>Gasaraki in 1998 prefigured what's happening with Trump's

Watched this show recently, it basically also predicted the Iraq war too. It was almost eerily prescient.

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Nobody can dig this anime enough.

>/pol/ misses the point again

SHITTY RICE HARVESTS ARE NOT GLOBALIST PLOTS.

FUCKING CHRIST.

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>Gundam board.
>There's no place for us.

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"Why do you prefer Tomino faggots."

>>15024553

Actually, I watched Gasaraki but I had a really hard time keeping up with the plot since I found the show boring and I had lots of intermissions when I didn't watch it.

What was the plot?

>>15025010
Japanese magic makes Iraqi robots work

>>15025010
It's hard to describe considering first off the two halves of the show are rather distinct arcs joined by the journey of self discovery of a local man who tries to dance the dance of his people only to get interrupted by stuff.

The second half though deals with unrest as an outstandingly shitty grain harvest from the first half of the show makes Japan incredibly butthurt, doubly so because America decided to institute a moratorium on grain exports because of the same shitty harvest affecting them as well.

So in this collective state of rice deprivation and butthurt a blind Japanese nationalist conspires with higher ups in the JSDF to try and instill a sense of humility into the Japanese people, purging the rot of laziness and consumptionism or something like that by using the economic worth of Japan to crash the world market. This would force the whole world into a period of economic depression and general butthurt, but the blind guy is confident that the Japanese people can take it up the ass well enough that they'll survive it and come out all the better for it.

It comes falling down at the end when the POTUS concedes that trying to make the shitty grain situation work out is better than having Japan go kamikaze on the stock market. It didn't help that the US's attempt to stop the market plan via a black op using TAs ended with the JSDF holding them to a standstill with their own TAs.

The blind man kills himself as atonement for his actions, even though he and the POTUS expressed mutual respect for one another at the end of things.

>>15024522
You can also fit most Gundam shows into this. Why try and make such a retarded grid that is so generalized that it could fit virtually every other anime? This shit is dumber than the "Urobuchi Bingo"

>>15025006
I don't think Takahashi even wants to be someone as pompous and ridiculous as Tomino. He just makes robot stuff, and uses actual narratives and characters unlike Tomino who can't even write basic dialogue without it complete shit.

>>15025006

I don't. I think that Gasaraki and Brain Powerd were the best Mecha anime of the 90s. .

I find that Takahashi's work is a bit more dry and grittier, were Tomino's is more zanny and emotional. They are both giants deserving of respect. I may lean towards Tomino a bit because I find his themes to be a bit more interesting and his characters to be more dynamic and interesting. But Takahashi is the better plot man, for sure.

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Gorou Taniguchi was assistant director but he explained that he arrived very late in production and did nothing. Sunrise put him there to "make the show watchable" as he said, and trigger a harem anime like promotion in magazines with no link to the actual series.

NIPPON BANZAI

DOWN WITH THE GLOBALISTS!

MY RICE (RACE) NOT OUR RACE, OK?

>>15026602
Wait, there was a harem in Gasaraki?

>>15027750
Idk, but Iike booby chick.

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>>15027750
No but Sunrise tried to dupe otaku crowds with false promotions in New Type.

>>15027750
>>15027802
2 waifus = love triangle and not harem

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>>15027802
>>15027808
>>15027810
>I will never get a series with a female pilot harem or where the main love interest is the experienced female vet
Fuck you Japan.

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The mechs of that show were great. Collab between Izubuchi Yutaka and Aramaki Shinji.

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A videogame was released for Playstation during the airing but I suppose that nobody played it.

>>15027821
If Obari was on it, he would fill that request.

>>15028063
Why? Is he known for liking the mature ladies or the military girls?

>>15025053
What about the ayy lmaos

>>15027822
>>15027900
post more please

>>15024131
If Gundam has taught me anything

It's that One (Solar Sytem) world Governments work GREAT.

>>15027749

I can recognize everybody else, but who's the guy right to Saeko Shirasu (FLAG)?

>>15029515
Most probably protagonist of Bakumatsu Kikansetsu Irohanihoheto.

>>15025006
He looks like "let me explain" music composer of Squaresoft here.

>>15029559

I see. Thanks.

>>15028287
They do, until space faggots begin bombarding Earth for no good reason.

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>>15028266

>>15026596
my tomino+takahashi nigga

>>15024131
i can never stand to look at youtube comments of 'that' scene

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>pepe approve this.

>>15024131
It happened in Italy too.

>>15026602
Don't most mecha shows with any female characters get that sort of promotion by default? It's hard to sell these things otherwise, though in this case the show wasn't really focusing on that aspect.

I do remember the interview with Taniguchi you're speaking about, but I think he mentioned that his main work was essentially being Takahashi's secretary and also trying to make one of the villains stand out because he was at the center of the family dynamics.

