Why are all recent mecha series such failures? Other than Gundam entire genre seems completely dead.
Even when they try making mecha shows about cute girls they are always horribly written disasters.
Why are all recent mecha series such failures? Other than Gundam entire genre seems completely dead
Camden Price
Austin Watson
Mecha is a bad genre.
Leo Green
How do I get somebody like pic related as my rival and archenemy?
Justin Jenkins
Two most iconic anime series of all time are mecha.
Aiden Diaz
Suicide and hope you are born in a better universe next time.
Cooper Young
MuvLuv anime will make mecha anime great again!
Logan Clark
No.
Brayden Davis
Fafner is still on-going and is pretty strong. Overall, the lack of pandering in a typical mecha show to the otaku mass pretty much lowered its financial potential of high BD sales.
Joshua Miller
There were Muvluv anime and they sucked.
Cameron Ross
Yes, Code Geass and Franxx.
Luke Robinson
Main trilogy MuvLuv anime will be different!
Michael Rogers
Gundam shaped the old anime industry, NGE started the modern anime industry. You may hate them but it's truth.
You may argue that WSJ biggest hits or Sailor Moon were bigger internationally, but nothing shaped anime industry the way Gundam and Evangelion did.
Xavier Morris
I can think of a couple of good things from the anime.
Charles James
It will be amazing!
Evan Stewart
Your robots for toddlers are absolutely irrelevant for the industry and will never be listed as classics.
Adrian Perry
Skin-tight bodysuits are god's greatest gift to mankind
Tyler Bell
IDK what you're on about cause Shinkalion is doing amazingly, toy sales are strong and a new seasons started airing just last month for well over 60 eps total by this point. It's basically a train-themed Braves show.
Benjamin Russell
So are girls to fill them in!
Grayson Bell
>Look mom I'm so contrarian!
Leo Long
Macross is not dead.
No.
Sebastian Reed
>Why are all recent mecha series such failures?
Shinkalion is selling gangbusters in Japan.
We do seem to be in the middle of a drought though. Used to we got one new mecha IP a year from sunrise, occasionally something from Bones, etc.
Not so much recently.
Asher Long
So good!
Isaiah Flores
Macross is only alive due to idols. Nobody cares about Delta mecha.
Blake Morris
Nolan Moore
>Used to we got one new mecha IP a year from sunrise
The BNP/Sunrise split heavily cut down on original series by Sunrise. It's mostly focused now on established IPs.
Carter Cruz
Because aside from Gundamn, no one makes 50 episode mecha anime anymore.
Adam Stewart
Sumika is best MuvLuv, if people didn't notice.
Oliver Davis
Route when?
Wyatt Cruz
Xavier Fisher
>all these people claiming to be mecha fans
>they clearly haven't seen Shinkalion
>drooling all over shit like Muv Luv
It is you who does giant robots wrong
Jack Edwards
What makes you think she deserves a route? She's a really good baddie anyways.
Joseph Howard
Owen Diaz
Wow nice potato art
Wyatt Diaz
Bentley Butler
Owen Roberts
>BNP/Sunrise split
How did happen
>It's mostly focused now on established IPs.
In other we may see old shows coming back like Mai Hime, City Hunter and others right?
Zachary Gray
YAMATO DAMASHI
Nolan Richardson
Noah Bennett
Evan Clark
Fafner the Beyond literally just aired the first three episodes of its theatrical release.
Dominic Murphy
This. She may be sexy, but she's the biggest cunt in Muv-Luv. I like looking at her and fighting her, but I would never want her as a romantic option.
Brody Bennett
David Rodriguez
guys if you just want bodysuit lewds the Taimanin series is right there and much more honest about it
Anthony Barnes
She's just stupid tankie chud Axmann's flunky.
She doesn't even do anything interesting. Her only appeal is her "muh sufferin" backstory.
John Smith
Axmann was taking cues/orders from her though, especially at the end. Backstabbing Iris and the rebels was done under her orders. Axmann kicking off the revolution may have been Beatrix's suggestion too.
Liam Walker
high IQ post right here
Jaxson Powell
I like Kannazuki no Miko.
Gabriel Brooks
Gavin Smith
Because humanity has lost the dream of a better future, where we expand to space, and retreated into a virtual life of decadence, content with mentally masturbating until we die out as a species.
Jayden Taylor
Attack on Titan is mecha.
Chase Garcia
Literally nobody sees it that way.
Bentley Harris
Its terrible, I know!
Ethan Ortiz
1. Merchandise. Casting girl statues is cheaper than models for assembly as well as statues.
2. Lack of fashion. Mecha is not rad enough for modern kids
3. Lack of sensible social commentary, that would make the story more interesting. Even when mecha was mostly a toy commercial, it had some sort of social commentary. And after the fall of USSR mecha genre has faded in quality, as well as most of the sci-fi. This is not a mere coincidence. Even gay frogs are better at being social than modern mecha.
