What are some "acquired tastes" you got in mecha, /m/?

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>>13676267
Fabulous super powers in general.

>>13676267
I haven't acquired this taste, but Super Robots. You have to get used to eating pure shit, especially the older ones.

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>>13676267

Weird spoopy alien bullshit juxtaposed with otherwise realistic mecha.

"That's bullshit but I believe it" more or less.

For the most part, Gasaraki is my benchmark for enjoyable mecha.

>>13676352
yawn

>>13676446
>justifying shitposting and see-thru bait with a reply
C'mon anon.

Some tube robots kinda grew on me, like Getter 1. Sometimes things just look cooler in motion.

>>13676267
>For me it was faces on giant robots. At first I thought it looked strange and silly, it should have a faceplate or something, but eventually I got around liking it. Lovin' the Obari.


Didn't you grow up with Transformers or Power Rangers though? I thought almost everyone did. All the mechas there had those faces too.

>>13676834
>Didn't you grow up with Transformers or Power Rangers though? I thought almost everyone did.
What a bizarre assumption. With all the different age brackets and countries people post from you assume that most of them had the same TV programming as you did as a kid?

>>13676834
I did grow up with them, but as a kid I was so put off with the faces. I only really started liking them when /m/ influenced me.

>>13676997
>What a bizarre assumption.

It was a question. That's why there was a question mark. I'm assuming your age bracket is 2 because you don't know what question marks are.

>>13677162
>I thought almost everyone did.
Looks like a statement to me, m8.

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>>13676612
to be frank, i thought early robot designs like tetsujin looked stupid but i find them to be very endearing and i like their simplicity. i agree anon.

>>13677250
I used to think Tetsujin was stupid until I saw his other designs. The more heroic look is awful-- power to the big silly egg shape.

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>>13678784
agreed, super simple designs show that sometimes, less is more.

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>>13676267
I think that once you get over the hurdle of giant humanoid robots, it's pretty easy to accept everything else.

I guess my main gripe would be that a majority of the MCs for these shows are teenagers.

>>13680492
Oh fuck I forgot how great Armageddon looked.

>>13678784
>I used to think Tetsujin was stupid until I saw his other designs.

To be fair, his other designs are:

>80s, which is still a tube robot, if a less simplistic one.
>FX, which isn't the original Tetsujin and in fact fights alongside the original Tetsujin.


Speaking of which, FX's design is one for me. Wasn't so much a fan of it until I saw a few videos of it actually in action, and it won me over with those. It's definitely not the original Tetsujin though.

>>13676267
The big stache on Turn A. It's movements, abilities, and stoic guardian look really tie it all together, and the mustache becomes something you can't really hate.

Also I thought the huge calves on MS's like the Dom were goofy looking until I saw they're super-speed ground effect. Very quickly became a favorite look.

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I always thought Getter Dragon had a really stupid head design, especially its "mouth," but it looked good enough in the OVAs and Ishikawa's art over that I don't mind too much.

Still my least favorite Getter.

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the way robots treated as gods incarnate

but then i played Xenosaga and Xenogears, watching super robots shows and play a bit of Demonbane, now it's a must for my watchlist shows.