Zoids...?

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Because they are the native life of planet Zi

>>15001442
The original Zoid were naturally-occurring living metal organisms, which had control systems implanted into them by humans. So while they've been artificially cultivating Zoid Cores and then building bodies around them for a long time now, animal shapes remain popular due to tradition.

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>>15001457

It's not just tradition. A Zoid core is naturally adapted to a body it's for. You install a Snail-type Zoid core into a Gorilla-type body, you're gonna have either a big ol' catastrophe or a whole lotta nothin'.

There are Zoids-like humanoid mecha, though -- Z-Knights. Wish there was more info on them.

>>15001509
What I mean is that they're capable of producing Cores that can support non-animalistic shapes. They continue to make animal Cores out of tradition.

Because they're creatures from another planet or some shit

>>15001449
>>15001457
>>15001509

Fascinating. I always wondered about this.

About the Zoid cores: Are they specific to an animal type or is it just specific traits that determine what chassis its going to? Like could a get decent results from a core that should have been a Gunsniper and put it in a Berserk Fury? Or are the cores just sort of blanks until they get installed in a chassis?

How do they make more?

Also, that Z-knight looks stupid. Glad that that didn't happen in the shows.

>>15001694
Cores have DNA that presumably affects the general animal type of the chassis. Tampering with the core's genetics causes physical mutations in the Zoid's chassis.

Cores can be cloned, since several Zoids seen in various media are clones, but there's no indication of how the cloning is accomplished or how cores are actually made.

>>15001694
>Also, that Z-knight looks stupid. Glad that that didn't happen in the shows.

Z-Knights got an OVA in the 90s before any other Zoids animation came to be, apparently. And they're reviving it now because Zoid sales are terrible.

Reminder that chaotic century was the only good zoids

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Fuck you Takara Tomy

>>15002485

I wasn't even hype for this and it still hurt

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>>15002485
You wanted Zoids!?

>>15001724
>>15001694
How does someone know the correct chassis to build? Do they have to analyze the core first to figure out what it wants to/is supposed to be?

>>15003328
They're grown, not made. Zoids turn to stone when their Core dies, indicating that the whole chassis is actually made of living metal. Additional weapons can be added or parts can be altered, but this is more like surgery than mechanical work.

>>15003354
so under growth conditions, the core will grow organometallic limbs, etc... and it becomes obvious what type it is?

>>15002232
>Z-Knights got an OVA in the 90s before any other Zoids animation came to be
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSLDZLwtk3Y
You're not kidding about that.

>>15001509
>Z-Knights
Wow that takes me back.

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>>15003488
Z-Knights are basically Eva units before NGE was a thing.

>>15003526
A Jushin Liger by any other name?

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>>15003531
there's his maskless form "Kishin Liger"

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>>15003488
So does anyone have this? Or is the whole thing lost to time?

>>15001694
>How do they make more?

Well they can clone them or do as the picture says to do and collect several cores from a single dead one.

>>15001442
It's like in Medabots, they are naturally meant for a certain type of frame. Just like putting a monkey medal in Cyandog was a bad idea, putting a Liger core into an Iron Kong would be, at best, a horribly inefficient mis-match.

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>>15001442
Well, take a look at some pages from the bible.

A Zoid Core contains all of the Zoid's vital organs compact into a single metallic sphere.

These cores were produced asymmetrically as eggs that, upon the host's death, goes out to form their own bodies; as this post illustrates: >>15003694

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Hence, the Zoidians (the humans of Planet Zi) have created control devices that were hard wired straight to the core itself; allowing them to control the Zoids' actions.

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And because of how Zoid cores create their own bodies, the Zoidians have to create frames that trick the core into believing that it was in their own bodies and not in another; hence all of frames were based off of the bodies that the Zoid cores are going to construct into.

>>15003488
this looks and sounds so 90s

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>>15008815
Kinda makes me feel bad for them, but it's clear they still have autonomy. Often even becoming friends with their pilots...

;_;7

>>15001457
Wait, I thought it was that zoids naturally had the cores, and people would kill them and remove the core to use it as a sort of CPU and power scource for a mech. And they would make the mechs into a shape similar to the original animal for the core to work better.

Then what's the explanation behind Murasame Liger's evolt? How could other 2 Zoids fit into that thing's core?

>>15009260
Evolt is one of the most absurd systems ever. It's not that two other Zoids are in the core, it's that the core, in response to Zi becoming a firey hellscape, somehow did some bullshit "evolution" that gave itself effectively infinite self regen and the ability to quickly adapt to threats. This also allows it to live without its own core... somehow.

>>15009215
>>15001457 was refering to >>15008815 and >>15008821

>>15009215
The lore isn't really that consistent from universe to universe.

>>15009260
Remember Zoids are made of living metal. The Murasame Liger can basically shapeshift into other forms, having the core resculpt the entire chassis on the fly.

Damn, I didn't know any of this.

If Zoids didn't look like robots and are actually made of flesh it would seem really fucked up. Imagine installing a cockpit into a giant dog and making it fight.

>>15002570
I haven't consumed any form of Zoids related media in 15+ years and it still hurt

>>15009484
So it basically became a newtype.

>>15003488
Now I really want to watch it.

>>15003488
>The Seismosaurer in the opening is literally a model kit.

Heh.

>>15010025
they aren't made of flesh
they're made of organic metal
wich isn't so different, but is less creepy

>>15010283
There's barely anything to watch, though.

The OVA is not even ten minutes long and feels more like something that gets put on endless-loop in a toy shop right next to the kits it's going to promote (probably even was) or like one of those short animations you'll sometimes find as bonus on a DVD inside certain kits or toys.

>>15002485
>>15002570
>>15002589

https://youtu.be/uiU-Zyg_5K0?t=39s

At least these Japanese guys making a Zoids game.