Why Gundam Age Failed
ฝัง
- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 19 ต.ค. 2024
- Gundam Age is by far the most unpopular Gundam entry in the Gundam franchise. But why? A professor tries to dissect why it failed and a discussion started on the Yaraon Blog about it.
Yaraon : goo.gl/z5zFUM
What's Up Japan Playlist : goo.gl/bI6mGw
Follow Us On:
Facebook : / tokyosaurus
Twitter : / tokyosaurus
Music by Joey Burbs:
/ joeyburbs
/ joeyburbs
![What is Gundam AGE? The Advanced Generation [Gundam Timelines]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/BKrJMD2Cx-8/mqdefault.jpg)
I'll say this about Age, I liked it better than I did with G Reconguista; at least I understood what was going on in Age.
Ditto
ShadowWriter45 XD well you have my vote!
G Reconguista was complete shit, the storytelling was garbage. AGE was watchable after hearing that the maker took other gundam storylines and mobile suit designs and combined them known as AGE.
ShadowWriter45 I liked the idea of the kids growing up and there kids taking on the role for the gundam pilots it was a cool idea and hope they bring it back one day
G reco is actually good its better than any AU.. The MS design is cool too...
I liked Age because of the idea of going through a family tree and seeing a Gundam evolve over time. The writing was lacking in some places, and the last arc was bad. Space Pirate Dad tried to save it with mid-life angst, but to no avail.
Like dragonball but gundam?
a shame, i thought Gundam Age's design was good. one of my favourite Gundam actually
Long time Gundam fan. I thought Age was a lot of fun. Really enjoyed a story told over three generations. And you have family who don't always get along. Reconguista was the first series i gave up on.
Yup me too, been watching gundam and building gunpla since '94-'95. I like Age, and i think most people hate it cause of 'childish' chara design issue. I really like the 70 Years of war of Age, hahahhaha..
@RD Policarpio i didnt even finish 3 episode
I gave up on build fighters, am I crazy because of that? I know its everywhere right now and been polupar for the past few years, but I was bored to tears trying to pay attention to the god awful pacing and lack of real stakes, and there was that ace with zero social skills who is inexplicably from another universe, I honestly got more of a kick out of frame arms girl, which basically just plagiarised the battle concept
THANK YOUUUUUUUU
Same i watched gundam age and it was actually the first gundam series i watched i love the series and I don’t see any problems but i guess am just a 10 year old that probably doesn’t understand what make’s a gundam anime so good and popular maybe in the future gundam age can get more popular but is very unlikely or gundam age gets a reboot which is also very unlikely but atleast we can all imagine a season 4, 5, 6 in our mind and 1 word cherished your youth FOREVER
At first I didn't want to watch it. Then I did. All I can say is... while it wasn't the best, I don't think it deserve all the hate it got prior to its release. It was kind of ok.
Gundam Age was NOT kid friendly at all. the entire show centered around the first main character trying to commit genocide the entire time. The literal hero of the show's entire reason for fighting went from "save everyone cause my mom died, and i helped build the gundam" to "you killed the girl i liked, now i will kill you're entire goddamn race". The show's main themes were genocide, and "it's ok to hate people that are different than you are", until the third main character, in which we got your typical "I'mma a pacifist, but will fight to make you stop fighting but wont kill you" character.
The show was VERY dark for something that looked so kid friendly, and while the whole idea of splitting the show into 3 stories about members of a family through the years was a neat concept, it needed far more than the standard 50 or so episodes to play out such a story. It was slow, it went very fast, you never actually had an opportunity to become attached to any characters, and there was just so much else wrong with it.
SlaterVJ i think the characters and the mecha design ruins the them of what u said
Indeed, AGE is dark
People judge the show by the artwork
Star Wars The Clone Wars was much darker than we expected it to.
"it's ok to hate people that are different than you are" so the Universal Century transitioned into the Imperium of Man ?
K, based on your reply, I am certain you didnt pay attention to the story. No, Flit didnt go on to kill the entire civilisation of the Vagan army because his girlfriend was friggin cannon fodder, rather it was because he did not see the Vagan as a "human" anymore. They use people for their own survival, even if it means killing them off. Flit's personality took a turn since he realised what the Vagan truly was. Yeah true, his girlfriend died, but imagine if you took someone else and put him/her in the Farsia (the machine Flit's GF was piloting, also im very lazy to type out the full spelling of "girlfriend") he, would frankly, turn into the same personality that he is right now. Speaking of which, when you say DARK, you are only referring to Flit. That part of the AGE series was dark since they made Flit into a friggin psychopath that would eat your eyes out if you behaved improperly. But look at the other 2 people, Asemu and Kio. They were only fighting under the leadership of Flit. Kio is the best example. Shanalua told him that keeping himself alive out in the field is top priority since she learnt that Kio was adapting an offensive fighting style, and who was it that taught him that? Flit. Gundam AGE may look like a dark anime, but thats only because of the character Flit. Everyone keeps their own personality, even if they were to be under the leadership of Flit. Kio keeps his pacifist personality despite his grandfather telling him to kill everyone he sees. Thats the beauty of Gundam AGE, they manage to keep each character's personality untouched and unchaged throughout the series, and bump it up a little only when there is an emotional event. So, saying Gundam AGE is dark is almost entirely wrong.
