firehawk12
Subete no aware
What about Transformers and GI Joe? And why does this feel familiar?
The harsh truth is that all 80s cartoons are horrible.
What about Transformers and GI Joe? And why does this feel familiar?
Dark theme at a button press. I'll no longer go blind from all the whitespace.
It's crazy how popular SAO got. Its success seems so... random to me. Nothing about the show seemed special to me when it was airing. Yet it grew and it grew and it grew.
EDIT: That's some magic right there, wonzo.
This surely is a sign
for me to finish Angel Beats!
Hey, F.lux has been around for ages and there's no excuse not to be using it at all times! Unless you need to know what colour things actually are, of course.
Warning the post below is meta
My roommate calls BS.
But my roommate is also what some might call "Molly"
Incidentally I think that would be incredibly cool what you mentioned if it's true, because I'm planning on leaving for my mission in a handful of months here.
Also sorry, I'm not coming back for Fall Semester Corvo ):
The harsh truth is that all 80s cartoons are horrible.
Stardust Memory is the worst thing created by man. It makes SAO look like The Citizen Kane of Anime.I actually think that Stardust Memory is the least offensive of the bad Gundam shows. That said, there is one turn at the end of the series that had me flabbergasted.
Also, Ensign Kou Uraki Doesn't Eat His Carrots.
Stardust Memory is the worst thing created by man. It makes SAO look like The Citizen Kane of Anime.
Stardust Memory is the worst thing created by man. It makes SAO look like The Citizen Kane of Anime.
Mechs > transforming pink cars
Pfft.
Mechs > transforming pink cars
So many Utena and Eva spoilers.
But Eva's aren't mechs.
Do I want to start this semantics argument?
Yes, yes I do
Hahaha, every time I think I'm going to have someone to hang out with there it fails anyway. No worries.
But Eva's aren't mechs.
Do I want to start this semantics argument?
Yes, yes I do
GOMENASAI!!
I honestly have no idea either. Was it the whole MMORPG thing? It was pretty boring.
Best show right here.
There are worse entries into the Gundam series alone, and none of them are as bad as the second half of SAO.
Last I checked Nina Purpleton wasn't Kou Uraki's sister.
Ooh, now i'm really excited to start watching it again. Let's see if it even comes close.Utena > Evangelion
They are referred to at one point as the Evangelion Android, though. And while Asimov makes a distinction between an Android and a Robot, the idea is similar enough to say that Shinji is still piloting a giant robot. Especially since after awhile the line between robots andis blurred in a lot of mecha anime aside from Eva. Consider GGG Final, where the Gao Gai Gar is repeatedly calledGodsor G Gundam, where, while essentially a machine,a demon and a God of DestructionOr Godannar, where the GodannarThe Devil Gundam is something essentially alive and undoubtedly demonic.Also Gurren Lagann makes these references once or twice, too.is referred to as a God in the end of the series.
For this reason, in addition to "Any sufficiently advanced type of science is functionally indistinguishable from magic," and "Any sufficiently advanced alien species is functionally indistinguishable from Gods," might I propose "Any sufficiently powerful giant robots are functionally indistinguishable from"? In the which case, one might, by the inverse suppose thatGods.Any biomechanically produced Gods of an insufficient level of power, eg. non-God state Evangelions, are functionally indistinguishable from mechs.
Evangelion isEvangelion is Ultraman.
Evangelion is.Attack of the 50 Foot Woman
For the purposes of the role they play in the narrative, the EVAs are mecha.
You forgot DFC.
That core looked pretty round to me!
Ooh, now i'm really excited to start watching it again. Let's see if it even comes close.
This might be a question for Jex to answer, but surely there are examples of super robots who have acted on their own before?For the purpose of the narrative, they fill the mech roll, but that doesn't make them mech. I feel mech have to be purely piloted. They must purely respond to the will of the pilot and not be able to move and make their own decisions.
Uniboob?
This might be a question for Jex to answer, but surely there are examples of super robots who have acted on their own before?
Not sure if Chet would approve here.Alien anatomy is weird.
For the purpose of the narrative, they fill the mech roll, but that doesn't make them mech. I feel mech have to be purely piloted. They must purely respond to the will of the pilot and not be able to move and make their own decisions.
Mechs are machines, not organisms.
I haven't seen every work in the Gundam franchise (nor do I wish too) but Stardust Memory is hateful, appalling series.
While you point out a lot of interesting thematic sensibilities most Super Robot style shows share, I still believe that there is a massive difference between something that has a biological base and a mech. Moreover, I think the Eva's seemingly will of their own separates them even farther from traditional mech. These are less piloted machines and more akin to horses whose destructive capabilities are guided by human riders toward the right targets. That unique will is a major piece of what differentiates the evas from mechs.
Muromi-san 12
Why do I feel like I just watched a softcore hentai?
There's no turning back now.
- School Days 01
Arenot simply machines made oforganisms?flesh instead of metal
It's a good analogy, but the EVA still function like mecha do, even if they are biological in nature. It's hardly uncommon for a mech to have its own will, too. Whether that be via artificial intelligence, like Full Metal Panic's AL/Arbalest/Laevatein, and Gargantia's Chamber (both of whom are fully capable of functioning without their pilot and performing combat operations autonomously), or something a little more supernatural, like the Nirvash Type ZERO from Eureka Seven (which actually addresses Renton by the show's end).
The only situation I can come up with that's directly comparable to the Evangelions would be Brain Powerd, and even then, Super Robot Wars just shrugs and considers them mechs, because they function exactly as a mech would. So even if they aren't actually mechs in the sense of a machine piloted by a human, they're functionally the same thing, since they work exactly as one would.