It's a GUNDAAAAAAAAM. Your general Gundam natter thread! -

[Kamen Rider Black RX]

Were there problems behind the scenes? Tomino has essentially apologized for how that show went, which seems uncharacteristic of him.

That's a bit of a mistranslation of what he said. What Tomino said was that if people had trouble understanding G-Reco and they think it's because he did a bad job directing, then he apologize. Same interview has him saying he likes the show.

There's a lot of stuff about G-Reco that ANN didn't cover. You know it sold more video (Blurays or DVD) than Aldnoah Zero or Cross Ange (by a large margin in Ange's case)? Or how about it being praised by an anime critic in one of Japan's largest newspapers as well as Gen Urobuchi? You know it aired at 2am where it held a ratings average of 1.8% (when late night anime rarely get over 2%), and once it was over it's reruns were given a better timeslot? Heck, Yaraon (who ANN used as a source for the Tomino interview rather than the magazine it was in) polled it's readers and found that out of 500 people, 54% thought G-Reco was the better show over IBO.

The show wasn't this massive failure, it was a decent hit for a late night anime. If anything, this was something Tomino was given full control over because it wasn't expected to sell (he was reportedly very upset over the timeslot). They didn't have faith in him, but he delivered anyway.

 

[XYZpdq]

ANN is basically worthless for anything.

 

[Jewelsmakerguy]

ANN is basically worthless for anything.

Really only it's encyclopedia is the only useful aspect, and even then it sucks.

 

[Takayuki Yagami]

Does anyone have the slightest idea why Iron Blooded Orphans seems to use darn as a curse word despite the fact that the show's main characters consist of: a child soldier who by all appearances is so crazy that his superior/surrogate brother seems to be afraid of what would happen if he wasn't holding his leash, a Char clone who kills his closest friend, and a grunt who goes crazy after getting blown to bits and wired into a mobile suit?

 

[Hodor]

So apparently we could've got an American Gundam movie in 1983.

I like Mead's redesign of the RX-78-2. The movie itself sounds like it'd been absolutely bonkers and is only tangentially related to the original show, but it was only a first draft so who knows how it would've turned out?

 

[BILLY MAYS]

What do you guys think of Gundam Thunderbolt? Good? Bad?

 

[Florence]

So apparently we could've got an American Gundam movie in 1983.

I like Mead's redesign of the RX-78-2. The movie itself sounds like it'd been absolutely bonkers and is only tangentially related to the original show, but it was only a first draft so who knows how it would've turned out?

Gotta admit, it sounds like Gundam in name only. The design kinda reminds me of the Turn-A, which would make sense.

What do you guys think of Gundam Thunderbolt? Good? Bad?

I'd say pretty good, but I've only really read the manga.

 

[PS1gamenwatch]

Hate to whine(take that back, I'd love to!), but how come Gundam Build Fighters has English dub in The Philippines, but North America has none? Is no one in the States willing to localize it?

Notice how they pronounce Gundam as Gun-Damn. Gundammit all.

 

[XYZpdq]

Hate to whine(take that back, I'd love to!), but how come Gundam Build Fighters has English dub in The Philippines, but North America has none? Is no one in the States willing to localize it?

Notice how they pronounce Gundam as Gun-Damn. Gundammit all.

iirc Gun Damn popped up in the ancient dub of the original Trilogy.

Regarding a USA version of Build Fighters in general I've seen speculation based around the idea that the USA has some restrictions about specifically showing them playing with the toys in the cartoon, so it's not as cost-effective to do a dub for what would end up youtube-only with no chance of hitting its target audience via TV.

 

[PS1gamenwatch]

iirc Gun Damn popped up in the ancient dub of the original Trilogy.

Regarding a USA version of Build Fighters in general I've seen speculation based around the idea that the USA has some restrictions about specifically showing them playing with the toys in the cartoon, so it's not as cost-effective to do a dub for what would end up youtube-only with no chance of hitting its target audience via TV.

Well I'll be Gun damned.

 

[RP 520]

iirc Gun Damn popped up in the ancient dub of the original Trilogy.

