Forum - View topicNEWS: Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX TV Anime Unveils April 8 Debut, Theme Song by Kenshi Yonezu
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Shay Guy
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Checking Wikipedia, I think this is the first Gundam TV series not to be co-produced by Mainichi Broadcasting System since Turn A. And apparently this is the first Nippon TV Gundam ever — the history seems to go like this:
(The more I learn about Japanese TV, the weirder it seems. Would you ever see an internationally distributed scripted American series that was produced not by ABC per se, but specifically KTRK? Maybe it’s the population concentration, or the typical conventions for corporate structure, or both.) Also, is this the first late-night regular Gundam series? The recut of The Origin aired late at night, but I’m sure OVA re-edits have different economics. Even G-Witch was a daytime anime, and that had other concessions to modern anime economics (shorter runtime, split cours). Looks like this isn’t a regular anime block either; it’ll be replacing a live-action drama timeslot called Drama DEEP that started just a year before. Interestingly, NTV’s airing it shortly before their existing AnichU timeslot, though with a half-hour non-anime gap in between — AnichU is currently home to Flower and Asura, which will be replaced by Apocalypse Hotel in the spring. |
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Chiyosuke
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While it does seem like the end of a streak, TBS and MBS are more or less sister companies (for differing regions) so whatever either produced, the other was gonna air it regardless, nine times out of 10. |
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MFrontier
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So that's how Takemichi sounds as Char? He definitely seems to be trying to channel a younger Shuichi Ikeda.
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Shay Guy
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That’s pretty much just what I said. There’s some exceptions, mind you — MBS seems to have its fingers in a lot of anime pies, and not all of them are taken up by the rest of the network. For instance, each season of Tokyo Revengers has aired on MBS in Kansai, but TV Tokyo in Kanto. Also, I recently found out that TBS was on the production committee for Fate/stay night 2006, but none of the JNN stations aired it — it just aired on independent stations. Don’t ask me what that was about. |
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