Chris Campbell wrote:
At 06:02 PM 10/27/2006, you wrote:
So what? Again to keep things short: if Gundam can't win in China,
Gundam won't win in the world. Gundam will still be successful in JP,
KR, HK and TW (and PH) but in China, US and EU, it will still be about
as niche as Thundercats.
Discuss?
I think Star Trek would be a more apt comparison. Both were huge for
awhile, both generated a plethora of TV series and movies/OVAs, and both
are so thoroughly played out that the public is sick of them. There will
always be die hard fans, of course, but how big can a property get
before it implodes under its own weight?
Gundam and Trek both have had their time in the sun, and people enjoyed
them immensely. But now it's time to move on to other things, leaving
the die hards to wallow in their nostalgia and the rest of the world to
anticipate the next big thing.
I think Core is right - in the sense that it only works with certain
cultures - unfortunately, the major world markets don't function under
those rules.
Gundam also needs to go into a hiatus, if only to make people rest from
it. That probably means that its kits will go into a less frenetic
production pace, and that there should be no gundam cartoons for a
while. Besides, to be honest, if they did produce kits at a less
frenetic pace, they would probably get more kits sold.
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