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Wing zero glory of losers11/7/2023 ![]() The redesigns in Endless Waltz, while absolutely lovely, always stood out to me, especially when I was younger, so to see the manga retelling address this fact and weave it into the story was frankly awesome to see. This is probably one of the best parts of the manga. Overall I prefer the re-designs over the anime version. The Glory of Losers addresses this by completely redesigning the initial five gundams, bringing them more in line with their eventual upgrades and replacements that show up as well. If you don’t know what I mean, the original five gundams (Wing/Wing Zero, Deathscythe, Heavyarms, Sandrock and Shenlong/Altron/Nataku) were all completely redesigned for the concluding film, leaving the anime depictions to look quite different. The most notable example is that the manga, with artist Tomofumi Ogasawara uses this opportunity to bridge the gap between the anime series and the Endless Waltz movie. ![]() Throughout my time with it, the phrase ‘director’s cut’ kept echoing in head, and honestly that is very much what Glory of the Loser feels like. However, the manga is much more recent and serves as a re-telling and in some cases, remake of the original 49 episode series. It is a series that often gets by on nostalgia feelings, and if it was airing today, it would be lambasted and ridiculed. Furthermore the original English dub has aged terribly, being something made right when the anime industry in the west was just getting started. It attempts to present itself as some deep and philosophical story about the nature of war, but instead comes off as confusing and non-nonsensical. Gundam Wing has always been a hodgepodge of a story with a strange-ass plot and barely developed characters. Taking yourself away from those nostalgia feelings of seeing giant robots fight for the first time. Now as much as I will praise Gundam Wing for what it do for anime fans, for what it means to both myself and others, the truth is that the series hasn’t aged well. 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! IT’S A REDESIGNED GUNDAM! 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. One of those of course is Mobile Suit Gundam Wing. Dragon Ball Z, Sailor Moon, Pokemon, all of them vastly important series that shaped an entire generation of anime fans. 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. ![]()
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