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- Sun Apr 07, 2024 10:32 am
- Forum: Anime and Manga
- Topic: What anime are you watching right now? Summer 2016 to now
- Replies: 1468
- Views: 354847
Re: What anime are you watching right now? Summer 2016 to now
Currently getting into Bullbuster . It's been a very long time since I found a mecha anime that really sucked me in with a unique concept, but this one did. What makes Bullbuster work is that, tone-wise, it's the complete opposite of most other mecha series I've watched. The main characters aren't a...
- Sun Apr 07, 2024 10:13 am
- Forum: Film and Video
- Topic: Last Movie You Watched
- Replies: 1981
- Views: 388220
Re: Last Movie You Watched
I was hoping you'd guess that I'd watched EoE in its theatrical re-release. But since then, I've also watched Ghostbuster: Frozen Empire.
- Sun Mar 17, 2024 9:48 pm
- Forum: Film and Video
- Topic: Breaking the American Mecha Curse
- Replies: 21
- Views: 3555
Re: Breaking the American Mecha Curse
I'm hesitant to count IGPX as a Western series, since so much of its creative input was Japanese. And while Voltron: Legendary Defender may be American in origin, the Voltron franchise as a whole is not.
- Sun Mar 17, 2024 9:42 pm
- Forum: Film and Video
- Topic: Last Movie You Watched
- Replies: 1981
- Views: 388220
Re: Last Movie You Watched
Last movie I watched? The series finale to a certain 1995 mecha anime.
- Sun Jan 21, 2024 4:48 pm
- Forum: Film and Video
- Topic: Breaking the American Mecha Curse
- Replies: 21
- Views: 3555
Re: Breaking the American Mecha Curse
So I just found a discussion on Reddit about this exact topic, and what one of the commenters had to say was pretty interesting. I'm going to post it here: 1. There are two major branches of Mecha shows. "super robots" like in Gurren Lagann, and "real robots" like in Gundam. 2. W...
- Wed Dec 27, 2023 1:30 am
- Forum: Film and Video
- Topic: Breaking the American Mecha Curse
- Replies: 21
- Views: 3555
Re: Breaking the American Mecha Curse
Mecha, I posit, is part of a larger supergenre that I tend to dub "combat avatars" that also encompasses magical girls, tokusatsu, power armor, and others like those; the aesthetic and thematic core of the story is the presence of a physically powerful fighting body, partially or fully se...
- Tue Dec 26, 2023 12:33 am
- Forum: Film and Video
- Topic: Breaking the American Mecha Curse
- Replies: 21
- Views: 3555
Re: Breaking the American Mecha Curse
Discussions about its status as a truly successful franchise aside, Pacific Rim is still kind of an interesting case because it was created as a deliberate homage to classic mecha anime-- you can see references in it to Evangelion, Mazinger Z, Gundam and many others. It's worth noting that, despite ...
- Sun Dec 24, 2023 9:37 pm
- Forum: Film and Video
- Topic: Breaking the American Mecha Curse
- Replies: 21
- Views: 3555
Re: Breaking the American Mecha Curse
There was actually only one game, which was released in 2013 for the XBox 360 and the PlayStation 3. As far as my point about being "prematurely ended" goes, there was a third movie planned, but after the sequel movie under-performed, those plans-- along with pretty much all other hopes to...
- Sun Dec 24, 2023 8:01 pm
- Forum: Film and Video
- Topic: Breaking the American Mecha Curse
- Replies: 21
- Views: 3555
Re: Breaking the American Mecha Curse
So with that in mind I don't accept OP's premise that mecha never really took of in America Transformers is a bit of an odd case. I've seen it argued that the reason Transformers succeeded, where so many other American stories about giant mecha have failed, is that the titular robots are treated fi...
- Sat Dec 23, 2023 6:56 pm
- Forum: Film and Video
- Topic: Breaking the American Mecha Curse
- Replies: 21
- Views: 3555
Re: Breaking the American Mecha Curse
Interesting. So-- aside from the works I mentioned in my original post, all of which were prematurely cancelled or otherwise unsuccessful-- have there been any truly successful Western mecha-themed TV shows or movies?