Honestly Gundam AGE failed because it wasn't marketed properly.
The series was created to get a younger generation of children around ages 6-12 into Gundam by competing with pokemon, digimon and yokai watch, this is why AGE was created in collaboration with level-5 who developed the Gundam AGE rpg.
However AGE was barely marketed as a kid's show and so the only ones who were watching attention were Gundam fans, most of which are anywhere from late teens to early forties.
I honestly think a lot of the hate the show got was unwarranted and
due to it being apart of the Gundam franchise a different age group latched onto it and hated the show because it wasn't the "serious war drama" Gundam they wanted.
Imo I thought it was alright for what it was, but if Bandai ever tries something like this again (which they kinda did with build fighters but I digress) they need to really make it clear to their consumers who their demographic is going to be.
Underrated coment. Your comment holds more weight compared to the channel's undeniably biased opinion. Sourcing Yaraon of all places, where the articles are click bait isn't exactly doing the world a favor. This is by no means something that is "Trending in Japan" and is simply an Internet farce that's used to deliver opinionated driven news. IBO which was and is one of the heavily marketed series didn't fair well and has had viewerships comparable to Age.
Considering the Quality of both plamo and TV show of IBO, Banrise did well to undermine it's potential. It also led to one of the Animation director to leave. That's more of news than this, but still isn't an actual trend.
Infinite view, Exactly. They managed to pull off GBF by marketing it for what it was, a fighting tournament toy show, putting it on a platform that gets a lot of traction from their target audience, TH-cam, and sticking to their premise like glue. I showed GBF to a pre-teen boy who never heard of Gundam nor watched much anime, and he was hooked and asking his mom for Gunpla within a couple weeks. That's how you target a show.
Age never felt like it knew exactly who it was trying to target and kept trying to be things it wasn't.
japzone Don't forget that GBF has large amount of fan-service... Not just the MILFs, boobs and ass type of fan-service... What made GBF a slight success to me is that they put characters from other main gundam series like Quatro bajeena, ramba ral, domon kasshu and many more! And people even call GBF gundam valhalla because some dead gundam characters appear in the series...
Infinite view it also doesn't help matters that bandai shutdown it's American distributor at the time with no clear plan to return ruining a chance at second market life.
***** Was that ever translated into English?
Gundam Age follows the 'All Out Faction War' formula we've seen in previous Gundam titles. Such as Gundam 0079, Seed and Seed Destiny but there was just something off about it. The enemy faction, which I can't seem to remember much about them other than they're from Mars, wasn't that interesting. Interesting premise but just bad execution. The characters were meh and nothing TOO memorable. I think AGE is the reason we haven't had another 'All Out Faction War' type Gundam series in a while. I was never a big fan of what IBO was, which is basically Young teenagers fighting against the establishment (Wing, 00, War in Pocket). I hope the next Gundam iteration is all out war again with some good story and pacing. AGE was just...meh. I only finished it because there were times where it actually looked like it was starting to get good.
Reconguista in G confused me and I never finished it. But, I can see that Gundam Age shows respect to the original series. Age-1 was model after the RX-72 Gundam, Age-2 was after Zeta Gundam , Age-3 was after ZZ Gundam and Age-FX was after Amuro’s Nu Gundam. The story branch out well, and they didn’t push on forcing to make multiple other Gundams.
The G-Reco series is terrible. I watched the comp movies and they make some sense, kind of.
I assumed the reason why it didn't do well was because they tried to cram three generations worth of stories in to one series and I personally liked the earth federation suits of age especially the main gundam of the series
strawberrybankai12 yes thats what i mean they should have either made more episodes (to flesh out the characters) or my personal favorite just fucking stay with flint and the man characters as kids idrc if they aged just dont change the fucking cast it was good in the first part (imo) the last 2 parts where dreedfull to me
I personally hated the simplified Fed-designs. I like the alien-esque Vagan suits a lot more. Oh, and Dark Hound is always cool.
androyus I don't know maybe it's because I've gotten used to mono eye/zaku-esque grunt suits so I wasn't really a fan of the vagan and yes dark hound is awesome it was one of my first hg age kits I've lost the hand guard/plate for one of the hands though so that really pisses me off
Ya age 1 look not bad but age 2 damn good but age 3 are shit
You say simplified designs, I say cleaner lines. AGE-2 is an absolute blast in terms of design.
i like the overal design of the units, what i wasnt as much fan of, was the gimmicks they went for this time around. there are too many face palming "kits" in age that you have to stop and think who in their right mind would pilot/design this abomination?
they were too preocupied with themes instead of functions, that meant lack of personality, and closer to "mobile suits cosplaying".
on a side note, thats also the reason im not a fan of crossbone, however, there we at least functional suits(well so long we dont count those 3 abominations of super hero cliche we got, but i digress).
