>Most popular mainstream Japanese anime magazine
>Consistently advertises FSS, an ancient manga that modern Otaku don't give a shit about
Why? How would Aniplex and Kadokawa allow a MANGA work that doesn't shill their seasonal anime to have such a prime-time spot?
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Are you really so confused about it you felt the need to make a post about it?
Considering Newtype is the #1 anime magazine in Japan, and people here on Sup Forums pay so much attention to its character popularity polls, yeah, it's fucking bizarre. Advertising an obscure old manga over a bunch of other seasonal anime and movies from big corporate backers? The fuck is going on?
I'll give you a hint. The FSS manga is fucking published in Newtype.
It''s not that obscure, at least compared to some other franchises, and it's still ongoing.
Obviously it's what's happening, why bother wondering why? Clearly it just is.
>and people here on Sup Forums pay so much attention to its character popularity polls
You mean take the piss out of, surely.
I know that, but why would a manga, and a non-Otaku one at that, be published in an ANIME magazine?
>It''s not that obscure
Compared to all the other shows in Newtype, it's like an ant
>Obviously it's what's happening, why bother wondering why?
Because it's completely out of character for a huge-ass corporation like Aniplex/Kadokawa. Why waste ad space on something that practically no one cares about in the context of its own magazine?
The point is that it's important enough for people here to pay attention too. Its -the- anime magazine.
It's not "out of character." It's explicitly what's happening. It doesn't matter what you think about it, clearly they either like it enough, or whatever other reasons, to put it on the cover. There's nothing to talk about.
Did Nagano's latest anime ever even had bluray release?
I never watched it
It's a lot more popular in Japan than you'd think, and it's been running for an insanely long time. is celebrating its 30th anniversary, in fact.
Newtype is an anime magazine, yes, but it also runs one or two manga series at any given time just because they can. FSS is a major seller and they're going to promote it as hard as they can whenever it's off hiatus (and even sometimes when it's on hiatus, is literally advertising that it's about to come back, not even back yet). The other manga series right now is Akuma no Riddle.
Just because "it's happening" doesn't mean it shouldn't be questioned.
Okay, that clears it up. I don't know anything about FSS but from what I see it doesn't look like typical Otaku pandering like Akuma no Riddle. Do you know why it's run on Newtype magazine of all places though? It looks like it belongs to a different target audience.
You're relying way too hard on your perception of things that you don't know anything about.
Obviously it does belong to this audience. Newtype = Gundam, Nagano worked on Gundam. It's really, really simple.
But Gundam isn't FSS, and comparing Gundam to any other mecha franchise that isn't Macross is laughable. Why don't other Gundam designers get their own spot in the largest anime magazine of Japan then?
You're right, I don't really know anything about why it's there. That's why I made this thread.
>Why don't other Gundam designers get their own spot in the largest anime magazine of Japan then?
Could be any of a number of reasons. They only have one or two manga at a time, so they gave it to him, and he's held that spot for 30 years. Keep in mind that that probably WAS otaku pandering back when it started.
Plus they have a full magazine for Gundam manga, not much point in putting them in Newtype.
No, it only got a limited theatrical release. Apparently he is still working on it and touching up various parts. Don't quote me on this, but I believe that he did much of the work himself, so there isn't much inbetween animation. Also it is meant for 4k. Basically Nagano's crazy vision of the movie is that you have to see it in a theater in 4k.
Holy shit, just, what
FSS + Newtype is kind of a thing, established tradition by now.
>Basically Nagano's crazy vision of the movie is that you have to see it in a theater in 4k.
Damn, I guess that's how you make something Gaijin-proof.
Nagano is pretty crazy and anti-consmerism. He could license FSS to bamco for plamo kits and make an incredible amount of money (fuck I'd take FSS plamo over gunpla any day of the week), but he hates bamco so much he'll never do it and instead only release LE resin kits. I imagine something similar went on with this movie, he hates the industry so much that he just did it all on his own. I'm still hoping I'll get to see it one day.
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>the last line of that trailer is ~ "what a beautiful robot"
Nagano truly has his priorities in order
What the hell is wrong with him? Genuine question
There are already FSS plastic kits though.
He had some pretty bad experiences working with Sunrise producers in the 80s back in his Gundam days.
Poor KOG he didn't deserve this.
Why are the new motorhead redesings soo awful
Sounds like the kind of person Miyazaki would unironically like.
>a non-Otaku one
FSS is the epitome of a mecha otaku series and it's been associated with Newtype for decades.
Oh, damn.
I'm sure he can still find some good producer and staff somewhere. Taking so much time on a single work is downright crazy and stupid
>dat Quess
FSS is one of the things that made Newtype. It may be old as shit and kind of bad but it's hardly gonna get dumped after all this time.
Actually he finished Gothicmade back in 2012. Since then there have been a few screenings every 6 months or so. Most recent one was back in April of this year I believe. He worked on it with a small staff, but it wasn't a solo project. He had three other key animators, all from Ghibli, and the art director was also from Ghibli. I don't know how much of the movie he animated himself.
you're a fucking faggot kid
>FSS is the epitome of a mecha otaku series
That was and always has been Gundam. FSS exists in its own niche and the mecha are just part of the setting, it doesn't revolve around them like Gundam.
I think it was just a matter of cash. Gothicmade isn't exactly the type of movie that you can pitch to Nip producers and get a green light. So Nagano just made it with his own pocket money and some close talented friends.
>comparing Gundam to any other mecha franchise that isn't Macross is laughable
What about Mazinger, or Getter?
Never heard about this manga, how good it is? Is it worth to read?
You'll have to be more specific. FSS is pretty polarizing.
