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.
No.97243
>>972392D mech gundam? Sign me up.
Also wonder what's with the shift away from CG recently, been seeing a lot less of it where I wouldn't expect to, and it's made me very happy.
No.97244
>>97241Yeah, this one
>>97242It's just not my kind of game, I don't have the reflexes for it. I've never been too big on FPSes, really, and I'm kind of surprised Japan made one. I wonder if it's because of the popularity of Apex Legends among streamers
No.97256
Also my dad specifically calls mecha (although its probably the genre he has seen me watch the most) "Japanese war movies". He think this is separate to regular, modern anime.
I got him to watch the first 0079 movie because of this and said he liked it but isnt willing to watch the other two because he found Amuro offputting and annoying without justification and would've preferred Bright or Kai as the MC
No.97303
>>97256I saw Amuro that way as well; could be because either of us never watched Gundam as a boy so it's hard to relate to or admire his teenishness.
No.97307
>>97303Even though its supposed to be trauma, it was a popular theory back in the day on /m/ some gundam characters are so weird because being a newtype gave you social issues.
Like the retarded girl in Zeta
No.97345
>>97296A Zaku top-scoring is hilarious
No.97353
>>97239I really liked the episode 0. Both the character and mecha designs remind me of Reconguista in G, and I was extremely impressed by the mecha animation. I am excited.
>>97256>he liked it but isnt willing to watch the other two because he found Amuro offputting and annoyingCould be worse...he at least isn't Judau Ashta...
No.97355
>>97242>>97244I'd consider playing but the level design looks bad, there's no sense of scale. It feels like you're human-sized.
No.97356
>>97355This is exactly how I feel. It just looks like an Overwatch or TF2 clone with a Gundam skin slapped on. Why was there no attempt at conveying the size of the mobile suits?
No.97358
>>97357problem being that it looks generic and not special. The artistic design is lacking compared to the two alternatives
No.97359
>>97357For a start, the environments should look like they're mainly designed for human use instead of being full of gundam-sized hallways and ramps. There should be some momentum in the movement controls and perhaps even in aiming. Each step should make a suitably heavy sound instead of being silent, you could also add some camera sway so it doesn't feel like you're floating.
No.97373
>>97360I would buy a figure of this and put it with my gunpla
No.97899
>>97465>the utena school plotFound an image that really points this out well. Although I did rewatch episode 1 of Utena and it isn't
exactly beat for beat the same episode.
No.97900
>>97456Very nice stitch.
Gundam seems pretty great. Seeing 2D mecha in the age of 3D is so good. The ships are 3D, but I can tolerate it because they don't move.
>>97899Some of those really don't seem like a coincidence, huh. I wonder...
No.97901
>>97900I'm sure if you watch the first episode of Utena, with the thought in mind that it is an extremely influential anime, then it should make sense that the creators of this were heavily influenced themselves.
No.97950
>>97899that pic of Touga with the opera glasses still makes me chuckle
No.97966
>>97965Tanks are already getting trashed by drones, mechs would have to be extraordinary to not just be huge targets
No.97967
>>97966Well, say we had nuclear powered giant mecha with insanely thich armor. How do you beat that? And then give it wings to fly with too
No.97968
>>97965Yes, they are not practical. To make a mech practical you would make it prone so it was a smaller target and easier to hide and so you had less area to worry about armouring, then you would remove the arms and place the weapon on it's back in some kind of turret, you would remove the legs and give it tracks and then you just have a tank anyway.
The only uses for a mech/walker type thing would be in moving heavy weapons over terrain tanks can't operate in like a walking cannon to operate in mountains. Though some terrain would be even worse for a mech than a tank, like muddy ground as the mech would have more ground pressure. And also the other use would be in exo-skeleton type systems that would enable a soldier to fight much more protected, though that has issues as well but in some situations it might work.
No.97969
>>97968Actually I am an idiot. Muddy ground would not effect mechs in the same way anyway, so they might be able to operate there.
No.98016
>>97969gundams in the jungle
No.98517
>>98516I really love that mecha. It looks like some of the Brave designs but without a mouth.
No.98911
>>98910It only took 599 days! Not close to 2 years at all :P
No.98912
>>98911Another post! This thread is
flying (like a mecha???)!
