Boaz MyTurnASpace wrote: > Four is believeable? I think Apolli is more believeable than her.
If I remember who Apolli is, I might agree with you ;) I was just saying the nutjobs in Zeta are generally more understandable than the sane characters. > for mechandizing (I own you the reference here; I'll find it for you. It's > either in one of Turn A book's interview or any interview read online. Can > anyone here help me with this?); so Turn A is exactly a success for Tomino > as an author. I think you might be referring to the long interview in 2nd or 3rd issue of Gundam Ace? His whining against the establishment is well known, but many of his peers did something about it: they left the establishment and create their own freedom and success. He gets jealous over Miyazaki, Anno etc doing whatever they want, but he never blaze a new trail for himself. Bandai gave him Turn-A as a sort of lifetime achievement award but a happier arrangement is (1) give up the franchise to the toy-makers (Seed) and (2) revisit an old thing (Zeta) that "coincidentally" was also a bloom for merchandising. > As for failure in rating... remember the 0079 series was downright cancelled > in initial run. It's the fanfare and mechandize that revived the show. For > Turn A, as it's intentionally "not for mechandize", the response is much > weaker. But even you'd say Turn A is a great show, so you have to admit the > fanfare is there. Well I wasn't talking about (short-term) rating or merchandising in particular. But I roll a bunch of things up in calling Turn-A a failure. On merchandising, Victory is generally considered a failure, but it still one-up Turn-A since in 2005(?) one of the twinket line included a figure for Victory Gundam. Turn-A, AFAIK, didn't crack into any of the twinket line in the last couple years. I think that says something here. As anime-not-toy-commercial, there are many ways to gauge its impact, "artistic" success can be measured by how often people still mention it many years later. Fans would be drawing fan arts (and sending them to Newtype and hobby mags), there would be labor-of-love resin models (if not GK's) of Loran and other characters. There are many top-10 (or top-100) lists for fans to express their love. Akira, NGE and Nausicaa are still maintaining a low level hum many years later. Turn-A is only 6 years old but it's already forgotten in the anime world. > If you talk about stability, there're far worse artists in anime or movie > industry. Would you call Georga Lucas stable commercial artist? Lucas is the embodiment of a stable commercial artist. Anything he touches is a commercial success. Even the craps, and there are lots of craps that bear his name (esp. video games). But even the video games did well. But "stable" isn't a good thing for artists. I mean thank gods Tomino is unstable. Brilliant artists make a bunch of craps but a few masterpieces define their life. > I'm sure he didn't say "bull shit", but it'd be a funny gag. :-D I hope you know which quote I'm refering to. -- Dr. Core -------------------------------------------------- The Gundam Mailing List MK-II [email protected] Archives: http://www.gundam.com/gml Help: Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] with this in the BODY: help list
