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

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Space Police said:
Alaska base/the Thunderbirds video phones, the underground NERV base and Tokyo-3 being a ripoff of Macross City, the princess of the ancient civilization that built Raideen, ends up sacrificing herself to save the day (there are also lots of episodes exploring Akira's angst over his missing mother).
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I'm having flashbacks. A disco ball is spinning and a phat bass line is kicking in (Edit: as First Impact nears Earth!)

Too bad the animation was too stilted for me to get into it.
 
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Trollblade69 said:
I've started on Baldios now, so maybe it'll be a bit less Gundam thread in here for the rest of the month.

6 episodes in, and man I just can't help but like these characters with all their melodrama and passion. I'm also curious as to where the "use pain to resist mental attacks" trope came from, since that played a big role in the episode I just watched and I couldn't help but be reminded of Sasuke vs Orochimaru from Naruto.
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Baldy is a good show. I especially liked the episode where they organize an ill-fated peace summit.
 
9 episodes into Baldios. Still really liking it. Really impressed that they're allowed to keep doing episodes that don't feature the titular mecha in them, though I guess that shouldn't be so surprising when it waited until episode 4 to showcase it.
 
20 episodes into Baldios. The show started to slide in episode quality after the first dozen, and now it's going back and forth between weak episodes and silly but still entertaining episodes.

Anyone know if there's a specific movie that this "Marin and six cutthroats try to infiltrate a hidden base" plot is referencing?
 
Finished Baldios, TV and movie. The continuity melts down when you start on the movie, since it's about half recap and all rewrite, and the TV show kinda has TWO inconclusive endings - the original broadcast ending and the weird - I dunno, VHS-exclusive? - final episodes, so I can't bear to really call the ending a parsible experience unless you just roll with the punches and headcanon your own preferred chain of events for how the ending happened. It's like how Sonic Adventure 2's Hero Story ending is partly incompatible with Dark and Final Story even with that last shot of Eggman managing to snag the last Chaos Emerald under Tails's nose.

Either way, the last dozen or so episodes going full tragedy works (though there's still some clunkers in there), and the ending is still a really harsh and satisfying gut-punch. Aphrodia's face-turn at the end is kinda weak given how steadfastly evil she'd been over the course of the show, but they still managed to resolve Gattler's story decently.
 
Been thinking...

Why hasnt bandai or whoever has decided to make an anime sequel about Super Robot Wars. They have content they can animate that they can make that wont involve the outside IP's(Moon Dweller, 2nd, Gaiden etc) do they dont give a fuck or is there some deep thing going on that stops them from doing so?
 
Trollblade69 said:
Finished Baldios, TV and movie. The continuity melts down when you start on the movie, since it's about half recap and all rewrite, and the TV show kinda has TWO inconclusive endings - the original broadcast ending and the weird - I dunno, VHS-exclusive? - final episodes, so I can't bear to really call the ending a parsible experience unless you just roll with the punches and headcanon your own preferred chain of events for how the ending happened. It's like how Sonic Adventure 2's Hero Story ending is partly incompatible with Dark and Final Story even with that last shot of Eggman managing to snag the last Chaos Emerald under Tails's nose.
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I go with the movie ending since it's the most complete and the TV show for the events prior.
00R-Gundam said:
Been thinking...

Why hasnt bandai or whoever has decided to make an anime sequel about Super Robot Wars. They have content they can animate that they can make that wont involve the outside IP's(Moon Dweller, 2nd, Gaiden etc) do they dont give a fuck or is there some deep thing going on that stops them from doing so?
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OG is a niche of a niche of a niche, so there's not much profit to be found in it. Even the games are too unprofitable now to do anything but checklists and gacha. A 2ndOG anime would be really cool. It's nice to see action that doesn't involve the chibi sprites, plus the OG stories are the best mecha stories I've seen.
 
Space Police said:
I go with the movie ending since it's the most complete and the TV show for the events prior.

OG is a niche of a niche of a niche, so there's not much profit to be found in it. Even the games are too unprofitable now to do anything but checklists and gacha. A 2ndOG anime would be really cool. It's nice to see action that doesn't involve the chibi sprites, plus the OG stories are the best mecha stories I've seen.
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Sadly youre right, SRW is so fucking niche that has been delegated to gacha. Even the video games are niche enough that they take years upon years to push out. Hell the last"main game" was Moon dwellers...unless you want to count SRW30. That said ive seen people buying the model kits(me included) so atleast theres appreciation even if it is super niche.
 
00R-Gundam said:
Been thinking...

Why hasnt bandai or whoever has decided to make an anime sequel about Super Robot Wars. They have content they can animate that they can make that wont involve the outside IP's(Moon Dweller, 2nd, Gaiden etc) do they dont give a fuck or is there some deep thing going on that stops them from doing so?
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Wasn't OGs2.5 originally an OVA?
 
I'm watching Braiger, and this is nearly everything I expect from a sci-fi show. I really, really like these "gritty underworld" type of shows, and this is the best one I've seen so far. There is lots of action, but the action has substance since it's usually spaceship chases and robot fights. The story is also good; I particularly liked the cruise liner episode, the racing episode, and the ranch episode. I like how it has all the big themes of real robot shows, like authority being corrupt and manipulating things from all sides. I look forward to seeing the gang war escalate and it will be interesting to see what happens. I hope Baxingar and Sasuraiger are just as good.
 
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Far-future AT design
 
XYZpdq Jr. said:
there was a chicago style hot dog joint near my job for a while, I finally got into the "a weird salad on a bun, also a hot dog" style of dogs
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Special dog is the only way I make a hotdog whenever I get a craving for one. The Gridman bakery was onto something.
 
Watching the VOTOMS OVAs out of OCD. Apparently there's stuff in Pailsen Files in SRWZ2, so I'm forced to watch all of them to understand better. Haven't gotten there yet, though - watched Last Red Shoulder, Big Battle, Roots Of Ambition, Shining Heresy, Finder, Case Irvine, Alone Again, and 4 episodes of Phantom Arc so far.

I'm mostly a whole lot of bored watching these things. It's a bunch of conflicts I have no interest in, and I especially don't like Shining Heresy killing off Fyana so Chirico gets stuck being a lonely wandering Kenshiro type who beats all the bad guys with supernatural luck. At least Last Red Shoulder had some neat action and character backstory for Ypsilon while Finder and Case Irvine were thin but decent self-contained stories
 
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