Wait, BGC isn't mainstream? I'm asking seriously, I thought it was pretty standard since it was one of my first anime along with Macross and Appleseed. (I'm discounting Star Blazers, my "real" first anime at around 5 years old)
I don't know that I've ever seen Gigantor, though we have sold a couple copies of the box sets at work. Let's be fair, a show from 1964 isn't nearly as likely to be popular with current generation fans as stuff that's more recent (and less, ahem...dated). Hell, Space Battleship Yamato, as huge as it is/was with my generation in both its original form and as Star Blazers, barely even show up on the radar of current generation fans, if at all. It's like asking kids which they like more, Ultraman or Power Rangers...it's a no-brainer. Even if shows like Gurren-Lagann have their roots in Gigantor, that doesn't make it completely indisposable for enjoying current shows in their own context...for better or for worse.
(btw, screw Robotech, haha, trying to watch that after getting into Macross was like trying to enjoy pudding after growing up eating creme brulee)
I don't know that I've ever seen Gigantor, though we have sold a couple copies of the box sets at work. Let's be fair, a show from 1964 isn't nearly as likely to be popular with current generation fans as stuff that's more recent (and less, ahem...dated). Hell, Space Battleship Yamato, as huge as it is/was with my generation in both its original form and as Star Blazers, barely even show up on the radar of current generation fans, if at all. It's like asking kids which they like more, Ultraman or Power Rangers...it's a no-brainer. Even if shows like Gurren-Lagann have their roots in Gigantor, that doesn't make it completely indisposable for enjoying current shows in their own context...for better or for worse.
(btw, screw Robotech, haha, trying to watch that after getting into Macross was like trying to enjoy pudding after growing up eating creme brulee)