| It's not cancel Gundam Age failure in term of sales its overwhelmed it, damn with that kind of sales for each volume I couldn't imagine what kind of profit they have >.> angelslayerX said: ...that kids today are unfamiliar with wars and space colonies. eh, what? Childs todays are unfamiliar with war? With call of duty and all those wargames that fly around? sure you remember that he talked about kids in japan |
| not surprised. age is kinda boring :o |
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| AGE is pretty awful, but then again I'm only 8 episodes into it right now and it supposedly improves. Unicorn is great though and deserves its title as the best selling OVA series of all time. We need more of that, less of... whatever AGE is. |
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webkid94 said: I was one of those who looked at AGE at the beginning and went 'ew character designs' (still applies to Dique, dear god..), but really this show isn't that bad. It's weaker than the average series, but much better than DESTINY or the awful 00 movie. You did NOT just effing say that... you're gonna start a damn war brother. |
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Veronin said: AGE is pretty awful, but then again I'm only 8 episodes into it right now and it supposedly improves. Unicorn is great though and deserves its title as the best selling OVA series of all time. We need more of that, less of... whatever AGE is. Asemu's arch is much better than Flit's. |
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| AGE is not bad, JUST DISGUSTINGLY RIDICULOUS!!!! |
| AGE isn't that bad at all! The beginning started off slow yeah, but it gradually picked itself up and started getting really interesting. Sure it's totally not as good as SEED or 00, but it's still good none the less. |
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mitch3315 said: Veronin said: AGE is pretty awful, but then again I'm only 8 episodes into it right now and it supposedly improves. Unicorn is great though and deserves its title as the best selling OVA series of all time. We need more of that, less of... whatever AGE is. Asemu's arch is much better than Flit's. Flits arc was decent, but it could have done without the Fairdain arc. >_> Asemu's arc is amazing and I'm expecting great things from the Kio arc. I hope the film project is true and is also a sequel to the series and not a movie trilogy. If it is a sequel they better not fuck it up like the 00 movie. >_> That is probably where the assumption that the UE are aliens came from was because of the previous 00 movie. There is no aliens in AGE. xP AGE's 2nd opening by Nagato made 4,000 sales so even if the DVDs/BR sales suck the merchandise sales will cover them. AGE is amazing sad to see it doing badly really am its not that bad once you get pass the Fairdain arc in the first generation. |
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| I find Age not that bad. IMO, the thing that kinda went downhill from the start is that they portrayed the Antagonists to be aliens and focuses on just Flit (maybe some Decil...not really) while the UE were disregarded. Even in Asemu's arc, the only Vegan that has a background is Zeheart while the rest of that race is ambiguous to the viewers. |
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(...)kids today are unfamiliar with wars and space colonies(...) Seems like a questionnaire created and filled in within PR Department. So much fail. Anyway, serves them right. AGE has a quite bad series composition and is quite shallow on character profiles and developments. Unicorn is the very much the opposite. And I don't think its success has that much to do with the UC timeline. It simply has quality written all over it. AGE is ZZ-tier so far and it's nothing to be proud of. Second arc is a vast improvement over Flit arc, but for me it's only because it contains more mature themes and better space battles. Scriptwriting and dialogue are still sub-par though. Overall, if I was watching this as a kid it would discourage me from checking other series pretty efficiently. |
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MapoTofu said: I find Age not that bad. IMO, the thing that kinda went downhill from the start is that they portrayed the Antagonists to be aliens and focuses on just Flit (maybe some Decil...not really) while the UE were disregarded. Even in Asemu's arc, the only Vegan that has a background is Zeheart while the rest of that race is ambiguous to the viewers. It isnt that. In Nadesico there were Aliens from the Jupiter, which you found after like... eh... 17 episodes that there were human after all. And even than only 3-4 really got a charcter development at all from the enemy. What Nadesico did instead of AGE was more focus on the crew personal problems and character development. But because we have three different arcs with timeslip in AGE, there isnt much character development you can do but the mc himself. Although they did that pretty good, Flit is lost in his revenge, Asemu has his problems with not being a X-Rounder like his father. I have great hopes for the third arc, as, as long AGE will have around 50 episodes, the third arc will have the most epsiodes from all the arcs, so they can do in the last arc alot of character development, and, instead of before, making a harem, as that MC doesnt have to make a child. |
