>>22590345
>Tomino has never really been able to resonate with broader audiences after Gundam. Other directors that "anime elitists" praise like Kon, Yuasa or Dezaki have way more mainstream visibility. People know Gundam, but even then it seems like most don't know Tomino Gundam.
One of the reasons 0079 was a success because Tomino had other writers and producers to percolate his wilder ideas.
Fast forward to G-Reco and we find, storytelling-wise, a fucking mess. It looks much prettier than the vast majority of TV anime (see attached), and has interesting ideas/characters, but it's an incomprehensible mess. Not even shows with hundreds of characters like Wan Piss expect its audiences to be making notes, mental or on paper.
HE NEEDS AN EDITOR. And not just him personally. Every author and director needs one to make the material shine and work for average audiences, and the number of successful creators that have fallen through the curse of success is staggering, but the best example is George Lucas and his (mis)handling of the Prequels.

>It doesn't help that he exclusively works in Mecha which is already an uphill battle in getting people to watch or even respect.
This too. Perhaps Tomino could get more appeal if he had done anything that isn't a robot show. His attachment to the genre has stunted his potential for further growth.

>>22590390
>If you're not actively paying attention and working out what just happened in your head, you'll lose track of it all
>his style is so against the grain of everything else in modern media, much less anime, that it requires more from the audience than they may necessarily be ready to give because it just doesn't follow the usual symbolic shorthands.
The problem with this assessment is that Tomino said, repeatedly, that he made G-Reco for kids, not gunota. We can see it in the more light-hearted moments, but it's a complex story to follow.

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