>>15030018
Yes but, for example, the blushing Yushiro pictured on this promotion material does not even exist in the show. He basically is emotionless during 25 episodes. Same with Miharu smiling, it's not just a different context but fully different characters.

>>15029814
>>15029824
thanks, the second cockpit looks more comfy.

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>>15029805
The complete version.

>>15030031
Yeah, I was just gonna say this as well. I don't remember Yushiro smiling once.

Though, like Chirico, I think we see glimpses of a very sensitive and tender man a few times in Gasaraki. There's one part where he tries to rescue a guy who goes crazy in an experimental TA, and another where he's caring for Miharu and brings her a cute little flower, which show that he really has a soft side.

>>15030787
Er, *blushing, not smiling. I think Yushiro smiled a couple times.

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>Gasaraki thread
Dumping my webms.

>>15030787
I'm pretty sure he smiled during a few moments with his squad when he realized they accepted him and were his friends.

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Best for last.

>>15032129
Yeah, you're right. I also think he smiled at Miharu at the end, when he was holding her. I meant blushing, there definitely wasn't much of that romantic stuff. Though I thought his relationship with Miharu, understated as it was, was still very sweet. IMO one thing Takahashi does well is portraying men who feel affection very deeply but aren't very emotionally expressive, so they have to show it in much subtler ways.

>>15024131
Read a history book sometime. This is a common scenario. Just look at WWII.

Second attempt to move past the first episode after 10 years. Getting into the pace was hard but midway episode 2 it started to click. Hopefully it won't be too greedy with the mecha porn.

>>15032190
Read a political book sometime. WWII was led by expansionist nationalisms. Trump's nationalism and Gasaraki subtext are essentially the opposite view, a closed and isolationist project.

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>moe kyun kyun.

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Didn't understand anything to the alien stuff in that show and the link between all components.

>>15035668
>ayy lmaos come to Earth and give the Japanese giant ayy lmao power armors because reasons, I can't remember the explanation for this at all
>Japanese fight each other with the ayy armors
>fast forward to present day
>Descendants of the ayy lmao armor clans have continued to live by the sword, but they've adjusted to the times and do so by acting as arms manufacturing corporations instead of feudal clans
>Corporation uses samples from an ayy lmao armor to create the artificial muscle required to make actual giant robots feasible
>TAs are built
>because the TAs all have cloned ayy lmao tissue in them, Yushiro is able to directly synch with them as if he were controlling an ayy lmao armor, allowing him to pull off all the crazy feats he does

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>>15035675

>>15035675
> because reasons, I can't remember the explanation for this at all

I don't think anyone's figured out what the ayy lmaos really wanted. The best answer I've seen came from an anon a while ago: "They did it for the lulz."

why cant we get mecha anime like gasaraki now its all moeshit in mechs and it even looks like shit to boot

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>>15035863
Aliens tell during last episode that their hunger for power led them to autodestruction something like one million years ago. They left their body because of that, living in an abstract dimension after disseminating genetics material on earth. The rest is unclear. They watched humans evolve like them, becoming greedy and warlike too, all according to the plan, in order to pursue their own bellicose doctrine into the physical world. Species refinement induced by conflict is a recurring thematic in Takahashi's corpus, with VOTOMS' Wiseman, Galient's Marder...

Then you have Phantom, who is litterally a human-shaped alien "lost" among humans and wants to come back with his homies in dat strange dimension. At least it seems.

Let's rewatch the last episode and try to figure what's goin' on niggaz.

>>15036081
Hmm, that's interesting. Kinda makes sense, when you put it that way.

>>15036081
I thought it was the bald naked golden space men trying to retrace their origins through mankind, having lost their sense of self in their ascent to abstract alien godhood.

But yeah, as much of a cerebral mindfuck as it is, the last episode straight up spells it out for the viewer either way, so for all of our collective difficulty in explaining it there's a solution for that: sit through the last episode a few more times.

>>15036097
You mean the goal was some scientific stuff about golden aliens studying their own history/evolution ?

It's a nice theory.

>>15024569
>>Gundam board.
>There's no place for us.

Gasaraki has more reason to be on this board than fucking Gundam ever had. Gasaraki is to real robots what Gundam is to toys.

>>15036116
It's already the largest Gasaraki thread on /m/ ever. Despite we do not have more pictures to post.

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To my limited recollection, it's basically the aliens had long since ascended mortality and their physical form, and manipulated humans as silent, hidden watchers in a manner similar to the Occuria. They lived vicariously through Humans, as an experiment to see what choices humans will take through their existence.

In the end, the autism squad decides they don't want an existence like the Ayylmaos, they want to live a personal life as their selves, with their own agency of their limited, short existence. Satisfied, the Golden men decide they respect that and fuck off.

Gihren, being the assfuck he was, says he wants to be a goldlmao for that power and doesn't realize he's dooming himself to the hell that the Gasara regret.

