Can we take a minute to list every project announced so far, and our thoughts and feelings on what's to come?
>The live action movie
>The cgi UC thing
>Seed Movie
>Short Gunpla Metaverse show
>Two more Hathaway's flash movies
I think that's all, or am I missing something? Basically a bunch of movies and shorter projects.
That Unicorn 2 thing?
Was it officially announced or something? I swear to god I see those almost confirmed but not really posts, that claim that 00S3 was announced, that Wing Frozen Teardrop was announced, and so on. I mostly go by 100% official announcements. I don't even trust that UC100 plan that they have in the works.
Unicorn 2 was part of the UCNext0100 plan when they announced it, along with the Hathaway films.
>The live action movie
Will probably suck or be ok at best
>The cgi UC thing
IGLOO 2 BABY
>Seed Movie
No opinion I haven’t seen seed
>Short Gunpla Metaverse show
Hopefully it’s more in tone with GBF than divers
>Two more Hathaway's flash movies
The real shit but I’ll be surprised if it wraps up this decade at the pace it’s going
CGI UC shit isn't Igloo, it's a full western gundam. Only japanese staff will be some of the animators and the mecha designer.
It's directed by a german and written + scored by americans. All characters will be played by American actors too.
It should look pretty at least.
looks good
It's been how many years and americans still can't design a fricking robot to save their lives. Truly pathetic.
anon that's a regular ass Zaku II, you rerarded fricking baka
The greatest gundam was designed by American. Anon check your facts
The exception makes the rule.
The post you replied to literally said that the mecha designer is Japanese.
That doesn't make his post any less true.
The point is that in a gaijin production for gundam they still butt in and say "no, sorry, you won't be designing any robots".
Holy shit.... This is the stupidesy post on /m/...
put me in the screencap
kys
Why is it so beautiful?
ugly
Mark my words. We will (rightfully)apologize to Gsaviour after this drops
APOLOGIZE
There's also the unknown Gundam Silver Phantom, which we have no idea what it is.
A key member of F91 alsoteased an unknown project that will release "in around 5 years or so"
If we had to make a guess for the next TV length series, what would it be? Another AU set in a new timeline? I'd make a wager for a wait time less than the one between IBO and G-witch. Maybe new AU by early 2026?
I do however wonder if the lesson they learned from G-witch, is that there needs to be a gimmick to grab the attention of the masses. Which makes me wonder what the gimmick of the new AU would be.
>there needs to be a gimmick to grab the attention of the masses
No just a good script and interesting characters, not whatever cardboard shit they made in gbitch.
I do have a feeling that these days, most industries learn the wrong lessons from something being successful. I don't have any strong positive or negative feelings towards G-witch, but I will admit that a big portion of the audience was here for something else entirely. Gundam was just something they put up with, because this time it has X in it. I have a feeling that once they make another tv gundam, that plays things straight (no pun intended), a lot of that new audience will lose interest, as they were never really here for their love of the decades old mecha franchise.
>new fans don't have love of decades-old mecha franchise
obviously? They're new fans, this kind of thing has happened with every entry, some people will stick around and some don't.
Well, this is the most severe case of this happening. G-Witch had the biggest non-gundam hook so far. When new people tuned in for 00 and iBO, they were still tuning in for Gundam. When they tuned in here, they were tuning in for hopes of cute girls getting together, with some mecha whatever happening in the background. And the franchise can't really deliver on similar hooks every new entry.
I'll be honest with you, you sound like someone who wasn't around when these shows were airing.
It is not uncommon to find IBO fans, 00 fans or anything of the sort that simply don't have a interest in picking up other entires, hell there's people who still only know Wing Gundam after all these years. You mention a severe case but that's just a meaning statement without any real data.
>I'll be honest with you, you sound like someone who wasn't around when these shows were airing.
Okay you got me there. I got into Gundam around 2017, and I was a UC purist for a year or two.
>You mention a severe case but that's just a meaning statement without any real data.
