Thread 281287954

The return of the king of anime is upon us

>Anno saved Gundam
As expected from the master

>>281288003
>somehow one piece and daima are worse than gquckshit
really makes you think

A detailed breakdown:

>>281287954 (OP)
>a bunch of girls buying gunplas because it's the popular thing even though they dont care about the actual anime
that is not a good thing

>>281287954 (OP)
Dear diary, today Japan had shit taste.

>>281288038
So it's #2, and Twitter can't read "FY2026.3".

New chapter in the destruction of /a/ - Shounenspics now posting twitter screenshot threads.

>>281287954 (OP)
I've been reading One Piece for 20 years but that shit is undeserving of being number 1 so this are great news.

Gundam lowkey sucks and every Gundam anime is pretty much unwatchable crap. I like Mechas conceptually, but Gundam is such slop and there are very few actual good iterations especially recently. Why don't they just make a normal show instead of these weird gay braindead ones?

>>281287954 (OP)
Yes, the money is at selling toys, how is this news? Dragon Ball toys sell a lot but I actually have never seen One Piece toys...

>>281289000
>very few actual good iterations
And those iterations are?
Which mech anime do you think are genuinely good?

>>281289043
The only Gundam I'd say is legitimately good is Thunderbolt Season 1 and Thunderbolt Season 2 has dogshit nonsense writing that unfortunately ruins it. 08th and 0083 are decent but corny, Zeta and Wing are watchable as cheesy action kino I guess. All other series are so dogshit. Gundam is such a nuanced form of dogshit, so pretentious yet so uninteresting, plots simultaneously ridden with glaring plot holes and filled with irrelevant time wasting. It makes no sense how bad anime like WfM and IBO are, the writing is toddler level.

For me, it's the Deathscythe Hell Custom.

>>281289188
For me, it's the Nether Gundam.

>>281287954 (OP)
Chicks dig giant robots.

>>281287954 (OP)
You're welcome

>>281288038
>One Piece no.1
Japan had shit taste as usual

Like there was any doubt. Remember to always thank our love and savior Kira Christ for his gifts

>>281290011
read >>281288038
its just a projection, one piece is the king of bandai

>>281289162
just admit you don't like gundam rather than shitting on the entire ip

>>281287954 (OP)
Wing Kings our time is coming. I can feel it.

>>281288038
>Gozyuger isn't number 1
I guess they can't be the best IP of all time.

>>281289162
The original Gundam is a masterpiece even with its incredibly dated animation. You're dumb and gay.

>>281291248
I don't understand.

Build Fighters was the last time I had fun with this series, Orphans tried a bit too hard for my tastes.

>>281291068
Never seen it honestly

>>281287954 (OP)
Damn, tabletop/TCG crowd really bumped those numbers

>>281287954 (OP)
I understand a fucking retard like OP making that mistake, but journalism acros all media is truly dead. 4 years of College career and these absolute mouthbreathers can't even comprehend basic text?

>>281288038
Look at what this actually says and then at the ''news'' headlines, Not only is it completely at odds with the factual information the company released, since Dragon Ball actually made significantly more money than Gundam (almost 25% more over the 2025 fiscal year) but there's hardly anything even worth repoting here. What Bandai's statement actually says is that they project Gundam will be their top earner for the 2026 fiscal year. However, I've seen them make the similar predictions multiple times in prior years, and they're almost invariably wrong. Salesfagging theads are cancer btw,

>>281291463
*Across

>>281288038
>Naruto still sells more than OP despite the sequel anime being cancelled
lol. Fraud piece.

Zeta Gundam is my favorite anime ever made and I am tired of people not knowing about it.

>>281291489
*Macross

>>281289000
I feel the same, but OP and DB are much worse so why just bring up gundam?

>>281291521
No it doesn't. You're reading something wrong.

>>281291576
I love Zeta Gundam. I really love how Tomino builds up so many well written but unlikeable characters. Like Katz is annoying and you hate him, but he's so well realized as a character.

>>281287954 (OP)
>Completely gave up on the MG line
>Ends up making more than fucking DBZ and OP
Well, shit, I guess the Vidar will be their final normal MG release given how they had already reduced their non-P-Bandai MG releases to sometimes less than one per year.