Lucas Myers
>EfP was 5 years ago
Jonathan Jones
Space fantasy is slowly coming back.
Robert Smith
Drink bleach, all of it.
Austin Lee
What’s the best retinal projector/jaw piece design?
Justin Wright
OST is bomb
Justin Mitchell
Your food tastes won't change the fact that mecha is a bad genre.
Kayden Thompson
haha ballsack
Jace Johnson
He's not wrong. Gundam with space fighters instead of stupid toy commercials would be far better.
Ryan Martin
Kayden Taylor
Brandon Morris
Looks like shit desu
Michael Phillips
Your mother looks like shit.
Noah Williams
Fuck you, Hiroshima!
John Russell
Okay but Shinkalion is making a ton of money, kids love it and its only real social commentary is "communication is good and friendship is better".
I can give you 1 and 2 as a fact and a trend that were definitely there but 3 is reaching way too hard and also you're in denial because mecha's always a toy commercial.
Isaiah Hill
How dare you?
Cooper Garcia
Stop posting that pig please.
William Jackson
Mecha is dead.
Jaxon Harris
Don't really know why but the genre feels done, like there's nothing more to do other than more Gundam and Eva ripoffs. Also giant robots feel like a relic of the past since irl technology keeps getting smaller.
Oliver Perez
It is truth!
Dominic Rodriguez
The genre is dead because it isn't moe enough. We need more mecha musume, Strike Witches season 3 can't come soon enough.
Hunter Barnes
This
Most of the fantastical tech we see in Gundam is slowly becoming more and more of a reality so it doesn't really seem like sci-fi anymore.
When you see virtually Gundam levels of tech in real-life shit like the F-35, it doesn't seem so special anymore.
Nolan Gutierrez
Then the IP holders decided to go and censor them for no good reason whatsoever. I WILL NEVER *NOT* BE MAD!
Ayden Martin
Mecha was stillborn as the genre.
Votoms are cool though.
Isaac Brown
No, it's not.
Also,
>that pic
>fanservice suit
>ugly haircut
Yep, definitely EfP looks like shit.
Blake Watson
Well Steam put the clamp hand on sexual content in VNs so they have to if they want actual sales.
Aiden Scott
>e mecha's always a toy commercial.
Not always.Mid to late 80s it was something greater, especially on the OVA market.
>Shinkalion is making a ton of money
Shinkalion like this shinkalion? en.wikipedia.org
Come on, how can anyone like this trash?
>communication is good and friendship is better".
As I said, Sarazanmai is better at social commentaries.
Luke Scott
>Shinkalion
A near 70 episode formulaic toy commercial is not going to revitalize the genre. It will only stagnate it further and prevent it from being more than kiddy shit every again.
Joshua Price
I'm waiting for Bubblegum Crisis to get a 10s reboot so we can finalize the renaissance of power suit anime that started with Tiger & Bunny
Christian Bailey
Austin Hill
Why? What kind of a new dimension a new reboot will open?
IMO BGC is a finished story, no need for reboots.
Kevin Collins
What could have been.
Lucas Jones
Hudson Gray
I started watching the original Gundam and while the first episode was great it's become pretty repetitive afterwards because it keeps following the same formula of
>fight starts
>amuro is incompetent
>WOW THAT MOBILE SUIT IS SO STRONG
When does it get better?
Matthew Cook
Because you lack imagination. Mecha genre has more to offer than just repeating those ideas.
Parker Turner
?
Jonathan Kelly
They robbed us of the anatomically correct fortified suits YEARS before the KS campaign!
Ethan Jackson
They pulled a Fate.
Once the franchise got popular they started making concerted efforts to distance themselves from the porn roots so they can have wider appeal and be taken more seriously.
Bentley Nguyen
This. Mecha musume is super successful.
Matthew Taylor
They're still lewd as fuck tho.
Henry Russell
I like how people who think like this probably also cal out people for being normalfags while stating the most normalfag opinion ever
Mason Edwards
No it's the fucking target audience that companies want look at the fucking OP image not a mecha not a cool as battle not a jet or war like shit it's a bitch in tight cloths.
You know what the first image you get with mechwarrior IT'S A FUCKING MECH even the west knows what the audience wants even Godzilla I don't give a rats ass about the humans I care about the monsters.
Angel Collins
>How did happen
Bandai thought Sunrise was unfocused, so they split them into two separate studios with more specific focus.
