Tyrenol
03-03-2006, 06:39 PM
I keep hearing news about how GSD sold like hotcakes in Japan; ending up in the top 10 charts in their first weeks. This badly done, poorly written mess of a show that is Mitsuo Fukuda's growing child; said child's actually being raised by Chiaki Morosawa (Fukuda's wife).
I guess my main gripe over this series is that it couldn't do a thing with the new characters. It may be due to either the fear of losing their audience (and the following cashflow) or the so-called complaints over the characters not being as fanbase-friendly as the old ones from Seed.
But when you have one of the new characters looking like the old one (ala Meer = Lacus), the spotlight shifting from the new male lead to the old ones (thereby taking away any chance to develop said lead's character correctly), and basically re-using the old mecha designs and every other scene (as Fukuda is famous for); what does that tell the open-minded about this guy's ability to tell a story using a popular name? <span style='color:#dddddd;background:#dddddd'>That he has none. The ability, that is.</span>
And so, Bandai / Sunrise will start on a 4-part "Special Edition" of Seed Destiny. (http://aeug.blogspot.com/2006_02_01_aeug_archive.html#114075697681836926)
As if these guys over there can't just restart from scratch; without bringing in their cash-cows (Kira, Lacus, Asuran, Cagalli, and Mwu). When the original MSG had their sequals, only Char and Bright came back to share the spotlight with the newer characters. Atleast Amuro didn't become some invincible God like Kira (aka Jesus Yamato) did. (Sure he had cold feet before going back in to fight the Titans, but the beef he had with Char was more human than what's considered beef in anime now.)
And it's still a show about war and its consequences. That's a fairly large percentage of what "Gundam" is about besides the plastic models and toys.
I maybe a fanperson complaining, and of course GSD is about as popular as Seed. But there's a need to be really serious here. The guys over at Sunrise wanted to release a "Gundam" show that touches the fanbase outside of Japan (but they also want the same show to be as popular in Japan). I believe that they need to stop talking about the "core audience" and actually pay attention.
Doing an anime show about war is nothing when you do it right. What's the point of selling the non-Japanese audience a dumbed-down version of it (ala Superior Defendor) and heavily editing their shows for TV?
Or is Sunrise's studios spread so thin that nobody's available to be the brains behind the production of said popular / Gundam shows? /images/graemlins/catgirl0.gif
I wonder what Jerry Chu is doing now? /images/graemlins/sdsmiley.gif
I guess my main gripe over this series is that it couldn't do a thing with the new characters. It may be due to either the fear of losing their audience (and the following cashflow) or the so-called complaints over the characters not being as fanbase-friendly as the old ones from Seed.
But when you have one of the new characters looking like the old one (ala Meer = Lacus), the spotlight shifting from the new male lead to the old ones (thereby taking away any chance to develop said lead's character correctly), and basically re-using the old mecha designs and every other scene (as Fukuda is famous for); what does that tell the open-minded about this guy's ability to tell a story using a popular name? <span style='color:#dddddd;background:#dddddd'>That he has none. The ability, that is.</span>
And so, Bandai / Sunrise will start on a 4-part "Special Edition" of Seed Destiny. (http://aeug.blogspot.com/2006_02_01_aeug_archive.html#114075697681836926)
As if these guys over there can't just restart from scratch; without bringing in their cash-cows (Kira, Lacus, Asuran, Cagalli, and Mwu). When the original MSG had their sequals, only Char and Bright came back to share the spotlight with the newer characters. Atleast Amuro didn't become some invincible God like Kira (aka Jesus Yamato) did. (Sure he had cold feet before going back in to fight the Titans, but the beef he had with Char was more human than what's considered beef in anime now.)
And it's still a show about war and its consequences. That's a fairly large percentage of what "Gundam" is about besides the plastic models and toys.
I maybe a fanperson complaining, and of course GSD is about as popular as Seed. But there's a need to be really serious here. The guys over at Sunrise wanted to release a "Gundam" show that touches the fanbase outside of Japan (but they also want the same show to be as popular in Japan). I believe that they need to stop talking about the "core audience" and actually pay attention.
Doing an anime show about war is nothing when you do it right. What's the point of selling the non-Japanese audience a dumbed-down version of it (ala Superior Defendor) and heavily editing their shows for TV?
Or is Sunrise's studios spread so thin that nobody's available to be the brains behind the production of said popular / Gundam shows? /images/graemlins/catgirl0.gif
I wonder what Jerry Chu is doing now? /images/graemlins/sdsmiley.gif