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I'm a newfag here and this is my first thread on this board! I don't watch much mecha, the last one I really enjoyed was Code Geass, I loved how the MC was very clever and used tactics to defeat his opponent and how his special ability gave him a unique advantage to be able to stand against a whole empire. I also loved the progression of technology, how they obtained more and better equipment for their rebel army!
Why I created this thread is I want to discuss about our favorite mecha shows, what is a must watch, talk about types of shows, etc.
Lets start off with your favorite or favorites, and I would also like to know what your opinion is on Code Geass.
>if banagher has sex with Audrey and Marida is it a banage a trois? >If four masturbates is it a foursome? >If all the ples had sex with each other would it be incest or masturbation?
"People have actually given up on the future and potential for anime becasue we still haven’t had anything that exceeds EVA " Hiroki Azuma, Ph.D from the University of Tokyo
>A lot of you probably maintain a single image of anime culture. But in Japan, it is actually heavily split in two ways. This happened in 1995. It was the year when Evangelion was first released. This anime led the split, but it also carries both elements. On one side, it depicts the “real” emotional conflicts of a teenager, and battle scenes are also highly realistic. But on the other hand, it also expresses fictive quality of a symbolic imagination. This split is becoming deeper and deeper.
>In the 80s, otaku works made up for a lack of Japanese national objectives. They had big themes: law, or justice, or a kind of nationalism. Works like Space Battleship Yamato or Gundam can be analyzed as a kind of supplement.
>The young generation don’t need narratives, they don’t need objectives. They need communication. I think they want a kind of entertainment infrastructure, a way to kill time and chat on the internet. Maybe otaku entertainment is now only a kind of platform.
>In any case, if you only look at what’s produced.. tell you the truth, as this is something we haven’t said at all, but in Japan people have actually given up on the future and potential for anime and games. This is because it has been ten years since Evangelion, and we still haven’t had anything that exceeds it, to put it bluntly. Of course, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex is truly great and I mean it, but it’s not easy to exceed Evangelion, right?
>To put it simply, it is as if things have stopped for the last ten years. In the last decade, we’ve only accumulated more and more fictional, symbol-laden stories with lots of cute girls. What in the world is going on here? That’s the general impression of otaku in Japan. At the same time, we know that there is something that makes this necessary.
