They call her one-eye
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I've been noticing that of all the Anime genres, the one which gets the less attention overall and not a lot of love is the super robot genre. This happens more on the english-speaking fandom then most others honestly and I don't know why.
With every single show getting fansubs left and right, some three or four groups subbing the same show, you still can't find any subs of most of the classic super robot shows. it might be because their harder to find or whatnot, but I found fansubs of Urusei Yatsura and Doreamon so that might not just be it.
I feel obligated to mention the Elephant in the room, saying most anime fans don't want to watch these shows on the basis that they deem them childish and juvenile and wish to endeavor into the most serious work such as Love Hina, Dears, Ikkitousen and such. I don't wish to say it but it seems more and more likely. People don't want to just watch something because it's fun, but because it makes them look cool or hip while watching it (one reason why I think Cowboy bebop was/is so popular.)
I don't mean to sound like some whiny little brat or anything, I'm honestly curious why with so many fansubs, licenced anime easily available, so on and so forth, there's only about 20 episodes of Getter robo and none of Mazinger Z in english yet theirs available subs of Akikan.
With every single show getting fansubs left and right, some three or four groups subbing the same show, you still can't find any subs of most of the classic super robot shows. it might be because their harder to find or whatnot, but I found fansubs of Urusei Yatsura and Doreamon so that might not just be it.
I feel obligated to mention the Elephant in the room, saying most anime fans don't want to watch these shows on the basis that they deem them childish and juvenile and wish to endeavor into the most serious work such as Love Hina, Dears, Ikkitousen and such. I don't wish to say it but it seems more and more likely. People don't want to just watch something because it's fun, but because it makes them look cool or hip while watching it (one reason why I think Cowboy bebop was/is so popular.)
I don't mean to sound like some whiny little brat or anything, I'm honestly curious why with so many fansubs, licenced anime easily available, so on and so forth, there's only about 20 episodes of Getter robo and none of Mazinger Z in english yet theirs available subs of Akikan.
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