/m/ - Mecha & Tokusatsu

>not posting an archive

https://archive.is/lpy5R

>>14225

For a while they had some weird script that kept them from being archived.

>>16211

>gif

rip doggo

>>16206

Try playing mecha games, then. They tend to focus on specific weapons.

>>16206

Except the entire point of having mobile suits with hands is that they can be equipped with an arsenal of situational weaponry as long as it fits in their hands. Not to mention the Einhander is from a fucking SHMUP where packing an unrealistic amount of weapons and ammo into such a small craft happens.

I thought Wild Arms was a western (as in the genre) game, not a mecha game?

>>14191

Henshin heroes

Cyborgs

Giant robots

Kaijuu

Nice interview, thanks for this.

>>13409

based.

are any of lotgh games worthwhile?

Ordered a hard copy of the book yesterday. In 3 weeks I will be able to tell you whether the translation looks good or not. Maybe I post some parts of it here.

>>14087

tbh it's meant to be ironic. Also streaming more viktory fundam.

weebcrew as in IRC crew? Not today, Rugga Smalls!

>>14089

>tbh

Now you're absolutely going to the shitlist.

>>14092

He should have gone there the second he mentioned shittory gundam.

Streaming Cyborg 009

Really, I would only shorten it. It is one of my top 5 anime (and I have been watching for a little more than a decade) for how well it crafts the atmosphere of hopelessness and develops the bonds between the characters without focusing too much on the melodrama of their individual lives. The slow pace makes me feel their fatigue with the endless battles. The seemingly unreliable power of the Ideon bringing them close to death so often. It really is a gem brought down by its excessive length.

Remove the canon from Ideon's crotch(unless it's part of some kind of symbolism that I just didn't catch onto) and maybe trim down a bit on the the battles, and you're good, provided you stop watching the show after episode 38 and go straight to Be Invoked.

I just finished the entire show and movie last week and I definitely think that the show takes too long to get to themes of hopelessness and such. I do think that show fails more in writing and gets by with its amazing cinematography. Ajian Burning is a good example of this, i.e when Cosmo becomes traumatized from a Buff Clan attack and he meets that military woman that reminds him of his mother. The way Cosmo's trauma is dealt with is poor but the scenes that impact him are amazingly done. So even though the show is too long, some parts aren't given enough time to be brilliant. There are more examples of this but that is the most obvious one to me.

Overall I enjoyed the show but it does have some problems that are going to take some thought to fix.

>>13997

This stuff happens on /v/ a lot, it can only be fixed by a mod/BO responding to the thread.

Nobody really knows why it happens or why a mod response fixes it.

Mecha is not popular in the East either. It's seen as old men's thing, children are into different things now.

>>13974

The short answer is: Because speedrace was too violent and evil.

The long asnwer:

The mecha genre didn't have a good start in the West. All popular shows from back then either ended up as licensing nightmares that still make Western releases impossible(poster child: Macross)forever tainted due to retarded localization(Example: Captain Harlock and the Queen Millenia) . This bullshit happened during the first Mecha wave in Japan.Also take into account much stricter expectations and rules by the American audience and TV station managers for TV series. The reason why the nightmare named Robotech was made is because Macross alone didn't have the requiered numbers of Episodes to be considered a full season back then. Hefty editing was also a must for cable wasn't that widespread and any group of bored house wifes could cause a shit storm at the TV station.This is all what I know about the Situation in Burgerland and I think other Americans can explain that much better than me.

I am more knowledgable for Germany though. Here the genre had a better shot with Saber Rider and the Starsherrifs, a americanized version of a show called Sei Jūshi Bisumaruku. It went very swell for Japanese SciFi over the early years of commercial television here with the West's only faithful translation of Queen Millenia aired on TV and Akira coming out on VHS. The interest for it in Germany kinda slept in, because slice of life shows and every show that was Part of Nippon Animation's World Masterpiece theatre was more Successful. First with Heidi that was the only game in Town during its release on the only cartoon block here and then with everything that Tele 5 and RTL 2 have scrooged together and aired. Ohayu Spank, Attack No* 1, Captain Tsubasa and anime of old children's novels were more popular than Robots and shit here. We even got fucking Miyuki on TV that has a cult following. The manga wave didn't promise more success either. The designated big dogs were stricly Shounen and Shoujo manga and sometimes the one or other Seinen manga but nothing specifically mecha. The taste of the audience didn't allow for such huge wavPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

