No.68630
Is mecha singular or plural or both?
No.68631
Can mecha love mecha?
No.68632
What would a planet of creatures evolved to be mecha be like?
No.68633
If the last show you watched's main protagonist was replaced by a mecha, would it be better?
No.68634
Is /qa/ a mecha board?
No.68636
What's your favorite mecha show?
No.68637
Are you looking forward to anything mecha-related? Does mecha have a future?
No.68638
If mecha was an acronym what would it stand for?
No.68639
I've been getting into my journey in the world of mecha by starting with Gundam I've finished 0079 and halfway into ZETA now and honestly I feel like I could skip this outside of Char this series seems pointless.
Though Kamille's design and the mechs are pretty Kamille is annoying I think he has autism.
No.68640
>>68628I don't like it because it is stupid.
>>68629Robots don't have a gender.
>>68630I don't know.
>>68631Yes.
>>68632Animals can't evolving into being robots.
>>68633Probably yes actually.
>>68634No.
>>68635No, because they are a stupid design.
>>68636Frame Arm Girls if it counts as a Mecha but I don't think it does.
>>68637No. Yes.
>>68638Mecha
Is
Stupid
No.68641
>>68639Seems like gundam is a popular starting point. I bet a lot of people started with Big O on Adult Swim. I think my first one was probably Evangelion if that counts.
No.68642
>>68640>Robots don't have a gender.Then how do they reproduce? Budding?
No.68643
>>68635We already do!
>>68639>I think he has autism.He does and that's what makes Zeta so great.
No.68644
>>68641I tell a lie though I actually started with MD Geist but I'm unsure if that counts..
>>68643Maybe and even though I say it could be skipped I can't bright myself to do that his autism fits sometimes triggers my own resulting in an near endless cycle of confusion and slight anger.
Like the otter and the watermelon.
No.68647
>>68641I'd say even though Big O is really exceptional, Gundam remains the best starting point for most things mecha. Since most everything pulls from it.
No.68652
>>68642When two engineers love each other very much...
No.68653
>>68650how many planets did it take to build this thing
No.68662
>>68650No Gundam I could post would ever beat that beast how would it even power itself?
No.68663
>>68662maybe radiation from very compact stars?
No.68665
inb4 this thread will still have 2 digits in 2023
No.68673
Did you know that mecha is short for mechanical? I'm not sure if it is, but did you know?
No.68688
>>68673Can't think of anything else it could be so I'll believe you
No.68697
>>68628i dont watch much of it but there are ones i liked
never even watched gundam
>>68636bubblegum crisis
No.68787
What could a mech do against a really large magnet. Actually, what could any mechanical infantry do against a really large magnet. How come people don't employ huge flying mangets in warfare?
No.68793
>>68787The Germans already thought about that, it's why they put zimmerit on their tanks.
No.68831
>>68813I remember that game! I liked the side that had Peewees and the Big Bertha cannon. The commander being the commander and causing game over once he was killed was a nice idea as well.
No.69185
OFFICIAL GUNDAM CHARTS COMING THROUGH
Use these as a guide for getting into Gundam if you haven't already, they're pretty good.
No.70056
>>69187>>69186>>69191Yeah but which Gundam is the best
No.70061
>>70056The one that belongs to the person you love
No.70065
>>69186>Cons>Requires watching Destiny in order to make sense of eventsIt's that bad, huh?
No.70101
>>70065Depends, does
this look like a respectable pilot to you? Joking aside the first half is somewhat decent and the final battle showing the Requiem is cool.
No.70102
>>70101...Is this a girl?
No.70593
>>70585You'll probably hate the first... 20 or so episodes of ZZ, but then it really picks up after a certain point. It'll be pretty obvious when that turning point is too.
No.70681
>>70627The "trigger saved anime" thing bothers me.
No.70682
>>70681Would you say it...
triggered you?
No.70773
>>70681Was mostly in jest, but it is a pretty good non-gundam mecha, and those aren't that common right now.
No.70899
>>70781I enjoyed the first episode a lot, premise feels a bit similar to SukaSuka but much grittier.
No.70927
Also like how it's not immediately obvious which faction is the worse one. On one hand one's using humans as disposable troops, while on the other side the enemy seems almost inhuman, though it could just be a perfection of the tech the empire is aiming for.
No.70931
>>70781mc reminds me of that one guy from aldnoa/zero, but not as autistic
No.72600
http://www.gundam-seed.net/There's a new Gundam SEED project!
...For some reason
No.72629
>>70932The only Gundam I could finish.
No.72630
>>72629It's pretty fun, but what about Char's origin?
No.72638
>>72611It's been on my to play list since the launch of 7th generation consoles...the only Gundam related games I've played are the fighters like Max Boost.