>>281289000
I mean the origin was quite good and that was semi recent, even Hathaway was a decent watch

>>281289952
Wrong Gbitch, it was all thanks to Gquuuuuux

>>281291068
They would make good money if they ever decide to remake the original, I wonder why they haven't

>>281288540
you're new here.

>>281288003
Tsurumaki*

It's so sad how gundam is doing better than ever after releasing some of the worst gundam anime ever

Gquuuuuux, gwitch and the new seed movie are such pieces of shit I can't even

>>281291302
Dude the whole of uc is built upon it, no wonder you didn't like shit

>>281293883
Check the numbers, fag

>>281291268
Divers Re:rise was surprisingly good ngl

>>281287954 (OP)
/m/bros the oldtypes can't compete with us

>>281288540
Gundam was always fujoshi bait

season 2 when

>>281291521
Lmao that is not a flex. All it shows is how much third worlders and Westerners eat shit.

>>281294273
Wasn't nardo the most watched anime in Netflix? Truly a fucked generation who grew on the worst fucking shonen out there

>>281287954 (OP)
The future is grim, and japan needs another firestorm to put them in their place.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAe5lYcoLKw

>>281294341
Yes, a lot of millennials grew up watching it in America instead of One Piece. Because One Piece was mishandled in it's distribution. Now those same millennials are having kids and trying to get them to watch Naruto. Truly sad.

>>281291576
been noticing a lot of artists picking it up lately

What will Bandai do when their main consumer of gunpla ages out?

>>281294494
sell plushies

>>281294369
GayDamn Whine ruined an entire generation alongside the tranny shit that came out later.
There must be a timeline where Votoms and Dougram became Mainstream and the Nips embraced Battletech there thanks to the pods reaching there.

>>281294211
That ending wouldn't have sucked if they had a season 2 in the making

Kinda wild considering gundam has no real big game going right now except gacha shit

>>281289952
wrong year, anon, witch from mercury is YEARS old now.

>>281288038
it's interesting, it looks like the main jump came from sales outside of japan (where gundam is doing better than one piece) whereas in japan, it's still #2. Dragon Ball is gonna continously fall, now that Toriyama is gone.

This is the data for a year ago leading to march 31 (that's what .3 means) so we'll know a lot more about gquux next year, but the projections certainly sound like they expect it to be a big hit.
DOUBLE last years april, may, june slot.
also

>>281294494
Gunpla is eternal, you get new generations introduced every time a new au anime comes out be it seed, 00, ibo or the newer LGBT bullshit

>>281288540
female fans were the people responsible for keeping the franchise alive in the first place.
>>281289162
>>281289000
A lot of mecha shows like Code Geass riff off Gundam. I hated most of the shows myself until I realized how influential they were to the mecha genre. Every iteration was genuinely ahead of their time.

>>281292208
It has good world building, character chemistry, and themes. It might not mean much, but so many military shows are scared of having something to say

>>281291248
All they had to do was paint the OG red, instead they give us this abomination. Does not fucking compute, doubly so since the original RX-78 appears for the finale anyway.

>>281297886
>female fans were the people responsible for keeping the franchise alive in the first place.

A myth based on a misinterpretation of something Tomino randomly said.

>>281294273
yeah man all those strong third world currencies budging the needle on a billion yen matter

>>281287954 (OP)
>muh sales
Still has worse quality than Frieren

>>281298224
>frieren
>quality
Pick one

>>281298221
You say that as if the yen wasn't weaker than a lot of third world currencies

>>281293883
Retarded cope.

>>281294494
They already got a new fanbase with WFM. Cute girl figs make more money than gunpla ever did. Gundam yuri series with Love Live art style would make bazillions.

>>281289188
TV Deathscythe Hell is better and cooler.

>the best Gundam manga to come out in the past decade is about an office lady
I am fine with this.

>>281299088
Pretty sure the best new gundam manga is fastest formula

>>281294020
How take:
The hasn't been anything good in Gundam since 00

>>281291576
I love Zeta a lot too, I rewatched it a few months ago. The factional conflict, themes, and Kamille's journey are so good. The main conflict is so bitter and brutal, and personal, so it's very compelling. As much of a shithead as Kamille was at the start it makes sense as we learn more about him and he grows.

