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The Gundam franchise is bigger than ever, but its creator fears it might be for the wrong reasons. Gundam has always been one of the biggest anime franchises around, and recent years have seen even more growth for it, as GQuuuuuuX is a thrilling collaboration with Studio Khara of Neon Genesis Evangelion fame, and the previous series, The Witch from Mercury, was Gundam’s most profitable series in years.
There’s no denying that Gundam is a big franchise, but for its creator, Yoshiyuki Tomino, it might be big for the wrong reasons. Tomino recently spoke about how Gundam has been defined by its depictions of war and the military-industrial complex, and as he did, he criticized the current state of the franchise, saying that modern Gundam fans only care about the fighting and modern Gundam creators don’t care about war.
“When you say ‘I like Gundam,’ the words that come up are, of course, ‘mobile suit battles are cool.’ That is not the point. At all. My younger colleagues are making Gundam series today, and I don’t feel a sense of experience with war.” -Yoshiyuki Tomino
That idea can be felt in some of Gundam’s more recent output, but whether that’s a bad thing is far more complicated than one might think.
Source: Anime News Network.
- Created by
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Yoshiyuki Tomino
- First Episode Air Date
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April 7, 1979
- Cast
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Tôru Furuya, Shūichi Ikeda, Hirotaka Suzuoki
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