Reminder this is the year G Gundam becomes a reality.
This is going to be so dumb. Kuratas is going to tear the shit out of MegaBot. It's built on a better platform, it's faster, I don't see MegaBot even being able to get a shot in on it as Kuratas is able to drive fairly fast.
>>14038348
Any news of this?
Why is the Megabot so fucking horrible?
Why can't the west into mecha at all?
>>14038348
the hilarious thing is that both mechs look like different western mecha designs
Haha holy shit, at least visually it looks like a Tractor trying to fight the starship Enterprise.
They're both crappy piles of shit. They could get beaten by a fork lift.
I'm waiting for the fight where the Megabot topples on its back when it hits a slope.
It looks pretty damn top-heavy with a base that looks like it ain't gonna keep it standing on a slope while the Kuratas at least has a wide base.
>>14038502
>*sigh*
This is an 18+ site.
>>14038516
>k
This is an 18+ site.
>>14038516
>>14038530
>actually responding with "k"
Holy shit when did /m/ become Gaia online?
I think MegaBot should be disqualified for being not being a mecha. It's just a gun platform on treads, essentially a tank. It's "legs" are fused together and basically fixed and its "arms" barely have any articulation. It looks like a mecha but it certainly ain't one.
I hope Suidobashi Heavy Industry is working on Great Kuratas so they can bring it out if anything happens to the first one.
>>14038357
>>14038381
>>14038502
>>14038505
>>14038512
>>14038603
If MegaBot actually wins then /m/ is going to be saltier than the dead sea.
>>14038496
The Kurata doesn't even look remotely Western, though.
>>14038740
It's scary. The American mech looks like a ghetto hunk of junk while the Japanese one looks like a high-tech piece of machinery ready to fuck shit up.
I've seen this before. This is classic Hollywood.
The American mecha will either win via sheer MURICA pride and determination or the Japanese mech will go rogue and it'll be up to the junky underdog Amerimech to save everyone.
I can see it all now. Japan is doomed.
>>14038767
>Muricabot is near-defeated
>Through sheer Murican pride and determination, the Muricabot manages to make one final effort to defeat nihonbot, landing a successful near-fatal blow
>before the Muricabot can defeat the nihonbot once and for all, THEY arrive
>alien mechas from outer space who want to destroy Earth
>Muricabot and nihonbot join forces to defeat the alien invaders
>>14038778
According to the Blu Ray commentary, this was actually the plan for Robot Jox II.
>>14038767
>MURICA pride and determination
The Kuratas is made of dreams and hope.
The man that made it, he made it because he had a dream, he had the same dream as us /m/en, and he did it, he made a functioning robot. The Kuratas is the embodiment of that person's dreams, determination and hard work.
The Megabot doesn't have anything meaningful beyond its MURICA pride as far as we can tell from their advertising, and that's worthless to anyone that isn't an american.
The Kuratas is born because one man had the /m/ dream, and the /m/ dream has no borders, as evident by the many different nationalities of /m/en.
>>14038550
When fucking idiots like you flocked to the board and were too stupid to ignore things you don't like.
>>14038794
>worthless to anyone that isn't an american.
And anyone who isn't an american is worthless.
>>14038799
>humans
>having any worth in the first place
We're all worthless fleshbags, anon.
Robots are the only thing that has any worth in this world.
>>14038348
This is a fraud. there hasn't been a news lately. it's going to look bad if it happens
>>14038381
I usually like japanese design but megabot doesn't look that bad to me at least
>>14038909
It could at least do with a better color scheme.
Or at the very least, if they're sticking with the yellow and green, put a Greenbay Packers logo on it.
>>14038909
The internals and electronics are what make the Megaboy trash. That is, it has none. It's driven with an array of hydraulic control levers directly actuating the pistons. Kuratas has an advanced optical FCS. Do the math.
>>14038805
This. I, for one, welcome our new robot overlords
>>14038794
Amen brother amen
>>14038740
What the fuck, why does it have separate legs with fused feet? Are the designers fucking retarded?
>>14038956
Because the legs are just for show. It can't walk, it drives.
Kuratas can't walk either. They're both robot torsos on wheels that are made to look like legs.
>>14038972
I hope the Russians make their robots out of hovercrafts for legless Doms/land Zeongs.
>>14038796
You must be new here, too.
>>14038805
RoboSensui plz.
>>14038972
The kuratas at least has them separately. The Megabot needs a giant Battletech-style reaction gyro to be able to walk.
To be honest what do we really expect from this "fight"?
Pilot safety is a big concern so they wont be shooting anything particularly lethal (hell they might even use paintball). I dont really know how melee weapons would work, for safety reasons again.
Something tells me this fight will basically boil down to a shooting gallery of DEX vs STR with the american unit capable of dealing/taking more damage but being more stationary.
>>14038740
>those fucking teeth
>>14039014
I think they'll be trying to slice off limbs or something.
>>14039014
>hell they might even use paintball
Seems pretty likely, considering that they explicitly say so in every single video and article about it.
>>14039038
>TFW one of the two accidentally/"accidentally" sends a giant hammer or chainsaw through the others' cockpit
Imagine the fucked up media coverage of the goofy giant robot fight between the US and Japan that ended full-on dummy plug style.
>>14038767
I've also seen this before.
It's the part where the Zaku could never defeat a Gundam
>>14039048
>implying anything about this is Gundam
>implying this isn't just Mech Warrior vs. Armored Core
And if it goes anything like Mech Warrior vs. Armored Core would go, America is doomed outside of movie memes.
