Thread 23428415

Sunrise really missed a great opportunity to English dub this mofo and have him go "ZOINKS, OLBA"

>>23428415 (OP)
>Sunrise really missed a great opportunity to English dub this

Correct. It undoubtedly would've been a hit in the US.

>we can't let you die, Garrod, we need to kill you ourselves while you are at your best
I love the Frost bros, they are the coolest AND the most pathetic at the same time.

>terrorize protags for entire series
>possibly molested unconscious Tiffa
>almost destroyed the world again
>got a few bumps, bruises and a broken leg
>have the rest of their lives to be normal people but with psychic powers
Aside from Rustal I can't think of Gundam villains who won as hard as they did.

>>23429086
And according to the Next Prologue manga they somehow still kept their high positions in the NUNE.

>>23429086
Total Frost Victory

>>23428581
lol
lmao

>>23429175
based

>>23429245
cope

>>23429175
kino. I would play this

>>23429086
>Forced to watch as humanity continues to rebuild and prosper while you're slowly forgotten and all of your ambitions were for nothing.

>"Winning"
Begging you anon. Stop taking notes from the Charlie Sheen playbook.

>>23431245
Cope about how people would watch it expecting Gundam Wing and find out it's a boring retread of a show they haven't seen with some of Okawara's worst designs.

>>23431887
A moment in the sun is worth a hundred years in the shade.

>>23428581
Apparently there was talk about airing After War Gundam X in America (since part of the series takes place there,) but Bandai insisted on Wing and 0079.
https://gundam.fandom.com/wiki/After_War_Gundam_X
>After the success of Gundam Wing, the staff who worked on Toonami approached Sunrise for another series, having their eyes on this series (as well as Turn A Gundam), likely due to a combination of factors (similar animation and production staff as Wing, taking place in the United States). However, for whatever reason, Sunrise instead insisted that they start with the original Mobile Suit Gundam. It's widely believed that had X aired after Wing instead of the original MSG, it would've been far more successful, as it was a more recently-animated series by comparison and shared many series and design themes with Wing.
No source attached to this statement, so it might be bunk.

>>23428415 (OP)
Sunrise wouldn't have dubbed this though.

>>23432438
I would kill for an X dub desu

>>23432755
why ask for the inferior experience?
Americans voices don't fit Japanese anime

>>23432760
speedwatcher refusing to pay attention to it normally because he wants to have it play in the corner of secondary monitor on 2x playback speed while he plays games

>>23432755
I don't see them doing it now, but back then? It likely would have been Ocean who would have dubbed it.

>>23432760
because, and I know this may be a revolting shock to you, I have enjoyed dubbed anime quite a few times actually, especially Gundam series

>>23432784
>2x playback speed
What psychopath listens to audio at that speed?

>>23432973
Zoomers do apparently.

>>23431904
Why would I cope over your headcanon?

>>23434035
It's called a "delusion," dumbass. Like your idea that X would have been a hit in America.

most people like X except this faggot above me btw

>>23431245
>>23435057
Could you please not ruin this thread, DX-kun? It's like the first X thread not made by you in years.

>>23432375
That is an interest 'what if?', it would make UC's introduction to the west harder since up until then, I believe we only had the VHS releases of War and the Pocket and Stardust memory. But on the other hand, would X get sandbagged as hard as 0079 did after 9/11.

>>23436482
>But on the other hand, would X get sandbagged as hard as 0079 did after 9/11.
I actually don't think it would have. 0079 was already on an uphill struggle given how ancient its animation looked even at the time.

>>23436557
True that, the older animation and QUALITY, didn't mesh well with a lot of kids.
But that creates another 'what if' of if 0079 was as popular as wing, would it have still gotten sandbagged after 9/11.

>>23435047
>>23435159
>xSEETHER being a faggot ass bitch again

Wing is boring slop and it was a hit.

>>23436482
>>23436614
The smart play would've been to dub the movies of 0079 and broadcast them as an "event". 3 movies is a much easier proposition than 40-something episodes

>>23436764
Stick to your dead thread, fag.

>>23436769
we don't sign our posts here

>>23436764
Wing is one of the most entertaining Gundam shows.
X was the boring slop,

>>23436857
Kira is a cuck lmfao

>>23436767
That would have been better with getting viewers acclimated to older gundam series, but since this is still broadcast TV, they most likely would have gone with the TV series anyway since the show fills over 2 months worth of time for that slot.

>>23436866
keep crying with your delusions

>>23436882
This isn't your to-do list.

>>23436960
keep crying
X flopped and lost

>>23435159
sorry.
the one replying to you earlier isn't me

>>23437144
Don't bother attempting to reason with xSchizo bro. He can't FIND LOVE IN HIS HEAAARRRRRT

>>23437144
Can you tell your boyfriend to fuck off then? He's even necrobumping your botched spam thread.

>>23441802
See what I mean?

>>23441802
What can I do? that faggot is annoying and making the board hate me

>>23441802
>>23442059
This is really putting the "fag" in falseflag

>>23436557
I don't get how, when Cartoon Network was still airing shows older than or just as 0079 in 2001.

>>23443934
When you're trying to break into an (at the time) unestablished market, you don't want to be showing off your older wares, you want to be showing off your newer ones. Stuff like Wing and 8th MS Team ran circles around the older animation.
I would also like to add that Dragon Ball was straight up just not anywhere as popular as Z or even GT in America, which is a notable outlier in the popularity of that franchise. Take that as you will.

>>23443975
GT didn't even get its full run lmao

>>23445433
That was preemptive though. GT's first arc was so notoriously bad that when they brought it over to the US they just started airing it from the second arc with a single voice over saying "Goku and friends flew around in space for a bit and did some stuff that's not important, now here's the new villain". That's completely different from 0079 getting cancelled for bad ratings (9/11 was just the excuse).

>>23428581
Agreed it would have been a slam dunk. After Wing and G were big hits completing the "90's AU trilogy" was just common sense. Though doing so might have given American audiences the impression that Gundam was like, I dunno, Final Fantasy, where every entry is its own thing. Which Sunrise may have feared would make it harder to get westerners into UC stuff if they were "too used" to Gundams being standalone. Regardless airing 0079 instead of X was a massive blunder.