>>14004

Harlock, Queen Millenia and the like weren't the first wave of mecha in either Japan or America. That'd be the likes of Tetsujin-28 and Mazinger Z in Japan, and America had Johnny Sokko and his Flying robot and Gigantor. Probably something earlier and a lot more shows too, but that's another topic really. Macross was the third or fourth "wave" in mecha in Japan, depending how you want to count the generations. Localising didn't kill these shows, just the opposite. These shows got a lot more exposure because they were dubbed and localised. Hell, you have a precedent with Godzilla and Godzilla: King of the Monsters. Godzilla did come to the US before it's localised version, and it did bad. After it was localised, it found much larger audience and became a huge cultural phenomena. Taking a work and altering it to be larger success takes money and time, and while it has become a negative term to certain groups on the Internet, the fact still is that without localisation we would not enjoy anime or anything else from other cultures the way we do nowadays.

The exact same goes for Robotech. Yes, it was mashed with two other shows, and yet it was ground breaking at the time. It's easy to point and laugh at Robotech thirty years later as a purist, yet everybody forgets that Harmony Gold wanted to keep the level of sophistication found in Macross with their localisation, which they did in most cases, despite the alterations. There was a very small cult following for japanimation at the time, and Robotech kicked the fandom to high gear.

And no, Macross, Mospeada and Southern Cross didn't become a generational story in Robotech because of lack of episodes needed for a season. They became that because Harmony Gold didn't want to go the home release way and opted for syndication, and there is a needed amount of episodes needed for a show to be syndicated, which has nothing to do with episode count in a season if the show is not running in syndication.

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>>14013

>Harlock, Queen Millenia and the like weren't the first wave of mecha in either Japan or America.

Yep. I would say it all started with Astroboy and then Mazinger Z and Tetsujin-28 as you stated and after that Gundam.

>They became that because Harmony Gold didn't want to go the home release way and opted for syndication, and there is a needed amount of episodes needed for a show to be syndicated, which has nothing to do with episode count in a season if the show is not running in syndication.

This only a more exact version of what I have said and weebrags used to print.

>As a fellow Eurofag, I can straight up tell you to shove your shit transliteration of Bismarck and call it with its official rominization. Saying that Germany got a better start with mecha than US is just laughable, you got a different start. Bismarck is a footnote at best in mecha history alongside the rest of dime in the dozen 1980's mecha shows like Dorvack, but at least you didn't start with the likes of Balatack and Starzinger, like the Sweden and Finland did.

Mecha got a better shot. Did Germany had better Mecha shows? Hell no! Keep in mind that I am talking about the period were commercial TV has just started and Tele 5 was like the only channel airing mecha anything. What you have said about Bismarck , i.e. that it was footnote at best and very bitter one I might add for the Show wasn't that popular in Japan to begin with, could play a big role into World Master Piece Theatre curbstomping the genre here. Not only was everything from that line available for cheap but also much better. I forgot to mention that the I was talking about the Shit sabanized version of Bismarck Anime house had to correct and redub for their DVD release.

>Three decades of pumping out of mecha has made Japan tired, and the exact same goes for the west. It's simple as that, really. Giant robots had their fad, hit the cultural scene and wPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

>>12733

NOT TONIGHT IT ISN'T

LETS DO THIS SHIT. COME JOIN NOW

ded

>>13113

Nigga I tried but noone would show up. I tried to keep a time schedule and noone followed? If you want it to come back email me and Tell me if theres a better time to do it.

TOKU NIGHT TONIGHT AT 9PM PST

We moved to https://cytu.be/r/Kamen_Rider_Theater

so now we can use google drive and stuff.

>>13944

yo, can you please spoonfeed me instructions on how that works?