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angelslayerX said: MapoTofu said: I find Age not that bad. IMO, the thing that kinda went downhill from the start is that they portrayed the Antagonists to be aliens and focuses on just Flit (maybe some Decil...not really) while the UE were disregarded. Even in Asemu's arc, the only Vegan that has a background is Zeheart while the rest of that race is ambiguous to the viewers. It isnt that. In Nadesico there were Aliens from the Jupiter, which you found after like... eh... 17 episodes that there were human after all. And even than only 3-4 really got a charcter development at all from the enemy. What Nadesico did instead of AGE was more focus on the crew personal problems and character development. But because we have three different arcs with timeslip in AGE, there isnt much character development you can do but the mc himself. Although they did that pretty good, Flit is lost in his revenge, Asemu has his problems with not being a X-Rounder like his father. I have great hopes for the third arc, as, as long AGE will have around 50 episodes, the third arc will have the most epsiodes from all the arcs, so they can do in the last arc alot of character development, and, instead of before, making a harem, as that MC doesnt have to make a child. I think AGE will have 45 episodes all together since there has been I think 15 episodes for each generation so far. Unless they decide to give Kio 20 episodes. |
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webkid94 said: It's weaker than the average series That's the problem. It waay too average. |
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| So AGE failed after all, not surprising, we all knew it would. Unicorn is great but we need The Origin. |
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| I ROFL'd.. If they made "two" UC series they would be richer... lol |
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| Well gundam age died when the heroine in the first story died. |
| Poor AGE...it was downright terrible in the first arc but Asem's arc has been very good. I also like how they completely changed it and sent it right back to the typical Gundam formula once they realized it was going to be a flop. We have the masked man who's 3x as fast, the angry and angsty main character, and as a curveball a Nina Purpleton clone. I hope for their next round of TV Gundam they go back to something that's either UC or targeted at an older demographic. Or they can just put Tomino's idea of G REKO and see how that goes. I'm sure watching a Tomino show in 2012 will be absolutely hilarious. I'm ready for the pointless deaths, terrible comedy, bizarre pacing, warped view on feminism, and the unlikable characters. |
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| They should have known it would be a flop when they used that art style. The outrage and crying was really significant. |
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RyanSaotome said: They should have known it would be a flop they used that art style. The outrage and crying was really significant. I actually liked the art style although I'm not going to lie the character designs to some of the characters were not so great. I'd rather Sunrise to stick to new universes when it comes to TV series than to go back to UC. Really not looking forward to The Origin cause 0079 is bad imo. Although someone did restore some faith and said that the character development was better in The Origin. |
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angelslayerX said: ...that kids today are unfamiliar with wars and space colonies. eh, what? Childs todays are unfamiliar with war? With call of duty and all those wargames that fly around? u crack me up dude though i must say that ur right lol |
| Hahaha what the fuck. Well, whatever. The idea was good; breeding a newer generation of fans. I guess though popular themes remain king. Too bad, huh? |
| I hate...so many of you. You saw "Failure of Gundam AGE" and went right back to before AGE's premiere with, "I knew it would suck", and most of you didn't even READ the actual post, did you? AGE failed in the only place it mattered to bandai: In the pre-teen boy demographic. When asked WHY it failed, the response from kids apparently was, "because we can't relate to wars and space colonies". Basically, this means all Gundams aside from like X and silly shit like SD Gundam (the one with Bakunetsumaru) would have failed in this same demographic. Unicorn is an amazing series. But you're all completely disregarding the fact that Unicorn wouldn't make Bandai all that much money either if it had to rely on 11-14 year olds instead of the 16+ crowd. But no worries. Even if Bandai is pretending to be okay with the way AGE is going right now, it'll be another ten years or so before they try to aim at any young kids. McRib said: I'm sure watching a Tomino show in 2012 will be absolutely hilarious. I'm ready for the pointless deaths, terrible comedy, bizarre pacing, warped view on feminism, and the unlikable characters. Gundam AGE has...so much of this already. In any case, like someone else said, have you SEEN a post-depression works from Tomino at all? You can't have. Overman King Gainer is a trip through super super happy land. I'm ready for Gundam: The Origin either way though. Also hopefully Unicorn's performance inspires them to do Gundam Sentinel. Just sayin'. |
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| Gundam just isn't big for that age demographic, fans of the franchise are well into their 20's; going on into pure adulthood. I didn't like AGE because it tried to dumb down everything. Made it kid friendly, when Gundam was built on the 'kill 'em all' philosophy. |
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Hias said: Gundam just isn't big for that age demographic, fans of the franchise are well into their 20's; going on into pure adulthood. I didn't like AGE because it tried to dumb down everything. Made it kid friendly, when Gundam was built on the 'kill 'em all' philosophy. A philosophy even the creator turned his back on. And while we're at it, AGE has been no stranger to killing charas off. The only thing dumbed down is the artstyle. |
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Hias said: Made it kid friendly, when Gundam was built on the 'kill 'em all' philosophy. Looks like someone just jumped on the hate wagon and didn't actually watch the fucking show. xD |
