What's the point of giving giant robots human figures?
They can do what human can do, like holding chopstick, open a door,hold hand
Because the masses think they're cool. Try to break the norm and you flop, see Heavy Object.
It's the same as with a badass MC, people often pictures themselves being the robot, which is pretty awesome because they don't get erections in front of the classroom while exposing your homework.
>>143737148
We have over several centuries worth of medical data concerning human anatomy that comes in very handy when trying to create a larger, artificial facsimile of it.
>>143737148
for the self inserting
>>143737148
Can operate a variety of weapons, traverse a variety of terrain, and its structure is intrinsically intuitive to a human pilot.
>>143737148
You have two hands and two legs, so machine with the same setup will instinctively be easier, or rather less stressful to operate.
But general opinion just prefer sticking to metal boxes on wheels or threads, 'because it works".
>why to make a helicopter, when planes are just fine?
>why to make a plane, when airship gets you up there much easier?
>why do we even need to fly up in the sky?
None of the reasons mentioned in this thread so far.
It's basically Japan's obsession with samurai.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=De2SuYAjrdY
>>143737201
Or playing baseball
So you can motion capture movements and program them into command macros.
>>143737644
Not this reason either.
The real reason is because it's fucking cool.
>>143737925
That's the same reason. Samurai were badass, alpha, got bitches, defended glorious nippon, etc. Their armor was cool as fuck compared to the western tin cans.
>>143738027
Oh, right. Carry on, then.
>>143737282
Heavy object was just dumb.
Grade school tier.
>muh big balls of death made of plot armor
>>143738027
Western tin cans still predates the giant steel samurais by decades.
>>143737148
It looks cool™
>>143737148
to operate the equipment of giant humanoid aliens, of course
>>143737148
What other figure would you give them? It is clearly the most functional for land.
>>143737201
>fighting in boxing ring
>>143737148
It looks cool.
>>143738362
>made of plot armor
>literally blow up with sand or milk and lemons
>>143737148
because tanks and jets are shit so you gotta have a better mech which combines the best of everything
>>143738368
yet nippon steel lasts longer. strange
>>143738362
>muh big balls of death made of plot armor
Gee I wonder what the two protagonists were doing the entire show, I dunno, destroying every Object that got in their way?
>>143737148
Netflix spam. Report
>>143737148
To make them look menacing.
Easier to sexualized
>>143737148
They do in real life too.
Besides, if technology exists where a human could sync up to a robot, then it is only natural that they have fingers too.
>>143740991
Ryusei pls
