Full metal panic. Though it’s a season short of a finale and sadly unlikely to get that last season.
Holy shit is fmp actually still going??
Edit: it IS. Woooow… They made a third season in 2018. That is wild. I completely forgot about that show in like 2006. Maybe I’ll try to find the old fansubs and rewatch it all and lead into the third season.
Hey, thanks for this!
I personally really enjoyed Alnoah.Zero for the protagonist that thinks his way through fights instead of just yelling. It’s like the anti-Gurren Lagann.
Gurren Lagann is supposed to be the starship troopers of mecha anime. It takes the whole “bigger robot” thing to the only logical conclusion as a way of lampooning the genre, but in doing it so perfectly, it became the very thing it was trying to make fun of.
In short, it’s perfect, and how very dare you.
(I liked Alnoha Zero)
Replace mecha with lemmy and it’s so relevant lol
Drag Queen Diva👸🏿: Ignore these 🍪s!
I want a calzone, with extra strawberries, nuts, pickles, and a side of buns, and a donut.
Feeding the whole neighborhood. 🎃😘loving this reaction
Political themes are fine as long as they align with my politics.
Any mecha recs for me? I am kinda at the limit of good stuff of other genres. Code geass, og macross, ttgl, nge are like all the mechas I have seen and avoid them mainly because big long franchises and completionist personality which makes it impossible to just watch macross delta with cute girls, but I have to start with old ass macross, which was fine but you know…
The Big O
Mobile Suit Gundam:
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Iron Blooded Orphans - Orphans employed by a PMC manage to seize control of the company and fight for themselves.
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The Witch from Mercury - Country bumpkin goes to fancy space school where students gain standing and settle their grievances in mecha duels. Also yuri.
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00 - A mysterious organization seeks to end all war on Earth by fighting with their fancy robots.
Note: While the Gundam IP is huge, the ones mentioned are spin-offs and can be watched separately of other Gundam series.
Other:
- 86 - The Republic fights against a mechanical empire using their own mechs which are totally autonomous and definitely not piloted by undesirables.
Turn A Gundam: Moon country bumpkin visits earth, gets adopted by the military-industrial complex, gets forcefemmed while fighting against a rogue moon military in an ancient robot
A favorite of mine in the Gundam world is in the Universal Century. Gundam War in the Pocket. It’s a mini series that tells a small scale human story.
I genuinely forgot about 86, but I only watched S1. Thank you for your recommendations!
I second 86. Had me in tears of sorrow once and (much more shocking) tears of joy at one point. It might be the only anime to have achieved that.
Edit: just went and watched the part I was talking about and holy smokes what a good show. Looks like it’s time for a rewatch.
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Some of my favorites:
- Gurren Lagann - Some plucky youth rebel against the systems that have forced humanity underground. Very over-the-top
- Brave Bang Bravern - Extremely comedic and extremely gay, this is the story of humanity fighting against an alien threat with the help of a Super Robot who appeared out of nowhere seemingly from an entirely different genre of anime
- Eureka Seven - A boy joins a band of rebels to fight the world government in their hover-surfboard-riding mechs
- Vision of Escaflowne - Of the two prominent 90s mech shoujo isekai, this one is by far my favorite. Who knew putting a cape on a mech would make it look so gallant?
Thank you! I won’t run out of anime so soon now :D
Bokurano: for those times you are just feeling too happy and want to get brought down a bit. Didn’t watch the anime,but read the manga and saw the OP, its great!
Gargantia on the Verdurous Planet: more laid back, but serious back story. A pilot from a total militaristic dictatorship lands on a water world and learns normal life from the ship inhabitants.
Blue Gender: similar setup as Gargantua, but more serious and in the other direction. Normal person in deepfreeze gets awakened in a militaristic space station after earth got overrun by bugs. Now he must adapt to the new world and society he lives in. Similar to starship troopers in some ways. But no humour here.
VanDread: much more humorous: men from a society of only men meet female pirates from a planet of only women. Besides the echi premise, they surprisingly use the setup for more than only ranchy jokes but even explore a bit, what kind of societies could grow from such setups and how would they interact.
Knights of Sidonia: great lore, great visuals, interesting ideas, phenomenally boring main plot and main characters and their dynamics
Thanks for all the recommendations! Now I have the problem of analysis paralysis from the like 15 anime everyone recommended xD
Did vandread have an ending?
The second season has, yes.
RahXephon. People who can’t think for themselves will tell you it’s a NGE ripoff but it owes far more to Raideen.
Thanks, I will think for yourself and think its a raideen ripoff instead
Okay but maybe like 15 people watched Raideen.
I watched Macross delta first, tbh it doesn’t really need much of the beginning. They mention like 3 people from previous Macross, and the one fighter. Everything else is standalone.
I did delta first, then og, 7 , and then frontier (my fav)
Edit: dammit now I want to watch delta again
I thought the 180 of macross from space odyssey to idol anime was funny. Anyways the biggest reason I watched it was because of earth wind and fire x macross mashups
It was always both. Also same.
I don’t remember there being any politics or gay stuff so OP wants Gurren Lagann. Honestly not a bad choice.
They literally built a country, love, how the hell did you miss the politics?
I don’t know, maybe because the country in that story represents progress not politics.
Let’s say aliens invade earth, all the countries on earth join into a singular government to fight the extraterrestrial invasion. Would you say that fight for survival is political only because a world government exists?
There was a whole arc where different government officials argued over how to resolve the situation. There was a coup and everything!
I guess I remember less about Gurren Lagann that I thought.
yeah i remember a completely different show
There is no way to tell a story about a country without talking politics. The only thing that differentiates one country from another is how they do things. These “ways of doing things” are called policies. Deciding on which policies are good and which are bad is known as politics, fairly straightforward. If you are not talking about politics, you may as well not talk about the countries in your story.
As for your question, of course you can write a story in a way where there is an abstract faceless “higher-up” figure, we’ve seen these, but the moment you try to create an actual character to represent the government, it will unavoidably get political when you see that character interacting with others in the story.
IIRC, the overarching themes of personal freedom and being yourself against authoritarian/puritan environment could be considered political.
Also Leeron. Just Leeron
IIRC, the overarching themes of personal freedom and being yourself against authoritarian/puritan environment could be considered political.
I would argue the main themes of the show are believing in yourself, doing what you believe is right even when others oppose you and the abstract progress vs stagnation (do you take the risk and go out and experience the world or stay home and not get hurt but also not experience nothing). Those things can be political but I don’t think the show presented those ideas through a political lens and instead presented them as ideological beliefs.
Also Leeron. Just Leeron
Fair enough, I forgot about Leeron.
Fair points, don’t disagree on themes.
Will disagree on political vs ideological as I would believe they are the same thing.
Leeron is iconic.
The Big O would count?
I think Big O was fairly political, the city government is basically a midcentury take on corpo-fascism. The corporation controlling the city is the primary antagonist and its leader has a god complex.
Yeah, incredibly political. Particularly if you ignore the slapdash ending they had to adlib after their intended open, Chinatown style ending.
They setup a hotline after the finale where you could call and have the ending explained to you.
You know the ending is good if you have to invest in infrastructure and personnel to explain it to your audience
Sometimes I like a confusing show. It makes me feel like there’s still stories out there I haven’t heard.
Only if you watch it the millennial childhood way. In the middle of the night, with the sound too low so your parents don’t catch you, and out of order.
You should watch it, it’s very good.
Already did, and would also recommend it. 👌
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ð entire ʃo can b wo/meka, & it’s still a political thriller.
I feel this in my bones. Even non-mecha shows like The West Wing were way better before they got all political.
Thought it was Code Geass for a second.