How do I say it. The too simple artstyle did them injustice. I am a Gunpla fan, and Age has the second best designs in the series after 00. I also hate the IBO style of Mad Max like robots.
I love Gundam AGE, especially Part 2 and it's MC. The show is btw still pretty dark. The final battle reaches Zeta levels of named character deaths
StrikeFreedomV2 nah dude. There are like 4 deaths trough the whole show.(Which is actually much for an anime, but well we are comparing it to Gundam) You re right about it being dark but there was just no atmosphere. Age could ve done much better if we had a dark atmosphere.
Seb A. 4? Sure we watched the same show?
StrikeFreedomV2 why
Seb A. 4 wtf! desil, yurin, obright, remi, zeheart, woolf, and many more are Dead even Flitt is dead at the end of series, you never watch AGE huh dude?
there are waaaaaay more deaths than 4 my friend...
From a mecha design point of view, AGE's simplified, blocky minimalist designs make them look more like giant plastic toys than actual machines for war.
when i first saw the designs i was just genuinely confused wether or not i was looking at a gundam or an entirely different anime. and to think the story revolves around war. they dont really seem like theyre suited for war
the mg with the vent details and moderate panel lines addition makes it look so good and kinda realistic, not like remastered zaku realistic but still more plausible than most AU gundams
But isn’t any gundam series? What war machine would be printed bright white, red, and blue
That’s because the Gundam’s were meant to be re-imagining’s of the RX-78-2, the Zeta, the ZZ, and the Nù Gundam respectively.
i really thought at the first that AGE is one of the Build fighter series
i honestly think AGE has some of the best mecha designs in all of the gundam series. i agree that the characters doesnt look like they belong in the gundam universe but when i heard one of the main reason this series didnt sell was the mecha design, i just disagree. ah well, might as well say good bye to MG Age fx and MG Age-3 for good now ㅠㅠ
They were planning MGs for AGE?? I dont like the series, but its a whole different story if its the gunpla.
I just watched AGE this year after skipping it for so long,
while I don;t like all the designs some of my favorites are from AGE,
the Gundam AGE-1 full glansa and AGE-2 double bullet are beautiful.
I can see why it's not that popular but I did enjoy watching Gundam Age,
I would love to see a more mature toned gundam series but with the structure from AGE,
where we get to see different generations and actually see characters age a lot.
The Glansa was Like the True Age 1 for me
Wow. I'm surprised to hear that. I loved Age. Not my favorite Gundam but still one I loved when I finished it: it told three Gundam stories with in one series, didn't have a lot of what could be considered padding and I enjoyed seeing the evolution aspect in the series as the Gundam updated for each generation in the series. I thought it was very nice overall. Shame to hear it didn't do so hot.
Gundam age felt like kids playing war, no one felt like the right age to be fighting in a war even the adults, where as IBO was perfect in tone and design.
wisperinmyghost Which was a disappointment because I liked someone of Gundam designs.
Turtle Essence I liked the basic Gundams, but those flashy packs like Spallow or Titus moved like power rangers with their stupid poses. Ibo didn't necessarily have better designs but Ibo knew how to make them badass.
I'd say IBO had the right setting. Orphaned kids fighting to survive in a cruel and unforgiving world ruled by corrupt and greedy scum bags. There is no war involved, compared to other series, the ones in IBO would be dwarfed as skirmishes, plus the one sided nature of said skirmishes. It's just a shame that the execution was done poorly.
wisperinmyghost I'd still say it had some iffy moments but God damn was it so good and hype man.
IBO was nowhere near perfect in tone and design. It failed horribly in execution and its tone made no sense in context.
And are we going to ignore the fact that Age had a lot pretty mature themes about it that was handled relatively well. Flit was basically genocidal; there was the theme of regressing genetically for more combat power at the cost of basically not advancing the human race; an entire race of people was basically forgotten in the anals of history until they reemerged.
"an exia with less details" uh... no? it's AGE take on the RX-78, i just finished all the spin offs (X, Wing, Seed, 00 and IBO) and honestly AGE is not that bad, Seed and Wing was a drag with horrible characters, you people should watch them again as adults lol
Look I said the same thing when I first saw the art style in Age. When I actually watched it I was impressed, it has a good story, I didnt realize people thought this little of it. Totally underrated.
Age was a kid friendly retelling (again) of the one year war through the eyes of different generations and how sins of your father and his past can’t define you. So yea there was a reason why the 1st Gundam looked like the RX-78 not fucking Exia.
Yo Flit is probably the one of the most interesting characters in the Gundam franchise.
Level-5 learned from their mistake in Gundam Age and made LBX. A product better suited to the kids and to be honest a more enjoyable expirence
LBX is great IMO
I thought both LBX and Gundam Age came out at the same time in 2011.