>>281287954 (OP)
shame the mecha genre is still dead

>>281289162
Thunderbolt sucks. It's typical OYW Zeon wank, just alt-canon.
Gundam conceptually just isn't good. Space psychics and pseudo-politics as a vessel to sell toys. Even the first one sucked enough to get canceled, and no amount of revisionist history is going to make it "ahead of its time." It has subsisted entirely on its model kits, which are admittedly pretty good, look cool and make great hobby gifts.

>>281301810
This is generally true until SEED made tons of money by pandering to fujos hard and then G-witch made just as much with yuri pandering.

Gundam is not just gunpla anymore.

>>281287954 (OP)
MechaGODS are back.

>>281300187
Ignoring the origin and thunderbolt or you only mean au?

>>281301244
This. A lot of people on Twitter want to spin this into a win for mecha in general when this was achieved by the only mecha franchise still alive

>>281302731
Wing is Mechaslop though

>>281304425
It had some of the best designs though.

>>281294588
Dark and gritty mecha would have never become a thing, even without gundam

>>281288038
>anpanman beating pretty cure and super sentai
wut
why is this popular?

>>281294020
>new seed movie
Seed Freedom is Fukuda Schlock. Of you view it as such, it's such a retarded yet fun movie that i can't hate.
>>281300187
00 sucks too. And Thunderbolt and Hathaway prove you wrong.

>>281307426
where's genos

>>281307353
>What is OG Macross, Ideon and Getter Robo

>>281294588
I cannot imagine a timeline where Dougram is mainstream because most people wouldn't go into a show filled with old men talking about war and politics, and the people who would are most likely going to turn away at the fact that it's a children's show and an obligatory mecha fight scene happens every episode. Shame because I enjoyed it, especially the final conflict and ending.

>>281307542
Gundam had the same shit and people only ate it because of fujos.

>>281288003
>Anno
Should I be happy that Tsurumaki's first miss is going to be blamed on Anno or should I be upset that this is Tsurumaki's first miss after being trapped in Eva hell for more than half his career?

>>281304425
And it's damn fine mechaslop

>>281300412
The older I've grown the more I realize how realistic Zeta was in its portrayal of adults. Adults fucking suck and are not owed any sort of respect.

>>281307537
TV getter robo wasn't dark, it only got dark in the 90s and macross stop being dark a long while ago

>>281307578
Char alone saved the franchise with all the fujoshi he brought

>>281288003
>saved

>>281288540
More like "females" (male) zoomers who only watched the last 2-3 gundam shows

>>281287954 (OP)
sht

>>281311357
GQuuuux was popular with everyone in Japan. GWitch was for "females" (males)

>>281312653
So the key to success is to just make bad anime on purpose while adding some style?

With this new found popularity, surely the gundam live action movie is gonna do great, right?

>>281312915
It depend. GWitch was made to appeal to young new fans but it made money by moeficating the Gundam franchise but it only worked with middle-aged men and sexually confused individuals. Meanwhile GQuuuuux was a love letter to the UC but in Japan everybody is aware to certain level about the UC by cultural osmosis so it was accesible to diferent demographics

>>281289770
Unquantifiably based

>>281289770
If you think about it, encasing the head in a barn-sized brick oven is a solid play

>>281313018
I guess you just don't accept the fact that females are idolizing their favorite girl Miorine, also, it's natural for straight girls/bi sexual girls to ship yuri.

>>281313373
Did any of those girl go on buy gunpla or watch any of the other au or uc? Guess not

>>281313373
Last year Miorine was the most hated female character among women

>>281313693
Don't think that means anything, Miorine literally got top 1 in both seasons as the most favorite girl in dengeki. Also, I've seen girls admired Miorine for saving her love ones than herself.

>>281313547
You should look more on other sites, anon.

>>281313693
He means woman (male)

>>281287954 (OP)
It's the Gundam EX VS cabs.

>>281313547
>gunpla
you mean they bought gunplas and sulemios figurines.

>>281313806
Because the gundam discussions at /m/ are so much better right?

>>281313895
Be real, they bought those figures to put them in cum jars

>>281313872
Yoasobi singer is male?

