>>23168373>neither yugioh or kamen rider have any real mecha focus to it, but they have generals here? wouldn't something like /a/ and /jp/ make more sense respectively?IIRC many many many years ago (like 20 years ago?) Kamen Rider and Toku were originally on those boards.
But /a/ hated Toku for not being animated. And the Toku Generals were too slow for /a/ and often pushed off the board by new threads.
/jp/ was embarrassed Toku and kicked them off their board.
Even tried /tv/ for a while but /tv/ was way too fast for Toku Generals and everyone loved to poke. Fun at Toku.
There wasn't any place left so the admins put Toku on /m/. The /m/ fans protested and said Toku wasn't really /m/ related and stuff like "guys in spandex arent mecha".
But the admins said "too bad there's no where else to put them. So they stay on /m/."
So while logically there are other boards that Toku better fits, the Toku Generals are basically refugees. They got kicked off those boards. And came to /m/.