Characters look like they belong in Pokémon 😂
I had trouble trying to decide why I hated the character design so much and you summarised it perfectly in one comment.
Well played.
Alejandro Chavez but in some scenes they look like from 00 but yeah because its from da dudes who made yokai watch
Doesn't Level-5 work for OLM studio ? That's the same studio that produce Pokemon anime.
Wow , OLM ruined both Pokemon and Gundam.
Alejandro Chavez This exactly!!
That is why I have not watched it. Looks way too childish and pokemon-esque
I did like Age, if anything it has some of the coolest grunts and very unique bad guy suits. But Age was suppose to be for a younger audience, hence why it was so different. The younger audience didn't really care so they tried making it for a older audience about half way in and then it just kind of died.
AGE is trash, but i love this trash can. I have 15 HG kits of them anyways.
Lol I was dumb enough to buy AGE master grade kits...
Wait... Gundam AGE is worst then G Reconguista?!?
G reco is the best gundam in AU besides Turn A
dunno man, g reco has heart even when you the story pacing is a mess with the one random battle per episode.
i dunno man the pacing was way off for me. Gave up after two episodes
I was surprised as well, I still to this day can't understand how I managed to sit through that shitfest mess all the way to the end. Many of Tomino's works tend to be pretty bad, but G Reco reached new lows, even for him.
I can't even watch G Reconguista for even 1 episode. hate it. I really like AGE tho, it's pretty good. the design is cool. and lotsa space fighting
I really liked Gundam AGE especially with the Asemu arc.
ohh btw this is the meaning of gundam its from google LOL! "A Gundam is an advanced, high performance mobile suit, often constructed to be much more powerful than the standard production mobile suits. They are generally equipped with the latest experimental technology available at the time of their construction. The definition of a Gundam varies from one timeline to another." A Gundam should look unique because they are models or rather a representative figure of their timeline or Era.
For me Gundam Age would probably have been better if it had a better design. All the design just feel took childish almost something out of Build Fighter.
I disagree and agree. This show was anything but 'kid friendly'. The show was great all until the last couple episodes which has to be the worst way to end a gundam series EVER!!!!! The first protagonist was my favorite because of how he grows up to become what he becomes in the end.
most of the people that dislike age are people who probably never finished it or didnt watch most of the gundam shows ... usually 00 fans
well. gundam age is pretty good actually. i pretty like it.
i thought AGE was the worst Gundam series to date. Till G reco came out.
AGE had potential, Hound/AGE 2 Gundam is still one of my favorite designs, but the switching of protaganist and weak story was its downfall.
I feel that people didn't like AGE for one simple reason: mecha fans are super allergic to being thought of as immature. I think that's why Danball Senki got ignored, too, at least over here (and isn't it dead now?). Sure, anime fans in general are like this, but mecha fans seem to be particularly bad about it.
It sucks, too, 'cause the merch for AGE was amazing, and could have led to some really cool stuff if it had been even remotely popular. Action figures where you can mix-and-match parts, then take it to an arcade and scan it in and fight your buddy's custom MS. Can't make it to the arcade? No problem, grab an AGE Device, and maybe also the interactive Haro; they both can scan your figures (and also your Advanced Grade model kits) and let you play mini games to level them up and stuff. Also, seeing as it was produced by Level 5 (just like Danball), there's a FANTASTIC game (also like Danball, which actually has a handful of fun games), an action RPG for PSP that also lets you mix-and-match parts to make custom MS, and then level them up and whatnot, like a prototypical Gundam Breaker.
At least the Try Age arcade/card game survived, I can only assume because it plays down the AGE part and has MS and characters from all of the Gundam AUs.
This is Japan, not America
@@thomasffrench3639 what does that have to do with anything they said?
What? Gundam Age is less popular than the abomination that's called Gundam Reconguista?
I love Gundam Age, particularly the difference in fighting between the three generation Gundam pilots
I followed Gundam AGE and it is true that is so much different even for an Alternative Century
right after I got to see Gundam Build Fighters and it shows more complex designs even for the original gunplas
because that's what will happening when they putting yukai watch characters in it .
Oh come on, say what you want about AGE 1-TITUS or SPALLOW, but you can’t bash on the sheer awesomeness that is the FX.
Gundam Age did pretty good if you ask me in my opinion and the Gundam design's and are really cool and you shouldn't judge the series by just looking at the art design but i do agree that it was rushed by Kio's arc and it's actually quite dark that a lot of people didn't notice like Flit lost a lot of people he cared about before losing himself to get revenge on the Vagan.This series deserves more credit than it should have
The people who skipped AGE because of the designs missed out on what I believe is one of the greatest Gundam story concepts in history. It wasn't perfect but I think they delivered if you look at the big picture.
Sadly, we can't blame humanity for always just taking things at face value.
Anyway I think AGE should've had more episodes per arc. They could've fixed its problems with a higher budget.