>>14039046
excited for when the operator takes remote control and forces the pilot of kuratas to watch as the pilot of megabot is torn apart limb from limb
>yfw the fight only lasts 15 seconds
>>14038972
Except that if the Kuratas slams into it, the fucking thing will just toppple thanks to its absolutely retarded design, the Kuratas at least has its weight distributed while the Megabot is on a standing on a fucking skate
>ITT people who dont know the Americans started collecting tens of thousands of dollars in donations as soon as the Japs accepted their challenge
I also read an article about NASA helping them with software
at the end of the day ofcourse i want the Japs to win.
But it might come down to how much Pride" the governments are willing to dish out
>>14039529
Wow, tens of thousands.
That's a new engine and hydraulics.
Snore. Kuratas has several million into it and multiple units produced.
>>14039529
>>14039538
It was $500,000. Still not a lot, but slightly more than what "tens of thousands" implies. They've also apparently picked up a lot of venture investment from the publicity.
They're still poor as shit, but they're less poor than they were when they built that first demonstration model. 1 year and $500,000 is not a ton in engineering time and money, though.
>>14038794
I honestly think we (AMERICA) are going to win and I feel like it's really going to hurt Japan's feelings and then we're not going to talk anymore.
>>14038778
I want this to happen so bad
>>14038794
Who's to say it's not both american pride and a/m/erican pride? I'm sure they cared about their robot just as much. And that's what'll make the fight so great, a clash of passions.
>>14042284
FUCK AMERICAN PRIDE
>>14038794
I'm American and this is exactly how I feel.
Fuck Megabot and its jewery. Kuratas was born and rode on its own steam. Megafaggots meanwhile have been begging the public for cash so they can do what they want. Fucking faggots.
I don't care about the west v. east thing. Just fuck those jew assholes. For self-determination's sake I want Kuratas to win.
>>14042284
>american pride and a/m/erican pride
As mentioned, there are no borders to the /m/ dream. No a/m/erican pride or any bullshit like that, just the /m/ dream.
Don't defile the /m/ dream with any of those muh country bullshit.
>>14042320
I get what you're saying, but somehow I can't agree with it. I'm starting to feel like the megabot is now the underdog, since everyone on /m/ is against it. It'll go down as the little dozer that could.
>>14042320
Plus if where counting pride the germans would tear us all a new asshole
>>14038496
>Kuratas
>Western looking
Wew lad
Looks like something out of Patlabor.
Medabot looks like it came from the local junkyard.
>>14038496
You can blame this: Macross>Robotech>Battletech=totally western mecha design. The original western mecha design is Rosie from the Jetsons and old movie robots from fantastical sci-fi worlds and has taken ideas from the Japanese take on it every decade or so.
>>14042547
Rosie is a robot, not a mecha
>>14039041
>paintball
DROPPED
The Kuratas team agreed to the duel on the condition that it be a proper meelee fight. The american team even did lame-ass poses with swords when they accepted.
>>14039048
>Zaku could never defeat a Gundam
MS-06FZ says Hi.
>>14042606
Doesn't really matter. I'm pretty sure the tripods from War Of The Worlds pre-date the Jetsons anyway.
Pic related is from 1906
>>14042619
> MS-06FZ says Hi.but it cost a HAMBURGER to make it happen.& Gundam was not totally defeated, actually.
>>14042606
Mecha design also includes wheeled vehicles and toasters, and not just big ass robots anyways.
>>14042627
Ugh, I should have written like. But, yeah. That is an example of the older stuff.
>>14042652
>wasn't defeated
Gundam Fight International Regulations: Article 1: A unit whose head section has been destroyed is disqualified
Why hasn't Japan started to mass produce the Kuratas?
>>14043086
> shove G Gundam rules into UC era
that's wrong, anon.
>>14043119
>2016AD
Sorry, anon, but we 00 now.
>>14042513
>>14038750
what are you smoking, it's western as fuck, insofar as that distinction means anything these days
>non-humanoid
>angular, armored styling
>sensor-head instead of humanoid eyes
>exposed mechanisms between hard plate
>one arm dedicated to a weapons system
It does look a bit Patlabory though desu
>>14043498
>>14038750
>>14042513
>>14038496
I'm more on the side that the Kuratas looks more western simply because the only thing I can think of that is comparable to it is the sentry bot from Fallout. Maybe if you guys posted pics of things similar to the Kuratas we can lay this argument to rest.
>>14043086
I SPARED YOU ALEX
>>14043515
Glad I'm not the only one who sees Sentry bot.
>>14043515
Patlabor is filled with examples of mecha with 4-6 arthropod-esque legs ending in trackballs. That design quirk was popularized by Izubuchi and Masamune in the 80s.
As >>14042547 mentioned, what we think of as "western" mecha design has actually been traded back and forth between the east and west several times over the last century.
-Super robots were inspired by the costumes of Samurai and Kabuki performers (eastern), as well as the robots of early American scifi, from Robby the Robot to the Thunderbirds (western)
-What we think of as the archetypal "militaristic" mecha designs -- VOTOMS, Dougram and Macross -- were inspired by a mixture of super robots and WWII-era military technology.
-Battletech/Mechwarrior/etc. were a mishmash of designs lifted straight from Dougram and Macross, and original designs heavily "inspired" by them. For better or worse, the designs that defined a good chunk of Western mecha aesthetic -- in popular movies, video games and other media -- got their start in Japan.
It's an influence that's bounced back and forth over the years.
>>14043128
>AD
What the fuck backwater religious asteroid are you on?
It's 2016CE. We SEED now.
https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Era
>>14043771
fuck that political revisionist bullshit
When is Ichiro Mizuki going to start recording "Tatakae! Kuratas"
when is it