No.73180
https://www.forbes.com/sites/olliebarder/2021/04/09/the-decades-long-rights-battle-over-macross-and-robotech-has-finally-been-resolved/Didn't see anyone mention this yet, so here. Not sure what this means for the future of Macross though since they've still been making it.
No.73209
>>73203Yeah, but I think he eventually figured out where he was and fixed his act.
No.73221
>>73203Is it just me or does this look an awful lot like anime?
No.73224
>>73221I think you're just imagining things.
No.74878
>>72611Xenogears is my favourite JRPG of all time.
>>72660Yes and no. The guys behind Xenogears went onto create Xenosaga and Xenoblade, but Square is really, really stingy with the Xenogears IP and won't let Monolith Soft officially do anything with Xenogears. Legally, Xenoblade cannot explicitly connect to Xenogears.
This hasn't stopped Takahashi from rehashing Xenogears though, Xenoblade 2 in particular is very much a rehash of Perfect Works (his original plan from the 1990s to make Xenogears into a trilogy), there's a ton of parallels between XB2 and XG.
Xenoblade 2 may or may not be canonically connected to Xenosaga though in some weird metaverse way (Bamco's lets Monolith Soft use the Xenosaga IP still, fortunately), and Xenosaga is supposed to be connected to Xenogears despite legal issues.
No.74880
they could always dishonesty retcon certain plot points. My faith in studios is low
No.75258
>>75257I've been meaning to play the later games, but I've really enjoyed the first Armored Core so far (although the original controls are a little painful without rebinding them). Generally speaking, the critic reviews would seem to suggest that they're all fairly average games, but user reviews tend to be a lot more positive.
No.75268
>Several story continuities exist, spread across 13 main games, 3 remastered re-releases, 2 console spin-offs, and 5 mobile spin-offs. The first release of the series, Armored Core, was released in 1997, while its twenty-third and final game, Armored Core: Verdict Day was released in 2013. The series has been released on the PlayStation, PlayStation 2, PlayStation Portable, PlayStation 3, PlayStation Vita, Xbox 360, and Mobile Phone
I feel intimidated already. Guess I'll just watch it for the lore if there's a nice playthrough .
Shame that FromSoft changed so hard from Mecha into RPG, but I guess people in Japan started feeling more like escaping to fantasy land and away from a gritty reality.
No.79381
also some Gundam Breaker ONA thing that is only on Youtube.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEWXBMv-w7Aehhhhhhhhh
No.79388
>>79380Megaton Musashi is on the super robot style of mecha, lots of technobabble and shouting out the
HISSATSU WAZAs and such.
Potentially building a complex story with a lot of characters, but we'll see where it goes. Could end up completely flopping, you never know.
No.79390
>>79388I think the biggest problem with Musashi is that it's a mecha that had no mecha in the first episode. I might give it a try, but how do you do that?
No.79391
>>79390yeah, they've had some really weird directional choices so far. Like you said, no mecha action in the first episode, despite that (at least so far) being a pretty big focus of the show. And they keep doing previews that end up having very little to do with the next episode. Feels like they're flying by the seat of their pants sometimes.
No.79397
>>79380I think for what I'll be keeping up with Sakugan and Denchi Shoujo are what I'll be keeping up with. I'll probably save Muv-Luv for when it comes out on BD so that I can watch it all at once.
No.80746
I am surprised to see that mecha made such a resurgance, when I took a break from anime it was damn near dead, I assumed DitF and the shitty new Gundam concepts killed it for good.
No.80748
>>80746Yeah, I was surprised a bit too by the quality of everything so far.
No.80751
>>80745I feel like Megaton Musashi may have gone a little overboard on characters. We're now up to the 3 original pilots, the newtype kid, the 2 girls, and there may even be a secret 4th megaton-class coming for the nerd and the android. It's been hinted that Minami-mommy is going to have some sort of big backstory that we haven't even scratched the surface of. On top of that, we have the alien girl's story, and her knights may even become significant characters.
It feels like the plot has barely even started yet because we've spent 80% of every episode on character introductions.
No.80752
>>80751Makes sense for a video-game adaptation. A whole lot of the time that you can spend on development in games comes off as really slow pacing in anime.
No.81050
>>81036I'm glad to see Industrial Light and Magic still exists. Those guys were behind so many amazing special effects in the 90s. If anyone could pull it off, it's those guys. In our sad age of Western studios moving on from the drained corpse of comic books and into Japanese media, this one has the best chance of actually looking good. I have no confidence anything else about it, but the special effects have great potential.
