Mecha Thread Anonymous 04/23/25 (Wed) 23:32:53 No. 4478 >>5445
Let's talk about mecha here anons
The 2026 Ghost in the Shell Show Teaser:
https://youtu.be/rk27MbUoBQ8?si=mgKmuI7bG4A4M3DM Anilist mecha 2025 Category:
https://anilist.co/search/anime?genres=Mecha&year=2025 Anonymous 04/15/25 (Tue) 21:45:01 No. 4479
I'm more or less liking witch from mercury so far, but whenever the girl suddenly yells in a normal social situation it makes me wince
Anonymous 04/15/25 (Tue) 22:24:22 No. 4481 >>4484
I cannot tell you how absolutely massive the new GiTS feels. Not only is it doing the first seemingly faithful adaptation of the manga, but the studio behind it is Yuasa's baby and the director seems to have been learning throughout his whole career from Yuasa. So when you combine that promising new talent with the budget it looks like this remake is going to have, my expectations are absolutely sky-high.
Anonymous 04/15/25 (Tue) 22:35:55 No. 4483
Gcuties
Anonymous 04/15/25 (Tue) 22:39:39 No. 4484 >>4488
>>4481 Yeah I wish it was this year instead of next year. First 2D since 2006 too as far as I'm aware. 20 years. I'm ok with just memory holing that 3D cg one
Anonymous 04/15/25 (Tue) 22:48:14 No. 4486 >>4487 >>4489
>>4482 Fren, Anno didn't have much to do with Gquuuuuuuux. This is Tsurumaki (director of FLCL and Diebuster among others) and Enokido at the helm. Look through the credits, maybe read an interview or two.
Anonymous 04/15/25 (Tue) 22:49:39 No. 4487
>>4486 Oh, wonder why they plastered his face all over it then on western sites. Yeah I'll have to go check out some news on this then.
Anonymous 04/15/25 (Tue) 22:49:42 No. 4488
>>4484 I just realized I forgot arise completely. I watched a few of those and it was Okay.
Anonymous 04/15/25 (Tue) 22:54:19 No. 4489
>>4486 He's a screenwriter for the series and I'm pretty sure he was the one who came up with the whole alt-UC idea.
Anonymous 04/16/25 (Wed) 03:08:45 No. 4490 >>4492
When's From doing the next AC..
Anonymous 04/16/25 (Wed) 05:45:40 No. 4492
>>4490 After 6? Hopefully never.
Anonymous 04/16/25 (Wed) 18:59:30 No. 4497
>>4494 How does such a legendary franchise flop
Anonymous 04/16/25 (Wed) 19:02:59 No. 4499 >>4500
>>4498 The Getter Robo Arc anime is full of CGI.
Anonymous 04/16/25 (Wed) 19:04:48 No. 4500
>>4499 That's what I was expecting. I'm hoping it won't be bad enough to distract me all the time.
Anonymous 04/17/25 (Thu) 16:15:10 No. 4501 >>4503
I'm finally watching Double Zeta, and so far I only really like Marshmallow. I actually kinda like seeing zeon guys get up to silly shit, but I don't care about Judau or his friends.
Anonymous 04/17/25 (Thu) 16:20:51 No. 4502
>>4498 The Arc anime was... serviceable enough, let's say. It's a new Getter anime in 2020 or whenever it was, and an adaptation of an incomplete manga, so you have to keep your expectations in check obviously.
Anonymous 04/17/25 (Thu) 16:40:17 No. 4503 >>4504
>>4501 Oh, Tomino's "If you start murdering everyone again I'm asking for a divorce" era. I also postponed watching it for a long long time. It's the kind of series that ultimately rewards the ones that don't quit.
Anonymous 04/17/25 (Thu) 16:47:34 No. 4504 >>4505
>>4503 I hope so. I'll definitely stick with it. I'm gonna watch at least an episode a day so I get through it.
Anonymous 04/17/25 (Thu) 17:22:42 No. 4505 >>4506
>>4504 Out of curiosity, have you watched Unicorn already?
Anonymous 04/17/25 (Thu) 19:03:43 No. 4506 >>4507 >>4508
>>4505 Nah. I'm going through UC in order relatively and I know ZZ is important for unicorn. I haven't even seen CCA yet because I put off ZZ for so long. Even though I've heard people say it isn't super relevant to CCA, I might as well watch em in order if I'm gonna watch all of them anyway. I have seen some of the side story stuff and f91 though
Anonymous 04/17/25 (Thu) 19:13:54 No. 4507
>>4506 CCA is like ZZ never happened for some reason. There’s a lot odd with CCA
Anonymous 04/17/25 (Thu) 19:34:46 No. 4508
>>4506 Ah, cool then. I watched UC in chronological order rather than release order, but I skipped ZZ. And damn, I wish I had not done it.
