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Hino Akihiro, the president of game maker Level 5 and the scenario writer of Mobile Suit Gundam AGE, posted in his twitter that he was surprised to meet severe criticism against Gundam AGE. He said "We didn't make a perfunctory approach to understand the concept of Gundam. We are producing Gundam AGE in a different way from any other Gundam series. Our policy for the new gundam will be explained in the anime." The mecha designer Ebikawa Kanetake ("Full Metal Panic!", "Mobile Suit Gundam 00", "Gundam AGE") encouraged Hino that they have also received fierce disapproval from the fans when they announced Gundam 00.

Source: Hino's twitter
Related topic: New Anime Gundam AGE To Start This Autumn

Not surprised

People bitch about everything, even things that haven't aired yet. He's surprised at that? How long has he been in this industry?

Yea, I'm not surprised at all about this....

Gundam age looks like shit. Why they think it's a good idea is beyond my understanding of human logic. It looks like shit, hell even the shotas don't look all that good.

Well when it looks like that and the background story is as stupid as that what do you expect? I bet a 3rd season of SEED or a slice of life show involving 00 characters would be less enraging to Gundam fans than this.

I'm personally enraged about this announcement as well. I was hoping for Crossbone.

There'll never a Crossbone anime will there?

There's supposed to be another Gundam announcement on june 25, so we might get a decent series as well.

The art-style is totally unfitting for a Gundam show.
Of course fans get angry with such a radical style-change.

But the worst thing for me is this poor excuse.
He should just have said something like,
"Gundam AGE is a projoct to introduce a younger generation to the Gundam franchise.
Of course in the future we will make other Gundam shows in the old way.
Just be patient and welcome new fans."
or something just that.

I feel offended by his statment.

Yeah its disappointing and am not expecting much out of this one. Maybe next time the show will not look like its for five year olds.

There won't be an annoucement, there is no hope.

There will be an announcement. They haven't specified if it will be anime or not, just that it's a new Gundam project.

Hino, Akihiro < Hahahahah ,

Who cares ?

It'll probly have something to do with gundam age.

Gundam AGE=Bad idea in the making

I will say this again Gundam is founded by teenage angst (most main characters are between the ages of 13-19) and political and often dark stories, fourth and 5th graders in MS is disappointing for a series like this.

If this was a series that would be only a few episodes long and classified as an OVA, it could be forgiving. But if it's 50 or more episodes long and classified as a main series among UC, G, Wing, X, Turn A, Seed and 00, then of course the fans want to burn Sunrise to the ground. The fact that the 00 movie broke into new grounds does not mean that you can do the same. Especially with your pathetic excuse of an alien.



There is. We just have too little information that regards about this project. It's not even clear if it's an anime.

Probly gonna be a manga of gundam age.

I can tell you that the announcement will be 1,000,000x better than AGE even if it's not anime.

totally agree with the fan

I said before that I hoped the new series would an AU because there were already enough of UC. But if AU means this shit, I'll take UC any day, any year and any century.