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I didn't actually get to watch a lot of Gundam Wing back in the day, but liked the intro. I think it made an impression because for its time it had a whole new audience who'd never seen anything like it.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:I didn't actually get to watch a lot of Gundam Wing back in the day, but liked the intro. It was my first introduction to Gundam and the first anime of any sort that I didn’t just roll my eyes at and walk away from.
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Yeah, Gundam Wing looks pretty tame/dumb now, but it was a big deal at the time when Toonami released it. I think it was the first major network to carry the English version of a Gundam series.Ghost Leviathan posted:I didn't actually get to watch a lot of Gundam Wing back in the day, but liked the intro. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNJ4aBoRipg
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Some Goon posted:I want to watch original Gundam but those gifs have me thinking it's aged poorly. There’s three movies that cover the original MSG that have a lot of redone animation and way less off model stuff, on top of being generally paced better because OG MSG was kind of a mess as a TV show. You can watch them all free and legally on the gundaminfo channel on youtube. Just be aware that while they are better than the series in most ways they are still violently 70s.
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I think everyone should watch 1979 Gundam in its entirety just to hear the Amuro song like 40 times
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Bogus Adventure posted:Yeah, Gundam Wing looks pretty tame/dumb now, but it was a big deal at the time when Toonami released it. I think it was the first major network to carry the English version of a Gundam series. Mighta said before, but a comment had it right; it had cute angsty boys for the girls and giant robot combat for the boys, and also both for various periphery demographics. May not be subtle, but that's sometimes what teens need. Also can't not read the lyrics as 'Just one thing'.
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ShallNoiseUpon posted:I think everyone should watch 1979 Gundam in its entirety just to hear the Amuro song like 40 times More franchises need some random lounge singer just going ham over their giant climactic mutual slaughter moments, it's good poo poo
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It's already been mentioned but I need to make another Patlabor appreciation post  special mention to the frankly insane attention to detail in the mechanical animation of Patlabor 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IsMTpSDAGxM&t=66s
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IronicDongz posted:It's already been mentioned but I need to make another Patlabor appreciation post That opening bit in Patlabor 2 is still probably the most impressive animation I've ever seen. It's ridiculous and the movie never stops looking that good on top of it.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:cute angsty boys This is what almost killed my love of the giant mech vs. monster genre. Too many whiny kids. Yes I am looking at you Shinji Ikari. Yes, you have every reason in the world to be a broken young man, just shut the gently caress up about it will you and pilot the goddamn mech made from your dead mother.
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Shinji really doesn't even spend much time doing that sort of thing though.
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Japanese mecha is basically split between "being a robot pilot kicks rear end" and "being a robot pilot sucks hardcore," even if it doesn't always shout it at you like Eva.
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IronicDongz posted:It's already been mentioned but I need to make another Patlabor appreciation post Patlabor is the loving best and it is definitely my #1 rec to people in this thread. Megillah Gorilla posted:This is what almost killed my love of the giant mech vs. monster genre. Too many whiny kids. Yes I am looking at you Shinji Ikari. Watching NGE when you're 14: shut up shinji Watching NGE when you're 25: what the gently caress misato get it together, no wonder shinji's all hosed up IronicDongz posted:Shinji really doesn't even spend much time doing that sort of thing though. Doing any of it interferes with the fantasy that being an EVA pilot would be powerful and cool and not a miserable sacrifice due to living in the apocalypse.
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Eva's about a bunch of hosed up people, the robots and aliens are just set dressing.
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Some Goon posted:Eva's about a bunch of hosed up people, the robots and aliens are just set dressing. It's a really great show about literary approaches to attachment disorders.
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It's also an excellent case study in several people somehow interpreting a completely different series of events and character interactions from the same images and sounds
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Still holding onto that torch for Misato, the oldest women in anime at 28. Also, if you've never seen it, Patlabour has a TV series that is a completely different tone from the movies. They're all serious about politics and Japanese history and stuff, while the TV show is pretty much a 90s anime series with lots of silly stuff, the most notable episode where they go to a bath house and everyone has really obvious black dots over their junk.
