Gundam Wing: Operation Meteor (OVA)

turkishproverb · Thu Feb 07, 2008 1:30 am

I've recently gotten the opportunity to get some old copies of the Japanese Gundam Wing OVA fairly cheap, but I was wondering if anyone had seen them, and if they could tell me about them. I know they're mostly recycled footage, but I was curious what the new run format was like, how it edited up, if it was included any new footage, etc..

Arsarcana · Thu Feb 07, 2008 1:32 pm

I've only seen really low quality clips taken from an old VHS version. About half of it is recycled material but I can't tell you how it's organized since the clips I found didn't include it. The new material is pretty short and covers the five pilots in the immediate aftermath of the series (and I mean right after Libra blows up but before the final scene with Heero and Relena).

Out of curiosity, do you have a DVD player capable of handling R2 discs? They're just released a remastered edition of Wing in several boxes. One has all the Op. Meteor material in high quality.

turkishproverb · Thu Feb 07, 2008 2:17 pm

Arsarcana wrote:I've only seen really low quality clips taken from an old VHS version. About half of it is recycled material but I can't tell you how it's organized since the clips I found didn't include it. The new material is pretty short and covers the five pilots in the immediate aftermath of the series (and I mean right after Libra blows up but before the final scene with Heero and Relena).

Out of curiosity, do you have a DVD player capable of handling R2 discs? They're just released a remastered edition of Wing in several boxes. One has all the Op. Meteor material in high quality.

Yea, I have I region free dvd that can handle Japanese disks. Didn't know the remastered Operation meteor was in those boxes though. Which one would that be?

Arsarcana · Thu Feb 07, 2008 8:54 pm

There's three boxes. The third contains the Operation Meteor set and Endless Waltz. It's still expensive at ~$100 but cheaper than the first two. Here's an Amazon.jp link.

turkishproverb · Thu Feb 07, 2008 9:23 pm

Arsarcana wrote:There's three boxes. The third contains the Operation Meteor set and Endless Waltz. It's still expensive at ~$100 but cheaper than the first two. Here's an Amazon.jp link.

A hundred?

Thats cool. The cheapest I've seen th3 part 3 boxed set was for 147 dollars.

I wonder how much shipping is. I do have an account there...

Although, do I really want to rebuy EW just for the remaster...

hrm....

Still, its a good deal.