#youre piloting your robot

[transbian-vergil]

We might both be mech pilots but I pilot mine in a way that is far more homoerotic than you could ever hope to achieve.

[inkyminx]

I’ve been watching a SRW 30 playthrough (cause I don’t personally have the game yet)—

And literally it’s just Koji being the dad of the gang, Hyoma being the baby brother and Ryoma being the asshole older brother tormenting him.

I approve, I love them so much.

[sockdooe]

Every time someone edits Keith in the black paladin armor an angel loses its wings.

[no1ryomafan]

So I finished mazinkaiser awhile ago after months of procrastination on it and for one reason or another I’m not gonna give my solid thoughts on it but there is one specific thing I wanna point out, not as a critique but more so a confusion. That being: I find it weird how Mazinkaiser isn’t the turning point for Mazinger where they finally go “hey the robot is sentient” because it’s not yet near the end literally EVERYONE talks to Venus A as if shes actually a person:

I’m not saying this as a criticism for the reason of my already biased to vaguely sentient robots-because as much as I prefer this angle with mecha, I understand not every and all mecha can approach this because sometimes the robot is JUST a narrative tool and not a character, which is fine-however I’m confused with Mazinger of all things didn’t take this approach when there’s already so much emphasis on Mazinger being tied to gods. I mean, apart from the fact the robots are based off Greek Mythology and there is a constant message of “will it become God or Devil” which feels like it warrants this enough, it would start to make sense if the robot grew sentient because Mazinkaiser is treated as the ULTIMATE Mazinger. (And where have we heard a case where the “ultimate” form of a robot starts to be the one that displays more self awareness *cough* GETTAH🗿)

Especially also within this ova- it seems to do stuff on its own accord to PROTECT Koji, like going on auto pilot as he’s knocked out and somehow keeping him safe from being burned alive in magma, but I cannot tell if this IS a indicator Mazinkaiser is actually sentient or if it’s just all auto pilot. Oh and it’s a more minor thing but also just- the human poses Kaiser and Venus take during the beach episode… I cannot tell if that’s something they wanted or if their pilots just posed them comfortably because lines seem to blur with the robots just being treated as the extensive of the pilots. (Venus is literally based off of Sayakas appearance after all)

It’s just weird Nagai never went this route and just stuck to metaphorical stuff, when it feels like SOMETHING he would do given the nature of his stories and yet the only fully sentient Mazinger media I know is Zero. Of course I still have such a limited window on Mazinger so if this is me actually being wrong please feel free to correct me, but I still will never not find it weird Mazinkaiser lacks this aspect asides from maybe vague allusions to it that may or may not be implying it. Maybe if I ever rewatch it or find more Mazinkaiser content specifically I’ll be able to piece things together a bit more.

[xbuster]

your definition of mech is several decades out of date.

a robot is an autonomous machine. a mech is a piloted machine, typically but not exclusively humanoid. there is occasionally overlap (like titanfall 2's mechbot being both autonomous and piloted) but astro boy is not a mech by the contemporary definition of the word.

if astro boy ever got remy-ratatouille'd, however, then you might have a case.

It’s actually really simple: mecha is anything that will market model kits to Japanese otaku

[halikyon]

So I've been pulled into some Mechwarrior shenanigans and I truly forgot how much I liked the concept of 'its a fancy walking tank and it's unwieldy but can take a hit and is incredibly effective in the hands of a good pilot' over the 'i get in and become superman' style. Both are good, I just like one better. Also probably why I enjoyed the MSG: The 8th MS Team more than a lot of other MSG's...also early Code Geass fights

[purpleuniform]

if you consider vanessa canonly DID then you should consider michael canonly DID too

[thesugarhole]

i have such most cringe thoughts the other romac fans would skin me alive for due to the mischaracterization

[jet-bradley]

I kind of miss botw guardians

[todayisafridaynight]

THE MOLE SONG!!!!!!!!! PLEASE ENJOY I AM SO EXCITED TO TALK (ALWAYS AM BUT!!!!!)

HEY I SAVED OFF ON ANSWERING THIS UNTIL I FINISHED THE MOVIE AND IN THE SHORTEST REVIEW POSSIBLE

THAT WAS DEFINITELY A MOVIE™️

[hirokiyuu]

tbh i dont think a nge/teenexo au would follow a direct one to oen besides Sym Kaworu but i do think pilots sol+dys is fun. honestly prior to sol transferring in i think dys might be the only pilot i think there might not be a rei equivalent. tho i wont lie i think dys+vace as pilots together pre-sol also has some fucking really terrible (great) vibes

[gornackeaterofworlds]

@little-mouse-gardens @mermmarie @thelaundrybitch @avery73 @luckycharms1701 @desceros @gbao3 @fishsticksloser @pastelanthophila @shardkn1ght @khayalli @blackmoonowl @shutupcake @turtlecleric I appreciate and love you all and all that you do and are

its so scary to put yourself out there but a SINGLE message saying "hi i loved what you made it touched me in some way" makes it all worth it 10000%

[no1ryomafan]

I do not bother to check if Getter and Big O ever interacted in SRW because I’m so use to the other mechas I like being in the same game as getter but being so different that they never have any story reasons to have interactions since Getter is only ever allowed to interact with mazinger, OG gundam and any other combiners + it’s all in untranslated hell so I won’t even know wtf was said if there WERE interactions but god damn it I keep rotating a scenario where Roger negotiates to get Ryoma out of jail even though I know for a fact that DIDNT happen despite how many times they used arma and how Z2 actually adapted it fucking correctly for once but it’s just so funny to imagine.

[ryuki-blogs]

God has put George and Erik into different houses because if they had to share a dorm at the beginning of their soon-to-be friendship, all hell would break loose

[poptartmochi]

desperately need to do the salome playthrough and get slayered against Orin. HOW does that work!! 👁️👁️🦴

[times-chu]

If your D&D game doesn't have gay catgirls smoking cigarettes then frankly you're playing wrong, I'm sorry.

I don't disagree that there's some level of congruence between filmgoers who defend narrow viewership by acting like it's a binary choice between watching the latest MCU film and watching black-and-white Eastern European art films about depression, and tabletop RPG players who defend narrow playership by acting like it's a binary choice between playing Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition and playing one-page diceless storygames about gay catgirls smoking cigarettes.

The difference, of course, is that folks who advocate expanding one's cinematic horizons are rarely advocating going straight from watching the latest MCU film to watching black-and-while Eastern European art films about depression, whereas folks who advocate expanding one's tabletop roleplaying horizons very often are, in fact, advocating going straight from playing Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition to playing one-page diceless storygames about gay catgirls smoking cigarettes.