Half of 20-Something Men In Japan Don't Know Gundam, Survey Says

Above, a close-up of the Gundam lift at the Bandai Museum. Photo by Armand Vaquer.

Rocket News 24 posted an article about a survey with a stunning result (at least to Magazine R25): over half of 20-something Japanese males don't know Gundam.

They wrote:

It’s amazing how memory fades over time. Trying to recollect my favorite childhood programs is often a foggy mess. For example, I remember one cartoon where the good guys drove robot cars with arms and the bad guys were these weird plant cars. For the life of me I can’t remember the name of that show in spite of the deep-rooted hatred of trees and vegetables it instilled in me. 

Shows like that were great but as they say, the true classics are the ones that stand the test of time. Surely Gundam, arguably the most famous giant robot anime, is among that class, right? Magazine R25 suggests it might not be. Despite Mobile Suit Gundam’s long legacy of series, R25 claims that 51 percent of Japanese men in their twenties who were surveyed said they “do not know Gundam.”

To read the article, go here.