>Cutting three minutes out of every episode to show an Idol

Idols are the best thing to come out of Japan.

>>15544891
You're just jealous because you want to play robots with 'em.

>>15544891
The shows that they commission are not designed to do anything but sell toys. They've been doing this for almost forty years and know damn well what moves product and what doesn't. And that's ultimately all they're concerned with. TV shows are expensive and require splitting any profits made with the studio, the channels, etc. Whatever money they make off of shows is tertiary to what they make of of toy sales.

>>15544891
Kids don't care about continuity, I know I didn't when I watched the Unicron trilogy as kid.

>>15544898
>not giant robots
you're a heretic

>>15544923
I know I am

>>15544891
>Cutting three minutes out of every episode to show an Idol group playing with your toyline.
Tomica Hyper Rescue Drive Head luckily doesn't have the that problem.

The whole story thing though... it's pretty disappointing that the series so far has been as disconnected as they have.

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>>15544898
At this point I'm honestly convinced that all this weird shit coming out of Japan is the result of a massive CIA psy-op

>>15545136
Its to turn a significant portion of the population into filthy neckbeards and brainwash them into truly believing 2D > 3D as a form of population control

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>>15544998
>Kids don't care about continuity, I know I didn't when I watched the Unicron trilogy as kid.

I sure did as a kid, though. It bums me out we never got a real character arc for Hot Shot; I love how the figures seemed to make him "age" with each line. The UT had a lotof potential, it seemed to take a lot of the popular elements of g1, add a new spin on them, and also add its own new things. Unfortunately, they never refined this raw potential.

>>15545184
I's a damn shame what became of Starscream.
>Dies as one Armada's best developed characters.
>Gets ressurected with amnesia in Energon to kill Megs
>Acouple of eipsodes fails and gets beat into submission by Megs and does nothing but follow his orders for the rest of the series
> In Cybertron, he's effectively a different character, having become a more competent version of G1 Scream.
>Never gets any follow on his relationship with Alexis ever.

>>15544891
aidoru washippingu

>>15544891
They barely even had their Japanese G1 TF shows connected, as well, not helped by ending up having most plots for Victory put on the cutting room floor, leaving the story writer to use those in the manga instead.

>>15544891
Don't forget how hard Beast Wars got butchered

>>15544891
They didn't even pick a good idol group.

>>15544891
To be fair they pulled this in the Japanese dub of Animated and Prime, but used a stereotypical Japanese family instead.

Takara's target audience for these shows are kids below ten. Western productions seem to be written for all-ages, specifically man-children. That's why the Japanese adaptations are always packed with gags and gimmicks, they are trying to dumb it down for their audience.

>>15544998
>Kids don't care about continuity
Do they care about idols?

>>15545974
No but it is helpful to have a backup audience in case kids are turned off.

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WHERES MY LOVE LIVE AND GUNDAM CROSSOVER SUNRISE???!!!

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>>15545998
maybe that's the next GBF.

>>15546006
We can only hope.

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>>15545998
C U T E
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>>15544891
Idol and mecha are a perfect match

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>>15545998
IF IDOLM@STER GETS MECHA SHOWTHEN WHY CAN'T LOVE LIVE ONE?

>>15546079
is xenoglossia worth a watch?

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>>15545978
>TBS Announcer
Who's the backup audience for the Tomica transformer show?

>>15546124
Sure, but keep in mind that it still only has the old wacky fansubs, since no one ripped the DVD sets.

>>15546524
Not HD also.

>>15546124
If you're watching it for Idolmaster related stuff, you'll be disappointed.

If you're watching it for the greatest romance between woman and robot, you'll like it