Gundam Wing Silver Anniversary: Manga, Other Media, & Etc.

[taichara]

Aside from the Gundam Wing anime, the story has been retold twice as manga. The story has continued on, as well, both with manga and with a multi-volume light novel series, Frozen Teardrop. Meanwhile, there's an entire different group over in G-Unit, which was localized as Last Outpost. (And that has a sequel being published right now in Japan!)

Did you have Episode Zero or Blind Target? Checked out The Glory of Losers?

How about any of the multitude of video games any number of Gundam Wing characters have appeared in? Dynasty Warriors: Gundam? Super Robot Wars? Or maybe just the Battle Assault series...

How does the cast fare when left in your hands?

Comments

[gramarye1971]

Yep, I own a fair amount of GW manga! Let me check my inventory list:

- The 1995-96 Kodansha GW manga (3 vol)
- GW: Battlefield of Pacifist (1997)
- The 1998 one-shot Kadokawa Shoten GW manga (1 vol)
- GW: Endless Waltz manga (1998)
- GW: Endless Waltz Newtype film book (1998)
- GW: Blind Target (1999)
- GW Endless Waltz: Glory of Losers (14 vol, 2011-2018)

...and I thought I had Episode Zero, but I don't! Something to rectify next time I'm poking around for used manga.

I also have a ROM (shhhhh) of GW: Endless Duel, the head-to-head fighting game, which I used to play a lot in college. Being a button masher who is very bad at getting the right attack combos, I discovered that the best way to play was to pick Colonel Une in Vayeate, use Vayeate's beam cannon like a bludgeon to drive my opponent over to the side of the screen, hit them and knock them down, and keep hitting them when they get up but before they have a chance to attack again. To no one's surprise, more than a few of my friends refused to play it with me after that. ^_^

[kalloway]

The 1998 one-shot Kadokawa Shoten GW manga (1 vol) - is this Ground Zero? I found it while digging out manga and I really don't remember it. I guess I'll have to read through everything (Ep Zero, Blind Target, etc.) once I'm done with Glory...

[gramarye1971]

Yep, it's the Ground Zero manga. It's kind of a weird postseries alternate continuity one-shot, I think? I remember picking up it during a trip to Book-Off quite some time ago -- unfortunately, I don't have it here with me to examine it in more detail.

[kalloway]

Yeah, that one is kind of odd, iirc. I'll definitely have to give it a re-read though. (I wonder how many continuities Wing is up to, now.)