I could be wrong. But yeah, that's basically it. Still based out of Nietzsche with the exploration of the theme of the overman it seems.

It's really wild that this is the largest thread on Gasaraki in a while even considering the huge amount anonymous stealth Gasaraki shilling I did around a year ago trying to get people to talk about the series.

>>15032658
Except WWII was a direct response to bolshevism by Germany that ended up deporting and killing their minority group (jews) while the rest of Europe had to deal with a refugee crisis.

>>15036335
>WWII.
>Response to bolchevism by Germany.
>Sure. Fine. Whatever.

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>>15036327
It's hard to keep Takahashi threads alive on Ka/m/ille & Kira board. Mostly the same three people that bump it five times per day.

Next time we'll try to do a Galient thread lasting more than 36 hours.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmblGM3j3-0

Any other good series, apart of Blue Gender,VOTOM, Flag and Code geas with mech of that size and style? I know of Blue Gender but it wasn't that good (fucking ending too).

>>15036588
BG wasn't directed by takahashi fuck it, it's awful
it's shit
IT'S SHIT

>>15036611
But the mechs were cool.

>>15036614
Double Edge waMarlene were actually pretty well developed characters with pretty good character arcs.
But the show was just so slag, it was good to hear unlike VOTOMS or GSRK or FLAG or whatever Takahashi didn't have a direct hand, he just created the premise and such.

>>15036489

I'll probably pick up Galient this winter break,It is the last of Takahashi's 80s stuff I need to watch. I'll try to contribute.

>>15036622
>Double Edge waMarlene were
Double edge was a pretty cool. The armored shrikes were good designs, just rigid as fuck.

Also, Yujiro and Marlene were actually*

>>15036628
Galient is the less interesting of Takahashi's show but still better than Dunbine and the two last episodes were great. Unfortunately, the second cour, which should have taken place in space, was never made because of unsold model kits.

>>15036622
It gets me that they picked a writer who usually does gag anime for this. I mean, who thought this would be a good idea?

At least they had Ohata do the movie version.

>>15036849
But movie version was worst.

Who was best girl?

>>15037069
>>15036849
My experience was that the Movie was significantly better told than the Show in nearly every aspect. Actually managed to cobble together an interesting experience from a completely different source.

I miss Tony tho

So, who exactly is the character nicknamed Phantom (with the grey hairs) ? At the end he says "I am an ex-kai myself", so he is the only non-japanese kai we know but it seems he lived during several centuries.

>>15036489
Is this the man that shared a name with a character from Initial D?

>>15037142
Little sister

>>15038427

Yes, but the kanji is different. The Initial D character's kanji is "高橋 涼介," where as the director's kanji is "高橋 良輔."

>>15038427
Takahashi is a very common name in Japan.

>>15038717
That's a surname though.

>>15029803
You better not post any more of that

this show was very popular in south america. maybe cuz it's anti USA or somethin.

>>15040284
But for fuck's sake, it's not aanti-USA
Are people fucking retarded

The show fucking ends with the protagonist faction's plan falling apart because the POTUS decided to be the bigger man and do what was best for the world instead of letting pride crash the world economy.

>>15040301
Pro tip: never be a greedy ambitious scumbag unless you want to turn into a bald naked golden space man stuck in a wall in the space between dimensions.

>>15039448
I mean it. Don't.

>>15040284

Very popular in what country of South America? Because I live in Brazil and no one gives a fuck about Gasaraki (the subbed version was broadcasted by Locomotion in 2001 or 2002). Comunists aside, we don't hate USA either.

>>15040301

This.

>>15036327
gasaraki is the best

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>>15036327
>It's really wild that this is the largest thread on Gasaraki in a while even considering the huge amount anonymous stealth Gasaraki shilling I did around a year ago trying to get people to talk about the series.

You were too early. Raidens being the Type 17 likely means it's set in 2017, since IIRC the year was never explicitly stated. The year of Gasaraki is nearly upon us.

>>15040301
The POTUS gives up because Japan is the best, you desillusional guy.

>>15041586
Do you have other LD covers in dat same rez bloke ?

>>15040301
>"USA is imposing hegemonism on the whole world and blames Japan for its failures since fifty years."
>"American people are the worst scum ever. We japanese fellows can endure poverty for three years but not these morons of capitalist burgers."
>Not anti USA.

>>15041758
I don't think we watched the same show.

>>15041771
No. You seem to misconstrue "For Japan" as "Against everyone else", a vital difference. Also, you seem to be taking one character's opinion as representative of the show's message.


The entire plan hinges on America taking the bait and crashing its own economy due to its own self interest. It doesn't, Nishida fails, the president singlehandedly avoided a bigger crisis. Nishida kills himself out of remorse. That's it.

>>15041891
You don't know what you're talking about. Even co-director Taniguchi said in an interview that he'd have made the show differently because he is "from a younger generation that likes USA".

