Thread 23478177

Is Gaogaigar now considered a mainstream anime iyo? As in, the large majority of anime fans know what it is and watched it?

No one I know knows about it

>>23478177 (OP)
>>23478187
It's weird. It has a tiny amount of ratings on CR. Not many downloads on nyaa. On stream sites a low amount of views. Relatively few people completed on MAL. But whenever I talk to people on X, and look up gaogaigar on their profiles, so many have watched it. I'm insecure about this. Is it mainstream as fuck or something? I don't want people to know about it.

>>23478177 (OP)
I mean, if you've been on online anime comunities for a while you probably know of it, but the show itself is faaaar from being considered mainstream. The large majority of people under 30 just don't think anime robots with lions on their chests are cool. Even TTGL is not that popular anymore. And most casual anime fans only care about Naruto, One Piece, DBZ and whatever's the flavor of the month.

>>23478220
So my fear that all the weirdo newfaggot anime fans and trad girls are watching this is completely unfounded? Anime being popular broke my brain

>>23478224
You might be seeing people posting about it because whenever "coolest anime mecha" is brought up, GGG is mentioned. But I don't think the series will ever hit true mainstream status. It's too long and too "weird" for kids these days, and normalfags will always flock to TTGL and the current Gundam show when they want to get into mecha.

>>23478242
>>23478242
Would you say its still niche among anime fandom? I feel like its not

>>23478177 (OP)
Only know it because of the real grade

You can tell it's not mainstream because nobody pokes fun how many recap episodes there are.

>>23478242
>normalfags will always flock to TTGL
Reddit to a T

>>23478177 (OP)
Shin Getter robo is easily more popular & that's not main stream unlike TTGL. So much so the meme that TTGL is anti eva is still being passed around by retarded normies.

>>23478689
Yeah, praising TTGL truly is reddit behavior

>>23478177 (OP)
>Is Gaogaigar now considered a mainstream anime iyo?
NO. Are you high?

>>23478689
Don't get me wrong, I love TTGL, but that doesn't change the fact that it's now one of the main "entry-level" mecha shows among normalfags. I didn't even mention Eva because we're talking about true mecha here.

>>23478220
TTGL will be popular again.

>>23478242
As if TTGL love was undeserved

>>23478689
>>23478794
>>23478781
>>23478858
What is wrong with TTGL being mainstream in comparison to other mecha shows? It's the best one ever.

>>23478935
there are a lot of /m/anbabies who piss and shit anytime someone praises TTGL because normies like it. It's all so tiresome.

>>23478177 (OP)
Maybe, and that's MAYBE if the en dub was finished and it aired on TV, but other than that, no, not really.

>>23478935
>>23479521
>What is wrong with TTGL being mainstream
Eh, I don't mind it too much that it's popular, it is indeed very good and deserves recognition. But we keep seeing time and time again what happens when you don't gatekeep at least a little bit. When something becomes too popular it's like it turns into this idea of "OMGGGGG BEST THING EVAAAAARRR!!!!" with a lot of people, like people will say "Evangelion is the best mecha anime of all time" but that's the only one they saw. THAT annoys me. I like Evangelion, it's a decent anime series, but as a mecha anime, I can name at least twenty shows that are better representations of the genre. TTGL is up there for me, but I don't consider it to be this "end all be all" of mecha like many people do, and it owes a lot to other shows that came first.

>>23479764
There's also the "unlike most shows, this one is about the characters!", which I thought was something we'd moved past and only remained as a joke, until I ran into people actually saying it seriously. It felt surreal.

>>23478935
>It's the best one ever.
No. That's ideon & CCA. BUT TTGL is one of the best in the genre. Also the movies for it are better than the show & i doubt most have have seen them.

>>23478858
>I didn't even mention Eva because we're talking about true mecha here.
Lol?

>>23479521
We don't. We just show tough love to TTGL because normiefags are obnoxiously ignorant with their taste.

>someone watches a good show
>they like it
>say it's the best show ever
>NOOOOOO YOU HAVE TO WATCH EVERYTHING ELSE YOU CAN'T JUST SIMPLY LIKE SOMETHING

>>23479764
This. I love eva & TTGL. (i think ideon is better than both) but toxic & obnoxious
>"Evangelion is the best mecha anime of all time" but that's the only one they saw

Crowd piss me off too. Fuck people who write the whole genre off because of ONE great show they watched from the genre, instead of being like "DAMN eva & TTGL are peak i wonder if there's more of this stuff out there? Let's allow my curiosity do some digging"
Like a normal human being would do. I don't mind the gatekeep. When the average weeb is like "other mecha must suck if eva is THIS good" instead of "i want more of this mecha stuff after watching eva or TTGL because THAT was interesting"

>>23479895
>I HATE LOGICAL ARGUMENTS SO I'M GONNA BE PETTY & INTETTECTUALLY DISHONEST BECAUSE I DISPISE /M/
Nice try. But you're one who's irrational.