In terms of marketing, AGE wasn't very successful (because of the conflicting audience targets) but I think it was still a very good experiment. Heck, I think we wouldn't have the highly successful Build Fighters if it weren't for the lessons learned from AGE.
i watched Gundam Age and i know i am in the minority that thought it was "ok". I liked the three part story that they did, but i do think the mechs weren't as "cool" as previous gundams and some characters could be better
Allan Silveira gotta say that I liked AGE 2 and AGE 3 more than the first, specially AGE 2 ( While the ZZ motive of AGE 3 is amazing as well )
Age was supposed to be a game, and somewhere along the line they decided to go anime with it. There are apparently a lot of glaring issues that usually come with such drastic media transitions. It's been years since I dug into this so that's a grotesque simplification and one reason it didn't do well.
IMO, what ruined AGE besides the writing is the fact that we saw the other two protagonist before their arcs which threw the surprise elements away. I loved the first arc as a throwback of sorts to MSG, but it got worse and worse. I wish it was way better, but oh well.
Flip.555 Now that you mention it
that could be a cause....heck, we got to see the third protagonist ( and 3rd generation of AGE ) In less episodes than the other 2
I don't really see what people don't like in gundam age, i did quite enjoy it when it first aired, then again it was my first gundam series and i'm quite biased against it
Thunderbolt is how gundam should be, sorry but emo boys dont belong in war, war is filled with ptsd'ed adults, and war machine kills not stand around being heroic.
Errorcutive so true and even ilgoo is dark and bloody
Errorcutive What about amuro look how he turned out? Also no every series really should be like thunderbolt to be honest
Gundam is a coming of age story, it was always about teens, or boys, coming to realize that the world they live in ain't so small. You see it happen with Amuro, Kamille, Judau, Kou, the kid from war in the pocket who got caught in between the crossfire, Kou, Banagher, Kira (yes I'm using seed), Setsuna and so many other pilots. It's about waking up to the real world, however terrible it might be, and brave the eventual storm by getting to understand OTHER people. You might call these pilots EMO but they are just kids trying to adjust to the world they don't fully understand (the brutality of war more specifically).
Thunderbolt is a great series, but I think it's what happens when two sides abandon empathy. Io is a great pilot (one of the better non-new type federation pilots), but he doesn't understand his opponent, and that's why he never truly defeats Darryl. Char's counter attack is one of the greatest animated stories of Gundam history, but even through all the fighting, the characters always strived to understand the enemy.
So ¯\_ツ_/¯ I like EMO teens as pilots because of their naive nature -refusing to kill a lot of the times- and their ability to extend empathy towards others -and thus becoming new-types-.
Unlimited Phantasy sorry but im not fuckin american, and second dont you all even get annoyed by the endless crying bout and bullshit, Tomino wanted to make a war story in 0079 but the emo bs part got in too much imo, how can you relate to war time condition when all your time watching is spend on emo bs.
Truth be told, having adult protagonist helped focus the story on their suffering due to the war NOT their puberty bs.
I don't get tired of watching the struggles of people trying to understand each other on the battlefield with cool mobile suits warfare mixed in between if that's what you are asking. Mind you Gundam was one of the darkest animes to come out at its time, unlike anime of today where every other season we would get a gore fest or two. As for relating to war time conditions through the eyes of a new partaker in the war, it's one of the oldest narrative tools available to writers. By having a character as young as the main targeted audience, the character can grow with the viewers and thus have greater impact when a particular character is killed off. RIP KAMILE'S Mind.
I understand where you are coming from. Little boys are whiny, ok. I think though, it's just real life (minus the giant mech suit part)
You say Thunderbolt has adult characters, but Daryl is most likely below or just about 20 years of age. As recruitment age is usually 18+1 year of infantry combat. Io also is probably not even in his 30. These two would be considered as kids by actual adults with 30+ years of experience under their belt. They both are absolutely haunted by CHILDhood memories. However you might say it, these 'adult' characters are still shaped by the experiences they had as a child (which all ties back into the coming of age theme).
I didn't think that Age was all THAT bad. It wasn't as good as preceding series 00, but it had its moments. It was definitely better than the second half of SEED Destiny and G Reconguista, but that's not a high bar to achieve. I didn't like the character designs, I didn't like how it was basically 3 series + movie crammed into 50 episodes (the parallels between MSG, Z, ZZ, and CCA are way too obvious). The technology didn't really seem to make much sense and it seemed to devolve into "magic, but in space" with a few of the suits (like with energy Bits, fram farsia's beam ribbon, etc.) The only arc that was worth watching was Asemu's arc, and I think the folks in charge knew that since they made a movie dedicated just to Asemu / Zehart. It's disappointing that so much focus was on side characters that ultimately didn't really matter in the grand scheme of things (Obright, Captain Milas in the third arc, a few of the villains), but not enough on other characters like Desil, Zehart, or even Flit. I wanted someone call out Flit for his douchebaggery, but no one would until the self-righteous Kio did it, and he only did it because his Grandpa was about to commit genocide. But other than that stuff? It was decent, just not as deep or interesting as other Gundam series. But then again, it was riding off the coat tails of Gundam 00 which, in my mind, is one of the best gundam series especially given that it's tackling post-9/11 settings and themes.