>"For example, with regard to how
we perceive America, the attitude of Mr. Takahashi, who
was born during WW2, is fundamentally different from the
attitude of those who were born during Japan’s rapid
economic expansion." Taniguchi Gorou

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>>15041764
Just this one.

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Whoops, I have one more.

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>>15041933
Thanks.

>>15041907
So this >>15041921 is the quote,huh? Well you're about as full of shit as expected.

Even with what you said, not favoring America does not necessarily equal being antagonistic to America.

You Americans are such touchy cunts. If something is said about America and it's anything other than AMERICA FUH YEAH you all take religious offense to it all.

>>15042263
>"Japanese people can endure three years of poverty. Could the US do the same ?"
>"No, the US will succumb within a year."
>Not anti USA.

>>15042291

Alternatively extremely patriotic.

But yeah
>America
>Actually being poor for one year
>Implying they won't rebound within a month

Not even American but it's pretty silly to think a small island nation can keep the big man down.

>>15042374

Oh, not to mention that one of the two is an island nation with a big population completely dependent on trade to sustain its economy. And it ain't USA. You'd have to be a pretty naive idealist to think Japan would be able to "tank" a depression better than USA (heck, for the record, USA has a pretty good record at dealing with economic crises).

>>15024131
Is this show worth watching? I saw it in an infographic a while back, and it seemed interesting.

>>15042374
Well, consider something like today's South Korean-driven consumer electronics industry; what if their economy went poof abruptly? I have my doubts as an American that we could take it like it was nothing, we're very spoiled by our Samsungs and Hyundais at the moment, and even if China tried to fill the void there's the longstanding image of Chinese goods being jank low quality garbage.

In the 90s Japan had that tech giant allure going on, and the sudden self destruction of their economy would have likely had far reaching consequences. There's also the strategic value Japan as an American ally has in the Pacific, and if they were to collapse a lot of geopolitical crap could ensue (read: China makes mad dash scramble for choice pickings without a JSDF to give them grief), but mostly I think it was premised on Japan's value as a nation of high tech nerds experiencing a hell of an economic boom, something that could be flipped around and made a weapon of economic destruction were it to collapse in the right way at the right time.

At any rate the whole plan of liquidating Japanese assets to bring about a world economic collapse was still hinged on the idea that America was too self centered to undermine the plan (and in real life, would've been premised on the idea that Japanese would never open up to American rice exports because MUH DOMESTIC JAPANESE WHITE RICE SUPERIOR TASTING GOOD STUFF; seriously the rice economy in Japan is some crazy protectionist shit with a lot of picky taste over what is considered acceptable rice), and considering the grain harvest issue they had every right to put their well being on high priority up until Nishida's plan became apparent (because now the well being of the US is being threatened by an act of economic terrorism that has to be defused one way or another).

>>15042374
To be fair, I don't think other nations have fucked with America's crashes in as self destructive of a way that Nishida was attempting. I'm not big on economics and I'm sure the situation was exaggerated because anime, but it definitely seemed plausible enough the way it was pitched during the show.

>>15042383
It's a weird show. People meme it as being an anime with realistic mecha, then fail to mention that the show opens up with a bunch of dudes performing some spooky ritual to summon ancient aliens. I'm not even exaggerating. The narrative is also formatted really weird, because the guy doing said ritual is the main character but he doesn't actually get his own screentime or blatant importance to the plot until around episode 3 or 4.

It's a really great anime, just weird in every way imaginable. One episode it's extremely "realistic" mech action, the next episode there's fuedal Japan mysticism and ancient aliens, all shown through a very unconventional method of storytelling that probably puts a lot of people off.

Give it a shot, it's a pretty unique show. I've been meaning to rewatch it eventually.

>>15042383
At least, it's an unique anime that shows its own topics and brings some radical forms to it. Deserves to be known.

>>15024172
You give him way too much credit. By the time Gasaraki was made the US had been in involved in half a dozen wars in the middle east. It's probably the safest bet you could make.

>>15024553
No actually he didn't. He said nothing about the rice harvest being a globalist plot. He was just pointing out how Japan's increased interconnectedness with the rest of the world, especially the US, has weakened Japan's ability to act independently. The fact that Japan's independent actions results in the US trying to disrupt Japan with a black ops TA attack is proof of the matter.

>>15025053
The blind guy isn't so much "wrong" as he recognizes that he tried to take things too far. He still achieved his core objective of making Japan more independent from the rest of the world and especially the US.

>>15032190
Nationalism is an aspect of imperialism but not all nationalism is imperialistic.

>>15032195
The show works best when you can marathon it in a weeks time.

>>15036081
>Aliens tell during last episode that their hunger for power led them to autodestruction

So maybe they are an allegory for Imperial Japan? Where thing would have gone if Japan won WW2? Takahashi wants a strong and more independent Japan, but not a warmongering and expansionist Japan?