I've been doing a groupwatch over with 4/m/ and we'll eventually want to migrate to the cytube/googledrive method when it runs out of youtube

7/10, it's decent but nothing mind blowing. It feels like Short Circuit but with a ghetto flavour and consciousness swapping.

>>9657

>7/10, it's decent

IGN, is that you?

>>9661

Yeah, it gets an above average grade, however it doesn't go above, nor beyond within it's own genre, it's just there.

This movie was fucking awful. I expected AI stuff/what counts as a human and instead I got a retarded faggotbaby and Die Antwoord.

>>13903

That's a nice ass. Good screens though, looking good.

>>12286

> Demonbane can create universes as weapons

Ideon can destroy universes just because a fat space dad wants his daughter to abort her halfbreed son

Deomonbane is a visual novel that mixes mecha and lovecraft into a badass combination.

Humanity has started to delve deep into the forbidden secrets, making magic a subject that is studied by science and taught in certain exclusive academies. Our protagonist left one of these under suspicious circumstances and is then hired by a rich heir of a big corporation to find a tome with enough magic power to activate the Deus Machina the company has constructed, Demonbane.

This VN has it all, many giant robots, evil magicians with guns, swords and whatever else kind of weapon you can imagine, eldritch powers, outer gods, rape, muscles, manly friendship, mad scientists, humanoid books, reality breaking powers, tits, cyborg batman with tits, androids and normal people that are still pretty badass.

It has it's flaws, both on the technical and story side, but it's still one hell of a ride and you should at least play the Al Azif route if you are into VNs.

>>13889

Protips:

Get a guide, the ways to the endings are sometimes pretty convoluted.

Read the bad ending of the Al Azif route, it's the most lovecraft thing in the entire game and shouldn't be missed. It's basically a total reality breakdown

The cutscenes are in a weird video format that can only be played by installing a codec pack like CCCP, if you don't do this, the video won't play.

The voiceacting is inconsistent as in, it's not there most of the time, this is normal although I'm not sure if it's an issue with the english version or just the game in general.

If you want the full story, play AL Azifs route last, since it's the true ending. If you play without a guide, you will probably stumble into it by just picking random choices, since it's the easiest route to get into.

Dr West is the best character

==stest=

test

That has to be the clunkiest looking battle I've ever seen.

Where is mobile police patdozer when you need them?

>>13868

they have to get to hypertechnology levels first

>>13713

>PS4

w-Well it's not like I wanted to play SRW anyway,

Preview 2, now in English

>>13838

>Fu-Lu gets a customized Raftclanz

>Touya gets to choose between Katia or Melua

>Calvina paired with Tenia

>No Coustwell yet.

>Ja-Mu pretending to be Harry Ord with that shiny mech.

>gunpla battle exists

>becomes the go-to esport for tryhards and plebs because of its low entry cost

>meta eventually revolves around three or four MS flavors of the month

>creativity is eventually stifled in favor of netbuilds

>"muh gunpla is freedumbs" fags get extremely salty over getting their asses handed to them by metafags

>gunpla battle communities and gatherings get shit up by the gunpla is freedumb faggots so hard they become india

>meta gets thrown out of whack every time bandai releases a new kit, before settling back into the status quo

>hgfc nobel gundam, hg gn archer, hg farsia, and various other cult hit kits get new print runs

>mg tallgeese iii is still a p-bandai exclusive

I don't know whether to be sad or glad that Gunpla Battle doesn't exist.

Why can't Ral-sama be the MC?

I want to see glorious Gouf stomp seed shit while he drinks whiskey like the old bad ass he is. Maybe pinch some milf asses for good measure.

>>13741

>Low entry cost

>~$20 for stock HG

>Costs extra to customize

>Costs extra for spare parts

Any win short of flawless victory in a sanctioned event is going to require replacing some parts and a loss will either require heavy work to get functional again or rebuilding your model mostly from scratch. This may not be a rich mans sport but it has the potential to burn a hole in your wallet real fast.

>>13802

I wouldn't say he's a Char clone. He's more of a tryhard who comes off as Charish.