>>23478177 (OP)
If you're a mecha fan you MIGHT know about GGG, but it's still insanely niche. If you look up "best super robot mecha shows" it'll probably appear alongside Getter, Mazinger and Gurren Lagann but it's never the first thought on peoples minds, even for it's own subgenre.

It's at least the most popular Brave show.

>>23479779
Where else are you seeing that BS from? Reddit is the only place i can think of.

>>23479909
> looked up
>best super robot mecha shows on google
>Some of the best super robot mecha shows include classics like Mazinger Z, Getter Robo, and Mobile Suit Gundam; modern favorites such as Gurren Lagann and Neon Genesis Evangelion; and others like Code Geass, Full Metal Panic!, and The Big O. The "Big 3" of mecha are considered to be Mazinger Z, Getter Robo, and Mobile Suit Gundam for their influential impact.
>Eye roll

Whenever someone cries about Evangelion or TTGL being "for normalfags" and "too mainstream and unoriginal", I cannot stop imagining that he's a some braindead tourist who's dipped into like maximum 10 more mecha media than people he tries to insult.
Dunning-Kruger and false sense of superiority coming from it is so apparent among shitters who've seen Ideon and now think they're hot shit.

>>23479909
>The most popular Brave show among those who have never seen any Brave shows
ftfy
it's not very common for GGG to remain the favorite of anyone who actually tries watching all the Braves. It does happen every now and then, but you can attribute most of its popularity to secondaries caught up in how much Bamco shills the series in merch or in SRW or whatever

>>23480290
It's not really fair to attribute it all to secondaries, when I think we still don't have full subs for the other Brave shows

>>23480387
We're only missing subs for Might Gaine, every other series has full subs
You can go and ask the yuusha general right now what their favorites are. I'm sure one of two will say GGG, but you'll see everyone else saying Da Garn, Goldran or J-Decker, maybe 1 or 2 Dagwons too. Among those that have watched all the Braves, I think Da Garn is generally the most popular. It's easily digestible due to having an ongoing plot from the beginning, and it's very consistent with no real bad moments or shifts in format like GGG, also an amazing OST
I say this without bias, my personal favorite is Goldran. It's just what I've observed over the years

>>23478177 (OP)
If this aired on Cartoon Network/Adult Swim it would probably be mainstream by now but hardly anybody gives a shit about it

>>23480400
Oh that's good to hear. Last I heard there was subs for around half of them.

>>23479908
>LOGICAL ARGUMENTS
kek

GGG had a lot of circulation in the early digital fansub days and was easy to get in bootleg DVD sets with dodgy subtitles. Sometimes all the episodes even worked. Transformers fans started to abandon it after they found out J-Decker has all the gay robots.

>>23478198
It's called an algorithm anon, they track things you look for, build a profile on you and then recommend you similar things in order to create an environment to make you feel like you want to stay on the platform

>>23480209
>maximum 10 more mecha media
Naw. That's just your projection or you punching at shadows in your head. You're overthinking things. Normies are factually incorrect on 90% of the dumbshit they say & its as simple as that. Let's not pretend actual fans are the bad guys who are just being snobs. Also, you're weird for going out of your way defending the "invisible" honor & dignity of ignorant people who could care less about the hobby anyway because most of the time anime is just fomo shit to them.

>>23480209
>Dunning-Kruger and false sense of superiority coming from it is so apparent among shitters who've seen Ideon and now think they're hot shit.
Also, That's literally the energy of normalfags such as those that hype up eva & TTGL and claim their the best mecha ever and act like nothing else is worth watching. Most experienced fans of the fandom would love to be excited to recommend their favorites btw. But a lot of the main stream fandom are rudely & obnoxiously toxic on top of being dismissive & act with a so called "false sense of superiority" you claim of more knowledgeable fans.

>>23478177 (OP)
I'd say western awareness for GGG peaked sometime between 2007-2010. There was a brief surge in interest in older non-gundam mecha anime in the wake of Gurren Lagann. But that's long since dissipated. It's pretty obscure nowdays.