No.98913
>>98910200 posts is a long fence to surround big ole comfy area you've made!
No.101033
>>101028More art of her yesss
No.101034
>>101028Hope it has a beach scene that can be edited into rape NTR
No.101043
>>101042I think I saw it on the
Tokyo Game Show but otherwise nothing. The premise and first few episodes of the anime was interesting
No.101050
>>101043I'm just hoping the anime doesn't get canned on an unfinished note. S2 has had 3 weeks of delays so far because of issues at OLM, but even assuming they go through with all the planned episodes...they have a lot to wrap up in just 6 more eps.
No.101070
>>101036I'm actually excited for this since both Gridman anime have been pretty good.
No.101079
>>68627>207 Replies OmittedAnonymous proved wrong, nice.
No.101175
>>101155Lena is like the perfect woman I swear
No.107346
>>107155I'm glad the first episode of the second cour was just a bait and switch for them to fully immerse us in a war setting again. Was going to be pissed if they abandoned it...
No.107347
>>107346The first episode was so terribly boring. I'm glad to see that second episode made it good again and made me hopeful for some great episodes.
No.107425
>>107415just have to wait 6 months for the BD release now...
No.107430
>>107429even if it got one I don't live in a big enough city for it to come to my local theatre, would in all likelihood have to drive 2-4 hours to be able to see it.
No.107433
Anxiously awaiting an impregnation edit
No.107436
>>107432I'm not sure where they go with this movie, let alone a sequel. Never watched the old tokusatsu stuff, but the both the Gridman and Dynazenon animes felt more like the stories of the antagonists (plus Gauma in Dynazenon's case). It's like... how can you have Gridman without Akane or Dynazenon without the Kaijuu Eugenicists? I guess the protagonists can fight a new enemy, but it felt like their roles were done at the ends of their respective series.
I still think the crossover movie might be cool, but for another series I'd rather see a new "SSSS." setting with new characters, maybe with Gridknight and Nidaime as recurring side characters to build continuity.
No.107437
>>107436I was also skeptical going in but the movie was really, really good, and firmly cemented SSSS. as one of my favorite franchises in recent years.
No.109168
>>109167There's no way it's ending in 4 episodes. There will be a season 2, possibly with a time skip in between.
...r-right? ;_;
No.109172
of course, it's Gundam. Expect 52 episodes and then with another development plotline of 52 episodes
No.109173
>>109172actually it would be pretty weird if this gundam was just 24 eps, especially when it seems to be the most financially successful gundam for bandai in a long while
No.109528
>>109527I know its not UC, but I'm a bit surprised Gundam has never addressed atrocity fatigue
No.109530
Apparently the field she used is called an
NT-D System and it's the most wide ranged one to date.
No.109540
>>109538Although reading about it, even though audiences and fans love it, the autobots and decepticons still existing and interacting with them is weird to me when the whole point is that it's the far future and humans may be extinct. But canon is fluid in this series and everything is explained away with things in being different timelines.
No.109975
>>109967I hope
Quiet Zero is successful and Suletta and Miorine can be together forever
in the data storm! No.110537
>>110536Gundam is a
yaoi series
No.110540
>>110539Unfortunate. She was the whole reason I backlogged it
No.110541
>>110538>spoilerIts Gundam. If it made enough money it will happen
No.110547
>>110538The drinking cups in gundam always looked so cursed to me, especially since they eat off paper and regular plates
No.110556
I imagine they will have decided on making a spinoff/game or that Sunrise doesn't want to focus on anime much anymore.
No.110566
>>110556I mean this anime has been the most successful for Sunrise in decades so they probably are punching themselves for making it only 24 eps.
No.110644
>>109538I didnt like it. It didnt make sense and just felt like nostalgia bait when its not even that nostalgic as Beast Wars has content currently coming out for it. S2 of Beast Wars is a better movie.
I also noticed a trend in the fandom, where the japanese stuff is seen as deeper and more adult when for the most part it's lighter, sillier and very meta. Like a parody toku series.
No.110864
For some reason I could find the OP video on youtube
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x22hsex No.110868
>>110734Go Nagai knows the male fantasy
No.110942
it's quite something that the franchise predicted the idea of AI assisted controls in complex systems to better the abilities of the pilot
No.112156
Grendizer is getting a reboot.