I was a fly on the wall during much of G-Witch discussion, and I saw what kind of audience watched it. It has been a severe case of people tuning into Gundam, for reasons very much other than Gundam.
Yes there's multiple articles out there that stated they intentionally made this for a different audience.
https://akiba-souken.com/article/58646/
G-Witch producer Takuya Okamoto recalled a visit to the Sunrise/Bandai Namco Filmworks studio from a group of school kids, wherein he overheard them expressing such opinions as “Gundam wasn’t made for them” and a general expressing a “refusal to watch anything that was associated with Gundam.”
Apparently, Okamoto was not the only one who had worried that the franchise’s age had erected a generational barrier for entry, as according to him, the general plan for G-Witch even before he joined the series was to create an easier point of entry for the next generation of Gundam fans.
With the words of the visiting teenagers echoing through his mind, Okamoto said he sat down with his staff and discussed a different approach for G-Witch, ultimately deciding to set the series in a more traditional school setting in the hopes that teenagers would be better able to relate to the characters.
Providing further insight into this decision, Okamoto explained that younger audiences have found themselves uninterested in the series’ darker themes of child soldiers and a “war between major political powers” because they had no interest in a narrative that did not affect the characters on a personal level.
Coupled with the series’ 5:00 PM time slot on Japanese television, the production team believed it was “more important to develop an easy entry into the franchise and not to make the beginning of the story being too heavy.”
Interesting, I guess. But it's still a gundam at its core. I think this will bring more people in, it's introduced people to the basic themes. The only thing missing is the romance
>being child soldiers in a major war is NOT a narrative that affects the characters on a personal level
1. do the kids actually think that? that's dumb.
2. I haven't seen G-witch, but isn't it still basically a show about child soldiers, just with a training arc at the beginning?
no it's not about child soldiers. they are all early college age, with sulletta being a 2nd year age 17 and becoming 20 by end of series.
>they are all early college age
They are teens.
Maybe I'm reading too much into it, but I feel like there might be some concerning implications to people being unable to relate to escapism that has different settings and themes from their own personal life. Like some "Takeshi-san, how would you have felt if you hadn't had your gohan yesterday?" type stuff.
This is some jelly filled donut american bullshit.
Exactly what I stressed before: how can WfM be relevant for audiences in 2022 and now if it didn't have a war since a war began (between Russia and Ukraine) before WfM aired. While it's too late for WfM to reference the Russian invasion of Ukraine, I still think Ad Stella must reference the war since 2020s audiences will know about it (even if they really don't care for it).
If Tomino can compare what's going on in Ukraine to Mobile Suit Victory Gundam (https://www.zeonic-republic.net/?page_id=10488), why can't Ad Stella do so by having it's next animated work be a war between Nation A and Nation B (or in this case, new antagonist faction opting to invade Earth and the Fronts)?
>I will admit that a big portion of the audience was here for something else entirely
Sunken cost fallacy, I'd loved this to be a show with a good scripts lesbians or not, but it had neither romance nor a proper script.
We'll see. The success of Gwitch is measured how it does in a vacuum. It's measured about the pipeline. How it ads to franchise and how it brings in new people. Contray to belief the two major aims of AUs have been
1) to bring people into the Gundam pipe line
2) to revitalise Gundam in a modern form narratively and thematically
I think this can be compared to a Twitch raid.
>You get a big raid
>Your views jump from 200 to 1k
>But only a few people follow
>Next time you boot up a stream, you are still sitting at around 200 viewers, with maybe a new face or two there
G-witch got a big raid, but the raiders won't stick around.
Why do I feel a monkey's paw here? That when it finally happens, it will be a letdown.
