/mecha/ - Mecha & Tokusatsu

>>1284
Interesting.

So think there is a clear integration with this important platform topic of drones with mechs? After all, we're on /mecha/ here.

>>1285
Yeah, any mech worth its salt is going to have to be able to stand up to a drone attack. I think this is going to be a key selling point for mecha. Mecha have more possible weapon mounts than a tank due to their bioinspired, less boxy design, meaning you can put more machine guns, mortars, flamethrowers, auto shotguns, and lasers on them. 

There really needs to be a standardized list of mech selling points to counter tankies. So far I have:
>Stronger against drones (more weapon mounts)
>More mine-resistant (main hull is further off the ground than a tank)
>Potentially easier transport (a small mech can be moved by truck or helicopter and a larger mech can be loaded onto an airship; a conventional tank requires a train, a massive cargo plane or a naval barge)
>Can be used for purposes other than war (police, construction)

Anybody who wants to add to this list is welcome to.

>>1286
>stand up to drone attack
I'm thinking that launching drone attacks is also a viable take. Something like a "backpack" filled with the little buggers doesn't seem unreasonable; kinda like your semi-trailer loads of them you mentioned -- only in a more mobile and flexible delivery factor.

Ofc these don't have to be weapons per se, they can be surveillance drones much like I envision for some of our robowaifu's roles.

>>1287
I think most military vehicles in the future will have vertical launch missiles, so drone bays are probably going to be common too. A humanoid mech (or at least a mech where the top half is humanoid) could easily carry these in a backpack.

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https://agenthunt.io/gpt-image-2/

I was going to mention that I found a site that has GPT Image 2 for free with no signup. Of course half the sites I've used that said they were free with no signup have converted to pay sites, so who knows how long it'll last. But if you want to try out some mech design ideas (or other things) it's a good place to start. GPT Image is good for this because it has the best text rendering capability of any major image model, so you can write tech specs directly into the picture. For this picture I just told it to auto-generate some readouts, but you can be as specific as you want.

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>>391 (OP) 
From Sunrise i guess Dunbine was my favorite. After GaoGaiGar.

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>>903
I think I preferred Femecha when her name was Ardjet

Looking for Non-humanoid mecha. I know about Zoids, Gundam's Mobile Armor, and Heavy Object so this is more a question of whether there's anything outside those.

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>>1273
There are, but they're pretty hard to find.

>>1061
M.A .S.S. Builder is mediocre as hell. Close to a shit game if you ask me.
 
Mechabellum is a halfway decent time waster if you like Multiplayer.  

Grendizer is a typical license game that follows the anime episode by episode. If you like Grendizer get the switch version.

Star Renegades looks like Active Time Battle the rogue like (i.e. lazily designed). 

These are all the games in this chart I know of.

>>1067
That more or less fits my quick impressions of them, sadly. Thanks anon.

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I just stumbled across two things you guys might be interested in:
>a 4/agdg/ mecha game called (a)woken with anime girls drawn by the dev's mom
>a Hawken revival project
https://federx.itch.io/awoken
https://hawakening.com/

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>let's strip all the anime out of our next Gundam game and set it in an AU with aliens and Mick Gordon
Thanks Bandai.

>>1157
Understood, BO. I'll be sure to point this out if we spill over outside into the general board. Cheers.  :)

>>1157
Understood
-Not GreerTech

>>1157
Ok, your house your rules.

>>1157
Should we have a Meta/Off-topic thread? I'm deferring to you

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>>1012
Updated her to 3.0.9. New body and new accessories

>>1058
Funny enough, I used to post on /animu/ back when the scan group was actively working on The World of Moral Reversal and kouya ni Kemono Doukokusu. I've been on Smug and ZZZ mostly now. I'd heard the news that prolikewhoah was going down but I'm glad it seems all the boards managed to survive.

>>1059
Neat! Welcome back then.
>smug
>sleepy
Yeah, they have some fun things there. I'm on sleepy fairly often actually.

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>looking for Overman King Gainer fanart
>find this

WE GOT ANIMTED GIF AND APNG THUMBNAILS BOYS
THE FUTURE IS NOW

>>1211
Ebin ngl

>>1076
>Bro, Suidobashi Heavy Industries claimed they were selling a Kuratas for $1.2 million or something.
Intredasting. Do you know if they made any sales or not? Regardless, thanks for these pics! Cheers.