>>15036327
>Still based out of Nietzsche with the exploration of the theme of the overman it seems.

Specifically the rejection of the overman. Chirico had the option to become a god like being by joining with wisemen, but rejected it wanting to just be left alone as a normal guy. The austim squad came to a similar decision.

>>15036642
I liked Galient a lot more than FLAG.

>>15037534
He evidently rejected ascending with his fellow aliens and regrets the decision as he misses his comrades. So he has been working to bring about the Gasaraki so he can rejoin them. Or something like that.

>>15041771
>capitalist burgers

the best

>>15042424
East Asia in general is very protectionist. They want to dump goods on the West, but wont accept the return in kind. When the US was negotiating a meat exporting deal to SK years back SK ranchers threw raw meat at their representatives to protest.

>>15042378
Not to mention the US is fat as fuck where as Japan is all malnourished twig people. If anyone can withstand a food shortage it would be America.

>>15042985
The end result kinda contradicts the notion of a more independent Japan what with the reliance on American rice exports to bail Japan out of its own rut.

Not to mention what weakened Japan's independence was more the identity of Japan itself, a nation without a war apparatus that is still expected to play a part on the world stage (as a side note, consider Patlabor 2 and how it calls foul on the idea of Japan's idea of self defense being able to coexist with the actuality of foreign conflicts and battlefield engagements, how "kill or be killed" is ensnared in the red tape of Article 9). The Begilstan arc has the Gowa family try to circumvent Article 9 and its related implications so as to be able to put TAs on foreign soil (among other issues deemed relevant to the Gowa family's shenanigans, ie those foreign TAs and the thing-mistaken-for-nuclear-explosion contact experiment nonsense of Symbol's doing), despite the fact that TAs don't really seem to have a self defense use at all (though the second half does show them capable of handling riot scenarios; still, they're more weapons of war than peace, especially considering their ancestor, the kugai).

I'm probably rambling a bit due to penning this on a phone but it's not really America that the Nishida faction finds fault in, it's the emasculated postwar Japan, which finds itself at odds with old people like Nishida, or power grabbers like Kazukiyo. Like, Japan has essentially lost its path, it doesn't know where to go from now, and Nishida thought that the solution was to present the nation with a period of hellish economic failure to instill some backbone into the people.

Part of that might have ties to the sentiment of whether or not Japan's postwar self defense attitude is helped or hindered by being America's fuccboi in the Pacific, but that is a completely different issue that I don't think Gasaraki is fully concerned with. Rather, I think the message is, put simply, "walk your own path."

How long until the show appears in SRW? Considering it's owned by Sunrise there shouldn't be any licensing reasons keeping it from appearing, right?

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>>15043587
Probably when Infinite Ryvius, Argento Soma, and half the braves get in.

I don't know man, just because Sunrise is involved doesn't guarantee that something will be profitable to put in SRW.

On the other hand, it has magnificent thematic interplay with several series (For example: Muv-Luv Alternatie, Full Metal Panic, even Gunparade March and Blue Gender to an extent due to MLA) that it would go great with.

It really just depends on what they want to do.

So gameplay wise though, what all can they do? Refresh me if I'm wrong.
>25mm AR
>75mm Recoiless rifle
>LOSAT (line of Sight Anti-Tank)
>Grenade Launcher
>That weird...green blast thing for melee attacks
And for defensive options
>Smoke grenade launchers

They'd perform identically in combat to the way VOTOMS ATs were used. IIRC, low movement speed, high mobility? Impossible to hit.

Functionally, you'd have some unique system where the higher Yushiro's will gets, the more buffed all the Focus team members get.

>>15043209

This

>>15043685
I think the biggest problem for a theoretical SRW would be the ending of the story. The main plot is resolved through economics so who is the final boss? Gowa kills himself and the only other enemy I can think of would be the Kugai.

>>15043209
The Nishida's plot of bringing poverty to people to instill backbone is similar to Marder's one in Galient, who wants to "wake up" his amorphous fellows using war.

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>>15044630
So basically, pic related?

>>15044776

>Strong men creates good times

Tell that to Stalin

>>15044845
Stalin fucked his people but he contributed to shape a country that still counts as a military force today.

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>Save tha thread.

>>15045087

He shaped dicks.
>Imperial Russia
>European superpower, defeated Napoleon, etc
>Loses war and face to Japan, lots of other shit happens, Bolsheviks take over
>WWII, defeats Hitler, etc
>Loses war and face to fucking Afghans, lots of shit happens, Oligarchs take over
>etc

Russia is just an endless circle of corruption and cockups.

>>15045638
>Russia is just an endless circle of corruption and cockups.
Perhaps the same could be said for all empires.

