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unlike other mech anime it's about the characters? that's literally every mech anime. they're all about the characters. except patlabor which is about communism
A lot of people say "it's about the characters" when defending code geass and I can't speak to why they say it, but I personally mean it's not about who has the strongest mech suits. Also not every problem is solved in a mech battle, many times the MC in geass deals with it himself.
I do admit I tried watching the original Gundam though and the first few episodes were better than I expected and was thinking that perhaps I ought to give it a chance. I just really, really don't like mech suits.
mech anime is almost always character focused and not purely decided by robot combat. 0079 is itself a good example of this, as is most gundam. they may face mech combat, but the primary things moving the plot are circumstances beyond the capacity of a small number of robots fighting to solve. if you want really good examples of this, turn a gundam is full of characters either solving problems without using their mechs or using mechs for non-combat purposes. if you're active in this comm you've seen that i keep recommending it to everyone ever because it's really good, even if you aren't into the robots
The real/super robot distinction comes in clutch again.
Not that super can't be about character, but there is often decided by either the mech magic or power levels
To be fair, most Super Robo are Saturday Morning Cartoons without any pretensions to being anything else.
Then Evangelion happened and everything had to get edgy lmao
Turn A shilling again smh
I actually restarted my watch-through of the show a couple of days ago because of you and I'm still impressed by how good the show is even from a technical perspective. The pacing, the directing, the music, the artstyle, etc.
The scene at the end of E1 where Loran
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calls for the Moonrace to RETVRN home as part of space ZionismTurn A best anime!
moon playing as loran hugs the machine that brought them there is an all time great ending to a pilot episode
frankly having the song moon to end your episodes with is kind of cheating
In Gurren Lagaan it's about who screams the loudest
Patlabor is definitely character driven too (and about Communism)
yeah, but i needed to joke about something and patlabor was the first thing that came to mind