MANGA TITLE: Mobile Suit Gundam Wing Endless Waltz: Glory of the Losers vol. 10
STORY BY Sumizawa Katsuyuki
ART by Ogasawara Tomofumi
FIRST PUBLISHED IN JAPAN: Kodansha Ltd.
PUBLISHED IN USA BY: Vertical Comics
RATED: ALL
RELEASE DATE: January 15, 2019
A mobile suit launches from the old castle in Luxembourg. It is the Gundam Epyon, the mobile suit that Treize entrusted to Heero. At the same time, sensing that Relena is in danger, Zechs comes back to earth from space. The mechas, both with the ZERO System installed, head towards the Sanc Kingdom. Relena, made painfully aware of her own powerlessness in the midst of a battle, makes a decision…
Treize has lent his Gundam Epyon to Heero, while Zechs, has a vision that the his country will be engulfed in the flames of war, he heads to Earth in the Wing Gundam Zero.
What is “Mobile Suit Gundam Wing Endless Waltz: Glory of the Losers”?
It was back in 1995 when an anime series titled “Shin Kido Senki Gundam Wing” aired in Japan. The sixth installment in the “Gundam” franchise, it was a series that took place in the “After Colony” timeline.
A different setting and an alternate universe than the well-known Universal Century (UC), the AC deals with events primarily “Mobile Suit Gundam Wing” and its sequel “Mobile Suit Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz”.
The series is set in After Colony 195 and humans have colonized space and developed space colonies at each of the five Earth-Moon Lagrange points. On Earth, the nations formed the United Earth Sphere Alliance and this alliance has oppressed the colonies with their powerful military.
The colonies want to be free and scientists have developed a plan for revenge against the alliance with “Operation Meteor” and five teenage boys have been chosen and trained by five scientists and then sent to Earth with advanced mobile suits known as “Gundams” made from Gundanium alloy designed by each scientist.
The manga introduces us to these five teenage boys with the protagonist being Heero Yuy, Duo Maxwell, Trowa Barton, Quatre Raberba Winner and Chang Wufei.
As the United Earth Sphere Alliance are aware of the attacks on Alliance soldiers, the Organization of the Zodiac (OZ) has their ace mobile suit pilot, Zechs Merquise to find the enemy.
In volume 10, the story begins with Heero trying to figure out the Mobil Suit Gundam Epyon, a mecha that stamps out any doubts in the mind of its pilot.
Meanwhile, in the A0206 Colony, Wufei has returned home to receive wise words from Elder Long and as Wufei leaves his home, Elder Long and their people end up destroying their colony but before, put their hopes into Wufei in hopes he will get the power to preserve peace.
And once again, Heero and Zechs must do battle with each other once again!
Meanwhile, Duke Dermail offers a deal to Relena that Romefeller wants to establish one country, no more borders between nations that would end conflicts and eradicate war. But will Relena accept or refuse the proposal?
With the release of “Mobile Suit Gundam Wing Endless Waltz: Glory of the Losers”, this time around, we get an action-packed issue and the Gundam pilots in a battle of their lives, while Relena must make important choices in regards to the Sanc Kingdom and her well-being.
Like previous volumes, there are a lot of panels of fighting and things were often so chaotic that it’s easy to get lost. Writer Sumizawa Katsuyuki has a tough task of having to write stories about five Gundam pilots (six if you include Zechs) and due to the high level of action in vol. 10, I had to go back and re-read it. Mecha fans will no doubt love the storyline, while those wanting more story and a balance of action (ie. the original “Mobile Suit Gundam” or even the recent “Mobile Suit Gundam Thunderbolt” may find “Mobile Suit Gundam Wing Endless Waltz: Glory of the Losers” a bit more challenging to follow as it is primarily all action-based for this volume alone.
Overall, “Mobile Suit Gundam Wing Endless Waltz: Glory of the Losers” vol. 10 has the Gundam pilots going all out and will excite mecha fans who crave for mechanical designs and chaotic action sequences, and while the storyine has progressed with each volume, you can’t help but feel that things were a bit more chaotic and hard to follow art-wise and also through its storytelling.