>>15024131

Is this the show with mechs that literally "SPIN-MOVE" out of bullets way? It was like in a desert or something

That shit pissed me off the first time I saw it I dropped the show/

>>15045638
>Loses war and face to fucking Afghans

To be fair, so have many other countries. Afghanistan even has a nickname as "The Graveyard of Empires." It's very hard to conquer.

>>15046153
Kinda like how you can conquer Ethiopia, but you're not going to keep it.

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Why are they so ugly?

>>15024170
>tfw Takahashi will never work in Front Mission game/show

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I finally got a friend to watch it with me, after we got done watching the patlabor movies, and were in the mood to discuss and watch something else concerning the Japanese politics and national identity in the 1990s.

He loves it, and noticed ALL the foreshadowing that I missed, as well as correctly gleaning what technobabble was important in the first episode and putting things together that I didn't.

At one point leading into EP.5, he was speculating on Mile One and how crazy it was, and then said "as long as it doesn't have to deal with any ancient japanese bullshit-" THE SECOND BEFORE THIS APPEARD ON SCREEN.

He then screamed GODDAMMIT and threw his phone on the floor. It was a pretty good experience desu

>>15050189
I'll fight you.

~~ANYWAY~~ got a treat for you guys. They might have been posted here before, but I've never seen them, so I'm going to dump them.

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>>15051385
Merry christmars. This shit's a treasure, if only it was translated.

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>>15051410
And that's all. It's a great book. Kinda wish I had a copy, Izubuchi is by far my favorite designer.

SO many unused designs, too. It's a shame.

>>15040781

Given how much the US Government had meddled in Latin American countries' governments, I find that hard to believe.

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forgot one of my favorite moments from the early part of the series

>>15051387
>bottom right
Is that a fucking giant halberd? Or is it just a blade attached to the cannon? As impractical as it looks, it probably could have come handy during the few close quarters encounters that happened.

>>15052007
Best girl is just providing overwatch and forming the next step of the keikaku.

>>15051416
Thanks, these are great!

>>15042424
When is the last time that the US has actually faced the IDEA of total economic collaspse?

Based on crop failure??!?!?

>>15032150
Man this was so great.

Dust to dust, ashes to ashes.

>>15050189
Are you kidding? The Kugai are amazing, I actually liked every Kugai design better than the TA's.

Did anyone else feel spooked during the Kugai reveal episode? The thing didn't move like the TAs did and seemed to be animated differently or something. It was just extremely uncanny whenever it did anything. The way it chases Miharu out of the shrine/facility seemed legitimately horrifying like a real monster appeared in an otherwise "realistic" show. It's kind of hard to put into words, but did anyone else get a similar feeling?

>>15052314
IIRC the Great Depression was significantly exacerbated, though not entirely caused, by a combination of drought and dust storms in the Dust Bowl, as well as a bug called the Boll Weevil eating up a lot of cotton and subsequently wrecking the clothing and textile industries.

>>15051416
These are fucking awesome man, where the hell do they come from?

>>15052440
Something like "Izubuchi complete design works" or something along those lines, I couldn't say for sure atm

>>15052359
I totally get what you mean desu, it just felt like we suddenly went "too deep" into forces that shouldn't be messed with. Like, mechanical bipedal infantry are fine, but as soon as we find out they're related to Ancient alien mecha samurai oni, abort, abort, we fucked up.

>>15052197
>Is that a fucking giant halberd
It's either attached to a cannon or it's a prototype of one of those...things on the Shinden. Like, you know how the Raidens have that green force push propulsion thing in the knees, and how somehow the Shinden has something like that on their arm as a weapon? Kinda looks like that. But with an axe attached.
Metal as fuck.

>>15051416
Nice pics man.

>>15050824
>tfw Takahashi will never do a new TV show because Sunrise cuddles otakunts.

>>15027810
Tell that to moerager.

>>15052341
Soul to Soul

>>15052359
Because the thing looks like it's alive?

>>15053685
Yeah. The Kugais seemed more like legit aliens than anything else in the show, IMO. Their eyes especially, which look more "organic"--more like human or animal eyes--than the standard cameras, visors, etc. you see on most mechs.

Also, if you ask me their asymmetrical design is inherently off-putting. Even if mechs have claws or gun hardpoints rather than arms, seeing one with an arm twice as long as the other makes one thinks of deformities and stuff, which is always spooky.

>>15053752

I think the sound design contributed as well. Up till the reveal we had big stompy mecha clunking around, and then suddenly KUGAI - and it sounds wrong by comparison; its footfalls the tempo of its gait, the noises it makes as it moves, they all scream monster. They're different enough, that even having not seen it in years I can still imagine them.

>>15053955
Yeah, definitely. If I recall correctly there were these super creepy...like, bone-cracking or squishing noises where the Kugai's muscle twitched that were very unnerving.

Bump?

How is this show?