I just want another long running UC series anime. AUs are okay, some are great, but I feel like Sunrise is keeping a locked safe for emergencies on some UC stuff that'd be really nice to adapt. Movies are good but I do miss weekly discussion on stuff. Wish I could have enjoyed G-Witch but it just wasn't for me after a few episodes.
what story is left to tell about UC
Era of warring space states is still unexplored and with minimal info on it. We have F91, Victory and G-Saviour but there’s a near 70 or so year gap between them
Okay but does it actually need to be told or can we just let stuff be shrouded in myth? I wouldn’t mind a anime remake of G-Savior but come on now, we can let some things be ambiguous rigyt? Especially with the black history that leads to turn A
And speaking of Turn A, did they make up of their minds yet whether or not it comes before or after G-Reco?
I would say the collapse of the federation and the end of the era are worth telling. They close the books on the opening period of UC and the end of the entire calendar. Better that than another OYW spinoff about some magic MUH SPUSHEL SEKRIT gundam or a poorly thought out AU that not even the writers seem to care about.
Turn A is before G-Reco
In G-Reco, people are trying to replicate the Moonlight Butterfly.
The collapse of the Earth Federation. It's an event that's confirmed to happen in multiple spinoffs, including direct Sunrise sanctioned projects like G-Savior, yet there's little to no information about how the federation collapsed, only before, afters, and asides.
There's also Armageddon, UC's final war that lasted for hundreds of years and ended with the Turn A resetting everything.
>There's also Armageddon, UC's final war that lasted for hundreds of years
cool
>and ended with the Turn A resetting everything.
lame ignore this shit
How much of Amuro's income was taxed during Zeta?
What if Yazan became a newtype?
Just how much sex did Seabook have after F91?
How many pancakes can the dog from Victory eat until he throws up?
I am afraid we are never getting a brand new UC anime, that is more than 12 eps long. UC had it's 4 big anime and it's bunch of OVA's and movies.
things dont need to be always new
old shows are good forever, nothing can ruin them
getting Unicorn format is good enough. 8-10 eps with each episode last an hour.
Tbh I don't want much UC, it's bloated ATM and it detracts from the fact the timeline is so messy. There are conflicting things that happen in shows let alone the books. I don't mind smaller OVAs or remakes
Sunrise also keeps managing to find these tryhard Western fans in the entertainment industry as they branch out internationally that each individually want to make their own 8th MS Team OYW story
I do think 08thMS is over rated. I feel like that many gundam fans don't like it.
The gimmick has always been it's been the corner stone of gundam
>What if gundam but a tournament
G fighter
>What if gundam but post apocalyptic
Gundam X
>What if gundam but adding parts to it
Age
>What if gundam but terrorists
00
What if gundam had PMC
IBO
Still, fans of terrorism and PMC's didn't tune in to 00 and IBO, just for that, and not for the Gundams, while all sorts of LGBT people, yuri fans, CGDCT fans and shippers tuned in to the Gundam show, with the mindset of ''usually I keep far away from Gundam, but this time there are cute lesbian girls in it, so I am giving this one a shot, despite the Gundam name''. I legit saw people like that all over the place. And I bet a very big % of those people won't return for the next one, if it's a more classic Gundam tale.
What do you define by classic tale? G-Witch is probably the most popular UC since Seed which is full of pandering.
AU, I meant AU
is that amuro? why he look so weird
It’s from CCA
SEED movie is cool to see just for the fact that it managed to return from the grave like Kira himself, but what I really want to see is another original 50 episode (or 2 25 episode seasons) AU that stands up to the legacy of SEED and 00.
I find it kinda interesting how the Hirai character designs have evolved. Even after Seed and Destiny, his style was kept alive and refined in the Fafner franchise. And now it returns to seed.
>original 50 episode (or 2 25 episode seasons) AU
Can't happen in the current anime industry.
This shit is collapsing. Even G-Witch had a troubled production.
Maybe Bandai can suck it up and buy Sentinel’s rights so they can animate it. We all know Sentinel kits sell like hotcakes so Bandai will make back the money eventually
what the frick is up with Sentinel right? Didn't Sentinel stuff shows up in vidyas already?
