so, why's he in super robot wars?
So, why's he in super robot wars?
Christopher Gonzalez
Landon James
He captains one of the most powerful starships in anime ever.
His great-great-great-great-great-great grandfather was literally a Nazi and he's of the same bloodline, he spends the entirety of his show (named after himself, what a badass) doing nothing but BTFO'ing refugees and backhanding women. He also plays his panflute in his captains quarters with a mouthless alcoholic alien girl who mains the HARP
Does that answer your question?
Wyatt Baker
Why not? Albator makes anything instantly cooler
Bentley Ortiz
Based and dare i say redpilled.
I watched arcadia of my youth and loved it, what's next? i'm reading the original manga run and then gonna read the dimensional voyage currently, should i just go and watch the original series too? what's the best stuff
Robert Jenkins
>I watched arcadia of my youth and loved it, what's next?
The original Space Pirate Captain Harlock.
Arcadia of my Youth is a "sequel" to it or an "alternative" version, but it's very hazy. The original is the true spirit of Harlock in that he's essentially alone as a major player against all others, it's a very strange melancholic feel, like all of Harlocks friends and the big battles they had were years ago and they're all dead now and only Harlock is left and then suddenly one of the biggest conflicts in all anime sneaks up on Earth and Harlock is suddenly the lone defender against a force of incomprehensible magnitude.
Apart from that you want to watch Galaxy Express 999 so you can enjoy Maetel, you can also take a dive over to Space Battleship Yamato as that has ties to Harlock/999 too, although tenuous.
Oliver Thompson
Woah, that's exactly what i wanted when i started getting into it, should i watch Yamato before the original? or just jump right into the original, because i've been meaning to get into yamato too
Caleb Perry
Man Matsumoto and continuity do NOT like playing along.
Each Harlock work isn't exactly a sequel of the other and at most, SSX is kind of a sequel to Arcadia of My Youth.
Sadly the original Harlock anime has aged POORLY and I say that as a fan.
Carson Phillips
Either is fine, Yamato and Harlock have vastly different atmospheres to them. One is Humanity trying to overcome insurmountable odds against an alien empire, the other is mysterious invaders from the stars arriving at Earth and slowly but surely making the mistake of rousing Harlock from a kinda depression/languid nature when he's the embodiment of the best of Humanity.
It's worth pointing out that the Arcadia in the movie and the original TV series are vastly different, the original TV series Arcadia is practically invincible.
>Sadly the original Harlock anime has aged POORLY and I say that as a fan.
I disagree. Animation wise it has aged badly but the direction is of the highest quality, you'll see this in parts where they just let the Arcadia drift through the stars as Mime and Harlock play some tunes, I can't quite put it into words but there's a real sense of the vastness of space and just how isolated the crew of the Arcadia is from everything else and how they can just take their time.
Austin Ramirez
I'm watching harlock right after coming off of getter robo, where its basically the same thing with each adaptation being similar, but not like, direct sequels. Honestly i dont mind it
Ethan Williams
Harlock is sincerely the coolest protagonist Japanese media has ever given us.
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Landon Bailey
/m/ media is dying so they're running out of viable reps
Also they've had a thing for battleship reps lately, just look at the Yamato's animations in V
William Wilson
>/m/ media is dying
This is false, 2018 had 29 mecha shows alone.
Lucas Turner
SRW has only scratched the surface of mecha honestly.
William Russell
if harlock was real he would be a trump supporter weebs
be like garlock and vote trump in 2020
Ayden Martinez
politics is reddit
Ryan Parker
I presume it's the same reason this guy is going to be in.
Isaac Torres
Harlocks ship doesn't even have energy shields yet he is constantly ramming it up the ass of other starships.
What's really amazing though is how Harlock pulled off what he did, he flies a starship powered by sheer ideals or something. It makes the battles in Gunbuster look insignificant. The only thing standing between Earth and DOOM is Harlock and his ONE ship, the Arcadia.
