Why did mecha die?
Why did mecha die?
Owen Gray
Adrian Morgan
It did?
Jayden Sanchez
The last good Mecha anime was last year. Ever since then, nobody dared to even try and compete with it. There was no chance.
Jackson Torres
Mecha hasn't died, and even if it does it had decades of good content.
Jordan Lee
>this troll thread again
Grayson Kelly
I blame society.
Julian Wilson
Crisis of ideas.
Christopher Ward
How does Yea Forums do it, how did it maintain the highest quality of posts out of all the media boards
Caleb Fisher
because they turned it into skintight suits with glassy eyes and jagged edges instead of actual robots
Wyatt Carter
>The last good Mecha anime was last year
If good anime is the criterion, anime is dead in general.
Carson Long
Because tanks are superior in every single way possible.
Ryder Young
Are those tanks for ants?
Brayden Flores
Because humanity lost the dream for a better future through technology. Fears of global warming, and a generalized collapse have caused people to abandon the hope that one day, humanity will travel the stars in big ass robots and punch other big ass robots.
Matthew Gray
Technically tanks are mecha too.
Elijah Allen
If it's not mostly realistic, then it's shit. I'm really tired of all these FRANXX bullshit designs. Give me some fucking technical lines, holy shit.
Connor Hill
why does a robot need to be a humanoid? humans have a high center of gravity, making them more likely to fall. if you have the technology to make a gundam, you'd get better roi if you put all of that technology into a spaceship instead.
Christopher Stewart
Why does mecha always seem to attract these fags all the time?
Jason Perry
Versatile terrain mobility and tool usage. But it's not useful in terms of delivering firepower.
Joshua Lopez
You don't need bipedalism for that. Spider legs would be better.
Hunter Hill
Why? It requires less parts and coordination for two legs, versus eight. But both are shit compared to wheeled/tracked transport anyway.
Mason Davis
Chadtaru will save mecha and Isekai!
Joshua Scott
>nottu disu shittu again
Mecha still alive and well; even if you don't like current offerings, you've got 30 years of history to fall back on
James Kelly
>shitty shorts
No
Nolan Harris
Oversized humanoid robots are dumb as fuck.
Hudson Gray
Due to assholes saying that "Mecha Anime without mechs" is an improvement and it's childish to have these toys being the focus of the story.
See the likes of Code Geass and that Voltron remake having very few focus on the mechs.
Henry Perry
Because Mecha was a fantasy/sci-fi trope innovative for its time, we are now in the robot era and people just can't find appeal in something real anymore.
Colton Kelly
Cute girls x WW2 killed it.
Easton Johnson
If you listen to /m/ it didn't. Mecha is more popular now than ever before. There are now more /m/ related series being created now than ever before.
If you listen to a Japanese anime producer they will say, "premium girl killed mecha."
Rei Ayanami killed mecha because her figures outsold everything on the market, so now we have moe
Samuel Sanchez
Pandering too hard to normalfags. Pic related.
Mason Peterson
*saves mecha*
Carter Rivera
It became about faggy teenagers to pilot robots to save the world instead of soldiers piloting robots to fight in wars.
Jeremiah Jackson
The average age of an anime watcher went up and evryone realized how cringy toy commercials are.
Levi Thompson
The irony of this post.
Camden Butler
The MechWarrior answer is that the control AI can't walk* because '80s AI or Dune or something like that, so the mech needs a NeuroHelmet to be piloted, and only weirdos with weird plastic brains can cope with centaur mechs, transforming mechs, etc.
Even the spider mechs have only four limbs; they don't have arms, only a turret, because the pilot can't cope with having six limbs.
* but it can visually recognise targets, come up with firing solutions, run a CIWS, etc. Go figure.
Ethan Clark
At that point you might as well just go for treads, Guntank style
Colton Smith
Alternatively, see Gundam Build Fighters.
Quality-of-show and prominence-of-toys are unrelated, as the GBF franchise shows: you can have a great show that's also a toy advert, or you can lose all the competent people in your crew to BnHA and make a godawful show that's also a toy advert.
Being a toy advert has no bearing on your show's quality nor likelihood of being greenlit.
Cameron Anderson
>trying to emulate the most useless fucking thing in mecha history
Literally cannot think of one time this thing contributed positively in the entire canon of Gundam
Joshua Sullivan
Wish more people knew about Fafner, it is by far the best modern mecha franchise.
Elijah Cook
>mecha
>realistic
Brandon Howard
>The last good Mecha anime was last year
Good thing we're only on the first season of the year then, retard.
Hunter Morris
>Why does mecha always seem to attract these fags all the time?
Because they want to feel smart by repeating what others say without understanding it.
Lincoln Perry
>mecha is dead
Not so fast, bucko
Cooper Evans
>both are shit compared to tracks
Not if you have jumpjets. Jumpjets become significantly more complicated if you (i) can't gimbal them just by moving your limbs and/or torso, and (ii) can end up landing on something you can't traverse and can't take off from again because of (i).
If you have jumpjets, you need legs. Jumpjets make legs make sense; legs make jumpjets make sense.
And if you have the legs because you need them for the jumpjets, you might as well have arms for balance, for fucking people's shit up and for operating scaled-up smallarms.
Josiah Wood
Is that just the Dendrobium with stumpy little legs and a loli instead of a gundam?
Hudson Moore
>seed character design
Connor Williams
Combat scenes are easier for kids to get into if the mech is humanoid.
Jace Campbell
The only downsides of mechs are less armor and lower top speed. People parroting the muh tracks meme are just idiots who cant think for themselves.
Anthony Peterson
unfortunately rapeman doesn't translate /m/echa
Nolan Campbell
Hey now, if we are judging by quick appearances in shitty meme anime, eizouken totally counts.
Charles Price
Can't wait for nine episodes to save anime! Do we even know how long the episodes are? Are they Fifteen minutes long?
Isaac Walker
/m/ overhyped it for me, it just ended up being a mishmash of Evangelion and Gundam.
Ayden Lopez
Does that little boy have boobs
Jayden Gutierrez
Based.
William Hernandez
Too niche of a mecha franchise which says alot when mecha itself is a niche genre nowadays, plus it has Tow Ubukata as a director which automatically deters modern anime fans cause they only know him as the guy that ruined Psycho-pass 2 and did Gits Arise.
Isaac Thompson
I don't know if the genre is dead but the western fanbase sure is. I absolutely detest that mecha got the reputation of the "trainwreck" genre since Code Geass R2. It didn't help that most of the high profile releases in last decade were dreadful.
John Morales
Mfw the last creative mecha shows was a yugiho character driving a mech with high heels and big hips powered by LIBIDO. Also JPOP song playing in the background.
Ian Clark
This but unironically
Anthony Murphy
>most of the high profile releases in last decade were dreadful
Which ones did you dislike?
Kevin Miller
>Star diver was 10 years ago
Matthew Harris
She is cute that is why she is called rei-chan
Carson Collins
>mishmash of Evangelion and Gundam
Maybe if you only watched 10 episodes.
David Roberts
I couldn't get passed the first episode. Over-stuffed with occult-level jargon and magi-science.
And giant organic enemies? Whatthefuckever.
Ian Davis
It does get really obnoxious with the ton of jargon, made up nouns and concepts, names and other stuff.
A single spoken sentence from one of the later releases can combine some nordic word with some spanish word with some Japanese word, some latin word, made up word and a bunch of sci-fi nonsense that barely makes any sense.