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GWOtaku
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I love comments like that. This is what Gundam has been since 1979. The salient issue here is whether this show will do well at appealing beyond that immediate demographic like many fine iterations of the franchise do. |
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CG-LOVER
Posts: 355 Location: East Lansing, MI |
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Hmmmm, I definitely need to wait and see on this one as there is barely any info out yet. But like everyone else I simply must say that those character designs seem too childish.
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Mawdryn
Posts: 240 Location: St. Louis, MO. U.S.A. |
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If Cartoon Network hadn't washed their hands of Gundam back in 2005, they probably would jump on this series--provided they get a cut from the merchandising, that is...
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Dessa
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Here Here. I think a lot of Americans forget that a lot of the stuff we enjoy and that are popular in the US, are meant for a much younger demographic in Japan (I'd say a lot of stuff is one "age group" down. So, middle school in Japan is a high school demographic here). Also, my friend would like to point out Victory Gundam which has one of the youngest protagonists, and is one of the darkest series to date. |
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TokyoGetter
Posts: 416 Location: CA. You can tell by the low moral standards. |
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*Golf clap* That's a good one. I'm more "sigh" than I am "grrrr" about this one, although I did indeed talk some pooh about it last night. In terms of innovation: meh. It's always been a toy show; what made it innovative was its inclusion of truly horrifying and transgressive elements among the metric ton of model kit marketing that padded out every episode. Story-wise it seems like they're taking the generational aspects of Gundam and throwing in some bah-dah-dah Danboru Senki jazz. It's just underwhelming to me. (I was cool with DS by the way... it's a fun and none-too-challenging kid's action show with robots... but it ain't Gundam) |
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Mytopia
Posts: 78 Location: Florida |
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Obviously I know full well that Level-5's working on the project alongside CoroCoro; however, my point was that nowhere was it mentioned that they were specifically working on the anime itself. This project comprises a wide variety of media, of which the anime is but one part and of which Level-5 is but one collaborator.
So ANN's news posts are merely supposed to be soulless, word-by-word translations and transcriptions of press releases, including the very references (oh, I'm sure they're so important, but of course) that they happen to cite? Interesting! |
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Son-kun
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Shounen-esque Gundam?.... I like, but I'll have to see how the story holds out.
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Egan Loo
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Again, according to Corocoro Comic, "Level 5 is collaborating on all aspects of planning." Anime is one aspect, and the most prominent one at that.
May you clarify your issues? In your first response, you mistakenly criticize ANN for stating what the original source does not state — when the source actually does state it. In your second response, you criticize ANN for stating exactly what the original source states. When you decide which stance to take, please feel free to restate it. |
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kgw
Posts: 1048 Location: Spain, EU |
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Uhh... nope. CoroCoro is a children comics' magazine, younger than "shônen". You know Doraemon, Inazuma Eleven, Beyblade... All of them fits there, no Gundam the Origin (unless in original Gundam nobody died...) If the news appeared in CoroCoro is because the Gundam Age comic will be running there, and obviously they won't shake their readers with dark and gritty real war stories... It's nothing wrong of making Gundam for children, but I thought they got SD for that... |
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stararnold
Posts: 227 Location: LaSalle, Quebec, Canada |
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Thinking of the premise, it reminds me of "Robotech" having three generations of protagonists throughtout a plot. While this will be the first time a "Gundam" T.V. series gets divided up into protagonal generations rather than have one protagonal character focus throughout the story, it would make sense for the show to be divided up into seasons like "Mobile Suit Gundam 00" was in order to depict such a large war, though "Gundam 00" only had two seasons and took place within a small amount of years.
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OtakuboyT
Posts: 29 Location: Morris, IL |
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Wow, this starting look the unwanted child Turn A and G.
.....and here I though SEED Destiny was going to the the "rear-end" of this franchise. |
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GWOtaku
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Originally posted at Toonzone. I highly encourage spreading the info page link around for the sake of setting the record straight.
_________________ It's time to recheck our premises on Gundam AGE, particularly when it comes to preconceptions about what the staff have in mind for the show. I note this info page for AGE for Gundam.info's English portal, which basically sums up the unveiling earlier this month. Quotes relevant to the aforementioned subject below:
On another point, if the story is going to achieve "...illustrating the protagonists' maturation and the inevitable differences between generations" I think that it's critical to meaningfully include the three heroes in the story even after the torch has been passed to the next generation. In this way good writing can highlight how past experiences influence the future, and it'd be potentially interesting to see how prior characters changed for better and maybe for worse. There's also opportunity for good conflict & drama if we have father/son disagreements over how to do things. |
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Charred Knight
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Thank you Time traveler for telling me this future show will suck. Wait I love Turn a Gundam, and G Gundam precisely because they where not trying to copy plotlines from previous Gundam series. There was no Space Nazi, there wasn't some evil group within the government willing to preform any task for poorly explained reasons, and it didn't have Gap models as the pilots. |
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