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Originally Posted by Electric Turahk

While it was overhyped (and I'd like to remind everyone I was quite adamantly and vocally against all of the hype and even the premise of Gaim before the show started), I did end up really genuinely enjoying it quite a lot. I don't quite appreciate the seemingly spreading sentiment that nobody could have actually liked it, it was a bad show because ratings said do (bullocks to fucking ratings... but yeah this is the big one), or that its fans somehow ruined it.

I simply do not understand the ratings thing. "They were low" doesn't satisfy me... I always want reasons when arguments are made (as anyone should to be a good rhetorician), for better or for worse. I know kids here who probably would have loved Gaim a lot. Guess I just can't wrap my head around the whole culture gap thing...

I really enjoyed it as well. I didn't say I hated the show, or say that it was bad in any way, just that frankly western fans were the ones who thought it was amazing while it was pretty much average in Japan. Likely we'll never really get the full picture behind why the percentages were so low. But at the end of the day they were, meaning this show will have no more lasting impact on the franchise to it's native market than any other. Which was the entire point of my original post. Nothing more.