| Okay, the world's top scientists have until this starts airing to invent a system which generates electricity from rage, and wire it up to /m/. -- I imagine there's a good business case for doing this, or at least whoever makes the decisions at Bandai & Sunrise think there is. I happen to think that giant robot shows for kids can still be a good time, so there's a chance -- a chance -- that I'll enjoy this. -- On a tangent, everyone who wants a grim story for adults should remember that giving adults a grim story isn't very challenging -- it's often what they want and expect, after all. What's impressive is giving children a grim story. So go and watch Zambot 3, which is about kids, is for kids, and is nevertheless packed full of civilian deaths, refugee crises, suicide bombings and various other horrible things. |
| Alright everyone, calm down, take a step back and take a chill pill. It's incredibly funny how many of you are complaining about it being for kids while making very childish remarks. Considering how you all are behaving, perk up, clearly it's meant for you. That insult aside, while I do believe a cover should be taken into account when deciding to buy a book (the back more so than the front) I must say something that should very easily go without saying, "Don't judge a book by it's cover." It having a childish look, or even being for kids doesn't automatically make it bad. |
| I was very excited when I saw "New Gundam to be aired", then looked at the screens...and like everyone else, I'm discouraged because of how childish it looks...But, hopefully it will still be good. I'm willing to give it a try. And I did just remember an interview from a little while ago (don't remember the source or really care to find it...) but it said something like: Gundam 00 had a large audience that were older and more specifically female, so with the next Gundam they wanted to go back to getting a little younger audience. Probably read it on MAL or ANN, I remember it was an interview...could be wrong about how I remember that, it was about a year ago. ANd I'm now a little more excited after reading the ANN article announcing Gundam AGE. The concept seems more original than I thought. http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2011-06-09/level-5-to-help-create-gundam-age-anime-this-fall |
Meh_93Jun 9, 2011 3:32 PM
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| Hoping the Gunpla for this is going to be nice. |
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zansabarshadow said: why wont Gundam die? Gundam is not Son Goku Sunrise. Because it's making money and people like it. It wins. |
| You know guys, Gundam has been meant for kids from the very start. I guess except for some of them like SEED and 00 which partly wanted to appeal to fujioshis and War in the Pocket and Stardust that wanted to appeal to an older audience but still. I mean look at it's origins; Gundam was merchandise-based (still is) off of GUNPLA and toys. |
Zahlzeit said: I guess except for some of them like SEED and 00 So except for the majority of the last decade's Gundam productions. Don't get me wrong. It's a good point, but I can also appreciate the other perspective. Personally, being in my early twenties, Gundam Seed was around where I jumped on the Gundam bandwagon. I loved Gundam Wing as a child, but I was very young so my memories of it are very poorly formed and informed. I don't really remember a premise so much as I remember thinking robots were awesome. I pretty legitimately don't tend to think of Gundam as children's television. Family television at best, and even that would be a stretch. It's been ten years since Gundam was anything I would consider children oriented. |
| Relax faggots. Sunrise only realized that it'll be a while before they think of something that can out-gay 00. |
theunfettered said: but isn't there is "SD gundam " which looks like kids stuff , have not seen it though http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ig7Hj5l9oRM Yep. That's another thing entirely though. I'm quite sure that's not what we're looking at here. |
| This is not a Gundam. This cannot be a Gundam. I expected the Crossbone, but... Disappointed completely. |
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Gangler said: theunfettered said: but isn't there is "SD gundam " which looks like kids stuff , have not seen it though http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ig7Hj5l9oRM Yep. That's another thing entirely though. I'm quite sure that's not what we're looking at here. I agree. SD gundam is more like a parody and shows an entierly different type of Gundam. Chibi type that is. This series shows the general size Gundams, but seemes to use something what kid shows like digimon and megaman have (I don't need to say what it is). To be honest, I sometimes want to see a different type of Gundam than what has been shown during those 30 years, which was something "A wakening of the trailblazer" did. But I don't want too see Gundam renewed into something like this. |
| so now they throw elementary school kids riding gundams into war rather than more older people...whos more mature |
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darknessneko said: so now they throw elementary school kids riding gundams into war rather than more older people...whos more mature To be fair Amuro, Kamille, Judau, Uso, the Gundam Boys, Kira, Athrun, and Setsuna are all kind of. Kids? |