Sunrise now is almost entirely focused on Gundam and Love Live, with a stated focus on other fan focused brands, although it wasn't very clear what they meant by that. Recently we did see new productions for Code Geass and City Hunter though, but both were movies.
Meanwhile, BNP (Bandai Namco Pictures) is focused on their other active franchises, like Gintama and Aikatsu, including new ones. However, they're mostly multimedia projects, which has mostly meant idol stuff and adaptations for their new series.
>>It's mostly focused now on established IPs.
>In other we may see old shows coming back like Mai Hime, City Hunter and others right?
It was specifically said to be focused on Gundam/Love Live after the split, although we've also seen them starting to do Code Geass again and there's also the new City Hunter. So, they seem to be slowly expanding back, although still just with old franchises.
Mason Gray
Knights and magic was excellent. The issue is less that all mecha are bad and more that there are fewer mecha shows at all. There are dozens of shitty isekai and sol shows, but you forget that because there are so many of them.
Adrian Robinson
>tl;dr: idols ruined anime
tell us something we didn't know already
the worst thing is that idol music is a huge pile of shit
Matthew Hall
Did everyone forget spaghetti?
Tyler Hughes
Gabriel Davis
The ones with the extra cheek bits.
Too bad all of them appear to have those stupid chin things.
Nathan Miller
I think SM had the suits.
Michael Rogers
Y'know what this thread needs? Needs more Geahs
Kayden Carter
why did they ruin that hot body with a retard head
Nathaniel Hill
Shinkalion is anime of the fucking decade.
Jayden Allen
I don't think they did.
Ian Butler
The bodysuits were the series' greatest gift to humanity. Together with faceless/helmets, it's the patrician fetish you see.
Angel Reed
A good mecha needs a hotblooded male MC and an overarching philosophical conflict to justify the widespread use of mechs to wage war.
Otherwise, it must be based around the use of mechs as tools. Anything else won't work.
Adrian Lewis
Okay.
Logan Rivera
>I'm waiting for Bubblegum Crisis to get a 10s reboot
You mean sequel.
Jeremiah Collins
>So, they seem to be slowly expanding back, although still just with old franchises.
There's a good chance Mai Hime returns but only in movie or OVA projects right?
Noah Wright
That's not an example of an hotblooded male.
Brody Perez
>A good mecha needs a hotblooded female MC
Fixed.
Justin Collins
CG is why mecha is dead. It looks like fucking trash. Gridman did a good job, but that's the only example I can think of.
Jack Taylor
>but she's the biggest cunt in Muv-Luv
That's Yuuko
>and fighting her
Self-inserting redditors gotta leave.
Jaxon Allen
>claim to be mecha fan and say nobody else is
>eat up CG trash because there's nothing else to watch that's "new"
nice! your next post is "i'd rather watch cg than shitty old 80's looking stuff like 0089!"
Ryder Cruz
>look it up
>see a woman turned into a cube and scat
>this is supposed to be sexy
Nah.
Bentley Taylor
because real robots, are like 100,000,000 times smaller. or something
Luis Ward
If they got popular then they didn't need to censor themselves to broaden appeal, now DID they?! This is why we can't have nice things.
Brody Jenkins
SF is DEAD!
Brody Sanders
What suits?
Jack Moore
This is why hentai is dead
William Edwards
FranXX had pretty fappable mecha designs
Isaac Reed
What happened?
Owen Bennett
Reminder that this is never ever happening.
Connor Bennett
Cuter than the others I think.
Blake Stewart
Because her body never matured.
Aaron Ramirez
I was talking more about the gear, but she’s fine too.
Aaron Brown
MuvLuv is needs to save VN industry before getting an anime again.
Leo Anderson
Is Granbelm going to save the mecha genre?
Anthony Thomas
i like total eclipse or whatever it was called. just wish it would have gotten a second season or something
Camden Turner
>I was talking more about the gear
wat
Mason Gomez
>vast majority force their pissing fetish and/or scat into every episode
>horrible anatomy because lazy artists
>no, people with the wrong opinion are why hentai is dying
Juan Stewart
Stop doxxing terrorists
Jayden Morales
BECAUSE YOU RACKA DISAPRINE!!!
Blake Reyes
There is no confirmation that Theo will become the badguy.
Benjamin Smith
I think they will make more mecha anime now that they bought Xebec's main studio.
Some of those will be movies like with City Hunter and Code Geass but those two properties will likely get other forms of continuation too, since the films sold well in Japan.
Juan Richardson
>thread still up
Nice!
Christopher Gray
A evangelion knock off and a total train weck great pick
Noah Brooks
>random shitty anime whit some robot slaped in
>general pubplic >this is shit
>mecha fan >this is a masterpiece
Chase Morgan
Adrian Richardson
SUMIKABROS RISE UP!
