The Ultimate Thread of Mecha Animu

[Ichirou]

Buy official so we can someday get a nice Turn A Gundam box set in R1.

[Himu]

Okay. Pancakes has sent me Gundam movie 1. He's ripped and encoded movies 2 and 3. He'll likely send me movie 2 tonight.

I am willing to create an anime ftp for you guys so you can get them with ease, if you're interested. Problem is, I don't know how to do that.

Anime I will be acquiring soon on my pc:

Gundam movie 2
Gundam movie 3
Zeta Gundam
Gundam 0080
Gundam 08th MS team
Gundam 0083
Gundam Char's Counter Attack
SDF Macross
My Neighbor Totoro
Nausicaa

This is the anime I have on my pc now:

Azumanga Daioh
DNA2
Ebichu
Gankutsuoh
Gundam movie 1
Gundam 00
Genshiken
Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
Gunsmith Cats
Hare + Guu (only a few eps for some reason...I used to have the whole series wtf)
Hare + Guu Deluxe (only a few eps)
Hare + Guu Finale (whole series)
Kemonozume
Legend of the Galactic Heroes 1-26 (or something)
Mind Game
Castle of Cagliostro
One Piece movies 1-3
ROD tv (loli don't watch might delete)
Otaku no Video
Cromartie High School

[Mr. Gundam]

Himumu is a dirty animu poor.

[Himu]

I own a lot of them on dvd. Just too lazy to delete.

I've seen all of those gundams + macross though. except zeta and CCA.

[zeergoth]

Hey Ichirou, what do you think of Gundam Wing and Endless Waltz?

[Himu]

Gundam Wing is good. It's fun for what it does even though the story is flawed. The ending sucks balls though.

Endless Waltz sucks.

[zeergoth]

I REALLY hated Releena and all her "there must always be peace, don't fight back even if someone is shooting/killing you" BS. I thought Zechs was an awesome villain and thought the Epyon was awesome!

[Himu]

Relena is an awful character. Lacus in Seed is maybe as bad. No, she's far worse. She's about 10 x worse than she's in Seed in Destiny though.

Have you seen the original Gundams? If has none of that bs. It has people who don't necessarilly want to fight, and while they complain, they'll just get bitchslapped a second later.

[Ichirou]

Hey Ichirou, what do you think of Gundam Wing and Endless Waltz?

I don't really like Gundam Wing because it was made solely to pander to consumers who wanted model kits (thus the multiple Gundams) and to try to broaden the audience by making the pilots appealing to a female audience (at which it was very successful).  Probably the most direct influence on Seed, and probably the reason I haven't actually seen Seed yet.  I found the story just confusing and the pilots' motivations seemed to change every five episodes, and I found their actions nonsensical a lot of the time.

Endless Waltz at least has better characterization going for it (the characters all had understandable motivations), better animation, and amazing mecha designs by the great Hajime Katoki.  Wing Zero Custom is a masterpiece of design work.  Only Katoki would have the talent to make an angel-inspired Gundam work in an anime.

[Mr. Gundam]

SEED is a fun re-imagining of First Gundam with some Zeta thrown in for good measure.

Wing, on the other hand, bores me to death.

[Himu]

Distant why did you steal Chris' avatar from MAHQ? How did you guys get into Gundam? They didn't release Gundam over here until 1998.

btw, mahq spoiled Zeta and Char's Counter Attack for me. I was reading what Chris thought of Gundam Wing and the fucker spoiled CCA.

[Mr. Gundam]

Distant why did you steal Chris' avatar from MAHQ?

I'll change it if it bugs you, it was the first cool looking avatar that came up in a Google image search.

How did you guys get into Gundam? They didn't release Gundam over here until 1998.

I had a cousin who was living outside Tokyo as an Army brat in the 80s. I used to get videotaped copies of Gundam and Zeta Gundam back in the day, and some model kits for Christmas. I then replaced those raw Japanese tapes with fansubs when I was in high school.

[Himu]

Damn. So you've been watching since you were a little kid.

It doesn't bug me. Heh. I just wish I could find a high res pic of the original image.

[Mr. Gundam]

Damn. So you've been watching since you were a little kid.

