×
  • remind me tomorrow
  • remind me next week
  • never remind me
Subscribe to the ANN Newsletter • Wake up every Sunday to a curated list of ANN's most interesting posts of the week. read more

Forum - View topic
INTEREST: Gundam Wing Rings in 30th Anniversary With New Key Visual




Note: this is the discussion thread for this article

Anime News Network Forum Index -> Site-related -> Talkback
View previous topic :: View next topic  
Author Message
EmeraldSaucer



Joined: 31 Jan 2025
Posts: 144
PostPosted: Fri Apr 04, 2025 11:39 pm Reply with quote
I wonder if this will lead them to do anything with Frozen Teardrop. Not like a full on adaptation or anything, but like an ONA for one of the volumes at a little more elaborate scale than the picture drama they did a while ago
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message
mdo7



Joined: 23 May 2007
Posts: 7125
Location: Katy, Texas, USA
PostPosted: Fri Apr 04, 2025 11:46 pm Reply with quote
Nice to see Gundam Wings is still relevant on the series' 30th Anniversary. I'm glad to see the visual is still kept intact, and not changed to conform to Sunrise/Bandai-Namco's modern way of character design animation today.
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message Visit poster's website My Anime My Manga
LinkTSwordmaster



Joined: 23 Dec 2005
Posts: 619
Location: PA / USA
PostPosted: Sat Apr 05, 2025 2:23 am Reply with quote
mdo7 wrote:
Nice to see Gundam Wings is still relevant on the series' 30th Anniversary. I'm glad to see the visual is still kept intact, and not changed to conform to Sunrise/Bandai-Namco's modern way of character design animation today.

Indeed, though looking at it reminds me how far away in the past that was....
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message My Anime My Manga
mdo7



Joined: 23 May 2007
Posts: 7125
Location: Katy, Texas, USA
PostPosted: Sat Apr 05, 2025 9:05 am Reply with quote
LinkTSwordmaster wrote:
mdo7 wrote:
Nice to see Gundam Wings is still relevant on the series' 30th Anniversary. I'm glad to see the visual is still kept intact, and not changed to conform to Sunrise/Bandai-Namco's modern way of character design animation today.

Indeed, though looking at it reminds me how far away in the past that was....


Yes, I missed that old 90's Sunrise character design where they looked human and realistic. I mean Sunrise still do from time to time, but the art of designing a borderline realistic human face is not as common as it was back then. I know Production IG still does that from time to time (ie: Terminator Zero), but I would like Sunrise/Bandai-Namco Filmworks could bring this back for future aesthetic purpose and for retro/nostalgia purpose. I mean you have Little Goody Two-Shoes, and Stories from Sol: The Gun-Dog both video game using 90's anime aesthetic for retro/nostalgia effect, why can't anime bring this back like the way indie video game are doing it?
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message Visit poster's website My Anime My Manga
LightningCount



Joined: 04 Mar 2018
Posts: 242
PostPosted: Sat Apr 05, 2025 1:23 pm Reply with quote
Rather than Frozen Teardrop, the best choice would be to animate Episode Zero (with a little supplemental, non-Frozen Teardrop material from Glory of the Losers). Do it like Gundam The Origin. Just cover the pilots' pasts. There are good stories in there. It would also address one of the primary complaints about the Wing series.
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message
MFrontier



Joined: 13 Apr 2014
Posts: 15604
PostPosted: Sat Apr 05, 2025 8:20 pm Reply with quote
Heero and Relena always clean up nicely.
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message
Deacon Blues



Joined: 09 Mar 2005
Posts: 413
Location: Albuquerque, NM
PostPosted: Sun Apr 06, 2025 2:45 am Reply with quote
LightningCount wrote:
Rather than Frozen Teardrop, the best choice would be to animate Episode Zero (with a little supplemental, non-Frozen Teardrop material from Glory of the Losers). Do it like Gundam The Origin. Just cover the pilots' pasts. There are good stories in there. It would also address one of the primary complaints about the Wing series.


But why? Episode Zero's material (from the EW novelization, which is far superior) was changed come Frozen Teardrop anyway, so it would sort of be moot to readapt that. If they went ahead with animating something for Gundam Wing, that would be a giant middle finger to G Gundam, which kicked off the whole AU anyway. If anything we'll probably get another picture drama/audio drama or something instead.
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message Visit poster's website
Display posts from previous:   
Reply to topic    Anime News Network Forum Index -> Site-related -> Talkback All times are GMT - 5 Hours
Page 1 of 1

 


Powered by phpBB © 2001, 2005 phpBB Group