#lesbians in my srw?

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Resident getter fan here! I usually don’t leave long responses in reblogs but since tumblr comments have a word limit I’ll move my opinion regarding the getter girls here. I’ll keep it spoiler free as possible but I’ll at least bring up 3 main ones, since I’ll be talking about the ovas since that’s where most people tend to lean to. (The toei shows are kinda mixed and fairly long, though if you’ve seen any longer Gundams you should be fine but note they’re a bit kid friendly and episodic so they don’t have a proper story structure unlike the ovas)

Regarding Sho: She sadly doesn’t appear in too many animes, her most major appearance you saw was what you watched, SVN. (She was also in a toei show but see above with what I said, it was also not fully subbed even if it’s being in process of it. Also they changed her design a bit) If you want a full fleshed out Sho experience you’ll have to read the manga which most people recommend anyways and you’ll have to do if you wanna watch getter arc, since it’s the one anime that’s fully manga accurate. Sho also appears there but her role is very minor. That said despite her limited anime appearances most people say she’s the best female in the manga because all the other ones are kinda side characters sadly.

Kei: I’m gonna assume you haven’t watched Armageddon or played a SRW with Arma despite the screencap so let me tell you about my beloved green haired girl.

In the manga she is just a side character so arma rectify her by making her apart of the Go team. The only downside to this is it does rob Sho of screentime-Sho is also there in arma but as a background cameo-but I don’t hold it against Kei as she’s lovely. She is an independent woman who WILL kick your ass but still has a soft side. She does not appear until ep 4 but to me is more of the central protag of the show then Ryoma if you can believe, despite being the getter 2 pilot and no one ever talking about her lol. She is generally great and it’s a shame arma is the only canon to use her but I think you’ll enjoy her and the go team she’s apart of even if they’re FAR different from the shin vs neo ones. (They still use Go and Gai but they’re- different. Won’t spoil it though)

Lastly, Michiru: This one talking about new aka the one focusing primarily on OG team. This last one is a supporting character but I’m mentioning her anyways for some general context, also I really like her. (Also she’s not canonically a lesbian sadly but this is the only pic of her I have on speed dial😭)

Michiru in the series tends to be the character who I’ve felt been done really dirty. In the manga she quite literally *exists* and arma, as much as I love it and think Kei makes up for it, Michiru is kinda used as the fridged character. (I won’t elaborate for spoilers but if you know what fridged means, you know) However, New getter handles her fairly well! While she doesn’t get to pilot the getter and is absent for a few episodes, she provides a strong supporting character. She’s basically more of the boys professor than her dad in a way, but she’s still doing her own thing. She’s also interesting in the sense most Michirus are characterized as nice but she’s a total bitch LMAO yet I love it. She’s tired of being around so many men and I cannot blame her given the OG getter team can get to be a bit much.

These are the main examples I can think of, the only thing I didn’t mention was arma also has some nice side female characters but Kei is the primary one and also there is a spin off manga with female pilots- but sadly it’s not translated so rip.

Overall compared to other series I think getter has the female rep decently but despite Sho not getting a proper arc in the animes I think the animes do it better then the manga in this regard. But all 5 arcs of the manga and all 3 ovas are definitely worth checking out if you wanna immerse yourself fully in getter, sorry for the large infodump though LOL.

Also PS: this has nothing to do with the girl aspect but one of the pilots you mentioned in the OG team pic is wrong, in that pic Musashi isn’t there but rather Benkei- but also it’s easy to mix them up bc Benkei only actually existed to replace Musashi LMAO (it gets even funnier bc in new getter they just- merge both of them into a completely new character named Benkei Musashibo who’s also based off of a legendary monk warrior. Getter is so silly with how it’s adapts its characters)

So, since getting into mecha more than I used to (thanks again Witch from Mercury), I've learned that the trio of anime dudes grinning like unhinged gargoyles are the OG Getter Robo team (Hayato, Musashi, and Ryoma, pictured below).

