Giant Robo

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My Son, The Shizuma drive has a fatal flaw that's going to fuck us all later. Don't worry though I can fix it. Just tell the world, show my work and get the things and we're golden. Anyways Have a good a life and get a long with your sister.

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>>15643745
Pah! It is trifling compared to the tragedy of Darth Plageuis the Wise.

BEAUTIFUL NIGHT

>>15643747
it was so bullshit that i fucking love it

>>15643747
Didn't cry but I got teary-eyed

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>>15643758

>>15643745
UNA FURTIVA LACRIMA

>>15643745
The Day the Earth Burned translation never

fuck Komei, seriously, the Celestial 9 should dig up Sima Yi or Wei Yan or something to fuck him up.

>>15643745
How would you not know about an event that apparently wiped out most of humanity

>there will never be a sequel

Why are we still here? Just to suffer?

>>15643745
>>15643747
Honestly enjoyed Giant Robo at the beginning, but then it just turned out to follow the exact same fucking tropes and formula all Imagawa's shows followed and I dropped it near the end since I more or less knew how it was going to end.

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>>15645375
The only thing all of Imagawa's shows have in common with each other is a love of wuxia, and even then, Tetsujin is still an exception. I have no idea what you mean when you say he has a formula

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>>15645281
Then why did they have to talk about it all the time

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>>15646071
What kind of nerd uses a Giant Robo Uno desk?

Where's that color printer....

>>15646325
Putting the wild in Wild Card I see.

Is this an actual thing I can buy?

>>15646064
I think he means grand scale, operatic shows that tend to be a bit pompous

I personally enjoy his style (and it doesn't apply to everything he has done - see Tetsujin 28) but some find it a bit predictable

>>15648751
I wouldn't really describe G Gundam or Shin Mazinger as "operatic" or "pompous". They're certainly exaggerated, but I wouldn't confuse them with something intending to be high art

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>>15647334
Nope, it's some GR nerd who made his own custom deck, complete with the box

as someone who has yet to like any non-SOL robot series because the protagonists are usually autists, what am I in for?

>>15649482
a scifi wuxia miniseries that occasionally has a giant robot

>>15649482
>protagonists are usually autists
If you think all mecha is like Gundam, VOTOMS and Eva, maybe. Outside of those, socially awkward protagonists are rare

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why haven't you joined big fire yet.

>>15649504
>VOTOMS
Chirico is just a stoic and externally cold chap who lived too much time of his life under military discipline. Aside from that, he is a pretty normal guy.

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Why was he trying to take over the world. I always wondered that.

>>15649538
Which Yokoyama work was he even from?

>>15649582
Babel II.

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>>15649582
He's the protagonist of Babel II. For the life of me I can't figure out why Imagawa made him into Big Fire.

Giant Robo is literally my favorite anime. It's a shame it doesn't get more love.

>>15649593
Really would be nice to get some subs for the TV series at some point. I heard Discotek put out the Babel II OVA recently. Was it any good?

>>15649609
Honestly, I've only seen the first episode of the OAV seemed pretty standard. I know the 2001 series is floating around subbed.

>>15649620
I've also heard it's a total slideshow. Isn't it also a sequel to the original anyway?

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>Giant Robo finally gets quality merchandise 2 decades later
>statue of the titular robot gets delayed for over a year
>SRC version goes on sale regularly
>all the human characters are binning

It's hurts to see the lack of enthusiasm from buyfags. But as long as I end up with a good looking GR shelf it will all be worth it.

>>15649593
Maybe he realised how overpowered he was and thought he might be more fitting as a villain.

That said, Happy and Hokuto no Gun are steadily doing the manga for that.

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>>15649628
It's a shame that's the only Giant Robo design out there that gets any merchandise. Every single one of them are pretty cool

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>>15649538
It's never explained.

The manga that was running at the same time as the OVA had Yomi as the leader of the IPO, which could mean a simple role-switch or could mean something deeper. But that manga changed a lot of stuff from the OVA, so who knows.

Honestly I can buy original Babel II as a villain anyway. Kid is stupidly overpowered and verges dangerously close to 'amoral asshole' constantly.

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>>15649640
>It's a shame that's the only Giant Robo design out there that gets any merchandise.
I've seen some toys for live action Robo at least, like I think my SD one is for the live action.

>>15649688
Yeah, I went out and saw some Revoltech toku/manga Robos. Even a GR-2 here and there, which is cool. There's just more to the series than that.

Nice Kamiyama and Maeda, by the way

>>15649688
Gee dorkly! How come your mom lets you have two Tetsuos?

>>15649688
>d20 in correct orientation
You have done well.

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>>15649526
I'll never be as cool as any of them

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>>15649628
I've bought Genya, Albert and Taisou, and preordered Zhuge Liang.

Wish they would make figure of these two, they're my fav

>>15643747
Man the slow reveal about what actually happened at Bashtarlle was fucking amazing.

>>15649688
Your Baund Doc's feet are on backwards.

Also what the hell is it? It doesn't look like the MSIA.

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What did she die for?

