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You do realize that Gundam got a fraction of how many people view
Bleach right? Look at the poles from when Adultswim showed Gundam
and where they show Bleach now.
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Gundam has been running on Japanese television since the late 70's. It is literally ingrained into their culture. Bleach started in august 2001 as a comic book. Gundam needed no comic book. Gundam was the first ever serious anime fiction, the first of the real robot genre, and such a major game-changer that it went down in history as a paragon of the industry. Since then it has gone through 12 series, 8 movies with another coming next year, countless manga adaptations, three OVAs with a fourth coming next year, and a truckload of merchandise.
Bleach is nothing compared to it.
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Ah, we are high school boys,
the miserable high school boys.
If we were girls, we could get popular by doing anything:
rock band, jazz band,
karate, kendo, mahjong, cyborg, synchronized swimming...
On the other hand, high school boys are
useless outside battle and sports anime.
But they're recklessly trying to make a slice-of-life anime about us.
Ah, we are high school boys,
the miserable high school boys.