There probably isn't more of a hammer and anvil situation, the Mazzone flagship and it's surrounding escort seen from afar is akin to looking at a star cluster.. that's moving rapidly towards you. The main body of the fleet is probably impossible to understand in size, to give a rough comparison in Gunbuster episode 5 they fight alone against an enemy fleet that stretches 80 AU (the distance from Earth to Pluto is approx. 40 AU) with an estimated enemy count of over 100 million alien 'starships'.
Harlock is fighting alone against an enemy fleet that VISIBLY stretches from Andromeda to the Milky Way. You don't even use astronomical units (AU) to measure such distances, you use kiloparsecs. One parsec is 206,265 AU. There are 1,000 parsecs in a kiloparsec.
There are 780 kiloparsecs between the Milky Way and Andromeda.
Jaxon Martin
>Harlock
>running out of viable /m/ reps
He had a spoof on megas XLR for christs sake. The entire opening sequence of Gurren Lagann is also reference to the mad bastard, why do you think this version of Simon was called GARLOCK
Isaac Wood
wew lad
Matthew Hernandez
not him. and you are right. but you can't deny that SRW is running out of /m/ content.
/m/ is suffereing the same thing Sentai has. people don't care about the shows thanks to how bad it has gotten which leads to merchandising not selling
Elijah Sanchez
Assuming the same density of 'spaceships' that were in gunbuster, that would mean that the fleet that harlock is fighting against would be in the region of sixteen fucking quintillion starships
That's sixteen with EIGHTEEN ZEROS following it.
Asher James
Because he's THE captain and perhaps the most famous romantic hero and antihero in anime and manga.
He's fucking GARlock man, you don't ask why he's in SRW, you just finally enjoy it.
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Isaac Edwards
There's dozens of viable reps unused.
Where's Dougram?
Where's Daikengo?
Where's Granzort?
Where's Orguss 02?
Where's Dairugger XV?
Where's Laserion?
Where's Dorvack?
Where's Gingiuser?
Gabriel Campbell
Enter videogame original mechas/mech suits.
Benjamin Anderson
>Spoiler
Cease! Don't speak its name!
Adam Allen
He wasn't a nazi you pol-tard.
Eli Perry
All of these are irrelevant except for maybe Dougram. Don't fool yourself.
Asher Parker
SRW is literally a series made for Mecha Ota. Yeah they throw in a couple recent things for a little extra draw, but people don't really come to this series for Buddy Complex and Expelled From Paradise. We like the old obscure shit.
Nathan Nguyen
Dead Ginguiser, mods post
Isaac Bell
uh huh.
Luke Cruz
>Aged poorly.
You mean it was made in the 1970s and you don't like 1970s anime?
Nicholas Williams
And yet as long as he lives, he will fight.
Lincoln Anderson
Luftwaffe pilot=/Nazi.
Benjamin Wright
1970's anime looks better tha most modern cartoons an anime
Brayden Watson
I actually agree in a fair few cases.
Camden Taylor
nice try, nazi, but I'm not buying it.
Blake Williams
Don't put words in my mouth.
Adrian Wood
he had a crossover manga where he fights mazinger that was pretty solid
and the crybaby / cyborg 009 vs devilman animes were both somewhat popular I think
Evan Martin
>70's didnt have ugly art breaking cg
>70's didnt have calarts
>70's didnt have memes
Most of the good stuff from the 70's is actually good on merit
Samuel Turner
Luis Baker
That song is so good
Luke Edwards
Without a shred of doubt.
Nathaniel Brown
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what do we think?
Benjamin Harris
Not going to happen outside of Virtual On for whatever reasons, Namco hasn’t even put their own Xenosaga.
Henry Lopez
Awful voice acting, on point anything else.
Brody Johnson
>b-but pol
Shut the fuck up.
Kevin Campbell
>SRW is running out of /m/ content