How do you go directly from a grim semi-adult space opera to a saturday morning villain of the week, semi-comedy? Does anyone have the low down on wtf happened here? Its a little hard to swallow that this was a fully organic tonal change.
TF happened with ZZ?
Nathan Turner
Jeremiah Foster
100% pressures from the publishers. It's even more jarring how Victory swiches back and forth between emotionally scarring people and pandering to toddlers.
Mason Murphy
>How do you go directly from a grim semi-adult space opera to a saturday morning villain of the week, semi-comedy?
It's literally a different show, what's the issue with a change in tone? Before Zeta you had 0079 too, that's a ton of episodes
Robert Ramirez
gundam has always been a dumb kids show, tomino is a hack
Kayden Lewis
ZZ keeps its comedy aspect to some extent but it gets more in line with Zeta or 0079 later on.
>saturday morning villain of the week
This is exactly how 0079 and Zeta play out too though. They're more serious but that doesn't change this aspect. And Tomino was specifically required in Zeta to have a mech battle in every episode, which leads to a lot of pointless battles in it.
Luis Perez
Tomino gave Sunrise the toy commercial they wanted after getting the green light for CCA.
William Morris
The first several episodes of of ZZ were fun and way better than the slog that was Zeta.
Joshua Cooper
ZZ's cast is way better than Zeta's overall.
James Nguyen
tomino describes the series exactly like that too though
Juan Young
Tomino had temporarily recovered from his depression and thought that Gundam targeted the wrong demographic, so he tried giving it a comedic twist. It doesn't last too long though and quickly falls in line with the rest of the series.