>>15055091
Do you like
>Politics
>Unprecedented realism in world building, character motivations, setting, and setting logic
>Grounded economic and social narrative based in 1990s political concerns based on Japanese national identity politics
>Continuation of exploration of themes present in other Takahashi works such as Votoms
>Mecha designed by Yutaka Izubuchi
>Brilliant 1990s Sunrise Budget
>Plot delivered without much of the fanciful toyetic nature of most "Mecha" anime, structured more like a slow paced war movie or political thriller

You tell me. It's not perfect, but it's a fucking unicorn in a sea of knock-off Mecha anime from back when people were actually allowed to make unique anime.

>>15055091
Wierd. It's a show that's built around the MCs being blank slates an immortal and an anicent family use to project the sins of their past foward into the future.

It's also a real robot show about the Japs trying to win independance from the US Empire through robot guards and through manipulation of the stock markets.

>>15055149
>Japs trying to win independance from the US Empire
Eh, I saw it more as individuals trying to restore transitional Japanese ideals in an era of globalization.

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>>15055148
>>Grounded economic

>>15055161
Nah, the dude straight up wanted nothing short of a Japan that would see eye to eye with the US.

And those ideals and ideas of his have been part of the japanese political landscape for about as long as the Anglos in North America have had a constitution of their own.

>>15055178
If you disagree, you'll have to do better than a reaction image.

>>15055193
>And those ideals and ideas of his have been part of the japanese political landscape for about as long as the Anglos in North America have had a constitution of their own.
I didn't mean to imply they were new ideals, haha. But he did indeed want a Japan that was strong, economically self-sufficient, that held on to its own culture instead of slowly being "degraded" by the economic giant that was the united States.
So I think we agree actually, just I don't think he saw the US as the enemy, but the weak and pitiable modern Japan as the enemy. As evidenced by that one time where he cut his eyes out at the sight of modern Japan.

Are there only models for the Raiden and the Ishtar II? I'd kill for a kugai damashii in a perfect world.

>>15055492

There's one of the Shinden

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>>15055509
>no kugai
Kill me

I suck at the Internet. Where can I find a torrent to download this show?
Not dubbed, preferably.

>>15055761
nyaa.eu

>>15055923
Isn't it on Bakabutt?

>>15028132
He's known for working on shows with ballistic building destroying battle cumshot shooting futanari muscular girls that like to rape the smaller ones. Is that what you're into?

>>15055091
It's a down to earth, realistic mech show that's completely off the wall and swarming with ancient alien japanese space robots

>>15055091
It's hardcore with no doubt.

Quick you fagnuts, I trust you.

Viper's Creed yay or nay?

>>15044776
this is the dumbest shit ive ever seen in my life

>>15057819
>Viper's Creed yay or nay?
Haven't heard anything good about it and the first episode was pretty ridic. If you like the robots, just buy the toys.

>>15046153
>Afghanistan even has a nickname as "The Graveyard of Empires." It's very hard to conquer.

The Taliban are going to do it for the second time within the next couple of years.

>>15057871
Do what? Topple some empire? There's no empire controlling it.

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>>15027900
Ishtar>Raiden

So this is how it ends, huh? Quietly dying alone, forgotten by /m/...

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>>15060191
As someone already said, this is actually one of the biggest Gasaraki threads we've had.

>>15060191
I can make some more webms if anyone has scenes to request. Scene composition is pretty weird though so it's hard to find anything that flows nice enough to capture.

>>15060341
I was about to say the left one looks too impractical for Gasaraki, but then again it could be an anti-Kugai loadout. Yushiro at max synch would probably be unbeatable with that sword kit.

love this

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>>15057861
same redditor fag

I like the Ishtar model that shows up at the end of the series with the laser gun
fucking nice

>>15061275
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>>15029916
That was hilariously dumbest thing I have seen even for youtube comment section standard.

>>15059212
Conquer Afghanistan.

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>>15062671

show was good but it went full retard later
they wanted to copy evangelion and rahxephon did the same

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I watched the first 7 episodes of Gasaraki today and it's really beautiful thus far. I'm quite impressed with Yushiro's monologues, he's like the Japanese mecha anime version of Ishmael from Moby Dick. I like his quiet, mentally preoccupied demeanor.

I'm really glad this thread happened otherwise I would not have known about this.

>>15065104

If anyone knows some Japanese poetry with this sort of gravitas and relevance outside your standard haiku things, I'd appreciate recommendations.

Maybe I should just ask /lit/ instead, but I'm impressed with the caliber of posting on /m/ and I think this thread arrives at this aim more immediately.

>>15062674
Thanks for your stuff. Too bad there is no english translation available.

>>15064456
The last episode was for sure very evaesque but Gasaraki kept a strong and singular identity during 24 weeks.

Let's keep this thread alive til 2017 fellow ninjas, that's Takahashi's crown.

>>15062674
This is a treasure, you know that? You're the fucking best. Thanks for posting all that.