Sabinlerose said: darknessneko said: so now they throw elementary school kids riding gundams into war rather than more older people...whos more mature To be fair Amuro, Kamille, Judau, Uso, the Gundam Boys, Kira, Athrun, and Setsuna are all kind of. Kids? They were teenagers which would be good in a new Gundam series, but Sunrise had to stick 4th graders in MS, Gundam was founded by teenage angst with some mature adults as well, it needs to stick to this formula or at least put mature adults in them as main characters, that would be nice as well. |
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| designs don't stand out very much,looks pretty bland. |
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Gangler said: Two out of a huge number of series, original game plots, and novels?Zahlzeit said: I guess except for some of them like SEED and 00 So except for the majority of the last decade's Gundam productions. Don't get me wrong. It's a good point, but I can also appreciate the other perspective. Personally, being in my early twenties, Gundam Seed was around where I jumped on the Gundam bandwagon. I loved Gundam Wing as a child, but I was very young so my memories of it are very poorly formed and informed. I don't really remember a premise so much as I remember thinking robots were awesome. I pretty legitimately don't tend to think of Gundam as children's television. Family television at best, and even that would be a stretch. It's been ten years since Gundam was anything I would consider children oriented. Gundam is caked with some drama here and there but at it's base you ARE watching a show with bright colored mechs with ridiculously young pilots and a lot of "coming of age" plots, a type that is usually meant to appeal to children. Again there are some exceptions but honestly now. |
jpem said: But Gundam also has a lot of mature themes. Lots of people die in all of them. While the main characters may have anti war ideologies in many series, doesn't stop other people from being killed. not really for kids. Or the creators of Gundam don't bother to pretend kids are idiots. |
| more like Gundam Underage |
| Are they still releasing new anime after like 15 years... |
Zahlzeit said: Gangler said: Two out of a huge number of series, original game plots, and novels?Zahlzeit said: I guess except for some of them like SEED and 00 So except for the majority of the last decade's Gundam productions. Don't get me wrong. It's a good point, but I can also appreciate the other perspective. Personally, being in my early twenties, Gundam Seed was around where I jumped on the Gundam bandwagon. I loved Gundam Wing as a child, but I was very young so my memories of it are very poorly formed and informed. I don't really remember a premise so much as I remember thinking robots were awesome. I pretty legitimately don't tend to think of Gundam as children's television. Family television at best, and even that would be a stretch. It's been ten years since Gundam was anything I would consider children oriented. Gundam is caked with some drama here and there but at it's base you ARE watching a show with bright colored mechs with ridiculously young pilots and a lot of "coming of age" plots, a type that is usually meant to appeal to children. Again there are some exceptions but honestly now. Depends on how we're defining children. I'd be lying if I said it didn't have a lot of themes that would appeal to an adolescent. Say for example ages 13-17. That's one thing. Ages 5-12 though is really an entirely separate demographic. The move from one target demographic to another is never insignificant. And of course Seed and 00 is a very small part of the Gundam franchise. Miniscule even. I never debated that. However I'd be shocked to find out that I'm the only person here who doesn't have the forty years under his belt necessary to have been there from the beginning. That's the thing with a franchise that's been going so long. It's been a lot of different things to a lot of different people. Some people started with Megaman, I started with Megaman X, there's a whole batch of kids out there now who define Megaman by the battle network product line. Some people started with Final fantasy 1, I started with Final Fantasy 4, and now there's a whole new set of kids who think of Final Fantasy as 10 and up. My batman growing up was from Batman TAS. Before that Batman was Adam West to many, today he's Christian Bale and Brave and the Bold. Not even touching the comics of course. You see what I'm saying? Times change. Franchises change. It's awesome. The medium would grow stale if it didn't change with the times. Gundam has had one image for a while, and now it may or may not be developing a new image, as I'm sure it has a number of times before. That's great. I love it. Still, I can appreciate that when you have enjoyed a specific chapter in a franchises history, it can be upsetting to see that chapter end. I've been there. It's perfectly natural. The important thing is to just keep an open mind and try to enjoy what the future will bring. Otherwise you close yourself off to new horizons and spend your life stuck in a decade gone by. Honestly though, it's too early to say whether the changes here are anything but aesthetic. As I've stated, I have no idea what I'm gonna see here, I just know I'm gonna be there to see it. Just happy to hear they're making another gundam. Looking forward to it. |
