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Anonymous 04/20/2025 (Sun) 12:04:05 No. 1797 [Reply]
What's your favorite Gundam?
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Always been a fan of Ez-8. It's less to do with the design and more the idea that it's slapped together from whatever parts happened to be laying around at the time. Plus, that battle with the Gouf Custom left a hell of an impression on me as a kid.
In no particular order (though the five at the top are definitely my favorites compared to the others): X DX Alex Mudrock Gundam MkII Freedom (mostly for dem wings) Wing EW Heavyarms EW Deathscythe EW Strike Duel Force Impulse (mainly because of the backpack looking cooler than the Aile Striker) AGE-1 Normal AGE-1 Razor Legilis

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my fav is between between lupus rex and heavy arms custom

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Anonymous 04/17/2025 (Thu) 04:57:49 No. 34 [Reply]
DRAGON JOCKEY
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>>454 Concept art for the Getters.
>>457 Not a fan of those designs. They fit Shin Getter more than OG. I just wish that it is somewhat of a success to get a faithful animated adaptation of the mangas with an actual budget.
i would watch a getter movie

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Anonymous 04/22/2025 (Tue) 17:26:25 No. 3359 [Reply]
Say /m/, I'm trying to catalog as many obscure mecha and tokusatsu fan sites as possible. You guys mind if we have a thread dedicated to those fan sites of yesteryear? Not places known like Wikias, MAHQ, or Akurasu.
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[blocks your path]
Not an /m/ site, but it's still useful: https://aniblogtracker.com A tracker for anime/manga blogs. Some results it gives: https://mechacatalogue.com https://mechanicalanimereviews.com

G Gundam Anonymous 04/20/2025 (Sun) 06:38:40 No. 1384 [Reply]
i think rain and allenby are fucking hot!
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>>3317 >hopefully it stays this good since the earlier episodes weren't particularly great it remains pretty consistent for the most part through the rest of the series. i don't think you'll be disappointed. >I expected the animation quality to be better the show had a notoriously difficult production schedule with animator walk-outs and other shit. the director, yasuhiro imagawa, is well-known for being hard to work with and a lot of the original staff left to work on cowboy bebop and the big o. many popular mecha animators worked on the show as guests completely uncredited, leading to scenes with superb animation followed by some rather limited-looking scenes. hideaki anno worked on the show's second opening, totally uncredited.
>>3371 How come it's so hard to find art of Allenby or Rain without massive tits with nipples visible through their clothing? I want cute art of my wife like picrel, I don't like seeing people turn her into a cow
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>>4830 >it remains pretty consistent for the most part through the rest of the series yeah, just finished the true super mode/g gundam drop episode and it seems it's found it's pace after that rocky start >production info good to know, thx. I should actually bother looking up that kinda info myself someday >animation Yep. It's extremely uneven to say the least. Though I dunno if having proper animation would actually make it better, the goofy'ness is part of the charm

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What are some of your favourite fights in Mecha? Anonymous 04/21/2025 (Mon) 15:47:52 No. 2751 [Reply] >>5336
Animation, tactics and strategy, character resonance etc Thoughts on CGI for mechs? Apparently the number people able to animate mechs by hand drawing is getting smaller. Thoughts on Studio Orange’s output? How you do think it compares to the best of 2D animation?
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>>4122 the really insane thing is that this was not a main series for bandai. the original director dipped to work on G Gundam and left the project with no lead. we got it because the final director came on and was like "yeah no, we're making a shoujo mecha" and despite being a side project has animation THIS good.
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Big O vs Big Duo
>>2751 I thought the fights in Majestic Prince were pretty stellar all round, despite being CGI. Definitely some of Orange's best. But you can also tell that, despite the space fights being as insane as you'd expect wars to be, they realised their best was the earth combat against Klein so they basically just did it again for the climax in the movie. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ek-V0xQzkwI
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How do the various versions of Jet Jaguar compare to Earth Garon?
New manga.

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/gpg/ - Gunpla/Plamo General Anonymous 04/17/2025 (Thu) 05:27:17 No. 36 [Reply] [Last]
-=READ THE GUIDES=- Welcome to the Gunpla/Plamo General! For those new, please read our guides. We have many resources available to help you in many different aspects of the hobby. They're here for you! For the unclear, "plamo" is short for "plastic model". "Gunpla" is thus short for "Gundam plastic model". Many different kinds of models are built here, ranging from mecha to planes, cars, musume, you name it! If you're new, you're gonna screw up. Don't worry! If you're seasoned, don't make the newbies worry! >Why won't anyone answer my question? Be more specific, and try to provide clear images if you can. -=THE GUIDES=- >Gelgoog Guy's gunpla guide: gunpla.buyfags.moe >Funaka's gunpla guides: Building Gunpla: files.catbox.moe/fj5azc.pdf Scratchbuilding: files.catbox.moe/2d9ppa.pdf

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>>5278 consult the chart and see for yourself
>>5329 So everything is plamo?

