I've wondered about this, and I believe the consensus was that there were
only so many stories to use (while the manga has been going along for a long
time, it would take an entire story arc to fill up an hour show.)

Personally, I would *love* to see this come true.  Direct from the Manga
(cleaned up a little bit for the kids), I'd say you'd have enough for two or
three seasons, about half-hour each week, then end it as it caught up to the
manga.  I don't know how popular AMG is in Japan, but if the desire is high
enough there's probably a market.

For the most part, I'm not getting my hopes up.  This might be one of those
things that happens 20 years from now when somebody's sitting in an office
somewhere...

Cartoon Network Executive (CNE)1:  Damn it, we're not making enough money
off of PowerPuff Girls 2020!
CNE 2:  And Gundam Wing:  The Odd Couple Years is a flop.  If we don't do
something, we'll have to start reairing the Flintstones again at 2:00 am in
the morning.  (Wait, they do that already instead of airing Tenchi
unedited...grr...)
Janitor: (standing in the corner mopping)  Heh-heh.  That Skuld.  (Starts to
tuck the comic in his back pocket as he walks away.  It falls out.)
CNE 1:  What's this?  (Picks up comic).  Hm...  Attractive women, cute girl
with robots, guy who's into motorbikes... (flips through pages) Who's this
Urd - (nose starts to bleed).
CNE 2:  I smell a hit.

John



----- Original Message -----
> From: "GTR" <nine5@msn.com>
To: <megami@ML.usagi.org>
Sent: Wednesday, September 06, 2000 8:43 AM
Subject: RE: AMG OVA Questions


> So, do you think there will ever be a TV series for AMG?  They certainly
got
> enough stories to pick from on all that comics.  The Super Deformed AMG is
> nice but I kinda like to see the real Belldandy... not the SD Bell...
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> > From: 'CuSO4' Yung [mailto:cuso4@cuso4.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 06, 2000 6:49 AM
> To: megami@ML.usagi.org
> Subject: Re: AMG OVA Questions
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> > From: "GTR" <nine5@msn.com>
> > Can anyone tell me why it took so long for AMG to come out with
> > new Movie? It seems like once the 1-5 of OVA was done, there was
> > room for a lot more. Was it just not popular enough to make any
> > more OVA??  The reason I ask is because I noticed that Gundam has
> > like 14 different series each some where over 16 hours long!!!
>
> All are IMHO only, YMMV.
>
> AMG was an OVA.  Which means the the target audience is around 10-40K at
> most.  I forogt the sales figure of AMG OVA, but I do remember it is NOT
on
> the top 10 list of video release ever sold.
> I do not think the audience base is enough to support a movie.
>
> Also, the OVA was started in the wake of another seiyuu boom period, with
> Inoue Kikuko, Hisakawa Aya, and Touma Yumi did not have any fame yet.
>
> Furthermore, take into consideration of the bubble economy of the era.  No
> sponser would like to invest on such a movie.
>
> For now, things are different.  Fukushima products are very well received
:
> AMG, Taiho, Sakura Taisen, etc.  Kikuko and Aya are now big names.  And
the
> most important part is that the economy is recovering.
>
> As for Gundam, it is a totally different story.  Original Gundam is a TV
> classic, with far more number of audience than any other "giant robot"
genre
> of TV anime.  Its idea was somewhat very pioneer and used many hit
> scientific concepts as background (e.g. the cylindical space colony in
> Lagrange position).
>
> Bandai was a small company then.  They invested to produce Gundam figures
> and found they are selling faster than they can manufacture.  Now Bandai
is
> a toy giant.  Since Bandai is willing to sponser more Gundam series, it is
> only natural for Sunrise to take up the offer.
>
> Some rants about the Gundam series :
>
> Gundam, Z Gundam, Gundam ZZ, Shaa's Revenge, Gundam 0080, Gundam 0083, and
> later Gundam F91 are the proper series.  SD Gundam are not treat seriouly
by
> Gundam fans.  Gundam V and Gundam X are marginal, whereas Gundam G totally
> destroy the traditional Gundam concept.  Many older Gundam fans started to
> depart from Gundam-dom.  Not many people can accept a Bishojo Gundam
> appeared in the series.
>
> Gundam W was a very strange phenomenon.  It had attracted a total new
> generation of Gundam fans, especally young female fans.
>
> The more recent Gundam 08MS is strangely "original".  Aina is very cool.
> (Ah! Kikuko-sama!)
>
> I hate Gundam Turn A.  It is totally alien.  I know it is designed by Syd
> Mead, but I still hate it.
>
> My recomendation on Gundam series, if you have not watch any of the above
:
> watch Gundam first, then Z, you can skip ZZ if you do not have time,
Shaa's
> Revenge is a must (Nu-Gundam is the coolest Gundam ever, with its
Fin-fannel
> attached.), 0800 is a nice little side story, forget the rest and go
> straight to 08MS.
>
> --
> 'CuSO4' Yung
> cuso4@cuso4.com, cuso4@manbow.com, chyung@hknet.com, cuso4@cuso4.org
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