Right now The only things I have pending from UC are The Origin, Zeta Gundam a New Translation, and... No idea if the second Hathaway's flash ova released already.
Oh, and the Crossbone manga. That one has been hyped so much that I am worried about reading it and being disappointed.
Anonymous 04/18/25 (Fri) 01:58:06 No. 4511
/m/ carries itself on hopes and dreams
Anonymous 04/18/25 (Fri) 02:14:55 No. 4512
>>4510 Not when it's weighed down by gravity and several hundreds of CP spambots.
Anonymous 04/18/25 (Fri) 02:21:04 No. 4514
I have to say it feels very Tomino to have a cute girl character named Nyaan.
Anonymous 04/18/25 (Fri) 06:08:31 No. 4515
>>4513 This has a solid amount of spoilers.... but yeah, it's certainly interesting. If it's gonna be a cold war rather than a hot one that'd explain how they'd be able to package it in just one cour, as more of a skirmish.
Anonymous 04/19/25 (Sat) 21:49:05 No. 4516 >>4521
>>4510 yes. I would post there. Personally I'd give it a different name so itd develop a new identity
Anonymous 04/20/25 (Sun) 06:26:16 No. 4518
>>4517 It's pretty cool. One of my favorites.
Anonymous 04/20/25 (Sun) 13:36:48 No. 4521 >>4522
>>4516 A different name for the board? Had anything in mind?
Anonymous 04/20/25 (Sun) 21:27:06 No. 4522
>>4521 nope! maybe just /mecha/
Anonymous 04/21/25 (Mon) 05:14:07 No. 4524
>>4523 Gou is one my favorite manga and I'd love a faithful adaptation too, but I'm afraid the Change! OVA is the best we will ever get. And it is pretty fucking good, to be fair.
Anonymous 04/22/25 (Tue) 01:19:57 No. 4525 >>4526 >>4527 >>4528 >>4529
Since you guys are talking about getter, the manga is the best way to get the story, right? It doesn't really have any straight adaptations from what I know
Anonymous 04/22/25 (Tue) 02:08:50 No. 4526 >>4530
>>4525 I'm certainly no Getter aficionado, but I'd say so
My introduction to the series was Armageddon which left me very confused on a few things
Reading by release order cleared a lot of my questions up but iirc at least two of the manga I read were not fully translated (or maybe the manga got cancelled?) and left me with more questions. The only one I remember getting to the objective end was Devolution. I'm way overdue for a reread of the whole series, which I'll get to soon
Anonymous 04/22/25 (Tue) 02:12:50 No. 4527 >>4530
>>4525 Yeah, it's like comparing the Devilman manga to its anime, they're in no way the same thing as the anime is a monster of the week show for kids because that's what anime was back then. They also stay a bit similar in art style for the first two Getter Robos, but by Gou the artstyle gets a complete upgrade and the designs are just superb. It's also a far darker story in the manga that turns somewhat horrific as the story progresses into later stories especially when you get to
Getter Emperor. I spent an entire week just reading it by myself when I'd decided I was going to get into it and I seriously enjoyed myself that week.
Anonymous 04/22/25 (Tue) 04:25:07 No. 4528 >>4530
>>4525 >best way to get the story It's the
only one, rather. But you should still watch the OVAs after reading the manga, they're all excellent.
Anonymous 04/22/25 (Tue) 17:23:29 No. 4529 >>4530
>>4525 Yes. The "closest" faithful animated adaptation of the mangas is New Getter which is a reimagining amalgation of OG, Getter G and Shin Getter. It's still largely original and deviates a lot from the stories but I think it's a great introduction to get the idea of what Getter is about, plus a pretty good tribute to the author.
I recommend to read all the way til Shin. Arc isn't bad at all but what happened to it is the equivalent of Dragon Ball abruptly ending when Goku turns Super Saiyan because Toriyama suddenly had a heart attack and never gave notes on how to end the story.
Anonymous 04/24/25 (Thu) 03:05:49 No. 5325 >>5328 >>5447
Any of you lads picked up Dolls Nest? I did because I loved the demo.
Anonymous 04/24/25 (Thu) 03:08:50 No. 5328
>>5325 >Dolls Nest No, but
¥https://store.steampowered.com/app/1839430/Dolls_Nest/ ¥Souls-like ¥Mecha ¥Nitro Plus I will tomorrow, or after Grand Theft Touhou
Anonymous 04/25/25 (Fri) 03:57:28 No. 5445
>>4478 I have been hunting this game in flea-markets for a while now and it really hasn't shown it's face, I got to buy the encounters in space ps2 game, but zeonic front is definitely one my physical media grails right now.
Anonymous 04/25/25 (Fri) 04:04:54 No. 5447 >>5458
>>5325 I played demo and seemed pretty fun. I liked how you can give the player character a nice belly (and made a thread for that reason here when demo came out hehehe)
It came out then? I might look into it, but the combat seemed pretty weak to me. I did like the exploration, but I'm not sure how big the world would be.
