Hi, /m/. Kind of a newfag, but not totally, as I've visited a couple of times in the past.
What mecha have faces like this, Gundam or otherwise? Is there a term for faces like this? The key part I'm talking about is how the mouth and nose areas appear covered by a smooth (no lines) guard or mask. Other examples I can think of off of the top of my head are Rising Gundam, Nobell Gundam, and Optimus Prime, if he counts.
TL;DR
Post mecha that look like their mouths and noses are "covered" by a smooth mask or guard.
Exia, Quan[T]], a bunch of the ZAFT gundams. There's a fuckton of mecha with a face styled like that.
>>14370623
Oh yeah, I forgot about Exia. What do you think it is about the design that makes it seem so cool?
>>14370616
Looking at the two, I think I like both of them equally.
>>14370616
Zeta counts i think. It's just a mouth piece.
Also, looking at the Shining in super mode makes it look like a stereotypical design of a samurai. Par for the course for G.
>>14370646
But I like Shining in super mode...
>>14370646
Also, Zeta's not bad. Something about its face throws me off, though.
>>14370646
Doesn't it make sense for Shining Gundam to look like a Samurai since it is Neo-Japan's representative?
>>14370616
You don't like face plate vents or what?
G-Arcane
Fenice Rinascita
Unicorn/Banshee/Phenex (Unicorn mode)
Sinanju Stein/Sinanju
Zeta Project MS (Delta series and Zeta series)
G-Bouncer variants, AGE-2 and AGE-3 variants, AGE-FX, Legilis, Shaldoll variants
Many Gundams from SEED/Destiny and 00
>>14370714
>You don't like face plate vents or what?
Oh, I'm fine with faceplate vents, I just like it even more when a cool design is made to look that much cooler with a sleek head design with a smooth faceplate. Also, looking at most of my figures and favorite characters, they tend to not have mouths in their design, or at least covered mouths. I wonder what that says about me?
I remembered Duel Gundam had this.
>>14370714
Maybe it's more.common than I thought. I haven't actually watched any anime for several years now, let alone mecha anime.
>>14370716
>I'm fine with faceplate vents
Then almost every Gundam and, like, more than 50% of non-super mecha designs in general would be good? Face plate is a very common detail.
Do you like the head on pic related?
Take a look at the designs from these shows:
Gunbuster
Captain Earth
Star Driver
Eureka 7
Suisei no Gargantia
Majestic Prince
Active Raid
Casshern Sins
>>14370716
Generally speaking, Brave mechs have those, mainly when in their combined forms (though GGG itself is a special exception).
Why is Shining drawn in a Silver Age-style appearance?
A bunch of Transformers have this too.
Harute also had an opening face gimmick.
>Nobody mentions the F91
>>14371176
It's because the F91 looks like >>14371201
A bunch of Obari and Obari-inspired mecha have smooth faceplates, usually showing up for upgrades, super modes, finishers, and the like.
An awful lot of the Yuusha robots have Gundamface. Several of them even have personface that then gets covered by Gundamface.
>>14371216
>Not liking F91 face
>>14370616
>>14370714
>>14370727
iirc the Strike is the only one of the original GAT-X series to feature mouth vents
>>14371198
Gundam
>>14371201
Vaguely Egyptian
>>14371204
HOLY LONELY LIGHT!
It's not perfectly smooth but goldran.
>>14370750
That's pretty cool, yeah.
>>14370765
The whole top row, as well as the middle right all look pretty rad. What are they from? Or is it called "Brave"?
>>14370985
Oh yeah. I forgot, one of my favorites that does this is the Energon version of the Sharkticons.
>>14371155
That looks kickass.
>>14371223
>>14371289
Can I get a full name so I can look up their designs?
>>14370776
It's an alteration of this picture that I cannot find a good version of. I'll post the full alteration for you, too.
>>14370776
>>14372019
>29kb JPG
>my phone refuses to display it, saying the file no longer exists.
>>14372016
Yeah, look up Brave Series or Yuusha Series. All of the main robots gave faceplates.
>>14372016
I should mention that Baan Gaan (the one with the dragon head chest) is exclusive to the Brave Saga video game series.
Axe and the original extreme gundams can open their faces Shining gundam style.
>>14372220
Love the AXE, I hope it gets a model/RD
How about literal asshole for mouth?
>>14372593
>literal asshole for mouth
>literal asshole
>literal
I think you mean "figurative"
>>14372762
I mean it's shaped like the real hole in the ass, not 'asshole' as personality
>>14372762
Respected and renowned authors have been using "literal" in the figurative sense for nearly 100 years, pointing to an even earlier colloquial usage. With that amount of years behind it, we're well past colloquial usage now, and it's a standard definition. Words often come to mean the inverse of their original definitions, and just because you, like every other pop grammar Nazi, have hit upon the low-hanging fruit that is "literally" doesn't mean you don't go through life oblivious to every other word you'd be using incorrectly if this were 200 years ago.
Trying to correct people about their figurative use of literally is a moot point.fun fact: we now use "moot" almost exclusively to mean "something not worth discussing", when it originally was used to describe topics of such great interest and importance for debate that they were worth calling a moot (meeting) over
so get bent
>>14372795
>Words often come to mean the inverse of their original definitions
Sure is newspeak in here.
>>14372780
If it's just shaped like something, that means it's not literally that thing. It just looks like it.
>>14372823
Calm down, I'm just exaggerating the ugliness of Raider's face plate.I kinda like it though
>>14371342
OH MY GOD YOUR ELBOW
>>14371367
>HOLY LONELY LIGHT!
Clever git.
>>14372032
That's pretty fucking metal.
>>14372394
>>14372593
>>14372780
I don't like this. It is unnerving.
>>14374724
>unnerving
Exactly why they put it in bad guy MS
>>14370616
i've got zillions but not sure if 3d non-anime related stuff is allow in here.
>>14370616
Sixshot from Transformers (with this in particular being SIxshot from Headmasters, rather than the Rebirth episodes)
>>14375364
OP here. If it's Mecha, I'd personally be cool with it.
>>14375712
He looks kickass.
>>14370616
It's called a "mouthplate", in the Transformers community anyway
>>14376328
Thanks for that! A name will truly help me to search on my own.
