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That's still not the kind of publicity you want for your product. The whole point of a Gundam show (as far as the Bandai execs who own and manage the IP are concerned) has always been to move the merch, though generally the shows have also been pretty good at the same time. If people only care about their perfect dream prince and princess duo and not the rest of the show, then ultimately you're just selling drama CDs and DVD/BlueRays, and not the Gunpla. Witch from Mercury is a failure in much the same sense, all you have are the LGBTQ community fawning over the lesbian couple, and all of the kits except Aerial and Calibarn shelfwarm (particularly Michaelis). Only the show itself was also a failure and nobody's, going to buy the DVDs and BluRays. It could have been worse though, at least they weren't Kyokai Senki levels of failure, relying on Hobby Lobby sloppy seconds to sell the kits to kids and grandmas who have never seen the show.
SEED was a success in that it (alongside Astray) created a newer generation of fans that would watch future Gundam shows for the sake of Gundam. Destiny itself also benefitted from said success obviously, and the combination of the two eventually got us to SEED Freedom, twenty years later. But most of that "generation" who are long-term into Gundam are here because of SEED and not Destiny, and frankly I don't see a new generation happening with WfM, though time may very well prove me wrong.
Which does have me concerned for Gundam's long-term future since the last "popular" AU show we got was 00 from 2007. Of course Unicorn also drew in a lot, but how many long-term fans came in because they enjoyed AGE, or Reconguista, or IBO, or WfM?