Regarding a USA version of Build Fighters in general I've seen speculation based around the idea that the USA has some restrictions about specifically showing them playing with the toys in the cartoon, so it's not as cost-effective to do a dub for what would end up youtube-only with no chance of hitting its target audience via TV.

Oh god the infamous 1990's dub of the Gundam movie trilogy. British Bright Noa and Zeon keeping the Japanese pronunciation of Gion.

 

[XYZpdq]

Oh god the infamous 1990's dub of the Gundam movie trilogy. British Bright Noa and Zeon keeping the Japanese pronunciation of Gion.

I remember hearing allegations that the weirder parts like the roboton invaders or whatever were fragments left from an international dub for airline usage written by Carl Macek around the time he did those Ghibli dubs for airlines.

 

[Assorted Nuts]

Oh god the infamous 1990's dub of the Gundam movie trilogy. British Bright Noa and Zeon keeping the Japanese pronunciation of Gion.

Bright isn't the only bad accent. Sayla has this thick Eastern European accent for no reason. I remember there also being a couple of times where they confuse Lalah and Sayla's names, including the former's death scene. It's terible.

 

[Varg Did Nothing Wrong]

I don't give a fuck about the Gundam universe or the animes, but I love the way the Zakus and other "non-faggoty" for lack of a better word mobile suits are designed and look.

The fact that the Gundams themselves for the most part look retarded has always turned me off them. All the gay wings, multi-colored rainbow color schemes, and high heeled boots on battle robots rubbed me the wrong way.

I do have like 5 different Zaku models. So far I've built one but haven't decided how to paint it yet. Big fan of realism in all things so I am tossing around the idea of painting all my Zaku variants in different tank camouflages and shit, maybe give one some BATTLE DAMAGE or something. Wear and tear. I think it'll look dope.

Really though, what I want most of all is for Heavy Gear or, fuck, even Mechwarrior / Battletech, or one of the better mecha-oriented games/shows/universes to get some good quality model kits like they have for Gundams.

 

[Florence]

I don't give a fuck about the Gundam universe or the animes, but I love the way the Zakus and other "non-faggoty" for lack of a better word mobile suits are designed and look.

The fact that the Gundams themselves for the most part look exceptional has always turned me off them. All the gay wings, multi-colored rainbow color schemes, and high heeled boots on battle robots rubbed me the wrong way.

I do have like 5 different Zaku models. So far I've built one but haven't decided how to paint it yet. Big fan of realism in all things so I am tossing around the idea of painting all my Zaku variants in different tank camouflages and shit, maybe give one some BATTLE DAMAGE or something. Wear and tear. I think it'll look dope.

Really though, what I want most of all is for Heavy Gear or, fuck, even Mechwarrior / Battletech, or one of the better mecha-oriented games/shows/universes to get some good quality model kits like they have for Gundams.

You, sir, need to watch 08th MS Team.

 

[Varg Did Nothing Wrong]

You, sir, need to watch 08th MS Team.

Is it good?

 

[Florence]

Is it good?

It's pretty realistic, yeah. No massive space battles, just a ground war through Southeast Asia.

 

[Varg Did Nothing Wrong]

It's pretty realistic, yeah. No massive space battles, just a ground war through Southeast Asia.

Sounds good, might have to watch.

 

[XYZpdq]

I don't give a fuck about the Gundam universe or the animes, but I love the way the Zakus and other "non-faggoty" for lack of a better word mobile suits are designed and look.

The fact that the Gundams themselves for the most part look exceptional has always turned me off them. All the gay wings, multi-colored rainbow color schemes, and high heeled boots on battle robots rubbed me the wrong way.

I do have like 5 different Zaku models. So far I've built one but haven't decided how to paint it yet. Big fan of realism in all things so I am tossing around the idea of painting all my Zaku variants in different tank camouflages and shit, maybe give one some BATTLE DAMAGE or something. Wear and tear. I think it'll look dope.

Really though, what I want most of all is for Heavy Gear or, fuck, even Mechwarrior / Battletech, or one of the better mecha-oriented games/shows/universes to get some good quality model kits like they have for Gundams.

You would probably like Dougram and Votoms.

 

[ICametoLurk]

You would probably like Dougram and Votoms.

Considering that Battletech plagiarized from Dougram that would work nicely with him wanting something like Battletech.