Shin Kidou Senki Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz Tokubetsu-hen

It is A.C. 196—one year after the conflict between Earth and its nearby space colonies ended with the formation of the Earth Sphere Unified Nation. As mankind enters a new era of unity and prosperity, four of the five Gundam pilots decide to follow in society's footsteps and disarm by launching their mobile suits into the sun. However, their plan is unexpectedly suspended when a rebellion erupts with the emergence of Mariemaia Khushrenada—who claims to be the child of fallen dictator Treize and desires to conquer the world in his stead.

Deciding that they are the last line of defense for the Earth Sphere, Heero Yuy, Trowa Barton, Duo Maxwell, and Quatre Raberba Winner scramble to retrieve their Gundams and fight to protect the peace the people of the colonies have pursued for so long. Despite their unwavering resolve to complete one final mission, the battle will be challenging: the pilots' former ally Wufei Chang has pledged his allegiance to Mariemaia's cause instead.

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Shin Kidou Senki Gundam W: Endless Waltz Tokubetsu-hen was released on DVD by Bandai Entertainment on February 6, 2001. The film was later re-released on Blu-ray and DVD by Right Stuf Inc. on December 5, 2017.

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Prequel:	Shin Kidou Senki Gundam Wing
Alternative version:	Shin Kidou Senki Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz

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Yatate, Hajime

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Aoki, Yasunao

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Urakami, Yasuo

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Takayama, Minami

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"White Reflection" By TWO-MIX

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"Last Impression" by TWO-MIX

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Jul 25, 2022

Noahboy

Recommended

A nice sendoff for the Gundam Wing series. Its animation is good, and really goes to show how much better the Wing show could've been if it didn't rely on reusing animation. While I've seen better looking animation before, Endless Waltz still looks good and leaves me with no complaints. I also found the story to be very enjoyable, it doesn't waste any time and feels like a natural continuation of the Wing series that feels complete and well rounded. I also would like to note that even though it's been over a year since I watched Gundam Wing I was never confused, which goes ...

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Sep 11, 2020

camacusjamacus

Mixed Feelings

Just like the show, there's good kernels of ideas we could wrestle with: is it possible to have peace and completely get rid of weapons, what is the purpose of a solider during peacetime, is all the sacrifice of battle worth it? But just like the show it's ham fisted, stumbles all over itself, and is generally ridiculous. At least with this it's not too front and center most of the time and the fact that they had to write a tight 90 minute story probably helped. But why would anyone follow a 9 year old in a coup d'état? The animation is absolutely beautiful, ...

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Jan 19, 2023

uWuDesuWooWoo

Not Recommended

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TL;DR Very pretty to look at, decent action, your usual old style Gundam dialogue and absolutely moronic decisionmaking every new character and Wiu Fei

I was told to watch this by a friend that knows I like Gundam Seed+Destiny+00 and at the time of writing this review, episode 12 of Witch from Mercury finished airing. He pointed out that Wing is _not_ like those shows, but many people confuse references with copying, and he didn't remember Seed and Destiny that well (I've seen both twice), and well at least Seed doesn't throw in random new powerful factions whenever the writers need a new enemy. Wing ... does this at least 3 times in total, excluding the introduction of OZ in the beginning.

Wing has a completely insane morality system that I am absolutely convinced was either decided by dice rolls or people that needed different medication. There's one big battle at the end of episode 49, everyone except Treize walks away, and then there's this movie, and hoo boy good luck figuring out why the non main cast people do what they do.

You've got a random coup on Earth that happens without a hitch, the Gundams show up to get their shit kicked, then Heero does the hero thing, some random civies start yelling at the coup people, the Zero Wing shoots the cool overpowered as hell gun (that destroyed an entire space colony in one shot earlier in Wing) multiple times into an earth magical bunker which kills no one(?), then the random 9 year old gets shot, the dictator gets randomly executed by some grunt, and everyone else walks away. Those civies from earlier? They somehow encouraged the Nazis to throw down their weapons.

I suppose that I am fortunate that these writers didn't make any references to the wrong assumption that "6 gigatons of mass hitting earth from space = forever winter" like episode 49 of Wing beats you over the head with (apparently basic knowledge about the Bolide impact wasn't a thing in 1997, but w/e). My review of Iron Blooded Orphans had to include 12+ basic scientific + economic inaccuracies, and fortunately this movie dodges those particular pitfalls.

The show makes very little common sense, and the movie is worse. At least the Peacecraft daughter is no longer talking to herself like she did for the first 12+ episodes in Wing. I now mostly understand why I hate Iron Blooded Orphans, because the main scriptwriter watched Gundam Wing and G Gundam, both of which were, as other reviews here have pointed out, much closer to wrestling plots than actual warfare or anything in military history from competent generals or even commanders. The scene with the civies saying they were going to the Presidential palace (white house?), which buried itself Neon Genesis Evangelion Neo-Tokyo style to yell about pacifism (including former soldiers) would be laughable if it wasn't so sincere in its idiotic statement.

The movie is very pretty to look at, but as someone that actually reads every damn line of dialogue and pays attention to what is happening and expects humans to act like humans, I was infuriated.

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