>>23480400
Might Gaine is fully subbed now

>>23481475
>Normies are factually incorrect on 90% of the dumbshit they say & its as simple as that. Let's not pretend actual fans are the bad guys
Pretty much this. Everyone's allowed to enjoy any piece of media they want, just don't start spewing stupid bullshit if you don't have any further knowledge about mecha besides watching baby's first robot show.

>>23479912
Some unrelated game forum and a twitch chat IIRC. This was some years ago, though still well past that phrase's heyday.

>>23481613
This happens to a LOT of media. Ideon probably being another similar phenomenon

>>23480400
>there's at least one other human being who has Goldran as his favourite

>>23479779
Over 10 years of being a giant robot fan and I'm still looking for the fabled robot show that's mostly about the robots and not the characters.

>>23480290
>it's not very common for GGG to remain the favorite of anyone who actually tries watching all the Braves
That's me, then again my second favorite is J-Decker.

>>23483605
You could try actually watching Mazinger Z

>>23483666
I did, the first anime was pretty ass, I liked Great better, I really liked the final 2 episodes.

>>23483684
the whole show is about Mazinger Z and its development and upgrades and none of the characters have any development so there you go

>>23478935
Yeah I sure seeing Simon be a depressed loser for several episodes even after he got a waifu dropped into his hands and Yoko being an annoying bitch to the only non evil person in the show who doesn’t care about Kamina, definitely the best mecha anime ever made.

>>23483666
Mazinger Z has a lot non robot action and a fair bit of character drama so that’s not a very good case.

>>23478177 (OP)
No, maybe it was in the 2000s when it was still new but that ships sailed ages ago.

>>23478177 (OP)
No
Mecha fans know about even if they dont know about the rest of the brave series but the anime fandom at large doesnt

>>23478935
its fine but its not the best one ever

>>23479903
Its weird but isnt this shitty attitude confined to mecha? You dont hear people saying "Ashita no Joe is the best and ruined sports anime for me" or "I watched Oniisama e and now I cant enjoy other shoujo anime anymore".
Westerners are inclined to look down on mecha because it seemingly fits into the "cartoon as toy commercial" box that many western cartoons belong in and so they are satisfied only watching the "best" example of the formula (TTGL) or the "subversive" one (Eva), assuming the rest must be as disposable as He-Man or Transformers or whatever.

>>23478935
Disregarding whether it's popular, if a genre is entirely known based on one show, that leads other shows in that genre to either create similar stories OR more likely get criticized by the mainstream for not being as good as the one they saw first.

Sure there's are differences of context matter, only an idiot would moan gundam for not being like gurren, but it also leaves alot of shows to be forgotten because this one overbearing show takes all the interest.

>>23486962
It happens with magical girls and Madoka too. It’s got to do with insecurity I suppose, they have a prejudice against the genre for being childish / girly in Madoka’s case, so they choose to justify their liking of that specific outlier as a result of it being more “mature” than the others on the basis of being “subversive” or a “deconstruction”. Most Westerners’ idea of mecha stems from Transformers or Power Rangers, which carry toyetic / infantile infamy that makes them unpalatable to this self-important kind. I don’t want to out myself as a /v/ poster, but it’s pretty much the same thing as the “mature games for a mature gamer like me” meme they got.

>>23487693
I’m not sure why people think the anime that had an entire episode revolving around Simon and Kamina ogling women’s naked bodies is the most mature.

>>23487751
Pseud, underage, femoid or tourist? Stick to gundamshit.

>>23486962
it is unique to mecha anime. False information by hearsay/word of mouth & eva's impactful medium changing success made the western fandom assume anything before it was Transformers tier slop. The series was filled with myths & legends surrounding it which definitely played a hand in it too. Not to mention that the western fandom did not have access to other mecha anime pre 90's & historical context being scarce.

>>23486962
>>23491677
It happens with shonen too and I'd say anime in general, you always see people asking for recs of THE BEST OF THE BEST and it's just akira, gits and vampire hunter D.

>>23479764
If that already bothers you, you can't even imagine how insufferable the Hispanic fandom is with Evangelion and TTGL

>>23487693
I've seen some wild takes on how Doki Doki Literature Club was groundbreaking for being the first VN where female characters are sad or have bad things happen in their lives.

>>23498249
>asking for recs of THE BEST OF THE BEST and it's just akira, gits and vampire hunter D.

i groin when i read that. Got damn i hate normies.

>>23498613
ooh noo....