I can see why it's been popular for memes and fan art (there's even one featuring Miorine Rembran, Suletta Mercury, and Chuatury Panlunch in these poses), but having just watched Shin Getter Robo vs Neo Getter Robo, I'd like to voice my appreciation of the Go Team's version in the first picture, being both a callback to their predecessors while also distinguished from them.

(I particularly like that, while I don't know yet know how well Getter Robo in general handles its female cast, at the very least Sho Tachibana's expression here is just as unhinged as her male peers' [Gai Daido and Go Ichimonji], and while I appreciate that's not a very high bar to clear, it's still better than too many media ever do).

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Been really liking my hair since the haircut. Going to brunch and I feel really cute in this fit!

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Anime I've completed in 2019 so far (Feb. 5)

Skullface Bookseller Honda-san: I love these cozy, semi-educational series, and the skeleton is clearly bisexual. Please watch. 9/10, it's on Crunchyroll.

Cells at Work Special: waste of my time, what is this. 5/10, Crunchyroll.

Granblue Fantasy the Animation: The finale and the omake episode only stand to say "look at all the interesting characters we COULD have put in the show!" 7/10, Crunchyroll.

Mobile Suit Gundam 1st Compilation Film: Almost this whole movie was made of the episodes I'd already watched, but man this series has such good weight and tension. WAR IS BAD. 8/10, might raise it after seeing the sequels.

SSSS.Gridman: Tokusatsu is king and lesbians take narrative priority. Best Trigger show? Please stop ogling the teen girls, though. 9/10, Crunchyroll.

Expelled from Paradise: Frontier Setter is cute and the action is good and even the themes are nice, but it's just not that investing. PLEASE stop ogling the adult-going-on-teen girl. 6/10, Netflix.

Shin Getter Robo VS Neo Getter Robo: Unfortunately rushed and kind of just cliffnotes of the better series (go read Getter Robo Go imo), but this has the most hilarious Americans-in-Anime I've ever heard speak. Texas Mack is a giant robot. That rides a horse. 7/10

Great Mazinger VS Getter Robo: This is a 30 min movie from '75 and I bet it was really cool for kids of the time to see half an hour of just big robots fighting. It's not much beyond that, though. I watched it to see the source material for Gilgilgan, who is the first SRW final boss. 6/10

Dragon Ball Super Movie - Broly: It's not quite Battle of Gods in terms of writing, but this is still really really fun and visually STUNNING. They actually made Broly an interesting character. Hoping to watch the director's cut later on. 9/10, saw this in theaters.

Devilman Crybaby: Yuasa is one of my favorite directors, he makes some of the most feel good movies. This series is like being kicked in the teeth for five hours straight. Jesus. Jesus. Jesus. 9/10, Netflix.

Little Witch Academia First Movie: This was really fun! Trigger just fucking around telling their own version of anime Harry Potter but with the heavy themes about death replaced with goofy shenanigans. I need to watch the series when I next have Netflix. 8/10, Netflix.

Little Witch Academia Second Movie: I feel like this didn't grab me as much as the first did, but the new characters were very likable and it was still very pretty. 8/10, Netflix.

Golden Time: Not the show with Banri, this is a euro-style 20 min short about a garbage dump without any dialogue. It is very good and has a very thought-provoking ending. 9/10, Netflix.

Mob Psycho 100 Summary Special: oh god I didn't expect this to be an hour going in. A little boring, I almost feel like I should have just rewatched the first season, haha. No score. Go watch the rest of the show on Crunchyroll.

Rascal Does Not Dream of Bunny Girl Senpai: FINALLY finished this. I have mixed feelings about whether the protagonist is a deeply empathetic and appreciative person, or if he just ignores people's personal privacy constantly. It's both, probably. There's a lot of male fantasy going on here. There's maturity to the cast, as well as unfortunate hetero shenanigans (JUST TALK). The narrative structure reminds me heavily of S-Links in the Persona games, plus the supernatural stuff. The last three episodes are WAY too emotionally heavy for me and it fucked me up big time. Worth watching with a grain of salt. 8/10, Crunchyroll.