Never judge an anime by its art ;)
Examples: Kemono Friends, Madoka Magica
Lune - chan ehh, that's just plain stupid.
That's your opinion :P haha
Lune - chan You haven't watched age and other Gundam entrys, havent you? (Art is a big part of the atmosphere)
Seb A. art is one of the things that make the anime but not the whole anime, (lucky star, nichijou, TTGL etc.) they dont have classy art styles but they're good, i think bcoz of the way how the story flows ep1 really didnt catch my interest but bcoz im a mecha fan i still tried it
Earon Samar I said that Art is an important factor of the atmosphere. Shows can be good while ignoring that, but if the story is just average the show wont be good. Also I ask you: have you watched some Gundam shows? You d notice the differences.
It's too subjective if you call this scientific proof of why AGE is failed -_-
I don't care what people say, AGE will always be my favourite Gundam series.
Ayy same here fam
I'm
I especially like the vagen designs, they better make MG kits
Good for you. I watched it and liked it as well ;)
yep, gundam age is carved deeply in my childhood memories
gundam age is a deceptive show, its design might look kid friendly, but the story is anything but... the main character bascially dedicated himself to perform genocide after he is forced to kill his crush.. that said, Yurin's death is some of the saddest death scene I experince in a very long time.
Gundam Age is better than G Reconguista
gundam age was most probably meant for children instead of bloodbaths like the usual gundam series. thats why gundam age is more on the friendly side
Kamen rider shout out
Gundam age was not pushed like Wing, Seed, 00, or even G Fighter. You can have the best product in the world but if no one knows it won't do well.
G Reconguista was way worst than Age
I didn't hate Age. People act like this is the first Gundam series they did for kids. I thought it was pretty good.
Age is 10x better than IBO.
I disargee, but i respect your opinion.
For me the opening song alone already made IBO better than AGE.
But i watched both, AGE had some neat designs.
the main thing i liked about AGE was how it took 3 family generations to tell the story i didnt mind this series at all
AGE was terrible after the 1st arc.
『Shadownick』 no, after the third arc ( the grandson of Asemu was simpatetic but ohh boi Asemu was just a complete idiot after what happened 2 arcs ago )
『Shadownick』 agreed
So why did you so an image of Kamen Rider V3 in your line up off Heisei Riders?
Also thoughts on the current airing Rider, Kamen Rider Ex-Aid?
should I watch gandam wing
oh course.gundam wing is great especially for it time.though the anime has some plot holes in it.it still a great gundam anime.but if you want to read it with those holes fixed go to zeonic scanlations.they have the first 11 volumes of gundam wing glory of the losers translated into english and it still follows the anime but the five gundams are changed a bit to fit better with the OVA of endless waltz when the manga finishes and like a said before,fixes the holes that the anime had in when it ran back in the 90's and early 2000's for americans
Crimsons Ninja100 Mianite it's a must watch for any Gundam fan granted the plot gets very convoluted in the middle of the series due to multiple factions but it's worth it just for the fights and Gundam designs it stands up pretty well for mid 90s anime
pussybacon thx for the info
Much better read the manga Gundam wing EW: glory of the losers, it's the same story with anime, but a better execution of story since that's the series writer's Katsuyuki Sumizawa truly intended story
in comparison i consider iron blood orphans and reconguista as failures but only in my eyes. I thorougly enjoyed AGE actually.
I don't get why AGE gets so much hate. I loved the mech design and while the story wasn't great, it was leagues better than Seed or Destiny.
At least we were able to follow the story in Seed and Destiny compared to G Reconguista.
MushaGundamMKIII gundam age makes war as a fun little harmless games and moking the deaths on the war of gundam age
MushaGundamMKIII I honestly didn't mind that but I guess others did and now Build Fighters is a thing I and I'm not complaining about it.
G reco have told what they were doing throughout the whole series.
Turtle Essence Yeah well, there are people who like Gundams in childish storys and some who dont. I certainly do not like that.( And so do many older Gundam fans)
Thanks Tokyosaurus. You reminded me that IBO ended.... now I feel sad. Geez, I really hope we get more series like IBO it was badass!
Don't like Iron Blood Orphans either
I'm glad that you titled this "Why Gundam Age Failed" because while it failed, it wasn't bad by any means. It took quite a different approach in many respects that clearly didn't pay off but it wasn't bad. In fact, I liked the concept of the entire thing and watching it play out was a good time.
But things like the story beginning to pick up, designs, etc. are subjective and it's unfortunate that it suffered because people couldn't get past the fact that it strayed from what they're used to. Gundam IS what it is and while you can't deviate too far from the original design, AGE didn't really do that. It just looked different from its predecessors but it's not so different that I wouldn't consider it good.