It doesn't bug me. Heh. I just wish I could find a high res pic of the original image.

Off and on. I only saw First Gundam and Zeta back then. Got some Dragonar on tape, too. I didn't watch everything else until I was in high school and started taking Japanese back in 1995.

[Himu]

I'd like an avatar of Quattro but I can't find any good pics

[Synbios459]

Damn. So you've been watching since you were a little kid.

It doesn't bug me. Heh. I just wish I could find a high res pic of the original image.

Off and on. I only saw First Gundam and Zeta back then. Got some Dragonar on tape, too. I didn't watch everything else until I was in high school and started taking Japanese back in 1995.

are you fluent

[Mr. Gundam]

Damn. So you've been watching since you were a little kid.

It doesn't bug me. Heh. I just wish I could find a high res pic of the original image.

Off and on. I only saw First Gundam and Zeta back then. Got some Dragonar on tape, too. I didn't watch everything else until I was in high school and started taking Japanese back in 1995.

are you fluent

Not even close. I only took it for four years, which is like taking one or two years of French or Spanish in high school. I can read hiragana and katakana, and I know about 100-125 kanji. I was able to get us around Japan last summer on our honeymoon, but I froze up a couple of times due to not knowing exactly what to say.

I really wish that I stuck with it. Every once in a while I think about taking night classes, there are some great immersion evening courses around here.

[Ichirou]

How did you guys get into Gundam? They didn't release Gundam over here until 1998.

Lemme see...I guess it has to do with my love of giant robots, which started when I was in kindergarten.  After school, the first thing I'd do when I got home was watch the afternoon animation block on TV.  Back then we didn't have cable, so I watched stuff in Spanish - unlike in the US, Spanish-language TV had a lot of unedited Japanese cartoons...so instead of Robotech, I was watching Spanish-dubbed Mazinger Z, Ironman-28, Grendizer, Gaiking, and so on.  After we got cable, I kept watching those shows, but supplemented them with stuff like Voltron and Transformers.  Once that stuff went off the air, my interest in robots disappeared for several years until the mid-nineties.

At that time, I had a friend whose brother had a professor in his university who was really into giant robot stuff.  The professor (who was a young dude, maybe 28 or 29 at the time) came over and hung out a lot because my friend's brother had a PSX.  Eventually he got an import PSX along with a bunch of obscure games: Gundam: The One Year War (a strat. RPG), Gundam The Battle Masters, etc.  Along with this, he had a bunch of imported model kits and fansubbed movies (which is how I first saw the Gundam trilogy, actually).  After that, it was fait accompli.  I was hooked once more.

[Himu]

Movie 1 and 2 are AMAZING. I've seen the original series before but I didn't think MSG's movies would be so well edited! This is great! It's weird watching it in Japanese though. I prefer watching Gundam sreies in English.

0079 still stands as my favorite Gundam. It has the best story (from all the Gundam's I've seen), the best cast (though 0080 probably tops it in that), it's simple but it drives it all home at the end of the day. Definitely my favorite mecha animu.

RAMBA RAL!!!











RIK DOM IS THE BEST MECHA DESIGN EVER. FACT.

[Ichirou]

That's not a Rick Dom, that's a Pezun Dowadge (I think).

Yeah, it's a Pezun Dowadge.  It was a model kit design and never appeared in animation:

http://www.mahq.net/mecha/gundam/ms-x/ms-10.htm

Rick Dom:

http://www.mahq.net/mecha/gundam/msgundam/ms-09r.htm

They look a lot alike, probably so the model kits could share a lot of parts between them.

[Beezy]

Damn, Char is fucked up. Garma lost.

[Himu]

Char

Beezy I'm dling 08th ms team. I started dling it at like 1pm. It's 5 and it's almost done. It's 2 gig batch torrent too.

once I'm done dling that, I'll 0083 and I'll have the majority of the UC Gundam's on my pc.

How'd you like the movie?

[Mr. Gundam]

Damn, Char is fucked up. Garma lost.

I love that scene, particularly since it involves Seattle and the Kingdome.

[Himu]

That was Seattle?

