Comments on: The Gundam series may not survive for another ten years, Gundam GQuuuuuuX director suggests  https://automaton-media.com/en/news/the-gundam-series-may-not-survive-for-another-ten-years-gundam-gquuuuuux-director-suggests/ AUTOMATON is a website that covers the Japanese gaming world. We bring you the news on video games from Osaka and Tokyo. Sat, 23 Aug 2025 12:59:53 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: R2D2 https://automaton-media.com/en/news/the-gundam-series-may-not-survive-for-another-ten-years-gundam-gquuuuuux-director-suggests/#comment-6453 Sat, 23 Aug 2025 12:59:53 +0000 https://automaton-media.com/en/?p=51213#comment-6453 If GQX and Witch from Mercury is what the people in charge allow Gundam to become, I can see why he would think it won’t make it for another decade. It’s been mid series after mid series after Unicorn, with at least some decent movies and it hasn’t been all great before either.

Slice of life with atrocious characters and a complete disregard for character development and especially for politics and war, the fundamentals of Gundam, or freaky looking kids who look like buffoons pretending to be serious, is not what I signed up for.

]]> By: Flipkuza https://automaton-media.com/en/news/the-gundam-series-may-not-survive-for-another-ten-years-gundam-gquuuuuux-director-suggests/#comment-6449 Fri, 22 Aug 2025 15:07:24 +0000 https://automaton-media.com/en/?p=51213#comment-6449 You mean like what SEED did? Which made it one of the most popular Gundam series, I do get your point, but honestly Gundam has been around for so many years they have tried everything, They went the full political route, they have sparkle it with romance, they went full shonen once, there was that other time they tried to make it a video game, it had some varying degrees of success though in my opinion they get more success when they combine a serious plot with the occasional hijinks of a romantic Comedy, Wing and the 08th to some extent, SEED, IBO, WoM and this last one, the only thing they haven’t done is add full on magic or the Isekai plot where the MC is overpowered and probably disregard the whole, “kids piloting war machines and killing is really fucked up” theme though I don’t think it will make for good series those kind of plots are forgotten whenever the next anime Quar hits and at the end of the day is all about gunpla can’t sell those people if don’t remember from what anime they are.

]]> By: Fumbi https://automaton-media.com/en/news/the-gundam-series-may-not-survive-for-another-ten-years-gundam-gquuuuuux-director-suggests/#comment-6441 Thu, 21 Aug 2025 20:20:07 +0000 https://automaton-media.com/en/?p=51213#comment-6441 Okay really now… How about stop targeting teen and all the audiences that probably don’t know what Gundam was about? Instead, make it darker and/or political with drama as seasoning. There is a reason why war the the pocket and 08th ms team age so well. It’s not just the animation… Even young audiences are starting to get fed up with the high fantasy and stuff

]]> By: Shahier Zainuddin https://automaton-media.com/en/news/the-gundam-series-may-not-survive-for-another-ten-years-gundam-gquuuuuux-director-suggests/#comment-6440 Thu, 21 Aug 2025 19:48:50 +0000 https://automaton-media.com/en/?p=51213#comment-6440 Its because the story writing of the gundam series is getting worse. Old gundam series likes GundamSeed, and Mobile Suit Iron Blood is good because of how much its gundam design and its story writing had an impact to the audiences. Another old mecha anime that is also interesting is the anime Knigh & Magic. This mecha anime is so fresh, although its not a gundam series. But still leave quit an impressive impression to the fan of mecha anime.

]]> By: Gundamfan https://automaton-media.com/en/news/the-gundam-series-may-not-survive-for-another-ten-years-gundam-gquuuuuux-director-suggests/#comment-6439 Thu, 21 Aug 2025 17:28:51 +0000 https://automaton-media.com/en/?p=51213#comment-6439 Love the gundam series. But the last 2 was good to watch but they are not good as the old series. For me I like gundam blooded orphans, 08th ms team because it had more realistic look too it. And also enjoyed gundam seed and 00 and hathaway. I would love to see more series like blooded orphans and 08th team. Blooded orphans got me into watching gundam series in the first place.

]]> By: Nwardo Magumbe https://automaton-media.com/en/news/the-gundam-series-may-not-survive-for-another-ten-years-gundam-gquuuuuux-director-suggests/#comment-6438 Thu, 21 Aug 2025 14:46:28 +0000 https://automaton-media.com/en/?p=51213#comment-6438 This is emblematic of the mindset set Tomino was concerned about in that statement from a few months ago.

The mecha is supposed to be a terrible weapon of war, not a cool car with arms. Treating it like a toy undermines that.

]]> By: Santasquad100 https://automaton-media.com/en/news/the-gundam-series-may-not-survive-for-another-ten-years-gundam-gquuuuuux-director-suggests/#comment-6437 Thu, 21 Aug 2025 08:06:42 +0000 https://automaton-media.com/en/?p=51213#comment-6437 ]]> Here is an idea, Micheal bay directs a Gundam film 😂

]]> By: Belly https://automaton-media.com/en/news/the-gundam-series-may-not-survive-for-another-ten-years-gundam-gquuuuuux-director-suggests/#comment-6435 Thu, 21 Aug 2025 02:13:44 +0000 https://automaton-media.com/en/?p=51213#comment-6435 I think its the quality of gundam that is dooming itself… gundam franchise keep spitting out rubbish or sub standard generic as well content, nowonder viewers gets bored.

For the older gundams i was like “omg i cant wait to see nxt episode”… now its like “story n art preety meh, maybe i’ll just wait till the series finishes”.

]]> By: Mylastamen https://automaton-media.com/en/news/the-gundam-series-may-not-survive-for-another-ten-years-gundam-gquuuuuux-director-suggests/#comment-6433 Wed, 20 Aug 2025 22:50:06 +0000 https://automaton-media.com/en/?p=51213#comment-6433 If the genre keeps creating series like Gundam GQuuuuuuX, then of course it’s bound to fail. It’s nothing like the true Gundam genre or anything great like God Gundam or 00.

]]> By: Midori https://automaton-media.com/en/news/the-gundam-series-may-not-survive-for-another-ten-years-gundam-gquuuuuux-director-suggests/#comment-6430 Wed, 20 Aug 2025 19:30:13 +0000 https://automaton-media.com/en/?p=51213#comment-6430 Oh come on…just because younger audiences watch hot trash like solo leveling doesn’t mean we have to stop making mecha anime, I’m even sure that the original Gundam will have a resurgence when the newer generations get a fixation on the “aesthetic” and “vibes” of our generation and the ones before, and start watching retro anime and get interested in Gundam. (Not that the ENTIRE generation will, but I’m sure there will be some!

]]> By: Andre https://automaton-media.com/en/news/the-gundam-series-may-not-survive-for-another-ten-years-gundam-gquuuuuux-director-suggests/#comment-6429 Wed, 20 Aug 2025 18:26:57 +0000 https://automaton-media.com/en/?p=51213#comment-6429 I think he’s right to point out the overall decline of mecha anime, but it’s not because kids have stopped admiring giant robots—it’s more about the typical narrative direction Gundam takes. The series has always leaned heavily into politics with a relatively serious tone, while the most popular anime today are wish-fulfillment fantasies and romantic comedies—genres Gundam is very much not. That said, if the writers created a compelling, character-driven story that borrowed some of the emotional appeal of those genres—similar to what Code Geass achieved—I believe Gundam could find major success again.

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