SD Gundam is the type of overly dynamic take on Gundam that's just too different for words... and it's not good.
I still don't know how SEED and SEED Destiny are at the top. those were terrible shows.
Because they're the oldest, duh.
lizard81288 and accrdng to a survey worth 40 yrs, lacus hold the most no,1 spot for best waifu/girl till 2015
just aprive Sumeragi best waifu.
Because Japan loves Gary Stu characters and emo kids.
Their mech designs saved them. Admit that. They all looked sick even if twats were piloting them.
I always loved how the 3 Age gundams are 3 alternate versions for the RX, Zeta and Zeta ll
Oh man. I wonder how many times these characters had to run to school because they were late! That's some pretty gross Gundam designs.
That one moment G reco, Seed, 00 second season and movie were worse than Age
for me nothing will beat gundamn wings eithre in story or design
hero best character
C Vox Wing has a special place in my heart as well but if you look at it now with adult eyes, it wouldn't stand up as anything great.
you're joking right? heero failed suicide everytime lol
hero was the homie despite the fact I hate char tht act like him
i'll admit this is my nostalgia ass speaking
but still...
iron blooded orphans in my opinion had better writing and ms design.
I put off Gundam AGE for quite a bit but eventually tried it out. The first arc is kind of childish, but after that it gets into more serious territory. It has a really good narrative on how the horrors of war affect people and how even good people can make terrible moral decisions. It takes time to get going but I found it to be hard to put down after the first arc was over.
Age > Recognista
My issue with age was really the time period shifting. I felt like I was finally getting to know and really be invested in the characters and then those characters go poof and are replaced with new characrers.
Sure older characters turn up in the later time periods and (I'm assuming) all three pilots are there at the final battle, but I lost interested after I was expected to get invested in a THIRD new cast or characrers.
i think gundam AGE is a turning point for gundam... u can see from most of it design now....has many influence from gundam age xP
Personally I like the look of some of the AGE suits. For me, too many details are painful to look at. Sorta why I didnt enjoy Michael Bay Transformers.
But, I am going to give this show a try after G-Reco.
Funny enough, Gundam Age is the only Gundam i took the time to watch while it was on, i didn't even go back for the second season of Iron Blooded orphans
i liked AGE, im not afraid to admit it. sure, the characters werent really memorable, but i did like the designs in it, in fact one of my favorites from it is the Gundam AGE-3 Normal
I also do feel like at the time Bandia of Japan was trying to make a entry-level Gundam series for new fans.but they finally got it right with Gundam and build fighters and build fighters try
Makes sense why the art style is letting me think about Danball Senki (Little Battlers Experience)
To be honest here, i never thought gundam age was a bad show. Revisiting the show after so long, i do now why people hate it, but i don't bother to care. I'm someone who watched Pokemon as a little kid, so going into this show, i knew what i would see in terms of character design, but the designs never bothered me. After a while, you get used to them.
Gundam Age didn't fail.
binge watched it for my March anime marathon. I enjoyed it because the art style reminded me of build fighters. after completing it I really liked how the characters interacted with each other however as time went on I did relise that it wasn't as good as the other gundam series but even still enjoyed it. I might just like Gundam to much to even discriminate between them....
Didn't got a chance to actually watched Gundam Age, bit what is circulation in the fandom is that the story and character arcs are too compressed and didn't got the time to flourished due to the 50 episode limit of the series. BUT. The kits from the Age series are one of the best kits from any line. the kits looked almost exactly to the animation counterparts, have good articulations and color separations. HG Age FX and HG/MG Age 2 line is my favorite.
If Gundam Age was really meant for younger audiences, then should we be surprised that adult audience doesn't like it? This series could actually be improved if the story was expanded and didn't time skip generations. Plus the Gundams have more cooler variant that didn't appear in both anime and manga but it did in the PSP game. I believe Level 5's interference for making it "child friendly" compressed this series and turning it into shit. Thus it failed in 2 ways; 1. It fails for younger audience for having dark plot and death scenes 2. It fails the older audiences (us) for failing to show the hidden plot holes and widening of the story (have you seen the teen Flit and his badass AGE-1 Razor, it only appeared in the game and NEVER on the series itself) which makes the characters and their development horrible.
I respectfully disagree with the "designed for kids thus adults don´t like it" statement.
While not false, shows like Teen Titans, Kim Possible and My little Pony - Friendship is Magic all were designed for kids yet had their largest fanbase among adults.
And those are just 3 shows that came to mind right now.
Age is Iron Blooded Orphans for kids
It was more due to a series of unfortunate events that I didn't get to watch AGE. The three-generation storyline was interesting on paper, but I understand it was also pivotal to the plot not being built up enough. There just wasn't enough time to do so given how ambitious the target was.
Out of the mecha designs, the AGE-2 Normal and Dark Hound appealed to me the most. Such a shame they didn't work so well in plastic model kit form.
I'm still trying to find ways of watching AGE...which is more than what I can say for Reconguista in G. Regardless of Tomino's involvement, I was just indifferent to that series. Looks like my indifference was justified.
