Do you prefer your robots with pupils or without?

>>15043392
"Real robots" shouldn't have pupils.

Without. I like when the face looks less like a person(Zaku, GM) or looks like a mask(Mazinger, Getter Robo). I think the Gundam heads look too "Hero".

>>15043392
Depends on what the design is trying to convey

With Getter or something like Giant Robo, the pupils work because they imply sentience, the robot having a will of its own. And that's the implication given off by the context of the show as well. For Getter in particular, I do like how it started off without pupils and then the later ones gained them as they were powered by more and more Getter energy.

This also works the other way; overtly sentient robots like Braves and Transformers do seem a bit strange since they have very robotic eyes in most cases. That's why its ironically a bit easier to understand SD Gundams as sentient.

>>15043392

With. I appreciate a good deal of expressiveness

>>15043392
depends on the mech I'd say.

with ofc

>>15043392
With

>>15043392
No eyed

>>15043392
Without pupils

With. Shin Getter-1 has the perfect face.

Sadly it wouldn't be able to pull off the mouth look, but for robots that can, they should, to shout alongside their pilots.

>>15043392
with

>>15043534
Nailed it.

>>15050003
>Sadly it wouldn't be able to pull off the mouth look
Getter Arc

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>>15043392
Depends. I love that shin getter has pupils, but I don't think it would work with too many other robots out there

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>>15043392
Pupils can be cool

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>>15043392
what do you call this

>>15043399
Actually they can have pseudo-pupils.

>>15051377
I'd call that pupils

>>15043392
only if they are super deformed. Normal size no

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Some super-robots are lousy with pupils!!

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>>15043392
Yes, but ironically my favorite animated Shin Getter design is the one from SvN, so take that as you will

He uses them at the end, at least

>>15051346
Huh. I should actually go and finish Arc. I started on it, but wound up distracted at one point. As an aside, is the other thing that's being translated, Devolution, any good? I've not heard much about it.