[G] Sentenal's Guide to Mecha - Page 6

On June 19 2011 13:38 x-Catalyst wrote:
Best blog/guide evarrrrrr!
I love anything that involves giant robots/knights/and other cool shit like that.
Fuck yeah.

On June 19 2011 13:53 Sentenal wrote:

Giant Robots+Knights=Escaflowne:
+ Show Spoiler +

If you haven't seen it, you should check it out. Its one of the only ones of its kind (mecha+knights)

On June 19 2011 13:55 Blasterion wrote:
Why isn't Nanoha in this? it is greatest combination of Mecha and Yuri

On June 23 2011 04:41 kakaman wrote:
Where's Voltron?

On June 23 2011 16:42 KazeHydra wrote:
The thing is, SaRrAceN, you are arguing about the quality of E7 as being a successful anime/story, but this does not necessarily mean successful as mecha. If you want to say something was a good anime, I can accept that, and if someone says differently, then we can just say it's a difference in taste and leave it at that. However, the topic of this blog is mecha, not anime, and E7 really wasn't very good if you look at it from a mecha fan perspective. I feel like it comes down to you not actually liking pure mecha but rather other genres like drama or psychology which sometimes are combined with mecha (such as in E7 and Code Geass).

On June 23 2011 09:39 Sentenal wrote:

What about it? Voltron doesn't really have much significance other than being less popular than Robotech when it was adapted and released in America in the 80s. GoLion (the series that was the first Voltron) and Dairugger XV (which made up Voltron 2) were just generic super robot shows of the early 80s.

Sure, the shows existed, and Voltron was fairly popular back in the mid 80s when released in America, but outside that, they haven't aged well, and didn't really have any impact at all on the genre.

Plus, just look at all the changes made from the original versions to Voltron:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voltron#Plot_changes

It makes 4kids One Piece dub almost look good lol

On June 24 2011 02:48 SaRrAceN wrote:


I wasnt arguing anything, im just saying give it a chance before shooting it down. However you make an interesting point about being 'good mecha' as opposed to being a good anime in general. Its not the first time ive seen such a distinction but I still dont get it. Im curious as to what 'true' anime fans would consider good mecha because anime series like any Gundam derivative cant seem to hold my interest at all yet they are loved by many. Am I missing something ?

On June 23 2011 16:09 SaRrAceN wrote:
I will concede that E7 can get annoyingly cheesy and downright childish but once you can get past that, its a great series.

Our tastes are clearly different. Both E7 and CG are among my favorites for specific reasons. They both have such strong storytelling like competent plot twists and climaxes and great character development. They both have morally ambiguous protagonists and most importantly they treat their respective subject matters with relative seriousness throughout unlike over the top bullshit like bleach. Oh yes and also what both these anime series achieve beautifully are their emotional weight. This is like 70% of the reason i love them both.

After watching these, I searched for other gems like them that might be out there and settled on Gundam seed after reading reviews and shit. Only managed to watch half of it before i gave up.

Usually when I start watching a new anime series I force my self to watch the 1st few episodes before i decide. With all the ones that ive enjoyed, they hooked me by the 5th-8th episode. 26 episodes and there was no magic with Gundam Seed. While it has potential, it was just too boring. Its frightfully devoid of good climaxes and/or stunning revelations and there are no impressive plot twists.

Since then ive avoided anything with "gundam" in the title like a plague. Everyone has different tastes i guess.

Good animes or even stories in general present you with a 'what' in the beginning and over the course of the story gives you the 'whys' and sometimes the 'hows' which makes for good plot twists etc.

On June 23 2011 17:57 CrackSpider93 wrote:
I'm planning on watching Eueka 7 since it is about to be taken off of Anime News Network soon and it seems interesting.

I'm mostly a fan of 80's and 90's mechanical designs. For 80's mechs I mainly perfer those from Gundam, L-Gaim, and Dragonar (I still have yet to watch the latter two). I also liked the 90's Gundam and SRW designs. However more recent mecha look too slim and look strange too me although the Mazinkaiser SKL looks pretty cool. I still have a lot of anime on my to watch list such as Dunbine, Vifam , Mazinger Z, Getter Robo, and a bunch of others. I learned of most of these anime from SRW or plamo. I collect gunpla as Bandai kits are cheaper and easier to build than other plastic models (which is why I don't have any SRW or Zoids kits).

Also how did this thread get to 6 pages and Cybuster did not get a single mention? It was one of the earliest original mechs in SRW and it has a cool theme song and moveset:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwQbIK-N2UA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qce51TxF4So