I literally loved most mecha design in Gundam Age, they made it to target a younger audience and get them into the Gundam universe but it wasn't marketed properly as it was going up against Pokemon/digimon/etc. The G Bouncer is prolly one of my favorite mecha designs ever.
i liked gundam age and watched it all the way through, but it did have problems; it was WAY to ambitious with its story from underdeveloped story to characters. memory of eden was released to fill in some gaps but by that point it was to little to late. one of my biggest gripes with the anime was the female leads in each arc; you knew exactly what they were there for (love interests) and that was really it. also, devoting an entire episode near the end of the series to a character (spriggen) that gets killed off when they shouldve just spent that time developing the story and characters already there. they made some bad choices but i loved the premise they were going for in that it was introducing 3 heroes and asemus gundam age-2 and arc are still my favorite from the series. i just wish they spent more time developing the story and characters.
Well, thank you Age for giving us Iron-Blooded Orphans.
Meh no matter how bad the anime may be the mobile suits are always great to me
I watched a few episodes a couple years ago. That said I haven't gone back too finish and I also wondered why this Gundam series wasn't as popular? Until I came across videos such as these. 👍🏻
I liked Gundam Age. It was most definitely better than G-Reco.
Do you can enable subtitles automatic?
I loved AGE, most people just hated it because of it's design ( and kio asuno ) but ironnicaly it's one of the most interresting gundam ever, you have one of the best character devellopment ( not some dumb like hero or setsuna " i'm going to destroy the target " only mindset ) and for once an interresting story because or once we didn't just get the " we are the nice guys and we must stop the bad guys ", in fact even the vagan aren't bad, they just want to create an eden where their is no war or sickness, sadly the way they tried to do it put the humanity at war and our 3 heroes tries to put a end to that.
In fact AGE wasn't kid friendly at all, it was a lot about mass genocide and importante character dying... i mean... it's nearly the game of thrones of gundam with the number of character dying lol
Fun fact about the desing, even if it's indeed "toyish" it's acceptable because of it's graphism, you can't have highly detailed MS with that kind of graphism, in fact in that regard 00 is the real toyish one, despit having some incredible graphism their is nothing realistic about all the GN suit and gundams, it was like some HD toy.
If people want reallistic MS just go for SEED or iron blooded orphan.
Spoiler : a lot of people hated kio asuno for beeing to nice like kira yamato from SEED in worst but when you really analyse AGE you see it had to be that way since the real MC is flit asuno, since that one became more and more angry against the vagan he needed a grand child like kio to call back he's good side to let him finnaly became the savior he tried to be since the start of AGE.
I actually really enjoyed Age. I did find it more effort to like, initially, but the series has a lot to like about it. There's also a lot of nostalgia bait for older viewers in there. The more kid-friendly approach meant that main characters weren't dropping like flies, or dying of severe cases of not wearing their helmets on the bridge of a ship in battle (lookin' at you, Zeta Gundam!), but when those few deaths did happen, they hit hard because I'd been lulled into thinking everyone had plot armour. Also, despite teh kiddy animation style, Flit is undeniably one of the more badass Gundam protagonists. I mean, jumping from the cockpit of one mobile suit to another, in a hard vacuum, with no space suit? Fucking ballsy move. I think that was the moment I decided I really liked the show.
It even has a good internal consistency. In other seires, one might wonder why experienced military engineers are making machines that look like they're out of kids' stories. In Age, it holds up. There are all of these romanticised stories about the old White Mobilesuit, the Gundam,. If we buy the conceit that Flit is a child genius mobile suit designer, then of COURSE he's going to fully buy into the notion of the Gundam, like a child.
Basically, I consider Gundam Age to be a lot of effort, but WORTH the effort. It deserves props for being the first main series to take us beyond the Earth Sphere as a main setting, too. Previous series obviously had characters who had returned from Jupiter, but even those in which Jupiter featured heavily still occurred ONLY around the Earth Sphere. Gundam 00's alien life were from another place entirely, and the series' movie ended with them. It didn't really do anything more with the idea.
Age felt like a tribute to all the gundams that came before it...
Characters are like 9-11yrs old. Too young!!
I watched all of it! I liked it way better than G Reco, but I can see why people skipped it. Age had "entry level Gundam" all over it, and that's before the Level 5 aesthetic. The designs looked more fitting for LBX/Danball Senki, which is why it turned hardcore fans off.
Iron Blooded Orphans went the extreme direction, and it did not exactly pay off big time. Look at the toys and merchandise by Bandai, they're still going with Gundam Wing, Seed, 00 (00 even gets a new movie). Veeeery quiet for IBO stuff.
Personally, I hated the ending (main characters and Gundams got wiped out like punks). But there are many other people that supported it and said it's refreshing. I couldn't be bothered arguing with them. Sales is all that mattered and the bottom line. So if IBO toys are not selling, then they won't try to do that dumb sh*t again.