| Well. I'm happy that there's going to be a new Gundam series, but the mecha looks like something you just pulled out of the washers. it's shrunken and doesn't have the "hot-blood" and shiny factor. Hopefully this will turn out to be something greater then what the pictures are showing us here |
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| Oh the character designs just killed it. Would have liked 00 to continue if possible. |
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| this looks like digimon with gundams.well i guess i give it a try see how it goes |
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| No f'ing way. After all this waiting, we get some kids' show. I will ragequit watching gundam ;( |
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| ...sooo....why is Gundam suddenly looking shitty lately? I haven't wanted to see anything after Gundam 00 Season 2 ended cause the art all looks kiddish. Wtf are they doing to Gundam? |
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| Oh great. And I was expecting something like 00. Yu-Gi-Oh did the same by replacing an older, mature protagonist with kids. And many other shows do the same, just to attract a younger audience. |
| Does sunrise need a new revenue stream with younger kids? Are only ronery 30 year old Otakus buying Gundam models anymore or some thing? |
| It doesn't think, it doesn't feel, it doesn't laugh or cry..... All it does from dusk till dawn is make the soldiers die. |
Jigero said: Well, apparently,Does sunrise need a new revenue stream with younger kids? Are only ronery 30 year old Otakus buying Gundam models anymore or some thing? Robot shows were edged out by the videogame, toy and card game shows. Though there’s also an argument to be made that they simply evolved into them. The anime industry chases the money, and for over a decade now, rather than in shows that sell toy robots, the money has been in shows that follow the Pokemon formula, be that for the purposes of selling monster fightin’ videogames, collectable card games or rev-em-up vehicular beetles. So the answer to your question might be a qualified yes. Remember those adverts that aired in the commercial break in Shin Mazinger Shougeki Z-hen, with the salaryman, probably in his thirties or late twenties, buying the Mazinger Z model? |
| ..I hope this show proves everyone wrong........ |
| What is my first impression of it? I've lost almost all hope. The character designs alone proves this is for kids. The mecha design were quite poor. Even past series were far superior. The animation was not bad, but inferior to both 00 and Unicorn. It's more comparable to Gunpla builders. And the "UE" aliens, completly unoriginal and boring. They just piloted beast type mobile suits and had ordinary weapons. The 00 aliens were more intresting than this. But since it's for children and not for the old fans of Gundam, I can let this go. The only thing I hope is that it won't delay the broadcast of the Unicorn episodes and prevent new series to enter for years. |
SagaraYuzuruJun 13, 2011 3:14 AM
| I think I'll watch it. Let see what issues they gonna tackle in this series. |
| Update According to Gundam.info, another new project will be announced on June 25th. It's unknown if the new project is an anime. Source: Gundam.info |
dtshyk said: Oh god, stop teasing me like this. Sunrise is just trolling everyone with Gundam AGE and are going to announce something amazing, I'm sure... Naw, just kidding.another new project will be announced on June 25th. It's unknown if the new project is an anime. After watching the pv I can see myself watching this. Not that I wasn't going to anyway. The action looks nice, it looks like a typical Gundam anime just aimed at a younger demographic. The animation reminds me of Gunpla builders and I quite like that style, and the Gundam looks quite good in motion. Silly character designs, but the action looks nice. |
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| Guys can you stop for a minute. I want to borrow your time machine box so I can go see how bad this is going to be too. Since the majority of you must have them...what with the bashing without ever having seen it. 'cause only children do that...and you aren't children. Right? |
SagaraYuzuru said: That was just awful. |
| I hate you all. |
Sabinlerose said: Guys can you stop for a minute. I want to borrow your time machine box so I can go see how bad this is going to be too. Since the majority of you must have them...what with the bashing without ever having seen it. 'cause only children do that...and you aren't children. Right? dude, people are gonna sh!t bricks once this anime airs and you don´t need a time machine to know they will. I´ll admit it´s a bit "childish" to judge it before it´s even out but think about it this way, you too won´t eat a poisonous mushroom just coz you never gave it a try before. Right ? |
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| The trailer completely washed out any tiny bit of interest I have left in this series. |
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| Looks disappointing so far, all I can say xD |
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| All this show needs to be to satisfy Gundam fans is have the exact same plot, exact same mecha and character designs, and the exact same gimmick. Except it takes place in Universal Century. Then you'd all go ballistic and be wetting yourselves with excitement. |
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