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WilWheaton posted:The It's funny you say that because Battlemechs were originally called Battledroids. The name was changed to avoid a lawsuit from Lucasfilm.
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Here's the old Toonami promo for 08th MS Team, which I think does a pretty good job of selling it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHORiWcYzEY SolarFire2 fucked around with this message at 05:15 on Aug 22, 2020 |
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twistedmentat posted:Also, if you've never seen it, Patlabour has a TV series that is a completely different tone from the movies. They're all serious about politics and Japanese history and stuff, while the TV show is pretty much a 90s anime series with lots of silly stuff, the most notable episode where they go to a bath house and everyone has really obvious black dots over their junk. The TV show is probably the most serious politics I've seen from an anime, because drama results from 'zoning restrictions' or my own favorite 'the police department has to get into subsistence fishing due to budget cuts, and they gently caress it up so they have to stall their boss so they don't get caught misusing resources.'
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Yeah every patlabor is pretty loving political, they just have wildly different stakes and layers of comedy draped over their points. Honestly I think the first movie is the only entry in the franchise that isn’t really offering a commentary on something that was in the news cycle when it came out.
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I know it was brought up in the animation thread (I think) but surprised there's no mention of Big O yet?  It's like batman but with mecha. Worth checking out. "Cast in the name of God, Ye not guilty"
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Linux Pirate posted:I know it was brought up in the animation thread (I think) but surprised there's no mention of Big O yet? First page ya knob!! McSpanky posted:Gundams, Valkyries, Mechs-- so small.
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CainFortea posted:First page ya knob!! Jesus! I need to stop day drinking. 
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Ghost Leviathan posted:I think it made an impression because for its time it had a whole new audience who'd never seen anything like it. Hell, the first ep has Heero telling Raelina that he's going to destroy her. And it's such a wtf moment it leaves a mark.
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Just to go back a page...GD_American posted:Big horrible war you say? I don’t think anyone mentioned it, but if you actually watched Ideon, it’d be worth checking out some version of the original MSG, such as the movie trilogy. Both shows were by Yoshiyuki Tomino, who also did a number of other Gundam works, and Ideon was actually the series he did immediately after the original MSG series ended in 1980. IIRC both also had a lot of the same people behind the character and mecha designs as well.
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A not wholly inaccurate description of Ideon is “Evangelion by the guy who created Gundam.”
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char aznable did nothing wrong except for the millions of people he killed
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How has this thread gotten this far without someone mentioning GETTER ROBO.
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Stairmaster posted:char aznable did nothing wrong except for the millions of people he killed Their souls were weighed down by gravity
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Taintrunner posted:Their souls were weighed down by gravity Their bodies were weighed down by an asteroid
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My favorite thing to do in Mechwarrior 2 was to take the fastest mech available, rip everything out (including the heat sinks) and see how fast it could go before exploding.
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Fsmhunk posted:How has this thread gotten this far without someone mentioning GETTER ROBO. Shin Getter is one of my favorite mech designs, if not my absolute favorite. Specifically the manga version though, all the adaptions mess with the design in ways I don't like.
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Droyer posted:Shin Getter is one of my favorite mech designs, if not my absolute favorite. Specifically the manga version though, all the adaptions mess with the design in ways I don't like. https://youtu.be/nriv_B4W8ag hope you're ready for this.
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Sazabi posted:https://youtu.be/nriv_B4W8ag hope you're ready for this. This anime probably won't actually feature Shin Getter but yes I am excited for it.
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Kamille should have been in chars counterattack instead of amuro
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Thanks for the Patlabor reccs, never expected to be into a mecha anime that is 90% procedural/bureaucracy. What if mechs, but too many, and they're buggier than a smart fridge?
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Grandma Panic! posted:Thanks for the Patlabor reccs, never expected to be into a mecha anime that is 90% procedural/bureaucracy. It's so fuckin good yah
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Patlabor is extremely legit, anyone who digs robots should absolutely watch it.
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Psycho Landlord posted:Patlabor is extremely legit, anyone who digs robots should absolutely watch it. It's Mamarou Oshii which is pretty much a good sign no matter what. Its funny because the TV series is pretty silly, but the movies are serious as hell.
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