Gundam

Any Forums is gundam niche, this is an argument a friend and I have been having. Also Gundam Thread

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no

Does your friend consider the mecha genre itself niche? Gundam is as widespread as it gets.

OP here and I'm the one arguing that it is niche and to answer your question, yes I would consider mecha genre niche compared to the rest of anime gernes.

No, the idea is ridiculous.

I love Mercury

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>Gundam
>Niche
Get a load of this idiot

Mecha anime is as important to Japan cultural history as it's own folklore and even their government aknowledges it. And Gundam is mainstream as mecha anime gets. It currently has four 20 meters tall animatronic statues, wich other franchise has that? Plus, Gunpla is something you find there in almost every store there.

Niche in what kind of context?

Giant robots are a stupid concept.
We're intended to believe that an impractical expensive machine that boils down to a grunt but big will replace tanks, planes and artillery.

That's why mecha as a whole is niche, not just Gundam.

Is Star Wars niche? Is capeshit niche?

Nigga we have an entire board for mecha

OP is a fucking idiot
>is one of Japan's most popular media "niche"
What do you fucking think? Are you 12?

This user must be fun at parties.

The only Gundam I watched are the gunpla commercials and mostly for the character designs/seiyus

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Fuck Irritating Bowel Odor Gundam and Hathaway's Trash. Most of the franchise is solid outside of those two.

I hope you apply this criticism to every genre you watch.

>The only Gundam I watched are the gunpla commercials
That's... all of them.

I don't watch genres that require suspending your disbelief to such extend.

I think some of the minor titles don't have any real Gunpla.

I find hilarious how Gundam fans talk a lot about Ecole du Ciel and bitch a lot about G-Witch being made instead of an anime adaptation of Ecode du Ciel... and then you realize that no one has read Ecole du Ciel and they only parrot it because someone else does it.