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For a slightly different take on the concept of the thread, what are some decent series that actually spends some time being about the pilot actually learning to control the damn thing?

I'm 14 episodes in to Danguard Ace, and I cannot recall a single other show I have watched where the pilot of the mecha has ever had to go through so much shit before he's even able to pilot the titular mech, and pilot it properly. In fact, you don't even see the thing properly transform until episode 11, and that was on accident. Every other series I can recall just skips over the training to where the pilot is already experienced, or just has the pilot "instantly" capable of controlling a giant robot.

>>1197
Excellent question! I wish I knew more, but if others can be found it would be well worth investigating them. Who was the writer for Danguard Ace that likely contributed this important arc, do you know? Thanks Anon.

>>1198
>Who was the writer for Danguard Ace that likely contributed this important arc, do you know?
According to AniDB: https://anidb.net/anime/1917
The central writers for the show are Tamura Tatsuo (Starzinger, Getter Robo): https://anidb.net/creator/4525
Majima Mitsuru (Saber Rider and the Star Sheriffs, Ginga): https://anidb.net/creator/5429
Yamazaki Haruya (Kinnikuman, Zillion): https://anidb.net/creator/4140
And Yoshikawa Souji (Votoms, Kirby): https://anidb.net/creator/5134
However the show is also "notable" for being Matsumoto's (Harlock, Yamato) only forway in the mecha genre.

>>1198
>Soji Yoshikawa
That reminds me: if you've ever watched Armored Trooper Votoms, give Lupin III: The Mystery of Mamo a shot. Yoshikawa was the director and half of the screenwriting duo for that one, and in a weird way it's a kind of prototype for a couple ideas that he later perfects in Votoms.

>>1122
"Controlled Falling", then?

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>>879 (OP) 
The ill-fated reboot didn't have much going for it but it did have a cool suit.

>>1141
>controlled falling

I would describe it more like "moving before you fall".

>>1155
>I would describe it more like "moving before you fall".
Yes, that's a better way to put it.

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Also to our /robowaifu/ Anons ITT:
>>1110
>>1122
>>1141
>>1155
please be advised to keep namefagging somewhat constrained here on our fren's /mecha/ board. (cf. >>1157 ). TIA.

>>1120
I'm glad people are checking out the resource!

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>>1004
Every gundamfag I've talked to about it hates G-Witch with the fury of a thousand suns. Something to do with the setting being essentially cyberpunk (Anaheim in the UC comes close but otherwise unique in the franchise) but the series itself is like a high school slice of life with robots tacked on for most of its run. While it eventually does pick up from what I've heard the plot is still basically a string of woman moments until the MC gets gay married to the main rival at the end.

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>>1021
That sounds like ass in a boring way. At least a show like BNA is a big enough fuckup that you can laugh at it for accidentally inverting itself.

>>1000
Man, does GQuuuuuuX feel like it needs another episode or two. The show has almost no breathing room after they leave the colony, and there's so much going on in the last episode that I want to rewatch it to take in a couple details better. The idea of some G-Witch newfag trying to watch this and getting completely lost because of how heavily it relies on UC callbacks and Evangelion crossreferences is pretty hilarious, but even if some of it is neat, this thing is a mess.
When do we get the MAN-03 Kikeroga gunpla? I love how retarded it looks.

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>>1027
Update: I'm glad I rewatched those last two episodes, as I was so tired the first time around that I somehow completely missed Amuro's presence within the GQuuuuuuX. It figures that I spent the entire show waiting for that and overlooked it through sheer exhaustion when it happened.

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I don't think Lalah will ever live this show down.

>>1015
I've only been posting the new one so far.  So here are some gifs before the retrofit.  Go far back enough it had zero computers and was propelled by a snowblower :D

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Kinda looks like shit atm, but got the basic controls for the mech arms worked out.  Just blind driving, no encoders in the joints yet, running at 50% power.
Also have yet to install the elbow controller and hands XD

>>1038
So freakin' cool. What does the joystick do when it slides?

>>1038
IT's HAPPENING

>>1039
Sliding the whole joystick assembly forward swings the arm forward.  So when punching with the mech on manual its gonna be some gurren lagann shit.