Valvrave Anonymous 04/20/2025 (Sun) 19:56:44 No. 2270 [Reply]
The shitposting will never end!
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>>4852 >The last pic Nice tits.
>>5330 You could have used 1 image instead of 5.

/aoz/ - Advance of Zeta Anonymous 04/18/2025 (Fri) 18:53:46 No. 516 [Reply]
--useful links-- https://hobby.dengeki.com/title_re-boot/ >official Reboot illustration list, missing first few entries https://gundamguy.blogspot.com/2013/12/mobile-suit-z-gundam-advance-of-zeta.html >scans of some of the earlier entries https://hobby.dengeki.com/comic_novel/19559/ >samples of the ongoing manga https://m.weibo.cn/u/6199800362? >weibo page of Watership 4.5, a fan circle that makes 3d models and prints of many AoZ designs. Good insight into how they function. http://www.inask.net/blog-category-144.html >another page with their stuff https://archive.org/details/Advance_of_Z_The_Flag_of_Titans_Vol.1/mode/2up

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>>4305 Is G Gen Eternal any good? I've wanted to try it, but I think gacha might be against the spirit of G Gen games.
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Badass Cyborg//Android thread Anonymous 04/20/2025 (Sun) 00:53:28 No. 1209 [Reply] >>5277
Post cool looking cyborgs
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>>1209 What's this guy's gimmick?

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Gundam Battle Operation 2 Anonymous 04/17/2025 (Thu) 03:14:01 No. 17 [Reply] [Last]
Refugees come here to complain about this shit game
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How many plan on staying or posting to both sites?
>>5027 I am for other threads but probably not for this one.
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>4chan back >bread maker gone

Gundam 00 Anonymous 04/23/2025 (Wed) 15:39:25 No. 3885 [Reply]
Is it getting any animated sequels/spin-offs or not?
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>>5120 If 00 wanted to explore new thematic territories then it shouldnt have chosen the anti-war themes that almost every Tomino Gundam has examined until now. If it wants to break away and do something original then it has to do so in a way that doesnt undermine the previous anti-war themes it was about until then, and pivoting to an alien invasion plot that is solved solely with innovator bullshit is a surefire way of making a grossly simplified portrayal of war and diplomacy. I think its generally bad when stories make light of war because its tasteless and speaks to a lack of insight on the authors part. The aliens werent even malicious or hostile, they were trying to communicate in their own way and didnt know it was killing humans, and thinking that all war and conflicts spring forth from such benign misunderstandings instead of the actual human desire to dominate, subjugate and to punish makes 00 seem insanely naive.
>>5244 >If it wants to break away and do something original then it has to do so in a way that doesnt undermine the previous anti-war themes It never did? The TV series established that human evolution is necessary to accomplish UNDERSTANDING and peace and the film is a continuation of that. >and pivoting to an alien invasion plot that is solved solely with innovator bullshit is a surefire way of making a grossly simplified portrayal of war and diplomacy 00 was never about diplomacy, what are you about? Celestial Being never negotiated - they were an organisation following a total doctrine. The world government forming (and going full authoritarian right from the start) wasn't about diplomacy in the slightest, since it was all Aeolia's KEIKAKUDOORI and brought about by Ribbons pulling the strings from behind the scene. I understand you hate Gundam and its reliance on 'Newtype bullshit', but why even single out 00 when most entries in the franchise are guilty of this? >If 00 wanted to explore new thematic territories then it shouldnt have chosen the anti-war themes that almost every Tomino Gundam has examined until now. >The aliens werent even malicious or hostile, they were trying to communicate in their own way and didnt know it was killing humans, and thinking that all war and conflicts spring forth from such benign misunderstandings instead of the actual human desire to dominate, subjugate and to punish makes 00 seem insanely naive. ??? And? The film should have explored the exact same grounds the TV series had? Why? Didn't we get enough of it in the show? Had they been sentient, hostile aliens, you would have complained about the writers just recycling the same plot 'but with aliens'. According to you, Gundam shows are not allowed to experiment or expand the scope - everything must neatly follow the initial set-up. Have we watched the same show?
>>5267 >It never did? The TV series established that human evolution is necessary to accomplish UNDERSTANDING and peace and the film is a continuation of that. You travel pretty far away from the theme of understanding when the other party isnt even human. >00 was never about diplomacy Diplomacy was a secondary theme in the TV series, as you can tell from one of the major characters related to Setsuna being a political figurehead. It was secondary because the main characters were busy being pro-terrorist and all the politicians were just a way of illustrating that Celestial Beings terrorism was better than politics but thats beside the point. You cant say 00 said nothing about internal politics and international diplomacy when several plot threads revolve around the relationship between its different nations and alliances. The movie then shifts diplomacy into its major theme. The 00 movie pretends to be about diplomacy, the final battle revolves around just opening up a channel of communication with the aliens. The entire conflict and its resolution is very transparently supposed to serve as an analogue for real world diplomacy and political negotiation between states, even if grossly simplified. >I understand you hate Gundam and its reliance on 'Newtype bullshit', but why even single out 00 when most entries in the franchise are guilty of this? No, Newtypes in Tomino Gundam are fine. Innovators are what people who hate "Newtype bullshit" think Newtypes are. I have already explained how the resolution of the 00 movie (caused by Setsunas innovator powers) and the Psychoframe miracle are thematically different things (which CCA does way better) in >>5113 >The film should have explored the exact same grounds the TV series had? No, but in trying to introduce aliens into its plot in undermines the themes it was about before by making light of war and the difficulties of diplomacy and negotiating peace between nations. It didnt need to retread the TV series but also shouldnt ruin the foundation it was built on in the first place (not that I thought the 00 TV series was that good to begin with). >According to you, Gundam shows are not allowed to experiment or expand the scope - everything must neatly follow the initial set-up. I did not assert this. My point is that war and peace are important subjects that deserve to be treated with care and attention within fiction, and making light of these themes is bad. This is what 00 does when in introduces the alien plot. It could have done this well, but it didnt. I didnt assert that it shouldnt have tried in the first place but it certainly didnt try hard enough because the result is garbage that makes it seem as though the writers have a childish view of war and peace.