>>23498613
I rarely see TTGL get brought up in the hispanic fandom outside of Kamina's famous speech anymore. The hispanic anime community is in the exact same state as the English-speaking one, the vast majority of the people that comprise it right now are people that only got actively interested in anime during the mid to late 2010s forward (basically when it started becoming mainstream and not just a thing only weird teenagers liked), and they are casuals who only stick to flavor of the month entries and the absolute most popular long-running franchises that have still been churning content out in the last few years in order to stay relevant and print more money (Dragon Ball, Naruto, One Piece, Bleach, Eva, etc.).

Are you sure you don't live under a rock like most of the anons here? A rock where TTGL's popularity and relevance aren't a ghost of their former selves.

>>23499269
Yeah I admit that the popularity of TTGL is not compared to that of Eva but of the few who talk about TTGL if they are not comparing it with getter robo they are basically like the fans of Eva (saying that it is the best series of all and the most original without knowing that there were a thousand animes and mangas with almost the same premise) but I still believe that the famdom of Eva is insufferable especially on Youtube, you cannot see any video analyzing Eva without them using the same arguments as "it was the deconstruction of the mecha genre" or "Evangelion is profound because it has biblical references" and also "it was the best work of hideaki anno/gainax" and that last one bothers me more knowing that gunbuster exists

>>23488125
We don’t describe ourselves in our posts here.

>>23486206
>ESL

>>23498613
They still care about TTGL? I thought they only talked about shit like JJK.

>>23499572
Yup, that mangled sentence is ALMOST as bad as TTGL’s shitty ending.

>>23499573

They keep talking about both things, at least JJK edits are good

>>23499577
>he is unaware

>>23499583
I guess that make sense, Kamina seems like the type of character South America would love.

>>234995

Kamima are one of those characters that don't give up and are ve elry inspiring and TTLG knows how to make you love them.

>>23499514
>that last one bothers me more knowing that gunbuster exists
I get that a lot of people in this thread are anime "elitists" and enjoy being contrarian, but Eva takes a big fat shit all over Gunbuster. It's a far superior work. Kare Kano is also better, but whatever.

>>23499573
>They still care about TTGL?
As much as they do in the English-speaking community, which is next to nothing outside of the small handful of people who got into anime in the 2000s and haven't moved on even after reaching their 30s.

>>23499713
>moved on
consoomersissy....

>>23499649
That is the contrarian opinion on /m/, I would wager most on this board agree that Gunbuster>>>>Eva
Anywhere else might be a different story but then again you likely wouldn't find too many people that have actually watched Gunbuster anywhere else

>>23499713
Yeah, it's crazy how people still talk about TTGL as if it isn't two decades old. It's like at some point it just becomes projection. the fans may have been out of touch, but it's way more out of touch to think they still have any significant presence

Why wouldn't anyone want GGG to become mainstream? It would move the needle towards the Hakaiou novels/manga getting an adaptation. Why not piss and shit about Gundam Build Fighters? Oh yeah, that's what's keeping Gundam on life support and funding new projects. Why be pissy about Eva and TTGL being the de-facto ambassadors of the genre? The examples in this thread are the exact same as in the late 2000's. You just want the genre to die that badly?

>>23480400
>We're only missing subs for Might Gaine, every other series has full subs
By reputable sub groups?

>>23499649
>but Eva takes a big fat shit all over Gunbuster. It's a far superior work.
Yeah, i don't get how anyone can argue otherwise. But some fags are too bias.

>>23500911
> you likely wouldn't find too many people that have actually watched Gunbuster anywhere else
That's total fucking BS. Try reddit or any other main stream social media platform outside /m/. Gunbuster is NOT as main stream as eva but its not too far off from the off beaten path.

>>23499713
>As much as they do in the English-speaking community, which is next to nothing outside of the small handful of people who got into anime in the 2000s and haven't moved on even after reaching their 30s.

Code geass also fits this to a T too. Overrated millennial nostalgia core .

>>23505043
seethe harder

>>23505628
Oh i'm sorry. I didn't expect you to dislike me saying that. My bad.

>>23505043
As opposed to your favorite overrated gen x core?

>>23505650
Anon..i....i just feel code gayass didn't age well. Are you replying to me twice?

>>23505654
Fuck you mean reply twice? This site doesn't even allow you to double post, I've had enough bugged captcha run-ins to know that

>>23505655
Well?....

>>23505655
Ok.

>>23505654
gaygaygar aged worse

Why he's so angry? All i said....lol. Forget, nevermind,

>>23505662
>ESL