[Mr. Gundam]

That was Seattle?

The movie never makes it clear, but a lof of the source materials and video games refer to that as Seattle.

New Yark (ニューヤーク, Nyuu Yaaku?): A massive battle was fought here during the One Year War, resulting in the elimination of a Zeon Gaw fleet and the death of Garma Zabi. Garma actually met his end in near Seattle, if one follows the story based on travel path rather than the script. The White Base falls from space over the southwestern United States and heads north to go around the Zeon bases of California. It is the Gundam world equivalent to New York City of the contemporary real world.

White Base visits Seattle in episode 10 of Mobile Suit Gundam while trying to flee from Garma Zabi's forces.

[Ichirou]

I like how it's called New Yark instead of New York in the future.

[Beezy]

Damn, Char is fucked up. Garma lost.

I love that scene, particularly since it involves Seattle and the Kingdome.

I thought they were actually good friends. I wasn't expecting that all.

Char

Beezy I'm dling 08th ms team. I started dling it at like 1pm. It's 5 and it's almost done. It's 2 gig batch torrent too.

once I'm done dling that, I'll 0083 and I'll have the majority of the UC Gundam's on my pc.

How'd you like the movie?

It was good. The animation didn't bother me like you thought it would. I watched half of it last night and I came straight home from work today so I could finish the rest of it.

It is fucked up though how White Base has to be run by a bunch of kids. How old is Bright?

Edit: Speaking of Bright, what's with the shitty names? Fraw Bow? Come on.

[Mr. Gundam]

Damn, Char is fucked up. Garma lost.

I love that scene, particularly since it involves Seattle and the Kingdome.

I thought they were actually good friends. I wasn't expecting that all.

You don't know Char, do you?

[Beezy]

Not at all.

[Ichirou]

Damn, Char is fucked up. Garma lost.

I love that scene, particularly since it involves Seattle and the Kingdome.

I thought they were actually good friends. I wasn't expecting that all.

Char

Beezy I'm dling 08th ms team. I started dling it at like 1pm. It's 5 and it's almost done. It's 2 gig batch torrent too.

once I'm done dling that, I'll 0083 and I'll have the majority of the UC Gundam's on my pc.

How'd you like the movie?

It was good. The animation didn't bother me like you thought it would. I watched half of it last night and I came straight home from work today so I could finish the rest of it.

It is fucked up though how White Base has to be run by a bunch of kids. How old is Bright?

Edit: Speaking of Bright, what's with the shitty names? Fraw Bow? Come on.

Bright's like 21 or 22.  You gotta remember, most of the senior crew was killed at the start of the first movie.  Plus, with the war going the way it is, you gotta imagine the Federation's lost a lot of senior officers.

And yeah, all the names are wacky for the non-Japanese characters.  I imagine Fraw Bow is supposed to be of German descent.

[Mr. Gundam]

Not at all.

Keep watching the movies. His actions will make sense.

[Himu]

Fraw Bow is an awesome name.

[Ichirou]

I love it when japafags give their kids Japanese names even though they're not actually Japanese.  I remember some GAFfer on NeoGAF saying she wanted to give her kids Japanese names.

I hope she names her son Bukkake.

[Himu]

Bukkake

[Mr. Gundam]

I love it when japafags give their kids Japanese names even though they're not actually Japanese.  I remember some GAFfer on NeoGAF saying she wanted to give her kids Japanese names.

I hope she names her son Bukkake.

I met a blonde haired white kid named Yoshi. His Dad's 1st generation Japanese-American, but you'd never know it by looking at the kid.

[Ichirou]

I love it when japafags give their kids Japanese names even though they're not actually Japanese.  I remember some GAFfer on NeoGAF saying she wanted to give her kids Japanese names.

I hope she names her son Bukkake.

I met a blonde haired white kid named Yoshi. His Dad's 1st generation Japanese-American, but you'd never know it by looking at the kid.

Do people make dinosaur jokes about him? lulz

[Himu]

I love it when japafags give their kids Japanese names even though they're not actually Japanese.  I remember some GAFfer on NeoGAF saying she wanted to give her kids Japanese names.

I hope she names her son Bukkake.

