>――Each character ended up with a large female following. Was that a conscious goal from the start?>Sumizawa: Not at all. At the time, we weren’t thinking about attracting female fans in the slightest. We just wanted to make our version of Gundam. Honestly, I had no idea women were watching in such numbers until I saw it reported in anime magazines. Of course, Murase’s artwork was incredibly stylish, so my assumption was simply, “It’s the visuals that are pulling them in.”>――So you weren’t aiming for women at all? That’s surprising.>Sumizawa: Not in the least. We never thought, “Let’s pander to women.” We didn’t study female psychology or deliberately work it into the direction. If anything, lines like Wufei’s “I won’t fight women or weaklings” are downright insulting to women (laughs). Because Ikeda had directed Ronin Warriors, people assume he was calculating in how he appealed to female fans. But the truth is, there was zero calculation. He didn’t have any sense for what women might latch onto in a doujinshi-style way. I’d worked on Yu Yu Hakusho, so I had some idea how female fans interpreted, say, Kurama and Hiei’s exchanges. I tried explaining those dynamics to Ikeda, but he never got it. He just didn’t think that way. Which is why, I believe, women responded so strongly: they loved what he created simply by being himself. That’s the fascinating part.
>――I always assumed that because the female characters were so numerous, and so relatable, women must have been the target audience from the outset.>Sumizawa: Not at all. With the female cast, Ikeda and I simply wrote the kinds of women we liked. We hated the cliché of the shrill, chattery “comic relief girl” who showed up in every robot anime. We wanted women who were poised, grounded, and real. And we consciously tried to break from past Gundams by introducing the kinds of women Tomino would never write. Though ironically, I once heard that when he made First Gundam, Tomino’s hope was to win over female fans (laughs).>――Really?>Sumizawa: According to what I heard, “At first, the only people supporting First were women. Then the male maniacs piled on, and the show got pulled toward the military side.” Maybe Tomino actually wanted to make something closer to Wing all along (laughs).https://zeonic-republic.net/?page_id=12570
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>>23553598This doesn't change the fact that Gundam is queer and gay and that you should stop watching it.
>>23553598>worked on yu yu hakusho>uhh you might want to change this you're going to get the yaoi audience>goes ahead with it>oh no why is my audience yaoi fangirls
>>23553598It never had to, fujoshi would have seen males interacting and made up their own headcannon. I know a fujo who after watching Escaflowne was pretty thoroughly convinced that Hitomi and the love triangle was a red herring to cover the "canonical" romantic relationship between Allen and Van that the series was actually about.
>>23555198The villian of Escaflowne should have been a fujo with the cuck fate machine trying to self insert as Hitomi
>>23555198>Escaflowne was pretty thoroughly convinced that Hitomi and the love triangle was a red herring to cover the "canonical" romantic relationship between Allen and VanAlmost unrelated but it does have mecha now somehow but the cope for the fujo pairing was so strong in Kingdom Hearts some fujo wrote a FIVE HUNDRED PAGE theory on why the entire franchise is actually all just a dream and there are multiple 6 hour long video essays about it.
>>23555220Soriku...
>>23555220>some fujo wrote a FIVE HUNDRED PAGE theory on why the entire franchise is actually all just a dream and there are multiple 6 hour long video essays about it.You're joking, right?
>>23555220>>23555243This is the same kind of terminal autism as the Silent Hill Circumcision theory.
>>23553598>Ronin WarriorsFive male characters with distinct personality teaming up, that's like a popular thing among female audience since Saint Seiya and Ronin Warriors, how the fuck they haven't figure that out when making Wing?
>>23555274The fucking what now.
Fujoshi love shounen shit so no real surprise there
>>23555283There was a retarded admin on the Silent Hill wiki ages ago who thought Silent Hill 2 was an allegory for being circumcised as a baby and had a complete mental breakdown when people disagreed with him. If you have a few hours and nothing better to do with your time there's plenty of videos on the whole thing.
>>23555220>Kingdom Heartsschizo theory aside you cant deny how gay Sora was for Riku in KH2 and onward until KH3 course corrected.
>>23555311I mean as far as Sora knew Kairi was safe on the island and even when she gets kidnapped he still ultimately knows how to find her. With Riku he just disappeared behind a door and as far as Sora knew he might never see him again, the reaction isn't exactly out of nowhere when they finally meet again.
Wing female characters are so ugly.
>>23555457I disagree, they are handsome.
>>23555474You have poor taste in Waifu.
>>23555457>>23555483>pov you fell on your head as a child
