What do you call this thing? Is it a chin? or is it a tongue?

I'll bite. It's a chin. I cannot unsee the tongue. Fuck.

goatee

Robo pacifier because Gundam and Braves are for babies

It emulates a chin guard (specifically, a type of hanbo) that samurai warriors used in the Edo period.

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>>15555972

>>15555972
>that samurai warriors used in the Edo period.
You mean the 300 years of peace where any armor of the time was purely decorative and ceremonial?

>>15555811
It's a beard.

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>>15555987
At least it was made for something. That said, other types of mempo or mengu facial armor sometimes get downright bizarre.

ochinchin

>>15555987
Uh... Sure. What does that have to do with anything?

>>15555987
Is that relevant to anything?

>>15555987
>300 years of peace
L M A O

To think that there are gaijin in the 21st century falling for Tokugawa propaganda. What a world.

>>15555972
>>15555983
samefag

>>15556003
I don't know, the bird beaks make sense in the birds are fierce and fast way.

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>>15556048
filename

>>15555811
"The Okawara tumor"

>>15555811
Chin

>>15555820
Hehehe

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>>15555972
>It emulates a chin guard (specifically, a type of hanbo) that samurai warriors used in the Edo period.
It's partly that, but the particular pointed version of that is actually based on the weird chin-beard that Tutenkamen had.

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>>15560962
It came into vogue with Raideen, which, as part of it's "from the lost continent of Mu" shtick, took a lot of visual cues from Egypt and other ancient cultures.

Raideen was then a tremendously popular mecha show, and future designs took that particular chin style from it.

>>15556042
Well when you compare it to both what preceded and came after it

>>15556048
lol what a fucking moron

>>15555983
>>15556003
>>15560962
>>15560965

so am I supposed to thank brown or yellow people for the chin?

>>15562285
Both.

>>15555811
It's a tongue. Ever since I was a kid, I always thought that part is a tongue.

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>>15556048
>>15557725
>>15562176

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>>15555823
>"Le I dun watch animu I only play WH40K & Mech Warrior am so mature lel"

>>15555811
neck guard.

>>15562430
I only watch Gainax.

>>15562482
>implying Braves are for children
>Gurren Lagann took inspiration from Braves, mostly GaoGaiGar

>>15562487
Those two posts were jokes, sorry

>>15555821
Best answer