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Hathaway's Flash 2 waiting thread Anonymous 04/26/2025 (Sat) 13:57:29 No. 5090 [Reply]
Will they release it in 2026?
It's going to be a long wait then...
I'm looking forward to it, but I think Tomino will be dead by the time the series is finished.

Real Life /m/ Anonymous 04/25/2025 (Fri) 19:08:27 No. 4973 [Reply]
Post robots and technology from real life that would fit in an /m/ show. I'll start: >The robot, dubbed “AI Police Cyborg 1.0”, is a Robocop-style robot officer equipped with smart 360-degree AI cameras. It is jointly developed by the Provincial Police Region 7, Nakhon Pathom Provincial Police, and Nakhon Pathom Municipality. >This AI Police Cyborg integrates live footage from CCTV cameras in and around the event area, as well as from drone surveillance, and processes them using AI technology built into the Cyborg’s system. The Cyborg’s own cameras are enhanced with video analytics capabilities and linked directly to the province’s Command and Control Center to efficiently manage public safety during public events. >What can the AI Police Cyborg do? <Facial recognition & blacklist alerts: Identifies individuals and notifies officers if wanted or high-risk individuals are detected. <Suspect tracking: Monitors and tracks suspects across the event based on facial recognition. <Advanced search capabilities: Searches for individuals using facial features, clothing, body type, and gender. <Weapon detection: Identifies potential weapons (excluding water guns), including knives, wooden sticks, and objects resembling weapons. <Behavior monitoring: Detects potentially violent or disruptive behavior, such as fighting or physical assaults. I couldn't find any videos of it moving so it's probably a government scam like the power armor soldiers from Ghana.
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some steam-era robot stuff would be cool i think
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space and flight stuff is an obvious fit i guess, but theres sometimes also other things like buildings that fit the aesthetic or at least could work in my imagination. i wish the creators were a bit more creative/free with settings and designs sometimes.

/m/echa caps Anonymous 04/17/2025 (Thu) 08:11:03 No. 65 [Reply]
Get nostalgic here!
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>>5108 >screencapping your own post
>>5128 I didn't post it. Why the paranoia?


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Anonymous 04/18/2025 (Fri) 04:09:08 No. 303 [Reply] [Last]
On a super jet he's come, from another site away to a distant planet land, it's our hero, Ultraman! Discuss all things Ultra, their enemies, and all their mechanical aids.
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Is anyone still here or did everyone go back to 4/m/?
>>4891 I dont like the new Ultra design at all, I hope they put a chool mech at some point.
>>5144 i'm here and there

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