[ SECRET POST #254 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #254 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 08 pages, 185 secrets from Secret Submission Post #037.
Secrets Not Posted: 0 broken links, [ 1 2 ] not!secrets, 0 not!fandom, [ 1 ] repeat.
Next Secret Post: Tomorrow, Monday, September 17th, 2007.
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Comments

[marsdragon.livejournal.com]

Re: 25

Mmm...depends on where you hang out. Of course, Kamina's getting a lot of attention right now because Gurren Lagann is much more recent, to truly judge we'll have to wait a few years. And Gai D. died really early on, before anyone really got to see what he could do. (which is at least part of why every single SRW with Nadescio either lets him come back, either mandatory or as a secret) But in general mecha circles Kamina is much more talked about than Gai, and even when wiser fans shout down all the adulation they're a lot more likely to bring up Ryoma Nagare (Getter Robo), Noriko Takaya (Gunbuster), Domon Kasshu (G Gundam) and Guy Shishioh (GaoGaiGar) before Gai Daigoji....

Then again, all those people are main characters. And Gai probably made more people stop watching the show altogether than Kamina ever did. Reminds me though, I need to watch more Nadescio.

[suzanami.livejournal.com]

Agreed on all counts. And hence the usage of 'legendary' instead of 'popular' or whatever.

I think part of why Gai was/is so memorable is the "WHAT HE DIED IN EPISODE THREE" reaction. And like many people, I found it hard to get through much more of Nadesico because it was too typical big-robot for me; Gai at least had me smiling the whole time. The rest of the series just bored me to tears; I think a lot of people felt that way, hence his legendariness. Cool, I make up words. The theory my friends and I have is that he was stealing too much attention from the actual story/main characters, so they offed him. ;D
My guy friend who's a big-robot connoisseur has promised to share Gai's predecessors that he was sort-of tribute to, but I'm still waiting. :x

But yeah, I think that if you already liked TTGL, Kamina's exit wouldn't necessarily lose so many fans, not compared to Nadesico. Most people were invested in the series by that point.