>>281313917
Forgot to mention that she loves Miorine btw

>>281287954 (OP)
Expensive ass plastic models might help

For me it's best girl Fa

>>281313911
>Be real
>thinking about cums
Why are you so gay?

Ibo was better than g-witch.

>>281298792
? I don't renember Gundam during WoF outselling DB and One Piece... Seems like a failure to me.

>>281315557
That's not how it works. It's literally continuation until now.

>>281315946
>everytime gundam does well from now on it will be because of G-witch.

>>281316045
>Anon thinks Gquuuux ugly gunplas sells more than other real Gundams

>>281307426
Kawaii mascot characters, funny jokes, timeless concept, easy to market toys that aren't as expensive as sentai and precure's electronic crap, good animation, parents nostalgiafagging, insanely dedicated mascot fucker fujo moms

Here's your top 3 Gundam shows, where MCs have best waifus.

>>281313693
Must've been like looking into a mirror for them
>>281313547
Depends, did fujos go and buy the gunpla for Wing and SEED back in the day?

>>281313872
>woman (male) love Suletta over Miorine

>>281316345
Yeah, the gunplas aren't selling more
Shut the fuck up faggot

>>281313872
woman (male) like Suletta over Miorine

>>281316576
They aren't selling because GQux suits are the ugliest the franchise has had in years.

>>281316429
>No G Gundam
Bros...

>>281316592
>Relena over Rain
Boy just has shit taste

>>281312915
It ended with surprise yuri like IBO. Calm down.

>>281316966
>Ended
Eh It was there from the start.

For me it's Gundam 00
Also I want to have sex with Exia

Is this the thread?

>>281287954 (OP)
It's the gacha that made the numbers not everything else. in may 2025 it made 42 million usd in one month and then 20 million usd every month since then

>>281307426
Gigapopular franchise for kids. Everyone's seen it, it's a cultural icon.

>>281317074
t. Graham

>>281291258
The gunpla sales are shit, Anno didn't really do much.

>>281316429
What an absolutely shitty top 3

>>281317074
All mech desings in 00 sucked ass though

>>281287954 (OP)
fake as fuck
no one outside Nipland even knows this mecha slop- One Piece rules the world- COPE

>>281320670
Funny how you say that considering op is the least popular of the big 3

>>281298103
what could have been

ngl DBZ and One Piece never figured out how to sell merch or toys for how popular they really are

>>281288540
I saw the cutest 4'6 Japanese goddess perusing completely alone and in a cosplay officer uniform in the Tokyo Gundam Base. Japanese females just operate differently.

>>281291248
>Tamashii Nations
Unless is Digimon or Medarots I don't give a shit about Tamashii Nations.

>>281300187
Unicorn has its moments
Tekketsu shat the bed on the second half but just like 00 it had a GOAT first half
Thunderbolt was OK

I can't say anything else because I mostly hate the artstyle of most of the shows although I like Greco.

>>281287954 (OP)
DBZ died before its creator did and OPM isn't appetizing to anyone outside of the dedicated freaks who feel like consuming decades' worth of story arcs and the dreadful sunk cost fallacy that forces them to push onward, which is oddly fitting for a series about pirates and treasure. Gundam on the other hand is a franchise that is ubiquitous with the Japanese spirit. The giant "robots" look like samurai clad in full armor, the advanced technology reflects Japan's arrival 'pon the shores of modernity and their aptitude for what was once cutting edge innovation. It's fitting that it should rise to the top.

>>281287954 (OP)
>Gundam, an IP that not only has models for characters but models, of different grades, for countless different mechs across multiple series which spans across multiple universes
sells more than
>two highly popular series that are quite limited in what they can sell, mostly of the characters in only one setting each.

No, fucking, shit, Sherlock.

>>281291576
I'm still salty that WOMAN MOMENT: the character kills best girl only because Char didn't fuck her.

Also the whole KamillexFour romance came out of the left felt, Destiny did it a lot better with Shinn and Stella

>>281316429
Tiffa is the best Gundam waifu.

>>281322263
Absolutely wrong.

>>281322306
Haman is Shit.