Justin Cox
They were GETTING more popular as in picking up steam and starting to gain real mainstream recognition outside Japan.
Obviously they don't have anywhere near the level of clout Fate has, especially with the entry-level dub-only normies. They were gaining some serious traction in that direction a couple years ago with the Kickstarter and everything though.
They wanted to continue to capitalize on that momentum so they towned down the lewd factor like Fate did but not as successfully.
Cameron Kelly
The Sumika After story was so shitty.
Its like they actively tried to destroy Sumika's character.
Nathaniel Moore
Her character was already shit to begin with.
Jason Peterson
No.
She is best girl in the trilogy.
Jayden Ross
Pump and dump Stella
Christopher Gutierrez
What if we took the Muv-Luv formula (take a cast of characters and throw them into a war against aliens) and applied it to other franchises?
Cameron Ross
Would've done just as well to leave it unvandalized!
Jordan Hall
What is the best mecha pilot/bodysuit (and optionally helmet and other gear) and how comfy do you think it would be to wear it all day?
Andrew Myers
Blessed Kasumi.
Why does she wear the mecha bunny ears and the robot ear covers again?
Cooper Harris
Best and Super comfy.
Juan Jackson
Becuase the mechas themselves are hyper fucking boring and the characters are mostly unlikable.
Opinions on the series' I mention aside, their mechs at the very least have staying power and their characters stand out.
Gurren Lagann is a good example of neat looking mech design, and people around the world can tell you who Mazinger/Tranzor Z are. Getter robo is also a good example of fucking weirdos as characters with unique and cool looking mechs.
Everything else recently has basically just been different variations of Gundams under different names piloted by Amuro stand ins without the character development.
Benjamin Nguyen
Xebec Zwei is the Fafner team and both they are the IP are still with IG.
Jose Miller
I always assumed they had something to do with her psychic powers. Either amplifying them. Or maybe blocking her ability to read specific people, just like they did with Sumika and her ribbon.
James Fisher
>when the spares chromosomes kicks in
Wyatt Hill
Hudson Baker
>how can anyone like this trash
Just because you personally don't like a series doesn't mean it doesn't count. If all you wanted was a successful mecha genre series that takes itself seriously and isn't aimed at kids just say that.
Easton Diaz
Kawaii ne~
Sebastian Gomez
Mason Robinson
>Some of those will be movies like with City Hunter and Code Geass but those two properties will likely get other forms of continuation too, since the films sold well in Japan.
What other Sunrise older IP's I heard Mai Hime is getting a new project announced soon.
Anthony Flores
Would she chill with a helmet on though?
Andrew King
What are the leg handles for?
David Moore
The ear covers though are probably just themed ear muffs to match her headgear. But it would be cute if she could wear something like that all the time I guess.
John Hill
Probably to lock her into the seat?
Cameron Ramirez
Or make it easy to lift her up and dick her while standing
John Morris
>I heard Mai Hime is getting a new project announced soon.
Sweet.
Nicholas Gonzalez
I see you are a man of culture!
But I think she is so heavy even Alt Takeru would have problems with that.
Asher Cox
>see pic
>flashes back to the weekend bodysuit threads on 2ch
Andrew Martinez
Antennae?
Andrew Moore
Luis Rodriguez
>They were GETTING more popular as in picking up steam and starting to gain real mainstream recognition outside Japan.
Well, they REALLY screwed the pooch on that with how barely even half-assed their efforts are in delivering on the KS, to say nothing of all the material they've reneged on giving to us. All this and they seriously claim to aspire to be more popular? SERIOUSLY?!
Ryan Barnes
Daniel Powell
Where did you get the high quality sprite of Beatrix? Can't find any CG packs that contain character sprites.
Anthony Price
Don't remember. Been meaning to try and get the sprites out of the isos.
Lucas Ross
Pump and dump Stella
Isaac Turner
They aren't high quality, but it's better than nothing:
Aiden Myers
The absolute state of mecha
Zachary Phillips
>lewd mechashit
>no Gurren Ange Jinki
Parker Myers
Matthew Cooper
Cat's Eye.
Aiden Sanders
>isekai mecha
>that's not Escaflowne or that Tenchi spinoff
Owen Wright
There hasn't been a mecha TV series that has sold over 10k average since Gundam 00. Not counting those HD remasters like Seed.
The closest that ever came to doing as well was Aquarion Evol but the sales for that dropped too hard
Juan Hernandez
>toy commercial
fuck you retard
Hudson Moore
>This kinda Yea Forums tier normalfaggotry is Yea Forums in 2000 + 19
Carter Gomez
Hey, I know that the way anime becomes worse every year makes it hard to become seriously invested and more than a seasonal garbage eater, but please get a grip