destroy the gundams in Endless Waltz: Episode Zero, Blind Target, Battlefield of Pacifists, and Ground Zero being key among them.
Anyone in the fandom able to point our Anon in the right direction (maybe with a more robust summary and scans)?
I have the novel, translated in English. I'd be happy to share.
Also the EW novels in English.
^^ Ladies and gentlemen, the hero of this fandom. ^^
"Close Call! The Dance of Death... On Ice!" Ranma ½: Season 2, Episode 8 (1989)
Watching the old Ranma series is so amusing for a Gundam WIng fan.
Guess which Gundam Wing character Azusa's VA voiced. Guess.
You'll never get it, but your best chance is at her first lines where she says the words in a slightly lower register.
have u actually stumbled upon "New Mobile Report Gundam Wing Side Story: A Scythe In My Right Hand, You In My Left Hand" at all? i'm pretty curious about it honestly, given that i only saw some illustrations or artwork within that novel and never actually read it for some reason, hehe...
I'm sorry. I asked around, but no one in my circle of friends could find it.
The only novel I have is the Endless Waltz novelization, in Japanese. As in, a physical copy of it.
The series novelizations that I had read years ago were completely made up stuff you'd nowadays think AI churned out, like Quatre's dad having multiple wives to explain why he had so many daughters. Those were obviously released way before Episode Zero.
As for the side story, sorry. I never bothered looking for it because a Duo and Hilde adventure never piqued my interest. ^^;
Maybe someone else in the fandom knows? I'd try asking @lifeaftermeteor
I recently returned to the fandom as an adult, and found your blog a few days ago. I find it incredible; I've already read it up to the initial post, and I'm really excited that, as adults, there's still so much to read.
I'm also surprised by how regularly the fanfics continue to appear, although I do agree with many of the things you've mentioned, especially regarding the characters' personalities.
Now, all of this was a prelude to telling you something I've been seeing in fanfics recently (I don't know if they're from the same writing circle or something) that resonated with your post about how GW isn't realistic, although it is plausible (it is science fiction, after all). Well, what's constantly repeated is that some of the pilots are the way they are (super strong, super agile, ultra-durable) due to enhancements implemented by scientists. Or even through mutations acquired due to the malfunctioning of their colonies, as in Duo's case (although that seems more like an excuse for his violet eyes in the fanon, it's still striking how often it's repeated).
What do you think about this? Do you think it would be plausible for them to be physically or genetically modified? (although there isn't necessarily evidence in canon).
Thank you for enjoying my blog. :) Catching up to the present is pretty easy considering my stellar posting schedule of once in a blue moon, haha.
As for your query, I recently waded through Frozen Teardrop to find out what the deal was with the Meilan chapters I had previously ignored, and Sumizawa actually wrote that Wufei is, genetically, the only person Master O found who could pilot a Tallgeese type suit because his body is extra durable and stuff.
Which contradicts canon in 40 different ways with Zechs mastering the suit eventually, but Sumizawa has established well how little he cares about canon ever since joining the fic writers.
Why do I even mention this? Because FT has everyone with nanomachines up their noses, which would easily lend itself to sci-fi genetic modification shenanigans that could have explained super soldier Heero. In fact, I did not read the chapter with Heero and his clone, so who knows, maybe Sumizawa did include it. Though he also included Wufei basically randomly being a tough, little cookie. So not much of a case for consistency to be made here...
But I can see why proper fic writers would go that route. After all, Heero fell off a cliff and despite everyone, from Duo to Sally to Relena, thinking he'd be dead, he got up having suffered just a broken bone.
So yeah, there is definitely something up with him, at least.
As for the other pilots, it's implied by Zechs I think it was that the Gundam pilots' training is what gives them their endurance and skill. If you really look at their skill sets, I don't think they need enhancements or genetic modification for what they can do. Quatre can go entire battles while bleeding, sure, but he ends up hospitalized afterwards. Duo has insane spatial awareness, which might as well be a natural trait. His combat skills, for instance, suck. Wufei hails from a colony where everyone was Bruce Lee, of course he knows how to control his body perfectly. And Trowa being an acrobat lends itself to greater strength, balance and agility. These are acquired traits. As for his incredible skill in a Leo, that's a very clever nod to his experience in the mercenary unit, so very much in line with the writing.
