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

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Trollblade69 said:
Watching Vifam thanks to @XYZpdq Jr. reccing it earlier in this thread. Requisite apologies for still being on the topic of Tomino.
10 episodes in, and man, this feels like it's actually managing to be the kind of show Zambot, Ideon, F91 and possibly Garzey's Wing wanted to be about, but without any of the usual issues the drama-heavy Tomino shows tended to suffer from in writing people as human beings instead of interchangeable warm bodies. A bunch of variably-sized kids trapped in a war they want no part of who can barely use any of their machinery or weapons, an enemy whose motives and identities are clouded by total absence in communication rather than just being dispassionate destroyers or fucking space samurai, and any hopes of relief are getting mulched in the background rather than being made malicious by circumstance. Plenty of terror and tension to go around, but without the show being all doom and gloom, and I'm liking it.
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Oh Vifam is fantastic, it takes a lot of talent into making a cast filled with kids be genuinely endearing even the character that should by all means an annoying shit you can't hate because he really tries his best and improves. Such a good show. Dont watch the OVAs or the 90s "midquel".

Trollblade69 said:
>Marvel Frozen
>Badass
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Next thing they're going to say is that Todd was a bro.
 
26 episodes into Vifam. More ideas from Ideon still lingering, with how the monolith has gone from creating plant life, to diverting the aim of long-range attacks, to draining all energy from enemy machinery. I really need to watch 2001: A Space Odyssey one of these days. Though I'll say it's obviously not sticking completely to the Ideon script, since having a happy ending to an encounter with human forces is something that pretty much never happened in that show.
 
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26 episodes into Vifam. More ideas from Ideon still lingering, with how the monolith has gone from creating plant life, to diverting the aim of long-range attacks, to draining all energy from enemy machinery. I really need to watch 2001: A Space Odyssey one of these days. Though I'll say it's obviously not sticking completely to the Ideon script, since having a happy ending to an encounter with human forces is something that pretty much never happened in that show.
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iirc it's a lot of the scraps dropped from the Two Years Vacation In Space version of Gundam
2001's good but you have to make sure you don't have any background noise. Most of the movie's audio is ambient sound (or the lack thereof)
like, fans, ac, fridge, ANY noise
 
XYZpdq Jr. said:
getter done
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It honestly looks better than I initially thought it was going to be, has that Getter spirit to it. But I don't have high hopes for the film because I feel like Getter excels better animated than it does in live action. Theres just something about getter thats better captured in animation, really makes me wish they could have adapted the original mangas as an anime instead of this.

But then again, adapting Getter to modern standards wouldn't work considering how violent it was and it was a product for its time.
 
Finished Vifam, and also watched the Kieta 12-nin bonus episode for thoroughness's sake.
Pretty good show. I like its decision to end on an ambiguous but happy note where anything could end up happening afterwards and the war being over merely for the kids.
 
I've finished watching the first season of Aquarion! I've finally watched every single show featured in Super Robot Wars Z1!
 
Trollblade69 said:
I've finished watching the first season of Aquarion! I've finally watched every single show featured in Super Robot Wars Z1!
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The original Aquarion is a really fun time, even if I think they drag out the drama with Sirius waaaay too long. In literally every other show, the Hayato Jin-ish member of the team usually quashes his beef with the main pilot way earlier.
 
Still making my way through Tomino shows.
Finished Combattler V before finding out there was a page on the Internet Archive with all the Raideen episodes on it. I watched the first dozen episodes just fine, but the episode after that has...
[mSubs] Yuusha Raideen 13 [5C79C66A].mkv-00.02.02.489-.jpg
What the hell is this
 
Eventually finished Raideen. Found some still-intact subs on WCO for episodes 13 to 24, then from 25 to 37 the subs worked just fine. Unfortunately I had to go through the last 13 episodes totally unsubbed. Though while I can't understand anything that's being said, I could at least figure out that whatever it is, it's probably a disappointment compared with how this show's first few episodes went.
What started as a neat premise filled with occult magic and helped along by Yas's storyboarding and Tomino's knack for just weird shit happening, eventually just became a knockoff Mazingetter that chucked its most interesting character in a bin, replaced all its creepy stuff with robot orcs, and directly stole Musashi's death from the Getter Robo anime to use for a side character who had pretty much no characterization this whole show.

Now I'm over halfway through Voltes V. And I also watched Rebuild of Evangelion 4 over Christmas.
 
Anyone who's watched L-Gaim here, can you tell me when it gets interesting and stops feeling like ZZ Gundam with lesser character and mech designs?
 
Finished L-Gaim. It did not stop feeling like ZZ Gundam.
And honestly, it was an even bigger mess. Like they didn't have any idea where the show was going and were just flailing wildly to come up with filler, if not trying to work around the availability of their voice talent. The middle stretch especially is just a brick wall of nothing, with one particularly bad episode about how Leccee is some kind of unwoman for not fitting neatly into a gender role.
It gets better once Full Flat and Quwasan Olibee take a heavy role in the story, but it still doesn't stop feeling like it's spinning its wheels and arguing with itself until the last three episodes of the show. All the stuff around the finale feels like good ideas that deserved a way more clear-headed show to utilize them better.
 
Why is nobody else using this thread

Was listening to the Anime World Order podcast about Brain Powerd to occupy my time, and they went and said "The Novis Noah looks like a pyramid because the Geofront in Evangelion has a pyramid and they're ripping off Evangelion!"

NO YOU FUCKING RETARD! NOT EVERYTHING IS A FUCKING EVANGELION RIPOFF, HAVE YOU NEVER SEEN A MECHA SHOW IN YOUR ENTIRE LIFE?! IF IT'S A REFERENCE TO ANYTHING, IT'S TO RAIDEEN AND THE GIANT PYRAMID THAT THE TITULAR MECH FIRST RISES OUT OF!!!!
 
Trollblade69 said:
Why is nobody else using this thread

Was listening to the Anime World Order podcast about Brain Powerd to occupy my time, and they went and said "The Novis Noah looks like a pyramid because the Geofront in Evangelion has a pyramid and they're ripping off Evangelion!"

NO YOU FUCKING RETARD! NOT EVERYTHING IS A FUCKING EVANGELION RIPOFF, HAVE YOU NEVER SEEN A MECHA SHOW IN YOUR ENTIRE LIFE?! IF IT'S A REFERENCE TO ANYTHING, IT'S TO RAIDEEN AND THE GIANT PYRAMID THAT THE TITULAR MECH FIRST RISES OUT OF!!!!
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Its amazing that one poorly worded interview just completely made everyone push a narrative that doesn't exist for 20 years and what's worse is that nobody will bother to correct it because its Tomino.
 
Trollblade69 said:
Why is nobody else using this thread
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I just haven't gone through enough of a mech anime or two to bring it up lol.

Trollblade69 said:
Brain Powerd
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More like Brain Damagd. Was a painful watch, and the dub-script might've actually been retarded. Then again, someone else I know who was also simultaneously watching it went back-and-forth between sub and dub and said the sub wasn't any better. Methinks it was Tomino biting off more than he could chew.
 
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