>>281287954 (OP)
Kneel to our King

>>281322251
that's not the own you think it is anon, that says more about the aforementioned franchises than Gundam.

all 3 of them are 30+ years old franchises I know OP is 2 years to be 30 but semantics at this point that have been on the cultural zeitgeist all the time, not their fault they didn't manage to produce marketable material to outshine it.

>>281304348
>thunderbolt
The series is slop of the highest order and just relegated to be a simple AU.

>>281313896
Unironically, yes. Way less spics and sea retards.

>>281296622
>Dragon Ball is gonna continously fall, now that Toriyama is gone.
I don't think so. As long as they keep putting out decent movies or make a new anime then people will watch it.

>>281322380
Db is fucked without goku but I could see OP getting a shit ton of side stories once the main series end, though I don't see a single one ever becoming as popular as the main series while seed got pretty close to the popularity of 0079

>>281322677
How do you continue the story though? Or are we going to continuously get irrelevant shit like DAIPA?

>>281294020
I liked the SEED movie because I'm the target audience: An old person that loves gossip.

>>281322950
IF (and that's a BIG if) One Piece finishes to 2032 as it is "supposed" to I can sure you that there's at the very least 3 or 4 spin-offs series on the way to "fill the void".

we will die of old age and OP will still be milked to death.

>>281322251
Nigger, the main crew gets a new outfit after every arc and there are countless side characters and ships fans can latch onto.
OP's problem is not a lack of merch.

>>281323103
There are more zaku variants alone than there are OP characters

Bright deserved better in UC. He got so fucked over by his enemies, by his friends, and by his child

what if gundam but yuri

>>281323815
Kys yurinsect

>>281323904
>>281323904
kys haremtards

>>281324060
Also meant for this tard >>281323815

Imagine gender changing a 16 year old boy in his prime.
Kys

>>281323240
I hope I don't die before Hathaway's final film.

>>281287954 (OP)
Just in time for bandai to pour a shit ton of money into an absolutely GOATed animation for a Wing sequel. Thank you for your money yuritroons, is thanks to your retarded efforts that Wingkings are back in control

>>281294494
I got into gunpla after watching just the first season of IBO. I've now seen almost every Gundam series there is and have 100+ kits sitting in my room backlogged with more on the way. I check P-bandai obsessively like a crack addict now. I recently got a buddy of mine into gunpla as well. Gunpla is not "aging out" bro

>>281316345
The Gcuck Gelgoog is sexy and the kit is one of the coolest kits I've built in years. Planning on picking up every variation of it from now on

>>281304425
It is exquisite finely aged primo bliss mechaslop

>>281324463
Isn't that just a GM?

>>281287954 (OP)
>toy ip makes more profits
wow just wow

But /a/ told me gquuuuuux was bad.

>>281324551
Both dragon ball and one piece have a shit ton of merch.

>>281324533
Yes, but it's a very nicely designed GMgoog. Hoping they do Gcuck MSV and do a full armor upgrade for them that adds extra plates to look more like the realgoog

>>281324570
/a/ didn't tell you shit

>>281324570
It is bad, but being bad doesn't stop you from selling, just look at any shitty fast food place

>>281324551
>Implying there are no db or op toys
They just sick that's all

>>281289000
>lowkey
>slop
You type and act like your favourite anime is a a Shonen Jump adaption.

>>281326058
Gundam does need that young adult demographic if they want to keep gundam relevant, wfm was for yurifags and gquuuuuux was for the older boomer fans, we need something like G Gundam to bring the shonen audience

>>281324307
You better live bright

>>281326154
I'm surprised they don't just do a remake of cca or something

>>281326346
They have the Beltorchika's children manga which is fantastic. I hope we get a movie or OVA rendition of it eventually
>>281326154
Gcuck got a ton of people to watch the original series

>>281324599
>>281325950
i have purchased 3 gundam modelkits and have never watched the anime, have watched dbz up to majinbuu and the first 100 episodes of op, never purchased anything related, profits is not an indicator of the quality of the associated anime

>>281326413
I never understood the people who say bc is significantly better than cca, after reading the manga i can say it's just a tad better if at all

>>281288003
>makes best Gojira
>makes best Gundam
Which franchise should he save next?

>>281326442
Tham model kits are very sexy, especially those from unicorn and zeta