>>15038717
Most japanese surnames are common in Japan, dumbass.

Any notice that what the Gasara and Kuzukiyo wanted, along with the star-crossed lovers reincarnating deal run smack of Xenogears?

>>15024131
still waiting for the bd.

>>15066112
Votoms comes first.

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>>15066094
The one thing I wish is that they'd explained the reincarnation bit a little better. I was honestly never quite sure if Yushiro and Miharu were reincarnations, or if they traveled through time or something due to ayy lmao magic.

>>15038427
The Initial D character's name was a reference to a real life drift racer though.

>>15067125
I don't remember if they were clones.

>>15067125
The Yushiro we follow isn't even the original to begin with, but the show uses it as a launchpad towards a journey of self discovery and search for identity rather than exploring the Nietzschean eternal recurrence.

If I were more well versed in noh (because noh rules everything around Gasaraki, gotta get the masks, YOOOHHHHHHHH y'all) I'd make some connection to the idea of the actor vs their role, but I'm not.

>Noh everywhere.
More like Gasarakitsch.

>>15068545
>Gasarakitsch
More like Gasarakino

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>>15067685
>real life drift racer

I swore that this thread will see the first hour of 2017. After that it'll be time to let it go for a Galient one. Be prepared.

>>15069208
Yeah, Trump is appointing men of the trades, instead of bureaucrats who are bought by the Wall Street.

If anything, their supposed of conflict of interest will bring revival to American economy since Wall Street will be divided.

>>15069208
Looks like "politics as usual" to me.

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You did it to 2017 little thread.
Bye see you soon.

>>15068279

IIRC, the Yushiro from Feudal Japan reincarnated into modern day Yushiro Gowa, who for some reason ended up in the body of the son of the head priest the Gowa clan recruited for the Kai Dance.

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Let's make more Takahashi threads on /m/ in 2017 boyz.

>>15071178
I thought that's because they somehow psychologically copied the original Yushiro into Sorachi Kengyou's son. It's not that the reincarnation was into the wrong person, but that the replacement was meant to replicate the reincarnation perfectly.


Fucking sick bastards by the way.

>>15071867
>>15070874
Happy 2017 /m/bros.
This year is going to be awesome.

>>15069220
So men who are going to use abuse their positions to enrich themselves at the expense of Americans as opposed to bureaucrats who are beholden to such things like 'ethics'.

Nice to know you're defending getting fucked up the ass.

>We won't have Takahashi robot anime anymore.

And so it ends.
Farewell, grain economics ANCIENT JAPANESE MANS SPIRIT gulf war politics animu

>>15072261
>bureaucrats
>ethics
Ha ha oh god.

Anyway, these billionaires have more ethics than the politicians.

>>15071178
>>15072254
The son, who was the original reincarnation, died during the family's fist attempt at restaging the Noh ritual. Apparently they had figured that might happen in advance and they knew that he'd re-incarnate into the family no matter what, so they had a number of clones serving as hosts for the next incarnation readied well before shit went down.

>>15075496
As a bureaucrat I feel the need to remind you that we are in fact bound by the letter and the spirit of the law while billionaires generally sink a lot of cash into being bound by neither.

>>15075514
As a merchant, I know you are a lying sack of shit.

>that we are in fact bound by the letter and the spirit of the law
Don't take bribes then.

>>15075514
>As a bureaucrat I feel the need to tell lies

>>15075503
Hmm. But if they were clones, why did the Noh guy seem so attached to Yushiro? That's why I always thought he was the Noh guy's biological son who was just brainwashed into replacing the original Yushiro.

I absolutely love this anime. Something about the pacing and the tone just keeps me invested. I wouldn't mind if they remastered or even remade it. It's really good.

>>15038717
>>15038822

No shit, Sherlock. What are you going to tell us next? That Park is a common name in Korea?

>>15071178
That's more the "role."

Which is where the noh metaphor begins to kick in, it seems as if who the role of "Yushiro" is played by is not important, so long as they play the role. We follow Yushiro as he grows to understand both the role he was to play, and the person he chooses to become, and how the two paths diverge at a point to the frustration of Kazukiyo who is in deep playing out the role his ancestor did back in the feudal ages.

You could argue the reincarnation isn't even in a literal sense, but rather in a symbolic act of playing out a role.

But I'm not knowledgeable enough on the art of noh to say if there's anything in there about the actor-role relationship that could parallel to Gasaraki.

If any of you guys want to explain Gasaraki to people who didn't get it, the Greatest Movie Ever podcast is going to record an episode on the show late January.

>>15024131
it's good show

>>15078634
They actually needed the soul of either of the two priests to make operating the copies safe for others though.
Without either of them around, the fakes started forcefully overwriting the pilot's minds in an attempt to create an approximate that could fulfill the original's mission.

Who won the MCbowl?

>>15082105
ugly