I met a blonde haired white kid named Yoshi.

 

[ferrarimanf355]

The only mecha anime I watched was Evangelion. 

[Ichirou]

The only mecha anime I watched was Evangelion. 

And that's not even real mecha!

[ferrarimanf355]

... then again, does Transformers count?

[Ichirou]

... then again, does Transformers count?

They're robots, so sure.

[ferrarimanf355]

... then again, does Transformers count?

They're robots, so sure.

Allright, then, I've seen two mecha animus: Evangelion and Transformers. 

[Mr. Gundam]

I love it when japafags give their kids Japanese names even though they're not actually Japanese.  I remember some GAFfer on NeoGAF saying she wanted to give her kids Japanese names.

I hope she names her son Bukkake.

I met a blonde haired white kid named Yoshi.

 

Yeah, it's crazy, but the kid is actually 50% Japanese, though. That's more than some black kid in Florida that uses a Japanese name for his online identity. 

 

[Himu]

Tsk tsk.

[Mr. Gundam]

Tsk tsk.

You know I love ya. Us robros have to stick together.

[Himu]

Robro is such a lovely term.

I thought that giant robots were popular in America though? I mean look at Transformers the movie!

[Mr. Gundam]

Robro is such a lovely term.

I thought that giant robots were popular in America though? I mean look at Transformers the movie!

To the average American, for some reason, giant robots are a different beast than your typical Japanese mecha.

[Himu]

But I don't get it. I mean, the story and characters in say...Gundam for instance are so much better than what you get in Transformers.

[Mr. Gundam]

But I don't get it. I mean, the story and characters in say...Gundam for instance are so much better than what you get in Transformers.

But, there's a story that takes away from the robo-smashin' action. We don't like story and characters anything like a plot. Which is why simplistic fighting tournament stuff does well here.

It also might explain why Gundam SEED bombed in the US, but did very well in Canada.

[Himu]

I have to say I'm not a big fan of 1970's cheese mecha. Stuff like G Gundam, Voltron, really don't appeal to me.

[Mr. Gundam]

I loved Giant Robo, but I just can't stomach G Gundam (same director).

The God Gundam is fucking sweet in Gundam Musou, though.

[Himu]

G Gundam is my least favorite Gundam after Seed Destiny.

You guys have to get me into mecha that aren't fucking Gundam. I've got experience with Macross, RahXephon, Escaflowne, Nadesico, Vandread... Stuff like that. The mainstream mecha stuff.

I love space opera in general. Galaxy Express 999, I used to watch that all the time on Sci fi. Captain Harlock...LOGH..

[Mr. Gundam]

Go watch Giant Robo, Dragonar, Space Runaway Ideon, Gunbuster, Overman King Gainer, Eureka Seven, Five Star Stories, Aura Battler Dunbine, and Patlabor.

If you like Leiji Matsumoto's space operas (Harlock, Yamato, 999), you need to watch Galaxy Railways. Funimation licensed it for North America, there's a cheap boxset for season one available.

Also Crest/Banner of the Stars is totally sweet if like the whole Legend of Galactic Heroes stuff.

[Himu]

Not a big fan of Eureka 7.

[Ichirou]

Watch Giant Robo, Gunbuster, Gainer, and Patlabor.

distantmantra mentioned Dragonar but it's not fansubbed as far as I know.

[Beezy]

Gunbuster + Diebuster 

Edit: Actually, Diebuster would count as a super robot show, right?

You guys have to get me into mecha that aren't fucking Gundam. I've got experience with Macross, RahXephon, Escaflowne, Nadesico, Vandread... Stuff like that. The mainstream mecha stuff.

Boring.

[Himu]

It's not really about the mecha fights. I wouldn't really call it a mecha anime tbh

[Vizzys]

eureka 7 sux , big o rox, news at 11.

[Beezy]

It's not really about the mecha fights. I wouldn't really call it a mecha anime tbh

Rahxephon? Agreed. God that show was boring. I can't believe I watched it almost to the very end.

[Himu]

It's my favorite mecha related show this decade.

can someone put us to high quality gundam sites with lots and lots of images and wallpapers?