So, people often split mecha anime into two different categories:
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So, people often split mecha anime into two different categories: real and super. But I was wondering which of these types of the following mecha anime styles /m/ prefers:
1. a mecha anime that is mostly about combat and possibly the technological side of the mechs (Gurren Lagann and Mobile Fighter G Gundam are pretty much illogical stories with the main excitement being the fights, but Gurren Lagann does often become the second type)
2. an anime in which mechs exist, but are practically background elements, with character relationships and politics mostly driving the plot (Code Geass definitely comes to mind, I often forget its a mech anime, Evangelion to some extent but there's about one fight per episode)
>>14033917
Depends what I'm in the mood for.
Does it have to be a style? There are shows which have a fight every episode but still focus a ton on the relationships between the characters.And stock footageAnd whether or not character B would stand a chance against character A if he got serious
I prefer the second type, but the only good anime I can think of that really fits this seems to be Code Geass. I feel like there were breaks of like four episodes before a mech appeared on screen again.
Real and Super is a spectrum.
>>14033968
Didn't the Geass manga (the one based on the anime, not the weird spinoffs) omit Knightmare Frames altogether?
Personally, I'm not sure if it could work, since Suzaku and Kallen aren't as important without their ace custom mechs.
>>14034379
The only spectrum Kamille is a part of is the autism spectrum
>>14034538
I'm really tired of "Kamille is autistic" meme.
>>14034538
top kek
>>14033917
>Code Geass definitely comes to mind, I often forget its a mech anime
but 90% of Ledouch's TACTICAL GENIUS involves mecha.
>>14033917
I just wanna see robot fightan I dont give a shit about political strife of pissfuck dirt farmers or whatever, give me the fightan
I prefer a balance of both, but the 2nd usually attracts my attention more.
>>14034543
In his own words he's an 'autistic child'.
>>14034537
>Didn't the Geass manga (the one based on the anime, not the weird spinoffs) omit Knightmare Frames altogether?
It did, but that wasn't a good idea. The scale of the action became smaller yet roughly the same events happened in less interesting ways (with small exceptions). The thing about the first few manga for that show was how each of them did something different from the TV series in odd ways. One was a similar story except without mecha, the other was replacing the focus on Lelouch with Nunnally and the last one had Suzaku as the protagonist instead. They all came out around the same time, not one after the other.
Does every mech anime have to fall into either super or real?
>>14034543
It's like thirty years old now, I hope you don't think it's going away any time soon.
>>14033917
>1. a mecha anime that is mostly about combat and possibly the technological side of the mechs (Gurren Lagann and Mobile Fighter G Gundam are pretty much illogical stories with the main excitement being the fights, but Gurren Lagann does often become the second type)
Neither GL nor G Gundam fit into this description. I think you'd better name some valid examples before you assert this as a thing.
>2. an anime in which mechs exist, but are practically background elements, with character relationships and politics mostly driving the plot
That's pretty much ever mecha anime, if not all. Even children's mecha shows only have the robots appear in the last 5 - 10 minutes while the rest of the episode is about the characters and hijinks.
Also no mecha anime is about politics. Stop this meme.
As a narrative element, there isn't much of a role that mechs fill that some other type of weaponry couldn't fill
That's why I think it's important that anything with mecha in it has a strong focus on the mecha. Otherwise, they're distracting and give merit to the "toy commercial" argument. If a show has robots in it, it clearly wants to have a specific type of action scene in it, so it had better make as much use of that and frame as much of the story around it as it can.
>>14040680
Children's mecha anime rarely have character relationships or politics driving the plot. It's usually more about whatever random bullshit is happening that episode or what wacky scheme the villain is doing
>>14033917
All I prefer is a show that's not shit.
>>14040707
>Children's mecha anime rarely have character relationships driving the plot.
That's simply untrue. No one said they were DEEP, but the character personalities are what drive the narrative. This technique was popularized in anime by Gatchaman, where much of the drama came from the team itself.
You're welcome to list series that follow your line of reasoning.
>>14040769
All 8 Brave shows (to my knowledge, I think Dagwon might be different, but I haven't seen it)
Most Japanese Transformers series as well
Combattler V, especially in the second half
That's it for things that pretty much exclusive focus on hijinks and evil schemes and stuff, but a lot of shows have a mix of the two tending towards what I'm thinking of. Go Nagai stuff comes to mind; it has characters but their interactions are extremely shallow most of the time (in his mecha works, I'm saying nothing about his other stuff) and so you'll get stuff like Dr. Hell sending the Gamias to kill Kouji Kabuto and so forth. But every so often you do get something a bit more meaningful
>>14040844
>All 8 Brave shows
This is wrong.
>Most Japanese Transformers series as well
Haven't seen them, can't comment.
>Combattler V, especially in the second half
Definitely not. Combattler V is focused on the character aspects.
Also, reading the rest of your post I think you're kind of nuts. You don't really have a clear criteria about what you're talking about. I'm sorry, but having a plot does not mean a show isn't focused on the characters. Just because Dr. Hell does something doesn't mean the episode doesn't have a focus on the characters and their personality. The whole point is that these personalities are put into situations.
Your entire argument is extremely vague and mightily flawed. If you didn't seem so genuinely confused, I would probably call troll.
>>14040864
>You don't really have a clear criteria about what you're talking about.
As far as I can tell, neither do you. Very often, in the shows I mentioned, the plots are driven by things that have nothing to do with the characters whatsoever. So the Transformers will search for Energon, the Braves will go looking for Power Stones and so on.
>The whole point is that these personalities are put into situations.
That was not what we were talking about at all; we were talking about whether character personalities contribute to the narrative, whether it be an individual episode or the show as a whole. At least, that's what I understood.
And in a lot of children's shows, it doesn't, because you see this basic format all the time:
>Villain finds way to get advantage over hero's robot
>Hero must overcome this advantage and defeat villain
As opposed to something that would involve character personality, like
>Villain takes advantage of hero's tendency to be angered easily
>Hero must learn to stay calm to win
You see this too, just not as often
>>14040901
>Very often, in the shows I mentioned, the plots are driven by things that have nothing to do with the characters whatsoever. So the Transformers will search for Energon, the Braves will go looking for Power Stones and so on.
That's just a single element of the plot. The characters are also an influence on the plot's direction. I already explained that.
>That was not what we
No, you're just interpreting it wrong.
>And in a lot of children's shows, it doesn't, because you see this basic format all the time:
>As opposed to something that would involve character personality, like
Not only is it completely flawed to say that those two things are separate, because it's usually a combination of those two things, but it's really unsubstantiated.
How about this. Why don't you try listing shows that fit your criteria?