Why was gundam such a failure?

Because it isn't actually any good.

>>15521539
Because giant robots are dumb

i mean like haven't they heard of the square cube law?

It's a fucking travesty that it even made 78.6 billion yen at all in the last fiscal year

https://www.bandainamco.co.jp/en/ir/library/pdf/annual/en_2016_annual.pdf

>>15521554
That is because of the masterpiece that is IBO

>>15521539
Because they aired a series made in 1979 on 2000 Cartoon Network.

No matter how you look at that it was doomed to fail to capture the general audience compared to something shiny and modern. They should've dubbed X instead.

>>15521570
No executive in America would be willing to spend time adapting and licensing X for North America when it failed to do well in its own home country.

>>15521570
They eventually did SEED.

>>15521576
The fact that it failed would mean they could get the license for dirt cheap.

>>15521633
dubbing isn't

>>15521595
Way too late to cash in on the Wing popularity.

>>15521539
>airing a goofy kids show in the adult-oriented time slot

It was dead on arrival

>>15522026
You say that when AS was and is almost entire dumb, random garbage.