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| OH.....my god. Seeing Gundam Unicorn and "cancel" in the same sentence nearly gave me a heart attack. |
SageShinigami said: Gundam AGE has...so much of this already. In any case, like someone else said, have you SEEN a post-depression works from Tomino at all? You can't have. Overman King Gainer is a trip through super super happy land. I'm ready for Gundam: The Origin either way though. Also hopefully Unicorn's performance inspires them to do Gundam Sentinel. Just sayin'. I digress, I have only watched Turn A which I thought was absolutely fantastic and a great conclusion to the franchise. I've seen every other Gundam and I'm planning on watching Ideon next so I've really only been exposed to his depressed works. I'm actually scared to watch Brain Powerd or King Gainer just because of how bizarre and awful people claim they are. I guess I should probably go watch one of those and be shocked by it. Regardless, even if Tomino isn't killing them all, he's still doing his other stuff. Every show has his warped view of comedy and terrible idea of feminism along with a slew of unlikable characters. |
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notsureifsrs said: Age isn't bad at all It actually has some decent emotional scenes which was unexpected. |
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| So after AGE completely bombing they still plan to make movie out of it? Wow. Bandai seriously hates money. They should make third season of SEED instead! Fans would cry on the internet as they did with Destiny but still DVD/BD's would sell like crazy. |
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McRib said: SageShinigami said: Gundam AGE has...so much of this already. In any case, like someone else said, have you SEEN a post-depression works from Tomino at all? You can't have. Overman King Gainer is a trip through super super happy land. I'm ready for Gundam: The Origin either way though. Also hopefully Unicorn's performance inspires them to do Gundam Sentinel. Just sayin'. I digress, I have only watched Turn A which I thought was absolutely fantastic and a great conclusion to the franchise. I've seen every other Gundam and I'm planning on watching Ideon next so I've really only been exposed to his depressed works. I'm actually scared to watch Brain Powerd or King Gainer just because of how bizarre and awful people claim they are. I guess I should probably go watch one of those and be shocked by it. Regardless, even if Tomino isn't killing them all, he's still doing his other stuff. Every show has his warped view of comedy and terrible idea of feminism along with a slew of unlikable characters. King Gainer has the best opening ever. The story is a clusterfuck though. Piss poor pacing. Think Zeta but without the ability to logically assume why they went from point A to point B offscreen. |
Enjolras1830 said: the only nion UC gundam that did well in Japan was seed that was cuase its a remake in story terms of 0079 X Failed w Failed G almost killed not only the Franchise but along with DBGT almost killed the Industry You got any numbers from reliable sources to back your claim? Though I know Kira Yamato still tops many charts' top 10 :) And what bout 00? |
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Roloko said: Looks like someone just jumped on the hate wagon and didn't actually watch the fucking show. xD I actually did watch the show, for a while. I just dropped it. You need to watch your language, young lady. I found that terribly offensive. |
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Hias said: Roloko said: Looks like someone just jumped on the hate wagon and didn't actually watch the fucking show. xD I actually did watch the show, for a while. I just dropped it. You need to watch your language, young lady. I found that terribly offensive. Well I recommend at least watching this arc which I think it will end here this week or next and if you still hate it then drop it for good. Trust me it gets better at least in my eyes it did. The Fairdain arc was probably what turned people who actually gave it a shot away cause it was lame and even I admit kinda boring and so were the battles when they were in the colony. No where near as boring as 0079 though its one big huge snore fest trying to force myself to complete it. I have little hope of The Origin being any good. xP KillerMan91 said: So after AGE completely bombing they still plan to make movie out of it? Wow. Bandai seriously hates money. They should make third season of SEED instead! Fans would cry on the internet as they did with Destiny but still DVD/BD's would sell like crazy. Actually I would be happy if they finally released the SEED movie so they can prove to us its not a pipe dream after all. Oh and completely remake Destiny after they get through with SEED remaster. They are either going to make a movie trilogy of AGE or an sequel. Thinking now I don't mind either as long as they are released subbed on BR so I can eventually buy it. Don't worry Sunrise is not wasting money cause there are people who are faithful to the fanbase buy whatever Gundam comes out regardless of how the majority hates the series. |
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| Well have to wait until 3rd gen to decide whether AGE was worth it or not. So far terribly disappointed with the first gen. The second gen started off okayish then fell into the trap of emo and douche character development... Not to mention the supa-pairotto business. |
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Roloko said: No where near as boring as 0079 though its one big huge snore fest trying to force myself to complete it. I have little hope of The Origin being any good. xP I'm trying to attribute that to the fact that series of that era in general just aren't terribly exciting, and am believing The Origin will be several times better. |
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