Hilarious case in point, I showed a newer anime fan (FullMetal Alchemist/FMA: Brotherhood being their favorites) some Wing not too long ago, and they said, "Oh, wow, this is old-school anime like Trigun). Now, when I think old-school, it's the anime from the late-'70s and '80s, and maybe some early '90s titles. Gundam Wing is 1995 and Trigun is 1998--that may be a while ago, but neither of those classify as "old-school" to me when you think back to stuff like Gundam 0079 or VOTOMS. (They did say though that they thought the animation quality of Wing was pretty good, even though it looked old).Chris wrote:Yeah, but when Gundam Wing aired 10 years ago, it was only 5 years old. And for the people who grew up watching it, they have childhood nostalgia for it as people of my generation did for the original Transformers. As has been shown time and again, "old" is ok if it's something people have nostalgia for, but not if it's an "old" thing you're trying to show people for the first time.Darkerangel wrote:haha speaking of which, Gundam Wing is older than Turn A too and you don't hear too many people calling that shiz old =P.
Now, Turn-A Gundam is a series I've always been curious about. Over the years, in my impatience, I've learned more about it than I'd like, but I still am interested to see how it all plays out with all the blanks I don't know about. From some small clips I've looked at in the past, the animation quality is fairly impressive, and I think its "throwback" visual style might make it harder for modern fans to place a date to compared to Gundam X, which has the feel of the era (a visual feel I happen to like more so than not). As an aside, Gundam X, more often than not, didn't have consistent dynamic choreography in its fight animation compared to Wing and G; Turn-A looks like it might fair better. (Someone made a comment that seemed to suggest Endless Waltz had poor animation quality...but for my money, that's one of the best animated Gundams despite its almost superfluous curtain-call/also-ran plot).
Unless Gundam 00 started a trend with Bandai/Gundam and SyFy, I don't expect Turn-A to be aired. I would like to see it dubbed, though. And, yes, I do hope this means Gundam X will get over here with a dub in the next few years.
G, Wing, X, Turn-A seemed to be a very interesting grouping of AUs--somehow more distinctive than SEED and 00 (not to say that those were not without their merits). But when I think of AU, I think of those first four).