>Big company advertises manga they publish
>Out of character
Eh
Not to mention that retcon of all the designs recently.
Gundam doesn't revolve around robots either. Human drama, as shitty as it may be, always played a big role in most Gundam series.
To be fair Kadokawa is one of the largest publishers in all of Japan, and they've published hundreds of more popular manga than FSS.
That's just worse. It's a fucking mecha story, how it isn't getting funding?
Fucking japan
They have, but not in Newtype. It makes sense for a specific magazine to advertise its selling points.
It's all about cute girls and waifus now user, robots don't mean shit unless it's Gundam.
>an ancient manga that modern Otaku don't give a shit about
Someone post that Newtype poll from like 2014 with a bunch of FSS and Gothicmade characters against all odds.
He'd just insist that that's not representative or something. The guy clearly has some sort of retardedly warped idea of who otaku are and what they like.
It only had like 2 minutes of mecha action from what I've heard. That may have had something to do with lack of money though.
Pretty sure it's just Aniplex-kun sperging again.
Nagano also has developed some personal complex or something about other people touching his babies. He hates the idea of models now, and he threw a fit when SRW accidentally included an FSS mech (apparently they somehow mixed it up with one of his L-Gaim designs, which they had the rights to include) because he couldn't bear the thought of other robots damaging it, etc. So I think Gothicmade might just have been him being crazy and refusing to work with others.
No, he got angry at the L-Gain incident because it lumped FSS and L-Gain together, and the last thing he wants is Bandai using his franchise. The whole "robots getting hurt" was just something a bunch of people who got butthurt made up after seeing Nagano's LED Mirage joke.
The whole refusing to work with others is also bullshit, considering he once made a novel together with, and Ikuhara is also known as being very hard to work with.
with Ikuhara I mean.
There's always the chance that they just got along as fellow crazy Sailor Moon cosplayers.
What will be released first on BD/DVD, Gothicmade or the Jojo movie?
Well, Gothicmade has the advantage of not having been disowned, so the scale of likeliness probably goes Gothicmade > Phantom Blood > Maze.
maybe you're so used to big companies constantly working off corrupt principles that when one comes in and operates off of different mind set and can publish whatever it wants without worrying about how much money it can make off it that it geniuinley shocks you, not everyone in the world is so greedy and can realize there is value in things that profits can't measure.
cause those robots are bad ass
Nagano is like (I guess is...) one of these musicians who make some style of music and then do something different which polarises fans.
If he were Metallica
L-Gaim -> No Life 'til Leather/Kill 'em All
Early FSS -> Ride the Lightning through to the Black Album
Current FSS designs -> StAnger.
Making money and being profitable has something to do with being corrupt? News to me.
But those Volks/Wave kits are basically expensive statues that requires skill to build and look good, not your typical Bandai actionfiguremodelkits that you can mess around with if you fancy
Bandai kits are like toys compared to pretty much every other plamo company out there.
His point is that corporations aren't always heartless you massive libtard.
>the last line of that trailer is ~ "what a beautiful robot"
>the robot is ugly
The madman.
In most Gundam series, the titular Gundam itself decides the fate of the conflict. In FSS, the Mortar Headds are ultimately symbols, but don't contribute much to the story other than being just a piece of setting, even when they fight. The stuff surrounding them, like Fatima usage and ethics, is where the meat of the story lies.
FSS is the reason Newtype magazine has thrived as long as it has and lived to today. In the 80s and 90s, back when FSS was very popular, it was almost the sole reason people even bought the magazine. Due to a handful of insanely long hiatuses in the early 2000s though, people started to forget about FSS until Nagano revived it with the Gothicmade stuff. So now it's in this awkward state where it's alive again, but no one is really there to see it other than newfags like OP, who don't understand just how big it once was.
Too bad Nagano went insane, he might've had a shot at being the one to topple Eva from its undeserved throne.
obscure to your ignorant gaijin ass ≠ obscure to the nips
And yes, you're ignorant if you're making such a huge deal of a magazine publishing a manga.
Go read up on the history of the mag. And take a guess why it's called Newtype. Now think about what it means for why a work by a person called Nagano is indeed a selling point.
>Gainax has had some strange projects in the past, but I think this tops them all.
>One of them was that Nagano had originally planned to direct a 30 minute FSS OVA (he was also music director), animated by Gainax and with "support" from Anno (maybe as a co-director?) in 1988. There would also be a running commentary on various FSS resin kits by Nagano as part of the bonus features. Whole thing was supposed to be sold for 9800 yen. But the project was aborted for unknown reasons.
I like how /m/ compares his designs to the devolution of Michael Jackson
The FSS movie was just an ad for the manga. There was never going to be a sequel. ;_;
>tfw Nagano is married with Naga VA
Naga laugh everedays for him
Gothicmade mc is a literal 2d version of his wife, Maria Kawamura.
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That is commitment to your waifu. Commitment so hard that it transcends dimensions.
Nagano drew a 2D version of Tomino too. Unfortunately he never got his own movie.
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>1,92
Is Tomino a big guy?
Do you think they had a steamy hot sex after that meanwhile Anno was jerking on himself when he heard them doing it on the next room?
Damn, young Tomino was pretty dreamy.
I've heard people say that is part of why he is so bizarre and intimidating to work with. Or maybe it's from that one comic about the making of gundam
Inio Asano's manga was published in a music/media magazine.
Try not to think of manga was too similar to American comics - they're not just larger collections, but more akin to massive comic strips you'd find in old newspapers.
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>Five Star Stories
>unpopular or obscure
kek
It's pretty great, unfortunately no one is translating it anymore.
In the west, it's super obscure. I remember going to AX and the Volks booth with the FSS kits and literally nobody looking there knew what they were other than the vendor.