Do I personally think J meddled with Heero's body? Hmm I guess...? I'm not opposed to the idea. The thing that I dislike is that the more artificial Heero's abilities become, the cheaper they are compared to the other pilots' skills to me. Heero isn't impressive if his keen hearing, for example, is because he was given drugs or genetically modified or whatever. Duo pulls off perfect marksmanship without that kind of aid. Wufei evidently worked for his prowess. So I'm okay with Heero being stupidly strong and able to tank falling off a cliff due to artificial enhancements. But everything beyond that would make him cheap to me.
He'd be like Kira from Seed. A boring Mary Sue who only got that status because of someone else's skill, not his own.
i revisit your post “why i love gw and hate ft” every time i get stressed about ft’s existence (which i have been, extremely, ever since the 30th anniversary promo dropped lol). i just wanted to say thank you for writing that analysis. it brings me a lot of peace personally, knowing i can see it as an AU and not canon to the animated show continuity. it just stresses me out so bad .. 😭 so yeah, i’m gonna keep coping that it’s an AU and not their canon in-show endings until i die or they animate it (in which case i will also die LOL), and you know what, even then i’ll keep looking for loopholes. because i love gw, and i want better for the characters i love 🥺 anyway, thank you for writing that post. i think about it all the time 💗
That's very kind of you, anon. Thank you. You flatter me and I don't deserve it.
I do want to rewrite that post though because I basically copy-pasted it from the AnimeSuki forum, where I originally wrote it and out of context it sounds a bit off to me.
Good thing I finally have some time off, so I'll be going through my posts and tweaking the ones that need it.
As for Frozen Teardrop, even after the anniversary video I maintain that it's a separate universe. The very fact that Odin Lowe got his looks changed to fit with Sumizawa's manic connect-the dots frenzy is proof enough. Quatre, in series canon, has 29 sisters, not 30 because one was forgotten in the back of the fridge. Trowa gets over his emo phase by EW's ending. Meilan didn't have a random, pointless twin Duo hung out with for over a year before she died and he buried her on the moon, with Wufei being none the wiser. And there were not two Heeros running around in the series.
Bro.
Sumizawa penned Glory of Losers to retcon the series. Fine. Let him have his bizarro universe, where half the cast is a clone of some sort and logic does not exist. (Seriously, Une in FT says that there are many clones in the Earth Sphere in the epilogue. Sumizawa, WHERE??? Who is cloning them?? And why??)
The series was created by a whole team of writers, directors, consultants and the like. Sumizawa is but one person. Yes, he is the head writer, and he wrote Episode Zero which I do consider canon (except Relena's chapter, which is just dumb and I'll never not point that out), but the difference is that Episode Zero was approved by the other creators, too. And it shows.
Frozen Teardrop is a trainwreck.
Am I bothered that Sunrise animated a couple of minutes of it?
No.
Even if they turn out to drop a whole OVA, I'm not gonna be bothered. I'll just make fun of it. Gundam Seed got a movie 20 years after Destiny finished airing and it was a steaming pile of horse dung, which became a hit in the box office. A major financial success, that left me with my brain dripping out of my nose with how dumb it was.
Maybe Sunrise is gunning for the same thing here. Gundam Wing has had zero new material (since the series wrapped itself up twice, duh), so Sumizawa's fanfic is the only new thing they could use to draw old fans back in who're willing to give Sunrise and Bandai their money for nostalgia reasons. Obviously, they aren't going to ever animate Episode Zero because corporations want "new" and "fresh" ideas, as old stuff won't sell in their opinion. Otherwise, we would have already gotten it.
"New" and "fresh":
What a joke.