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>>15651871
>Your Baund Doc's feet are on backwards.
lol, I hadn't noticed about the feet

Yeah it's not an MSia, it's a smaller fig from a (I think) UFO catcher line made around the time of the Zeta movies iirc. It transforms.Nice little robot toy. Got it for like five bucks at some con.

spoiler for the ending of Giant Robo live action

>>15651884
Welp, time to hunt one down. Weird though, I search Mandarake and YJA fairly often and I haven't once seen that figure.

>>15651898
There was a Zeta in the same line if that helps.

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>>15651906
A quick Google search claims it's from something called Variable MS Series.

Apparently there's also one in a line called MS Selection (the one in the middle).

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>>15651916
Also here's a cute eraser I once found on YJA. There's a whole bunch of these in different colours.

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>>15651898
It is probably this figure, it is made by the company Banpresto. I see them pop up on ebay once in a while.

>>15651938
It is.

>>15649526

Who ro what was the Samurai guy?

>>15651876
Her brother

>>15643745

This OVA is /m/ kino. Its one of the best epics to come out of animation history and thoroughly enjoyable from beginning to end.

>>15651959

He's based on a character from Yokoyama's adaptation of Water Margin.

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>We'll never ever get an ova series about the Tower of Babel arc directed by Iwagama
It's just not fair.

https://youtu.be/gALLSv7xD2w

>we could have had a Giant Robo (2007)
>it was going to be heavily based on the manga
>it never left the ground
>had this been adapted today, moe/waifus would have been surgically attached to the story like in Yamato 2199
>Imagawa isn't into that
>Imagawa's career just sputtered into the beautiful night

why

>>15652988

I know this feel.

>"...he would not produce any new Giant Robo. However, he said it was possible and even likely that another director would pick up the series and run with it."

http://www.animefringe.com/magazine/02.09/feature/9/index.php3

shame what life could have been

The [EG] release of episode 7 has a bad audio sync for the Media Blasters dub. I wish someone would fix it.

What would have happened if the Big Bang Punch landed?

>>15653026

No more Genya, no more Eye of Volger, and no more oxygen on Earth.

>>15653028
It would have re-destroyed Bashtarlle and killed everyone there too wouldn't it?

>>15653029

Chief Chujo was a good several miles away from the plant when he attempted the punch. St. Abbay would have been relatively safe, or at least suffered some degree of collateral damage.

>>15653034
But if we take the example we got of a Big Bang Punch where Chujo got teleported away before really doing it the explosion should be massive enough to reach maybe 6-7 miles.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6pAdFOUDmw

>>15653036

When you put it like that then the plant probably would have taken a massive hit just to destroy the Eye of Volger. Heavily damaged, but perhaps functional no less.

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What's the best art book for GR? I'm looking for the one with a lot of pictures (can't read nip)

Pic related looks nice

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>>15649526
>yfw The character designer made the Original Idolm@aster game
Also he was the director of Berserk movies

>>15649526
Subete wa BIGGU FAIYA no tame ni

>>15649661

Tell me about Babel II. Who is that kid and how OP is he?

>>15654234
That kid is Koichi (last name varies depending on the version) he's the reincarnation of Babel an alien who came to Earth eons ago and tried to help uplift human civilization. He fights against a powerful psychic named Yomi who commands armies of monsters, robots, psychics, etc (think 009).

As Babel II he has access to a supercomputer in the Tower of Babel and three guardians. A titanic Rodan-like bird known as Ropross, a morphogenic creature named Rodem and a giant robot named Poseidon.

In addition to that, Babel II has incredible psychic powers, psychokinesis, telepathy, teleportation, etc, etc, depending on the show.

So, yeah, he's pretty OP all-in-all.

>>15654342

Thanks. Why is he an asshole? And why is Yomi fighting him?

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>>15649538
In the manga versions of Giant Robo OVA, Babel's rival is the leader of the IPO.

So there's the implication that the true nature of the IPO and the BF Group isn't what it seems to be.

Within the context of the OVA, however, it's just Chief Chujo who's in charge.

I don't recall if he references having any superiors, but I would assume that he's not the highest level within the organization.

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>>15646325
>+4 Card is not Alberto snapping his fingers
BOOOOOOO

>>15643745
What a weird show.

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I enjoyed this a lot, makes me want to watch G Gundam since it's the same director/writer. Is it as fun?

>>15656772
G Gundam's much more fun because it's not trying to be as artistic or somber as Giant Robo.

But if you want my honest opinion, Shin Mazinger is Imagawa's most entertaining work. The Mazinger setting really seemed conducive for the man to just let loose and be as crazy as possible. Feels like DP gave him a lot more creative freedom than Sunrise did with Gundam

>>15657000
Tetsujin is Imagwa's best work. Shin Mazinger was flawed as hell.

>>15657550
Not disagreeing with Tetsujin being his best, but it's also the least fun to watch
I didn't have any real problems with Shin Mazinger and I'm baffled by every single complaint I ever see about the show

>>15656772
>Garage kit

Damn, I was getting excited for a second

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>>15658053
I know the pain

>>15645293
>There will never be five prequel series, giving us everyone's backstory

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>>15645293
I'd even be okay with just 3 minutes Flash shorts

>>15649688
dude get more shelf space

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>>15649661
That's kinda neat, it would have been cool to continue in the series and find out big fire were out to save the world like Fogler. Really though Neptune and Giant Robo not fighting is a tragedy.