Mecha anime & manga - Big robots. Other than Gundam.

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FatMebius said:
It's a neat show. It feels very prophetic as far as the Middle East stuff that occurs in it. It's a bit on the dry side, which doesn't work for everyone, but I quite like it. You're gonna learn a lot about grain economics and noh theater though.
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It's one of the most based and redpilled anime of all time, only a rung or two below Angel Cop, and held down only by how boring all the characters are. Every single one beside maybe the JSDF commander are just so unsympathetic and bland. The fight scenes, when they happen, rule too.

Maybe it's just the really slow and distinct style that got me turned off. It needed the someone to smack Takahashi around a bit like with Votoms or his other 80s stuff.
 
Registration said:
One of the greatest things to do is to see redesigns of Mecha designs. I feel like mecha designs redesigns gets more interesting than human designs because it allows many variations in how to illustrate it. Combining different art styles, textures and intent.
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This was one area where Americans were actually better at doing. That area is the willingness to go outside the box and/or off-model with the redesigns.
 
Registration said:
Give examples
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Syd Mead's TurnA Gundam for outside of the box design. Off-model been the main stay of BattleTech as the "official" artists either couldn't and/or weren't pay enough to give a fuck to stay on model. Which incidentally have been a boon for everyone to customize their mech's appearance however they want beyond paint jobs, emblems and/or logos.
 
Space Police said:
Gundam EX and lots of the Prime/RID2015/Cyberverse stuff
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Gundam EX is by Kimitoshi Yamane, which always uses lots of curves in his designs. Even in EX there is lots of curves even when he isn't doing a ship as most of his job.

As for Transformers stuff I dont know much about it (I liked the train optimus that was ion 1800s or something like that)

Fatsuit Shinji said:
Syd Mead's TurnA Gundam for outside of the box design. Off-model been the main stay of BattleTech as the "official" artists either couldn't and/or weren't pay enough to give a fuck to stay on model. Which incidentally have been a boon for everyone to customize their mech's appearance however they want beyond paint jobs, emblems and/or logos.
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Turn A Gundam really isn't outside the box at all. Even more when in the same series the original designs were really outside of the box and was later repurposed into the SUMO, which aren't Gundam. When you compare the actual turn A Gundam and the usual Gundam from that era, they aren't very far apart.

Now if you open to mobile suit designs, then you get more freedom but still not enough. We could pick someone like Kaoru Morishita who even back then in the 90s was pushing farther on what a Gundam could look like with his two manga

And he is still doing to this very day, his twitter is a treasure of reimagining designs:
Dunbine
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Aerial Gundam
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Gyan
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Penelope
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Bound doc
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This is some of the WORST anime CGI I've seen in a while. Why is it so slow and undetailed? At least it's a decent battle.
 
local nerd hole had one of the Dagwons in the box
forget the price, it was fair, not like the Fighbird I got for like twenty bucks or similarly stupid cheap at a con in-box
still neat to see
unrelated Jobraver threatens to bring the cheapest fucking thing (not made by Knack) ever to Japanese tv
 

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XYZpdq Jr. said:
unrelated Jobraver threatens to bring the cheapest fucking thing (not made by Knack) ever to Japanese tv
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I thought this was ending and getting replaced by some CGI beastformers show. Nice to know there will be more. Hopefully we'll get torrents for the missing episodes as well.
 
Trollblade69 said:
Watched Xabungle. I wish some of the writers for this show could've stuck around for Zeta and Victory Gundam.
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I'm glad you enjoyed it! It's one of my favourite anime ever. I think Xabungle is better than Zeta since it's got cooler transforming robots (seriously, the Asshimar is one of the worst transforming robots out there) and it explores its setting a lot, which Zeta doesn't really do. The highlights were the episodes with the Hanawans as well as seeing all the mysteries unravel into really weird things. It's a cool show.
 
yeah Xabungle was fun
As something of a sperg about atomics I really REALLY loved the part near the end where they simultaneously cartoon toss an ICBM like Captain Caveman AND correctly portray how nukes don't just blow up when you toss them, you have to activate stuff
 
It's not double posting, say mark two

Was flipping through the Tenchi In Love continuity script while moving, forgot how cool they are. Any particular cool mecha ones (with spoonfed links) plox?
Also I already have some Eva, I'll check that later but iirc there was some decent difference from storyboard to production, like I think the "and now we figh- TO BE CONTINUED" wasn't? Been a while since I checked it
 
XYZpdq Jr. said:
It's not double posting, say mark two

Was flipping through the Tenchi In Love continuity script while moving, forgot how cool they are. Any particular cool mecha ones (with spoonfed links) plox?
Also I already have some Eva, I'll check that later but iirc there was some decent difference from storyboard to production, like I think the "and now we figh- TO BE CONTINUED" wasn't? Been a while since I checked it
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Dual! and Tenchi GXP have some cool mecha action. War in Geminar too.
 
FatMebius said:
War in Geminar too.
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Yeah, the fights were good, but I had a hard time keeping track of who's who and wondering why the hell the other mechas didn't keep to a consistent thematic design. Brain Powerd was worse about it with unattractive boring designs and no real way to tell allies from enemies apart in battle.

I'm starting to change my stance on Fafner, Exodus has been proving to be so much better, especially with pacing.
 
Kari Kamiya said:
Yeah, the fights were good, but I had a hard time keeping track of who's who and wondering why the hell the other mechas didn't keep to a consistent thematic design. Brain Powerd was worse about it with unattractive boring designs and no real way to tell allies from enemies apart in battle.

I'm starting to change my stance on Fafner, Exodus has been proving to be so much better, especially with pacing.
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Fafner is a great ride if you stick with it. Exodus and The Beyond are so bittersweet.

Brain Powerd is amazing. It's like all of the mommy issues and women in the workplace themes that Tomino likes distilled into the most entertaining mess possible.
 
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