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The real reason why Bandai is calling AGE a failure is because the kids (9-12 y/o), the people who are supposed to be the main target audience, isn't caring enough, as for the older audiences, I think that the usual audience for Gundam is stabilizing the view for this series. However, Bandai is calling it a failure doesn't mean that the story sucks in any way, shape or form. No Bubblegum-colored princess doesn't mean that the story will suck. Besides, the real failure of Bandai is because the bulk of the show's merchandise is targetted for kids aged 9-12. It doesn't reflect the story whatsoever.
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Of course you shouldn't judge a show based on whatever japanese people watch it or not. Whatever the story of Gundam Age sucks or not is something that you have decided. I'm not sure why have point this out, no one is saying otherwise.
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You put together the bad first impression, and the fact that people overreacted, people are not going to watch it because of heresay.
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I don't think people overreacted. From what I've heard, there was little reaction to begin with.
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Gundam AGE isn't perfect, but to say that its story sucks(irony that you're giving SEED some laurels over) without even watching the damn series shows how ignorant you are.
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?? Who exactly is doing this?
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Setsuna didn't suddenly get supernatural abilities
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Setsuna did suddenly get his supernatural abilities. In a spectacular fashion in one if the later episodes if I remember correctly.
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I also don't recall SEED being a special ability in the CE. Sure, only 5 known people possess it (Kira, Cagalli, Lacus, Athrun, Shinn), but given Kira's "Newtype" abilities by Destiny...and Newtypes like Rau, Mwu, Rey and Al existing in the CE (not to mention Prayer Reverie and Setona Winters)...it was more like another evolution thing. SEED was supposedly just some kind of bridge that made Kira into a "Newtype" (of which many lively debates have already been made about it over at the SEED thread). Not saying the Newtypes became Newtypes in the CE because they also had SEED...but Kira made that sort of possible.
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This bit is hard to read. I'm sure if I understand what you are talking about.. But regarding the Seed, if only 5 people can use it then it is a special ability. I don't know how you can argue otherwise. And it's just another "Sper mode" like you have in most other Gundam shows. sunrise can make up all the pseudo scientific bull**** they want but it doesn't change anything.
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As for Flit Asuno, he was the scion of the Asuno family, which was a family of renowned Mobile Suit engineers. He also didn't suddenly learn all those things just because he was some special kid like you're making him out to be.
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Seriously?? Are you trying to say that a 14 yo designing his own MS, piloting it, and just happend to be more special than others is just a normal kid? Seriously? And what dose Flit being a descendant of the Asuno family anything to do with this?