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Marketing for Hathaway 2 is now treating the film's contents as open knowledge, despite the fact we're not getting it until September. And that's assuming it isn't another time an AL Gundam release keeps getting pushed back.

Given to my knowledge no one in Europe has it yet, what a massive fumble from Bandai Namco. To go from parity with the last 2 major Gundam theatricals to leaving us out in the cold with this. They literally haven't shut up about Americans getting it for months.
 
As Tominio told Fukuda back in the 2000s: “don’t trust Bandai!” He meant that form a production but on the consumer level it's still very applicable. Their own worse enemy when it comes to handling their own successful and highly demanded products.

HellCat said:
This really looks like "This is what we think westerners want"...
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It looks okay. There's a lot of arguments about what makes a Gundam show aesthetically count as a Gundam show. Rouge Orbit somehow crystallised my own person rule is 'there are big robots and it looks like there could be a romance somewhere'. Which isn't suitable for an academic definition, but I do think it helps me understand why I like this franchise.
 
I'm not too surprised from a company that wasted billions on a quietly abandoned Metaverse, then unveiled a Gunpla social site that will take your model photos and edit them through AI.
 
I haven't had any indication I'll be invited to officially cover the permanent Gundam Base (my major booster left the company at the start of the year) but the Bedford train crash is giving me major pause. It's on the route I'd have to take and happened right next to where I live.

I know I lean into the bit of being 'obsessive Gundam fan' but I do like to think I have common sense. Think I've had enough near misses in my life and not sure I wanna risk it for this.
 
So off the back of the news Gundam X was getting AI subs, a lot of self righteous posts from Americans insisting Bandai never shows Gundam any respect there. Which is BS but I've long since got used to Americans embodying the "You took my only food. Now I'll starve!" Spongebob meme.

The outrage got so bad it was officially clarified the English subs won't be AI generated, just the ones for other languages. And just like that all these grandiose arguments about artistic and moral integrity from Americans stopped.

Because it only ever matters when they're the ones losing out...
 
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