Interview with Yousuke Kuroda & Seiji Mizushima
ANN: Many of you are relatively new to the Gundam franchise. How did that impact your approach to the series?
Seiji Mizushima: The director had a certain theme in mind. Beyond that, since Gundam is such a huge franchise, a bunch of toy companies were at the planning meetings for worldwide promotion and distribution, so their input impacted things. Of course, it also had a lot to do with what we wanted to do! Basically, we gathered everyone with a stake in the Gundam franchise, took their opinions, and made it into a "stew" of sorts, so that the finished product would become something that everyone could be happy with - the end result was 00. Sunrise was involved, the sponsors were involved... a lot of care was taken to make sure that the show would have a strong appeal that make everyone involved proud of it.
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Seiji Mizushima: The director had a certain theme in mind. Beyond that, since Gundam is such a huge franchise, a bunch of toy companies were at the planning meetings for worldwide promotion and distribution, so their input impacted things. Of course, it also had a lot to do with what we wanted to do! Basically, we gathered everyone with a stake in the Gundam franchise, took their opinions, and made it into a "stew" of sorts, so that the finished product would become something that everyone could be happy with - the end result was 00. Sunrise was involved, the sponsors were involved... a lot of care was taken to make sure that the show would have a strong appeal that make everyone involved proud of it.
rest on Anime News Network