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and i misure older sales on VHS and LD sales as well so yeah that smthing you falied to account for

and also i must say compere total sales of all AU gundam to to all UC gundam not just show by show

and i ask you what has made Sunrise/Namco Bandai more money

I tried watching AGE but I just couldn't get into it. Unicorn is far better.

Of course they are unfamiliar with war games. Because they play RPG... this is common knowledge.

Why am I not surprised. :/

I actually really enjoy Gundam Age so I have no idea what the hell is going on here. Gundam Unicorn is pretty good too, but its nothing new. Just another angsty teenage boy who pisses me off to no end. I do like the animation style of Unicorn a lot more than Age though.

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Additionally, what the hell is all this love for shitty characters who act like brats the entire series? This is nothing new and seriously got old after the first 3 times it was used. I'm mainly referring to all this hate for Flit who actually WANTED to be a mobile suit pilot.

gundam is that girl who's been dating the same guy for years. now she wants to meet someone new, only to realize that she's really not that appealing to most others, be it her bad tendency to glorify colorful robots, her boring fixation with space colonies, or her incessant shouting in cockpits, gundam is really not that successful with putting herself out there. and after a series of bad dates and lonely nights sobbing at pizza buffets, she looks back at her time with that guy she dated for years and thinks, 'why the hell did i ever leave him? everything was fine, and i just threw that away for the prospect of meeting a guy who'd throw more money at me. i suck.'

Well I'm not surprise, most Gundam loyal followers aren't pre-teen and mostly 18 plus. They somewhat miscalculated about creating Gundam Age and how it will attract new viewers. I guess they are wrong, you released Age before GUndam 00 and you expect a good turn out?

indeed it isnt

The character designs just completely threw me off in AGE. That is prob why is is so unpopular. Its not the first time younger kids piloted the gundam, but they never looked as childish as in AGE. But the characters don't just seem childish, but really just unappealing in general. Gundam was getting worse every year, and when I saw the characters I was like f this.

Gundam continues to get worse... I didn't like SEED as much as Zeta but it wasn't bad, but nowadays I am disappointed. I used to excitedly look forward to every new gundam release now I am about to start ignoring new releases and just rewatch the UC timeline.

Who says the numbers provided failed to account for that? I never said only DVD was being counted. I know LD at least is counted. It's unclear what the VHS sales are or if they're counted, but Livedoor is still the only source we've got.


Uh... no. I mean, you could, as a mildly interesting intellectual exercise, but it's far from the most useful comparison to make.

It's also a totally meaningless comparison if you're Bandai/Namco. A ¥ spent on UC merch is just as good for their bank account as a ¥ spent on AU merch. Money is money.

No ALL AU stuuf will be bandai while all pre victory UC stuff if fully inderpadent sunrise so so AU stuff will put more money in to Bandai as they own the Seed Unicorn Age and Victory IPs Fully while most UC IPs made pre take over are still im limbo cause creator has owners rights abd he quit Sunrise in 95 till 99 and took all right with him Turn A is A Gray Aera cuase sunrise needed bandai's money for do that

as you know Suirise was to tomino what Ghibil is to Miyazaki when he quit sunrise could not stand so baamdaai took to lock and stock minus all the IPs that Takahashi and tomino took when they left in protest of the buy out

that is what i have heard
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why do you think Victory is hated by bandai so much

This is a rather sad news, the sustainability of the Gundam franchise depends on attracting younger and newer fans so I applaud the decision for the creation of AGE. The producers in my opinion are correct in a way when they said the two Gundam shows they are airing serves two different purpose and audience, Gundam AGE for younger audience and UC for older fans. What really hit me though is the fact that the younger generation didn't know about war and space colonies so much that they can't related or makes sense to what AGE are portraying. This is a bad sign, I think the producers have to think of more ways to stimulate interest and viewership among the younger generation because huge franchises such as the Macross and Gundam are all about humanity's migration to space, this franchises will all die without support from younger generation.

It's funny because it's true.

Not surprised at all since AGE sucks big time.

But they deserve this failure. They had it coming.

Age I did not like at all. I loved seed, wing, 00, original Zeta, ZZ,

Hey Bundai/Sunrise! Make Crossbone Gundam anime now, bitch!

Holy fucking shit...5 star post.

I honestly don't think they didn't need to make one "specifically" for the young demographic.

Let's just remember what age did you actually watch your "first" gundam.
I knew gundam when I was in 5th grade, I finally watched gundam (Wing) at 7th grade, and they didn't make Wing for kids, but kids my age loved it anyway.

A proper series of "Gundam Builder" is more than enough to attract kids and raise plamo sales.

Personally I would like an older cast closer to 00, however it is still too bad that AGE was a failure.

It probably would have done way better if the art looked like previous Gundam series, but still kept the characters personalities and story the same with 3 generations and such.

I just hope they let it finish its run cause I hate having an incomplete story. >_>

As for that film project if the series closes then it will probably be a film trilogy where they just make however many episodes AGE will have into 3 movies.