Forum - View topicNEWS: Gundam: The Origin Anime Gets Compilation Films Starting on September 13
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Fluwm
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How utterly pointless.
If they really want to keep milking Yas' manga for all its worth, maybe they could try what they should've done in the first place, and adapt the series in full. |
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Beatdigga
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I remain convinced that there is something in writing that ensures 0079 cannot be fully remade. I mean, someone would have jumped on it already given how hard they seem to be dancing around the obvious idea with endless side stories and prequels and everything but a proper remake. |
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tintor2
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Playing fiddle for Hathaway
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Top Gun
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Maybe someday I'll understand the anime industry's endless infatuation with compilation films. Besides milking a cow dry to eke out more money from the hardcore fans, of course.
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penguintruth
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There are already two different versions of this thing, sure, why not another?
Compilation movies might've been useful back when TV shows didn't air repeats and their were no episode guides, but in modern times, unless there's something truly different about them, they're pretty pointless. |
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Neohybrid_kai
 Posts: 145 Location: Indonesia |
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Compilation movie might not be very popular or not as profitable as other merchandise but I think it has its fans. Lots of my friend watched Bocchi compilation movie when its aired here even though they already watch the series. Some reasons I can think:
- Cinema are mostly inside mall, the access to mall is very easy and some still visit once in a while - You can hangout with friends from the same fandom - The ticket price is reasonable - For most of us who can't afford good monitor or audio, watching the series we like in big screen is satisfying Basically we spent small amount money and the production committee get some money with little effort. Everybody happy. |
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russ869
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I understand why they'd want to put this series in theatres. What I don't understand is why they need to re-edit it into yet another alternate cut. Especially the later episodes are already basically feature length films. Although a lot of that runtime is the recap section of what happened in previous episodes. If you cut that out, I suppose it is enough to turn 4 films into 3 films. Still seems pretty silly and like a confusing waste of time. They aren't really saving very much runtime.
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kgw
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Without its first compilation movies, Gundam wouldn't have had its boom and would've remained as a forgotten mecha anime, like Sunbot 3 or Raideen. But Gundam The Origin already had a compilation series, the Rise of the Red Comet. If memories serves me well, Yoshikazu Yasuhiko said in a press conference in the Salón del Manga (Spain) that Sunrise allows him to take "liberties" from the Gundam history because it was HIS project. Strange that the only parts that have become an anime are those who fit into the UC cannon*. * instead of Sayla-Artesia becoming President-Queen of Zeon. I won't put a spoiler mark for manga from 2011. |
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Eilavel
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I don't think its anything in writing. The top people at Bandai/Sunrise don't want to do so, presumably partly out of sentimentality. It might also be, why do that now when Gundam is making money fine? Keep it in the back pocket for if the franchise starts struggling because it will be an instant hit. Especially as to do it as per origin it would take many years. So instead Yasuhiko got a great team to make the rather banal Cucuruz Doans Island. |
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lalahsghost
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[quote="Beatdigga"]
Yas has stated in interviews that he will not "trample" on Tomino's work, (*despite originally carrying it to the goalpost*  ) hence why Origin TV stops where it does.
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Beatdigga
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So it is deemed sacred.
Which…is honestly a shame, because I don’t see it as trampling anything. |
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Deacon Blues
Posts: 395 Location: Albuquerque, NM |
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There is no point in them reanimating the original. The entire point of Gundam nowadays, at least with various new series (namely the AU) is to get people interested in the IP to go back and view those older titles. The Witch from Mercury was quite successful on that front. Going back and redoing them to "get with the times" (or however people want to spin it) serves no purpose and only serves to sow even more discord among the "hardliner" "canon hard' fandom. (They already squabble over petty crap like whether Origin or Thunderbolt fit in proper timelines that haven't existed for decades). Plus, you just can't rehash stuff from that long ago nowadays without updating "past problems" with something new, which totally destroys the point of the original. |
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Ryo Hazuki
Posts: 369 Location: Finland |
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Many panels in Gundam The Origin use the exact same lay outs and visual gags as the original series. The biggest overall difference between the series and the manga is showing Xhar's backstory, which has already been animated.
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Rob19ny
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What the heck is going on? I'd feel offended if I worked on the original theater releases, especially when it was already altered for tv.
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