Why so many mecha anime has tomatoes? What's the connection?

>>14666423
Attack of the Killer Tomatoes was huge in Japan.

>>14666423
TO-MA-TOES

who doesn't like tomatoes?

>>14666423

Are there even any beyond Big O?

>>14666432
They were in Brian Powered if I remember correctly

Literally don't remember any other instances though

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>>14666423
I dunno, maybe Tomato just likes voicing /m/-related characters.

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>>14666432
Yes.

>>14666432
>>14666445
Patlabor movie

>>14666461
Patlabor in general, iirc. It's one of the things Hiromi grows

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>>14666456

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>>14666445
>Brian Powered

It might be in reference to a guide for scifi writers published in Asimov magazine in 1980, in which George Scithers described a long used, already stereotypical of the genre method of concealing details about the protagonist until the twist ending, using the example of a narrator who was a tomato all along and hadn't thought to mention it to the audience until then. It's a real stretch, but tomatoes really hadn't seen a lot of other use like that, and certainly not as metaphor for the human condition like they started being.

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Tomatoes are common, retard mode easy to grow, and easy to draw and shade. They also don't have the symbolic baggage of something like an apple unless you're going with >>14666502's theory.

This reminds me that I need to find some /m/ food porn. The closest thing I've got at the moment is YKK.

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>>14666620

It really does seem to be more common as an /a/ thing

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hamburgers

>>14666423
tomato
tomito
tomino

my god

>>14666430
Me.

Actually the only thing I like about them are the hornworms that like to hang out on the tomato plants my parents opt to grow every year.

Weird thing though, we only seem to get tobacco hornworms, not tomato hornworms. It makes sense from a scientific standpoint, tobacco and tomato are relatives to one another much like those two hornworms are to themselves, but it's just so inelegant. At least they leave the pepper plants alone.

There's really nothing to say about it that's actually /m/ related though, but I think they're cool guys. They can get real huge, and yet they can hide in plain sight so well that you'll likely resort to breaking out the blacklights at midnight just to find them.

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>>14666647
EXPAND PANCAKE

>>14666677
I had relatives who had a tomato garden, and chickens that they'd let loose to kill all bugs in it. They never seemed to get the hornworms, so I ended up going in myself to collect them. Yes, it's astounding how large they can get and how hard it is to find them inspite of that.

>>14666620
>/m/ food porn
Restaurant scene in first episode of Giant Robo: The Day the Earth Stood Still?

>>14666620

Tomatos were apparently marketed as apples of paradise in Europe though, Serbian and Croatian names for tomatoes, "paradise" and "rajcata" imply them being that.

>>14666651
Anon
Annon
Anno

I've done this before but nobody seems to remember

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>>14666423
Vitamins in tomatoes improve your eyesight and make your eyes bigger - exactly what a mech-user needs.

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>>14666647
>flying witch wasted like half the show on the character's incredibly dull mundane lives instead of doing magical things