Magical Mecha is the future of /m/

>>15504370
>Rayearth tried this and it bombed
>Dunbine tried this also and it bombed
>Escaflowne tried this and was shit

No it isn't. Mecha is cancer and you should die.

>>15504384
>Wataru tried this and it started a trend that lasted half a decade

Did Akira Amemiya work on this episode?
He's pretty good at channeling the Obari aesthetic.

>>15504411
Nevermind, someone already answered.
He did work on the episode.

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>>15504370
The best.

>>15504384
>citation needed
>citation needed
>opinions
You're cancer and you should die.

>>15504384
>mecha has proven that it can be good and sell well
>fantasy has proven that it can be good and sell well
>the two together can't do either
Why is this the case?

>>15504387
It's easy to forget how popular it really was. Given the apparent rights issues, you'd think they'd try more to have it in SRW by now.

>>15504384
>>Rayearth tried this and it bombed

Bombed so hard it got a second season and endless merchandise

>>15504384
>>Dunbine tried this also and it bombed

Bandai is still releasing merch for it, why do you think it bombed when it went on for several seasons?

>>15505766
They tried to get it for Neo, but they couldn't. They ended up using Lamune as a substitute.

>>15504384
Why are you here then?

>>15504370
I really did like Gurren Lagann, and I still haven't owned a single figure of it.

Is this Little Witch Academia mecha episode all Trigger is doing for the 10th anniversary?

LWA is great, TRIGGER has saved anime once again.

>>15508155
>LWA is mediocre
ftfy, no need to thank me

>>15504370
>Magic Warrior Grand Charion

SRC WHEN

Or at least a Robot Damashii, fuck.

>>15508155
Trigger is somewhat limited in what they can do for the anniversary because they don't technically own Gurren Lagann. Though most of the current staff did work on it that was back when they were with Gainax so the studio itself doesn't own the rights, which means they can't make anything that is officially "Gurren Lagann" related.

Hence, they can only really do a few references without getting sued.

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Kuroku nuritsubuse
tsuki mo taiyou mo
Jama suru yatsura wa Dynamite
Nani mo shinjinai
koko wa tengoku no
Uragawa ni aru Black Diamond

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>>15504370
>Magical Mecha is the future of /m/
Already happend.

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>>15510476
Good Bless Obari

>>15504384
>Hates mecha
>vistits /m/

>>15504384
>I doesn't like it, so it must have bombed!
kek, what a fag

also,
>mecha is cancer
you need to go back
>>>/a/

>>15504384
I haven't seen Dunbine, but how is Escaflowne even magical? Its only abilities are to transform into a dragon and swing a sword around. Its power source may be magical, but that's about as far as you can take that argument

>>15510764
I'd even go as far as to say that it's the main reason why the mecha are not all that pronounced in the setting.
Of course, the focus being Hitomi?, her romance and the overall quest to save the place, they don't need to be.
But even a simple hype-powered engine (this short, TTGL, Braves, Getter,...) does a great deal to make the robots more interesting.

Escaflowne simply uses them as armored suits/knights if we're to be genre-correct. Didn't leave the writers much tools to have fun with the fights (aside from that one instance where he slaughters everyone and gets possessed).

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>>15504370

WE MECHA NOW!!!!

LWA isn't very good.

>>15511734
fuck off, it's charming as fuck.

>>15510764
Prehaps not Esca itself, but the dragonslayer mechs had plenty magical-esque qualities like levitation (in a setting where levitating rocks are a natural phenomenon and are utilized for transportation), invisibility cloaks, being made of a 'liquid metal', with great plasticity and very high degree of control over shape and movement, yet requiring constant energy source (they melt when they are destroyed, during the sniping sequence Dilandau's one completely liquifies due to overheating").

But yeah other than that, mechs in that setting seem deliciously analog.

>>15511742
Charming or not it's really nothing special. When I finally got around to watching the original movie well after the hype died down i was confused why everyone was so crazy for it. It's really nothing special.

>>15512760
I enjoyed the original, but the sequel wasn't as good and the anime is boring.

>>15511742
It's certainly better Kill La Kill, and other hyped trigger offerings.

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>see this on tumblr
>everyone thinks it's TTGL reference
>no one knows of obari, gunbuster, or any actual super mech genre

im upset

>>15513679
Because that's all it is. It's a reference ti a series that is pretty much just references to other shit. Don't be so autistic anon

>had the obari pose in the Amanda episode but not the giant robot episode
Trigger continues to baffle me.

>>15513709
Why reference that when you can just reference yourself?

Why i cant find any good videos of the transformation sequence god damn it

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>>15513679
Have you seen the MAL forums?
Just about only 3 users mentioned something else other than TTGL.

>>15513900

>>15504384
>>15504586
>>15505784
It's half true. The ratings in S1 weren't so good and it was about to be cancelled. But the toys sold well so it got the second season.
And to be fair, the first Season does take a lot of time to take off, but the last chapters are magnificent.
On the contrary, IMO Escaflowne started great and then it kept losing momentum. The first half of Esca is one of the best anime in the 90s. It's a pity it became shit afterwards.

>>15516743
>one of the best anime in the 90s
Ha