Sentinel has a rights issues with the guy who created. Yes the Sentinel Gundam showed up in a few VS games but it had no pilot.
Bandai has rights to the mechanical designs, not the story or characters.
Suletta confirmed for the Ex-S pilot
You can't disprove it
It says right there that the pilot is named Unknown.
They should just rewrite the story, it's not that amazing.
Sounds like a weird clusterfrick. Why the guy who wrote the story don't want to sell the right? It's not like he could just sell Gundam sentinel again on his own without the Gundam IP.
https://www.zeonic-republic.net/?page_id=9089
If this article is true, it's less clearcut and not just as simple as selling the rights or not. Sentinel began as a project around the time of CCA's development, but all of the initial talks were just verbal agreements where nothing was written down or documented in any legally binding way, and as the project dragged on over time due to Bandai focusing on CCA and years passed and personnel changed, the situation with Sentinel turned into a grey fog. It should be pointed out that while the issue of who holds the rights is a question, the current situation is not that Sentinel is being held hostage or that the moment Bandai tries to move forward that they will be sued. It sounds more like nobody can move forward because nobody wants to step on anyone else's toes. If anything, the text makes it sound like the fact that Sentinel designs are being made as gunpla and have been worked into games is a sign of progress. It took like 10-15 years for that to happen, so maybe the story issues can be worked out in time for the 50th anniversary, heh.
The first sentinel kits came out in like 1993
The first Sentinel kit was released in July of 1987, that was before serialization for it even began.
http://dalong.net/reviews/old/sen01/sen01.htm
Advance of Zeta anime (25 eps per season, 2 seasons)
Gundam Sentinel Anime (1 season, 25 ep)
Crossbone Anime (50 episodes, Tomino returns as director)
tbh Sentinel would works much better as a movie or two than a series.
Tomino is supposedly working on "3 new projects". One of those has got to be Gundam related somehow.
We'll proba see a hiatus in mainstream gundam for about 2 - 3 years since sunrise has the rights to make Macross next
It's regrettable a Gundam series is exclusive to Netflix.
Hathaway was utter shit but very pretty, which is honestly plenty good enough for anime; I'm happy to see more of those, though hopefully with a Gundam that's less fricking hideous.
Is Unicorn 2 real? I'm a Unicorngay.
It was on the UC Next 0100 slideshow presentation, but not officially announced yet so who knows when it'll be out.
CROSSBONE
ANIME
SOON
People have been saying that with literal decades at this point; hasn't happened yet though.
2 more weeks anon
2 more weeks
Bandai should focus on making new Gundam manga for AU and UC works but release it simultaneously like how Jump comics are now doing. Also, Bandai should improve the supply chain so it's easier for Gundam fans to buy gunpla across the globe(Aerial is the only gunpla you can easily buy from Amazon without paying a high markup)
There is zero excuse why Hathaway is taking way too long. I thought everyone loved the first movie, are they that terrified of the ending?
I remember there was some 2024 event they were waiting for.
Olympics
Probably because it takes time. moron.
They only started work on it a year or two ago.
Animated G-Saviour. I believe
>>The live action movie
It'll probably be mediocre.
>>The cgi UC thing
IGLOO was ugly but cool, so more of that is welcomed.
>>Seed Movie
Should've stayed buried.
Gunpla Metaverse show
I'll watch clips but that's it.
>>Two more Hathaway's flash movies
First one was trash. Hathaway is trash. Just move on from him.
No UC, no watch. Simple as. Exception for Tomino led shows but he's basically dead.
>but he's basically dead
Fool. Gunpla sales are used to fund the development of a real psychoframe-equipped mobile suit into which Tomino's consciousness will be eventually transferred. Those life-sized Gundam statues are just cover for the project; one will be real and the world won't know until it's too late. All hail RX-78-Tomino! May his space autism reign forever!
Does anyone really want to see the monkey piloting a suit from crossbone?
YES
Yes.