modern anime fans hate the mecha oldheads who never shut up about how tomino did it first and fair enough we're very annoying but the thing is he really did do it first
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well gundam obviously, getter robo tho you specifically want the ishikawa manga for that, armored trooper votoms, the robot romance trilogy and ideon, all fantastic places to try
besides we're not even the worst mecha oldheads, the real worst mecha oldheads are the 40-50 year old american nerds who think robotech is better than macross
I've said for years that Robotech in and of itself is actually a decent adaptation and melded the three unrelated shows together pretty seamlessly - it's just tainted by HG being dicks with the license.
Yoshikazu Yasuhiko deserves a lot of credit too. Contributed a lot to the themes of gundam and worked on basically every foundational mecha anime ever made
tfw your friend who's a fan of eureka seven talks about how the ray/charles beam arc is the best thing since sliced bread, and you have to dig your nails into your thighs to not be annoying and bring up gundam
its a massive homage yes but i also think it gains a really neat bend in the "adopted parent" twist - it has more than enough to make it more than just a ripoff of ramba ral
the two current best selling jrpgs, one of the now and one a remake of a decades old classic, are both super explicitly doing A Dunbine lol, then when you think of how dragon quest gets backfed into how modern isekai is conceived it all comes back to dunbine, it’s quietly got a massive legacy
I mean Galient, God Mazinger, Escaflowne, Nobunaga the Fool, the original sci-fi sengoku thing Southern Cross was originally supposed to be, Five Star Stories, Dunbine influenced a lot
watching victory gundam rn and when they first turn on the angel halo and mid surreal hallucination katejina was like "dude wtf stop fantasizing about me i hate u," i suddenly saw the pillar that asuka in eoe was built on
Went to a anime con once that shared space with one of those vaguely scammy wedding expos and the anime con attendees were very patronizingly told by the venue to not set foot near the wedding expo even though the con was a loyal customer of the venue for 20+ years
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Force_Five
To which I reply, Robotech is not even a thing that really exists. Oh and please subscribe to my newsletter on how Harmony Gold can f-off :)
Yoshikazu Yasuhiko deserves a lot of credit too. Contributed a lot to the themes of gundam and worked on basically every foundational mecha anime ever made
Oh yeah and Garzey's Wing I guess
Like if Amuro wasn’t proto-Shinji then idk
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