I'll admit that this is the first Gundam series I watch since Gundam Wing. I guess I'm not used to couples actually forming in an anime. XD
Then you should remember that practically any male character of signifigance in Gundam Wing pretty much had a female counterpart lol. It was practically lovers central in Gundam Wing. I mean damn, Gundam wing almost makes Gundam Seed's soap opra look pale in compairison if we are just counting "Couples".
Tetsamaru said: Then you should remember that practically any male character of signifigance in Gundam Wing pretty much had a female counterpart lol.
Right you are. Weird how few animes actually try to make "couples" with the characters. Does giving relationships to the characters negatively affect the fanbase?
Right you are. Weird how few animes actually try to make "couples" with the characters. Does giving relationships to the characters negatively affect the fanbase?
As far as I'm concerned I'm not really seeing any major fandom backlashes in making multiple character couples. Some negative responses would be the same typical responses you can see in animes with only 1 or 2 pairs such as the shipping fans raging at how the characters they shipped didn't end up together or that the pair's relationship is just badly written in general that the pair feels annoying and a waste of screen time.
For example personally I feel Mao-Misaki pair in this particular anime is rather annoying because both the relationship itself and the attempt comedy stemming from it are too forced, but I still ship Reiji-Aila, enjoy Fellini-Kirara to an extent, and is so-so with every other pairs in this anime.
I hardly ever see people complain that an anime has too many pairs just because of the quantity in itself. It's like anime badass characters, you can have an entire cast of badass characters and it won't feel overdone, but if a good percentage of that badass characters are badly written(such as being Marty Stu-ish or have annoying personality), then that's another problem but people might still try to blame it on the entire cast as a whole.
Right you are. Weird how few animes actually try to make "couples" with the characters. Does giving relationships to the characters negatively affect the fanbase?
This series is rather light hearted and comedy so a big difference in compairison to the other gundam series is the fact that they even outright say "Hey! these are totally couples!" in the anime. With the exception of the main Hero and Heroine in the previous series, they usually only "nod" at the fact that "these 2 are an item" for the supporting cast.
With the exception of Gundam Seed, the romance subplots have always been way at the back burner as something you could relatively ignore. G-gundam being "made for fun" also had a slightly stronger romance subplot, but really only between Domon and Rain.
Even if Gundam Wing had a female counterpart for most of the male cast, there really wasn't any "Romance" in the entire series. But you can bet the fan fictions went wild with it.