Anonymous 04/25/25 (Fri) 06:19:08 No. 5458
>>5447 damnit, I wish I knew about this game while the demo was up, I want to try it out
Anonymous 04/26/25 (Sat) 18:27:15 No. 5574 >>5583
>>5572 it's old men who like 0079
Anonymous 04/26/25 (Sat) 18:32:58 No. 5575 >>5576
>>5572 You didn’t like the initial VOTOMs setup? Well, you should watch episode 2 since that one was pretty good and gave context to what the series is about.
Anonymous 04/26/25 (Sat) 18:43:59 No. 5576
>>5575 I haven't watched VOTOMs, so I can't compare. But after checking the synopsis, I think I'm going to start watching it.
Episode 01 has been a combination of everything I don't like: music, character design, the look of the mechas... This is the first time I can't enjoy a Gundam production. Not even G-Saviour gave me this reaction.
Anonymous 04/26/25 (Sat) 20:21:48 No. 5583 >>5585
>>5574 I like 0079 and I think GQuuuuuuX sucks so far
Anonymous 04/26/25 (Sat) 20:41:57 No. 5585
>>5583 you're not 70 years old
Anonymous 04/27/25 (Sun) 00:45:26 No. 5593 >>5711 >>5719
Gkwcks is mecha fan disservice.
Anonymous 04/27/25 (Sun) 21:23:41 No. 5716 >>5718
Another mech shooter for SEGA CD if you like MUSHA/Aleste or other Compile shmups
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOa8m2zOtBs >>5711 If you like video games, there's always PSO2 New Genesis
Anonymous 04/27/25 (Sun) 21:38:59 No. 5718
>>5716 Recovering MMORPG addict. Thanks, but no thanks.
Anonymous 04/27/25 (Sun) 21:44:46 No. 5719
>>5593 I agree with this. I enjoy the non-mecha visuals, but I can't tell what the hell is going on in the battles. Episode 3's battle was in the black absolute darkness of space which made it very confusing. When the backdrop isn't literally pure black they're surrounded by glowing auras and there's a lot of static poses being drawn out like clip related. It's just not pleasing to watch.
>pseudorealistic CGI Yeah. It's a very physics-based rendering way of doing the visuals. I guess they're taking influence from the 3D software. Something can't be visible without a light source. It's weird to see alongside characters with faces that can't exist in 3D space.
Anonymous 04/28/25 (Mon) 10:52:32 No. 5760 >>5762 >>5764
>>5759 >all the big mecha anime series >started with Gundam ?
Anonymous 04/28/25 (Mon) 11:06:47 No. 5762 >>5780
>>5760 to be honest I originally wanted to just watch Gundam and VOTOMs because i'm a milshit autist and I heard Gundam was the start of the "real robot" genre but everyone I talked to for Gundam watch orders also suggested I try watching X series and Y series too
Anonymous 04/28/25 (Mon) 12:38:11 No. 5764 >>5771
>>5760 Is there something wrong with this? Gundam is probably one of the most recognizable, and the original UC trilogy is a good starting point I'd think.
Anonymous 04/28/25 (Mon) 13:15:10 No. 5767 >>5768
>>5759 during episode 27 I could sense they were going to have a massive fight sequence and frankly I was sick of Minmay's singing so I just played Stan Bush music in another tab and man. It rocked
Anonymous 04/28/25 (Mon) 13:25:33 No. 5768 >>5769
>>5767 I should have done that. I had already heard My Boyfriend Is A Pilot enough for one lifetime by that point. Such an obnoxious song.
Anonymous 04/28/25 (Mon) 13:46:13 No. 5769
>>5768 Exactly. Plus honestly I was pretty soured on her as a character at this point, I personally do not like love stories at all, especially not love triangles but this isn't exactly a good one either...
C'mon Hikaru remember. "We like older women" that's the key Hikaru, forget about that china girl and go for it!!
Anonymous 04/28/25 (Mon) 14:44:31 No. 5771 >>5780
>>5764 As long as your first Gundam is not Wing... I still get a bit annoyed at americans insisting that it is the best gundam ever and everything else sucks. It's like the Final Fantasy VII effect all over again.
Btw, my first mecha series was Tetsujin 28-GO. I was so confused when years later I saw the original barrel shaped design.
Anonymous 04/28/25 (Mon) 17:13:19 No. 5780
>>5759 You're skipping over some great shows like Daitarn, Dougram, Ideon to mention a few.
>>5762 If you're interested in real robot and want military realism, you should most definitely check out Dougram.
>>5771 Do Wingfags still exist?
Anonymous 04/28/25 (Mon) 17:17:00 No. 5781
>Do Wingfags still exist?
