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So AGE failed after all, not surprising, we all knew it would.

Unicorn is great but we need The Origin.

I ROFL'd..

If they made "two" UC series they would be richer... lol

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.

They should have known it would be a flop when 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.

None of Tomino's stuff has been like that since Victory Gundam, though. Turn A Gundam, Brain Powerd and King Gainer are all much more light-hearted than his UC Gundam offerings.

All Hail GUNDAM UNICORN
Drop Dead GUNDAM AGE

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.



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'.

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.

Haha, really? Ten named characters have died in the past three episodes. It's fine to dislike AGE but at least know what you're talking about first.

Looks like someone just jumped on the hate wagon and didn't actually watch the fucking show. xD

OH.....my god. Seeing Gundam Unicorn and "cancel" in the same sentence nearly gave me a heart attack.

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.

It actually has some decent emotional scenes which was unexpected.

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