No.81087
>>81043it was pretty clear after the 3rd episode that they weren't going to go for character and storydevelopement, but rather one episode long tales of mary sue and dumb father
No.81088
>>81087Sure, but usually even in those shows when you have a plot involving characters that have been on screen and with the main characters for a while usually you have some buildup to it.
No.81094
>>81050Kong: Skull Island was a pretty nice movie with great special effects, and with the same director heading this project I think it could turn out well if they try and adapt a more campy Gundam plotline instead of including all the rest of the military drama. Or who knows, war dramas are something hollywood loves so maybe they could pull it off to some extent(although it doesn't have people waving American flags everywhere so maybe not)
No.81706
Man, what the hell happened to 86.
No.81707
>>81706They couldn't just fight the same legion forever could they? Also how the hell do individual-ish personalities work in a hivemind?
No.81708
>>81707I mean the airing schedule. And this is with split cours, imagine if they tried to release all 23 episodes on a weekly basis.
No.81709
scheduled delays are stacking on top of production delays making it quite bad. Not really the artistic staffs fault
No.82236
>>82079It wasn't story foreshadowing. It was foreshadowing for the entire show.
No.82258
>>82235Hope it turns out better than Wonder Egg
No.82261
>>82258The episodes are undoubtedly already produced so I don't doubt the quality is as good as the other episodes, they just don't have any time slot to put them in so it will suffer in sales and viewership(maybe, it seems like it's a pretty good IP).
No.82421
>>82235Did anyone enjoy this anime? Started not wanting to watch it towards the latest episodes until I finally dropped it on the latest one.
No.82423
>>82421Even if you hate it, you can't say that it's got bad action. Which I'd say the mecha battles alone would keep me invested.
No.82427
>>82424fucking clips dude...
No.83808
>>83803>Some people are 'filtered' by the artstyle and use it as an excuse as to not watch itThose are bad people whose opinions do NOT matter. The charm of that style has never waned for me, and the nice shading/colors that accompany it will always keep nice to look at. I can only imagine that those who dislike it probably have something against more cartoonish anime styles in general.
No.83814
>>83810I'm not very familiar with this show's history, so I could be completely wrong, but I get the impression it's one of those cases where the creator is an inferior draftsman to the people animating his work. The result is this kind of weird compromise, where they kept a lot of the idiosyncrasies of the original but polished it up to work in animation.
Personally, I think it looks pretty good though. Styles like this are the visual equivalent of spicy foods. They're harder to swallow, especially if you didn't have much exposure to them growing up, but if you stick with them you'll find a lot to appreciate.
No.84631
I watched gunbuster yesterday, it had some cool action scenes but all of the characters (especially anyone not the main character) felt flat. I also thought that the parts leading up to Noriko getting in the gunbuster were really drawn out so that the parts of it where stuff actually happened was confined to bits of the last 3 episodes. Despite all this buildup I felt like the last episode lacked any, not to mention it being in black and white for almost the entire time.
I thought it was supposed to be highly regarded or something
No.84690
>>84631look at the year it came out. there is a lot of anime that have respect for what they accomplished at the time, not compared to every anime that came after it.
No.87395
>Gundam: G no Reconguista IV - Gekitou Ni Sakebu Ai
4 movie i quite a bit. Is it possible that maybe the movie series will be the preferred version?
No.88818
>>88814>>88816I think the reasoning is because with designs like these, studios often take on a mechanical design person to help with how something should look and move, whereas most animators probably only have experience with static shots and/or human designs. So, it's easier to just slap in a few dozen cg cars than drawing them because all of the intensive perspective work is already done by virtue of it being 3D cg.
No.88820
>>88818Yeah, but as to which would be more expensive that's a tough question to answer. The 3D cars/mecha in anime look like complete shite. It's not like it's CGi on the level of Pixar or something.
No.88821
>>88820CG strikes me as being more expensive. Even if the model never changes, you'd still need to maintain a completely parallel staff in order to do all of the cg animation which is pretty time consuming. For mecha, that is. It wouldn't surprise me if there's a common industry program for dropping in CG cars and other common, high detail assets.
No.88822
But really, the cost is pretty ambiguous. Which would ultimately be more expensive:
¥maintaining/contracting out a CG staff and all that entails
¥having a few dedicated mechanical design animators
No.92829
>>92828Pfft talk about balls of steel.
No.92887
>>92804The bare minimum for something to be classified as mecha is whether or not there is a technological aspect. So long as the golem has at least a little bit of tech (such as being piloted like in Rayearth) it counts.
No.92974
>>92804Isn't the minimum requirement for a mecha to have someone piloting inside?
Aside from that if Escaflowne and Knights and Magic are considered mecha then I guess technological level doesn't count. Shows where they have super developed mechas but medieval tier living standards aren't that rare.