#mech

[acerby]

Round TWO of mecha cockpit gimmicks

Here are some more. Some from the lovely comments I got thank yall so much.

Evangelion’s LCL: Inhale the gender-fluid Shinji.

Honestly, one of the less inconspicuous things in Eva, the giant mom/god robots, and Bisexual angst tends to overshadow some of the small bits. LCL is kind of hazardous. Given in Rebuild we learn prolonged exposure to it stops you from ageing. Which would be cool and all but I don't think anyone wants to be stuck in their 14-year-old body for years.

Escaflowne: a girl in gaea (2000)… I got nothing that's just kind of hot…

I saw this GIF and had to include it. I love a good organic mecha. Trust me I had to stop myself from including Aot on this. But I know nothing about this other than how cool that cockpit is. I now have a show to add to the watchlist.

VIBES BASED CONTROLS. Seijuu Sentai Gingaman/Power Rangers Lost Galaxy & Mahō Sentai Magiranger/ Power Ranger Mystic Force.

Shout out to the vibes base control systems seen in Super Sentai/Power Rangers. Just because your gimmick does not Involve tech doesn't mean you can't use giant robots. You don't need a joystick you just have to, as the kids say, Aura farm in your sick ass cockpit to punch the monster of the week.

Minor ff14 side quest spoilers from Shadowbringers but I been needing to include it.

OVERSOUL. FUCK YOU DAD. fuses with a mecha into an ungodly Abomination

Who needs high Synch Rates or New Type powers, with Garlean Engineering anyone can become a godless amalgamation of man and machine with the simple press of a button. Don't worry it will be absolutely excruciatingly painful. HAVE FUN.

Would love to now which ones I should include next time.

Cockpit Gimmicks

I love a good control system for mecha and wanted to share some of my favorite control gimmicks I have seen so far in gundam. NTD: FUCK Conventional control systems, harness the power of space autism.

I love the gimmick of psycho frames. Like who cares if your mecha swallows your mindsoul look at the RBG colors.

Alaya-vijnana: Spine friends. Also, don't worry the thing you're now attached to is totally not a demon. Trust us.

Plug that shit into my veins, real cool how you can just have an open-back USB port to your mecha. What is cooler than being spinel friends with a massive metal war Machine? Why is my nose bleeding?

Mobile Trace System: The patient zero for a lot of anime fans growing up to develop a latex fetish.

I love the over-the-top nature of G-gundam and having a gimp-suit-Kinect-controller for your Wrestle robot adds so much charm to the show. Also Domom and Rain are the only ones who seem to struggle with putting in on (minus the horse). I think they're into it…

Also, shout out to the Zero System from wing. Got to midmax the ptsd of your child soldiers as much as possible. Tell me some of your favorites. From Gundam or otherwise would love to hear it.

[lillinapoc]

Commission for Teriuuuu (IG) their character Silesian.

[acquired-stardust]

Love&Destroy Playstation 1999

[arcadebroke]

[evileyedoll]

The Mask On My Face Is A Mark of Disgrace

as uplifting as makeup is i sometimes feel like it's like putting on a second, completely different face. complicated feelings. i don't want to wind up thinking that there's something wrong with my face without having the accents / flourishes on.

[slowedmountains]

Spectre

[morniae]

Tranѕ werewolf ladies🐺 Wake the dog up, been playing Armored Core 6 lately~

[cheesy-cryptid]

He said he wanted no pickles !!!

[s-pyder]

KENVA

[dragonkid11]

Mech should have radiators not because it makes engineering sense but because a mech fuming smoking hot coolant from its vents and its white-hot radiator struggling to keep the internal temperature down after firing off high intensity beam weapon or activating highly advanced systems is fucking hot.

[neobiohazardus]

Every* Type of Mecha

*Not Actually Every Type.

Something I spent WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY too much time on lol. This is entirely just riffing off of the many 'kinds' or 'tropes' in mecha design I found. Feel free to suggest more of them.

Might make a document providing examples for each one, but idk. I think most of these are pretty self-explanatory.

Tell me your favourites below

[Update: Here's the sequel to this chart, cataloguing Kaiju instead!]

[diblmetta]

Pranking the machine (GONE WRONG)

[porer]

[swordy-da-goat]

Lvl 1 sentry gun with leg.

Close ups underneath.