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NEW MOBILE CHRONICLE GUNDAM W
ENDLESS WALTZ
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Story Date
After Colony 196

 Less than a year after the abrupt and mystifying conclusion of the Gundam W television series, this three-part original video series arrived to wrap up the hit alternate-universe story. Endless Waltz is both a sequel and a prequel to the television series, depicting a new crisis one year after the series's final battle and throwing in relevant flashbacks from the heroes' hitherto-mysterious pasts. More details are available in writer Katsuyuki Sumisawa's Endless Waltz novelization and in his "Episode Zero" comic.

Featuring revamped Gundam designs by fan favorite Hajime Katoki, sporting a lavish animation budget, and answering all manner of lingering questions about the five "G-boys," the video series was a definite hit. Ironically, the creators concluded Endless Waltz by eliminating the Gundams forever; while ideologically satisfying, this did pretty much kill the franchise just as it was taking off. A "special edition" theatrical release is now in the works, promising extra footage and extended sequences of the Gundams kicking butt.

New Mobile Chronicle Gundam W: Endless Waltz

Format:                 Original video series, 3 episodes
Released:               Volume 1, "Silent Orbit": January 25, 1997
                        Volume 2, "Operation Meteor": April 25, 1997
                        Volume 3, "Return to Forever": July 25, 1997

Director:               Yasunao Aoki
Scenario, screenplay:   Katsuyuki Sumisawa
Character design:       Shuko Murase
Mecha design:           Junya Ishigaki, Hajime Katoki, Kunio Okawara
Costume design help:    Yutaka Izubuchi

Cast:
  Heero Yuy             Hikaru Midorikawa
  Duo Maxwell           Toshihiko Seki
  Trowa Barton          Shigeru Nakahara
  Quatre Raberba Winner Ai Orikasa
  Chang Wufei           Ryuzo Ishino
  Relena Darlian        Akiko Yajima
  Zechs Merquise        Takehito Koyasu
  Lucrezia Noin         Chisa Yokoyama
  Lady Une              Sayuri

New Mobile Chronicle Gundam W: Endless Waltz, Special Edition

Format:                 Theatrical motion picture
Premiered:              August 1, 1998

Director:               Yasunao Aoki
Scenario, screenplay:   Katsuyuki Sumisawa
Character design:       Shuko Murase
Mecha design:           Junya Ishigaki, Hajime Katoki, Kunio Okawara
Costume design help:    Yutaka Izubuchi

Cast:
  Heero Yuy             Hikaru Midorikawa
  Duo Maxwell           Toshihiko Seki
  Trowa Barton          Shigeru Nakahara
  Quatre Raberba Winner Ai Orikasa
  Chang Wufei           Ryuzo Ishino
  Relena Darlian        Akiko Yajima
  Zechs Merquise        Takehito Koyasu
  Lucrezia Noin         Chisa Yokoyama
  Lady Une              Sayuri

Mobile Suit Gundam, Z Gundam, Gundam ZZ, Char's Counterattack, Gundam 0080: War in the Pocket, Gundam F91, Gundam 0083: Stardust Memory, Gundam 0083: Last Blitz of Zeon, Gundam: The 08th MS Team, and Gundam W: Endless Waltz are copyright Sotsu Agency and Sunrise. V Gundam, G Gundam, Gundam W, and Gundam X are copyright Sotsu Agency, Sunrise and TV Asahi.