MoonlightShadow
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What do you think that makes their popularity decreased?
Is it just me or Mecha series is kinda rare now?
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Demon_skeith
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A little bit, Isekais are taking over for sure. Though would be nice to see more Gundam projects produced.
MoonlightShadow
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Demon_skeith said:
Trends are changing huh. Well.. Gundam would be nice, or Macross
Grungie
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Outside of the super robot subgenre, mecha has been more of a niche genre for decades, so you just don’t hear about it. Outside of the American Gundam boom in the late 90’s/very early 00’s, I can probably count on one hand how many mecha shows that came out since then are brought up outside of hardcore mecha fans. Tbh not a lot of the pre-Toonami shows are brought up much either...
You could also throw into consideration how Sunrise was the leader of the genre for ages, monopolized on a lot of mech designers, but Love Live is their new cash cow franchise.
You could also throw into consideration how Sunrise was the leader of the genre for ages, monopolized on a lot of mech designers, but Love Live is their new cash cow franchise.
MoonlightShadow
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It's unfortunate.. i miss those mechas, they have specialty place on my heart Haha.. especially super robot
Grungie
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I guess a lot of the military/political drama in most of the shows is too dry for a lot of people. I noticed that mecha felt like one of those genres where you can easily tell a fan's age based on the only 5ish shows of the genre they care about, until you meet that one hardcore mecha fan.Grey_Fox said: