2008-06-17, 22:18 | Link #41 | |
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Gundam's always been a disappointment for me in the states. Wing went over really well, and got me into Gundam. I liked G, which seemed to not go over so well. The original was outright cancelled after 9/11 and never restarted. (And right before the Texas Colony episode, dammit!!) And then Seed had so many schedule changes I only saw about 10 episodes. I really hate now Gundam lost it's popularity after Wing over here in the states. I know that the 08th MS Team, 0080, 0083, and Char's Counterattack have aired as well, but didn't really make any impact. They just kinda came and went. It'd be great to see 00, but somehow I just don't see it happening... At least not in the states, anyway.
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2008-06-17, 23:28 | Link #42 | |
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2008-06-18, 00:33 | Link #43 |
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Unfortunately Toonami is not what it used to be. Neither is cartoon Network in general. Nothing but crap on it nowadays. As for the same reasons Dan the Man stated, gundam just is not that populer in the States which makes me question 00 ever being aired on TV in the US.
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2008-06-25, 04:21 | Link #44 |
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Its the whole scrapping afternoon toonami. I'm not sure Gundam did well... but Anime in the U.S was at its peak mostly when Toonami had an afternoon block, and pokemon was also full storm. DBZ a show that failed I think once or twice, became one of the highest rated shows for the demographic. Gundam Wing too.
Unfortunately none of these series are likely to gain that much ground with out that kind of time slot, or saturday morning time slot. The time has to be at a point where 10 to 15 year old boys watch not necessarily. Gundam 00 will be insteresting. I think it may have potential for success if it has an afternoon time slot, like wing does. It has the main thing that I think makes a lot of shonen anime popular among shonen (10-15 boys)... really strong characters attempting things that are said to be impossible. Gundam Wing, had a pretty thin plot line, and philosophy that made little or no sense, but it featured 5 virtually indestructable gundams, that only were destroyed if the pilots destroyed them, their selves, and it did that from episode 1. Not from half way through the first season. Gundam 00 is a bit slower at first, but Gundam 00 does have an organization with strong technological dominance from episode 1. The characters don't have the same "cool factor" as young boys would appreciate. Setsuna's like heero, but the rest are forgettable other than Lock on.
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Part of the problem is that for many American companies, Gundam is a known quantity, and that its reputation is pretty unattractive. Based on this, a primetime run on any widely received channel seems horribly unlikely. Luckily for Canadian viewers, Gundam 00 is all but guaranteed to be picked up by YTV.
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2008-06-26, 23:53 | Link #47 |
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Hmm... That looks like a 11:00 pm - Midnight bloc if it turns out. It doesn't seem too bad for the state of Anime TV in the U.S., but has the Sci-Fi Channel ever picked up anything similar to Gundam 00? I can't really see any similarity between it and Gurren Lagann.
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2008-06-27, 01:28 | Link #48 |
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I don't really think that Gundam 00 will do well in America.
After all, the main character is a former middle-eastern child terrorist who killed his parents. That is not really what I think people would be interested in,
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2008-06-27, 18:47 | Link #51 | |
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There's barely any resemblence between the two other than that they're both mecha anime. I take it then that Sci-Fi hasn't really sired this kind of thing before.
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2008-06-28, 03:16 | Link #52 | |
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And especially in a country where there are thousands of soldiers fighting in a middle-eastern country against terrorists.
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2008-06-30, 12:08 | Link #53 | |
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Yes if "soccer moms" and Iraq war veterans were watching, then probably yes. For the most part the target audience, which are well to do teenagers and middle schoolers, will have very little connection to Setsuna being from the middle east and to the conflicts happening in real life. |
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2008-06-30, 13:45 | Link #54 | |
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Now airing Mobile Suit Gundam at all was just a bad idea. If this were Japan, where they all but worship the One Year War, it might have worked. But it's not (something Bandai never did learn!)
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Gundam 00 hopefully should do much better if it's handled properly. If not, then the potential of the Gundam franchise in the US is pretty much toast.
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