Wing aired on US TV after school. 0079 was airing on daytime TV too, but they pulled it because of September 11th.

>>23869769
It had five guys.

>>23869786
Burgers and Fries?

>>23869786
Burgers and Fries

>>23869769
It's the first gundam to be shown to many westerners. It's really that simple.

Who gives a shit?

>>23869788
>>23869791
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>>23869830
It's okay if you're not 'Murikan enough to get it.

>>23869769
>Gundam Wing was more popular than Seed
You say this like it's some kind of shock. What shocking, is that either of these trash piles are popular.

>>23869769
>I wonder if she cosplayed as Asuka at some point.

>>23869769
It aired first and became the iconic show in their minds. It's like why they like Golion so much

>>23869791
But no fatties allowed, Shuko Murase learned you have to have five ikemen to get the girls swooning.

Because SEED looked gay and had a gay artstyle.

WING looked cool as fuck and had Milliardo and cool mechs

It was many westerner's first show, the mech design and OST were both immaculate, and yes, ladies were horny for the guys.

>>23869769
Gundam Wing is only popular because Wing Zero has wings and that makes it pretty. People never even watched the show they just know the blue Gundam has wings and it's pretty ergo beautiful. Americans are stupid.

Debate me.

>>23870546
You're a third world monkey retard
And this is not up for debate

>>23870548
Yeah America is 3rd world when it comes to class that is true. I'll admit that.

>>23869769
Are you sure your premise is correct? How do you know? Are you just conjuring up demons in your head to torment yourself with?
And even if it were the case, how do you know both weren't fairly well-regarded ('popular') in general?

>>23869769
Seed came out in the US after about 4 years of Bandai not being able to properly hit the same audience Wing did, and changes at Cartoon Network meaning it was no longer given a daily slot where kids would be familiar to it. Mismanagement in the toy side of things also lead to Gundam being out of the toy aisles by around 2006 and that was another avenue to get people into the property. Same with games which dried up(still ahd a few US localizations but not to the same push for a while)
Long term Seed isn't unpopular in America, it's still probably more popular than basically any series since. It just missed peak normie saturation.
And Wing is still really popular in Japan too. People act as if it's popularity is an American/Western only thing when it's Japan consuming a good deal of the merch made for it.

>>23870546
Not only that that's why people think final fantasy 7 is such a great game. Sephiroth looks dark and beautiful to fujoshits with his one black wing so everybody thinks FF7 is a huge masterpiece.

>>23870546
What a stupid take, Wing took off before Endless Waltz was released in NA.

>>23870950
What do you expect? You're talking to someone who probably wasn't even born when Wing hit US airwaves.

>>23869769
Wing is the White Man's Gundam. SEED is the SEAdog's Gundam.

Simple as.

>>23869769
If I remember correctly Wing and later G came on Toonami after school 5 days a week. Seed was only on Saturday nights after Dragon Ball GT.

>>23870978
This post's aim is accurate to one hundredth of a unit

Yikes. Not comfortable with the casual racism in this thread

>>23871031
This guy keeps coming in and acting all white power and America 1st in every fucking thread and mods do nothing.

>>23869769
Need a wife like this irl

>>23869769
You need to understand what Gundam was to us OP.
This is at what we had
>Wing
This was our introduction. The shows lead is Heero, who was a stoic terminator kid. There's a scene where he resets his own broken leg. That kind of thing is cool to six to twelve year old American boys. The show itself focuses on flash and action. That also helps it.

Now let's look at what we got on TV when I was a kid before SEED. I can't tell you the exact OVA airing order from my head.
>0083
Short war story with an adult (for a kid, 19 is close enough) soldier lead with Kou.
>08th MS
Short Romeo and Julliet in a war setting story with an adult soldier lead in Shiro.
>0080
Another short war story but it is lead by Bernie and Al together in a big brother little brother dynamic.
>original MSG
This was our second full show to air. It had Amuro, who is our closest comparison to kira, and we didn't even get to finish his show.
>G
This is was our last Gundam series before SEED. It had Domon who was yet another adult lead, in a flashy action martial arts show. The Gundam fighters may as well have been super heroes considering what they could do.

Outside of just the toonami daytime airings, there was also CCA, but it aired during a late night run on adult swim. A lot of kids flat missed it. However that's another example of Gundam with an adult lead. We never got F91 on TV or zeta.

That was our frame of reference for Gundam for w Gundam was going into Gundam SEED.
When we get to SEED. Kira is a return to the teenager lead. He's openly emotional, way more so then amuro, and as a lead he he's not even in the same universe as stoic Heero. He didn't compare to the OVA soldier leads. From personal experience he felt wrong.
On top of this, the show has a heavy melodrama focus which American boys don't go for. Speaking from personal experience, I completely dropped the show while it was airing because I flat wasn't enjoying it. It failed enough CN death slotted it.

>>23871031
Oh that's not good. The last thing we want is for anyone to be uncomfortable here!
In order to fix these hurt feelings, might I suggest that you fuck off back to /r/eddit or twitter or whatever other shithole you came here from?

>>23871085
Thinking about it, I I should probably add I some of what else was going on around the same time SEED was crashing in the US. We were entering a period where anime was out of style. In second half of the 00s, anime was considered something for weird nerds in the US, period. The mainstream anime boom which Dragon ball, Gundam wing, and Toonami as a whole brought in had died already died. We entered an era where G4's xplay shitting on almost any anime style game they had to review.

>>23869769
wtf I thought the duckface died a decade ago

>>23869769
Who is this cutie?