- Thu Dec 21, 2023 12:35 pm
- Forum: Film and Video
- Topic: Breaking the American Mecha Curse
- Replies: 21
- Views: 3555
Re: Breaking the American Mecha Curse
cyharding#942628 wrote: there were manga stories in Japan where a giant spider robot was laying waste to New York.
There were?
- Thu Dec 21, 2023 11:03 am
- Forum: Film and Video
- Topic: Breaking the American Mecha Curse
- Replies: 21
- Views: 3555
Re: Breaking the American Mecha Curse
That explains why there aren't any now , absolutely, but it doesn't answer why the genre never took off in the United States during its formative years. The idea that dark and gritty is what sells in American film and TV is relatively new, and seems not to pre-date the 21st century, at least as far ...
- Thu Dec 21, 2023 2:40 am
- Forum: Film and Video
- Topic: Breaking the American Mecha Curse
- Replies: 21
- Views: 3555
Breaking the American Mecha Curse
For one reason or another, the mecha genre never really took off in Western film and TV. There have been only a handful of attempts, none of which can truly be called successful. The first was Exosquad , which ran for two seasons and was cancelled at the beginning of a third. Later attempts included...
- Thu Dec 21, 2023 2:36 am
- Forum: Live-Action "Shin" & Other Khara Projects!
- Topic: Shin Gojira (a.k.a. Godzilla Resurgence)
- Replies: 1133
- Views: 323668
Re: Shin Gojira (a.k.a. Godzilla Resurgence)
Japan's current political status with the States still there since post WW2 (a theme that's rather commonplace in Japanese fiction, feels like to me).
How so?
- Sat Sep 17, 2022 4:25 pm
- Forum: Fan Works
- Topic: Share Your EVA Fan Art Here
- Replies: 1261
- Views: 4583116
Re: Share Your EVA Fan Art Here
Are we allowed to post art we've commissioned in this thread?
- Thu Sep 08, 2022 9:49 pm
- Forum: Film and Video
- Topic: [Film] The Trailers & Upcoming Films Thread
- Replies: 1028
- Views: 226994
Re: [Film] The Trailers & Upcoming Films Thread
Agreed. I want to say Lindsey Ellis did a video essay on this, but I can't find it right now. The thing about Independence Day is that it's an alien invasion/disaster movie with no underlying political message, which is something you could only really get from a period of American history when we th...
- Mon Jun 20, 2022 4:49 pm
- Forum: Film and Video
- Topic: [Film] The Trailers & Upcoming Films Thread
- Replies: 1028
- Views: 226994
Re: [Film] The Trailers & Upcoming Films Thread
Since I am more of a Korra fan then I can wait it out especially if the Korrasami couple does hold out for the entirety of the film. Needless to say, I have always been a Makorra supporter: https://www.msn.com/en-us/entertainment/gaming/avatar-the-last-airbender-is-getting-three-new-animated-films/...
- Sun Jun 19, 2022 5:46 pm
- Forum: Film and Video
- Topic: [Film] The Trailers & Upcoming Films Thread
- Replies: 1028
- Views: 226994
Re: [Film] The Trailers & Upcoming Films Thread
So, Lightyear hasn't been doing too hot. It's brought in $85 million in its worldwide opening weekend, which compared with its $200 million budget isn't very much. One of the reasons I've seen suggested for this is that Pixar spent the last few years releasing its movie exclusively on Disney+, to th...
- Mon May 16, 2022 11:32 pm
- Forum: Film and Video
- Topic: Who could be the next heroes of Japan culture pop that Anno may give a live action and and add them to SJHU?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 28563
Re: Who could be the next heroes of Japan culture pop that Anno may give a live action and and add them to SJHU?
Shin Pokémon. You heard it here first.
- Sun May 15, 2022 9:14 pm
- Forum: Completely and Utterly Off-Topic
- Topic: Your entertainment wishlist?
- Replies: 230
- Views: 89683
Re: Your entertainment wishlist?
Speaking of which, another thing on my "entertainment wish list" is a successful American mecha franchise. And I don't mean something like Transformers --I mean a series where the robots are piloted or otherwise controlled by humans. So far there have been only a handful of mainstream Amer...