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INTEREST: Yoshiyuki Tomino Admits Story Problems in Gundam Reconguista

While I personally would agree with you, that is definitely not true. Destiny was a huge hit. While 00 didn't do as well and I don't know about S2 specifically, on the whole it was very well received. AGE and now this are the only ones you mentioned that finished weak.

You're kidding right? Badly written stuff sells well all the time, there's no absolute correlation between quality of writing and sales. Ever heard of a little thing called 50 Shades of Grey?

As for writing quality, when the previous person said "the best" it was more of an expression or generalization, and he wasn't outright saying anything in particular was THE BEST of anything, so you don't have to waste your breath giving the whole 'subjectivity/semantics' regurgitated spiel; 9 times out of 10 you don't need to remind people about that, people should know full and well opinion is opinion and outsiders shouldn't take it in as anything more.

Uh, yeah, Destiny did well commercially at the time...critically, not so much and time has not been kind to it. The writing became a complete mess in the second and third acts due to the lead writer unfortunately having serious health issues (both physical and emotional) thus leading to a decline in quality. Which is why we haven't seen any followups or interest in the C.E. timeline for awhile now such as a planned finale movie which has been reduced to a dream. Same thing with 00's AD timeline. They might have done fine at the time, but they're not exactly remembered with anything more than a shrug nowadays.

Fundamentally, people don't respond to stories made with cold logic. If the logic is overpowering, it won't be a story you can be emotionally attached to.

^Not surprising that you dropped it after 5 episodes with that way of thinking

Tomino acknowledges that anime is supposed to be "happier" than what he produced, but claimed he couldn't bring himself to make something like that. "I fundamentally have frustration with these types of works, and I realize that I spewed it out too much."

You mean a series that exist solely on pandering is doing well regardless of the actual quality of the writing since the demo don't care unless they get their instant gratification? Who would have thought?

or was that just mistranslated? Cause as far as the first few episode I've watched goes, there was no logic in it, none at all. Character where just doing random stuff, you'd probably get that kind of story by putting random character name and event in an hat and picking them at random. I will say, it looked awfully pretty (although I thought the mech themselves were average to very ugly looking).

There was literally nothing entertaining about A/Z. It was just a wreck that never salvaged itself leading into an unsatisfying conclusion, despite the "high stakes" action in drama in it I was literally bored to tears probably because every aspect about it had been done better in other shows. It was a weird experience watching G-Reco and A/Z alongside one another because you saw the difference between a show being pushed by an individual because he actually gave a shit and a show being pushed by management going by a checklist of everything popular.

But did he really say:

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Fundamentally, people don't respond to stories made with cold logic. If the logic is overpowering, it won't be a story you can be emotionally attached to.

or was that just mistranslated?

While I can safely say 00 was not greatly written, I loooved the final gauntlet of fights near the end of the second season. All those episodes had me quite satisfied.

Also it wasn't an 'at the time' thing. Destiny had enough lasting appeal for them to make the HD version years later which unlike most HD versions actually had parts redone. Destiny also consistently ranks in the top 10 favorite gundam anime on polls.

There are some moments and character interactions that are kind of confusing. For instance, the series of events that led up to Bell and co. ending up with the pirates made NO sense whatsoever. He and Aida just kind of casually strolled to the G-Self and she steals it without much (or any) opposition from Bellri.

Flaws aside, I love the aesthetic of the show, both in the character designs and the robots. The animation is pleasant, but it certainly doesn't feel modern. It's charming in its own way.

No worries, Tomino-san. Just atone your mistakes through the Compilation Movie. Just do what you did with A New Translation.

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or was that just mistranslated? Cause as far as the first few episode I've watched goes, there was no logic in it, none at all. Character where just doing random stuff, you'd probably get that kind of story by putting random character name and event in an hat and picking them at random. I will say, it looked awfully pretty (although I thought the mech themselves were average to very ugly looking).

That is the thing about writing: people like to go on about the artistic "spark" but I've learned over the years that the spark is the last thing that makes success.Logic is ultimately needed in order to keep the spark organized and keep focused.