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Old 2011-11-05, 15:56   Link #2650
brightman
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Originally Posted by Westlo View Post
The older otaku crowd may be watching it but one things for sure going by Amazon they definitely aren't buying it.
Gundam DVDs are traditionally more popular with the female crowd anyway, so I'm not surprised.

But its clear that some Gundam fans are watching it, and they are about the only ones who are so far. They probably don't deem it worthy for spending hundreds of dollars on merchandising though.

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And you forget that 99% of otaku-oriented shows air around 1am-3am, so saying AGE has better rankings with that crowd while true, doesn't exactly tell the full story...
I didn't forget. That last 1% don't get ratings that are that good either. Otakus simply aren't that big of a crowd to begin with.

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Yes it's quite the disaster in that regard for Sunrise/Bandai. It's kinda similar to the gambit that Capcom are taking with next years Street Fighter X Tekken, they're going to alienate a lot of hardcore fans but if the game sells through the roof than it won't matter. Capcom are thinking we have the hardcore already with SSFIVAE2k12 and UMVC3, we want SFxTK to be our money maker and bring in new fans to the genre. And if these new wave of fans buy into it than by sheer weight of numbers that top players will than start playing it as well, since they play where the competition is at. (As shown by most MVC2 pros saying MVC3 is crap while still playing it)

You can see Bandai/Sunrise thinking the same with UC/SEED HD/First Gundam to appeal to the typical userbase whereas AGE was to bring in the new fans. Though if AGE does flop one has to wonder the direction of the next Gundam TV series will go in....
Same as it's always gone in - they are going to try to appeal to new fans. The main problem is that its two series in a roll that they failed to do so... Gundam 00 was meant to attract teens and it failed - ratings for people under 20 were a huge dropoff from Seed/Seed Destiny, and it was only popular with the young adult male crowd (the same as AGE, except more so). Gunpla sales have been dropping the last few years and the average age of Gundam fans get older and older. As I said, they were right to try to appeal to younger fans. The way they went about doing so seemed to have provided the opposite results from what they wanted however.

So will they try again and go for the under-12 crowd? Or go the way of Seed and go for teenagers? Either way they will be doing it again, and hope that they can get their (in Musashi Ikeda's words) Zeta/Wing/Seed of the decade.
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