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[–] 6 points 1 week ago (16 children)

Any mecha recs for me? I am kinda at the limit of good stuff of other genres. Code geass, og macross, ttgl, nge are like all the mechas I have seen and avoid them mainly because big long franchises and completionist personality which makes it impossible to just watch macross delta with cute girls, but I have to start with old ass macross, which was fine but you know...

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  • [–] 14 points 1 week ago (4 children)

    Mobile Suit Gundam:

    • Iron Blooded Orphans - Orphans employed by a PMC manage to seize control of the company and fight for themselves.

    • The Witch from Mercury - Country bumpkin goes to fancy space school where students gain standing and settle their grievances in mecha duels. Also yuri.

    • 00 - A mysterious organization seeks to end all war on Earth by fighting with their fancy robots.

    Note: While the Gundam IP is huge, the ones mentioned are spin-offs and can be watched separately of other Gundam series.

    Other:

    • 86 - The Republic fights against a mechanical empire using their own mechs which are totally autonomous and definitely not piloted by undesirables.
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  • [–] 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

    I second 86. Had me in tears of sorrow once and (much more shocking) tears of joy at one point. It might be the only anime to have achieved that.

    Edit: just went and watched the part I was talking about and holy smokes what a good show. Looks like it’s time for a rewatch.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    Some of my favorites:

    • Gurren Lagann - Some plucky youth rebel against the systems that have forced humanity underground. Very over-the-top
    • Brave Bang Bravern - Extremely comedic and extremely gay, this is the story of humanity fighting against an alien threat with the help of a Super Robot who appeared out of nowhere seemingly from an entirely different genre of anime
    • Eureka Seven - A boy joins a band of rebels to fight the world government in their hover-surfboard-riding mechs
    • Vision of Escaflowne - Of the two prominent 90s mech shoujo isekai, this one is by far my favorite. Who knew putting a cape on a mech would make it look so gallant?
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  • [–] 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    RahXephon. People who can’t think for themselves will tell you it’s a NGE ripoff but it owes far more to Raideen.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 days ago* (1 child)

    I only like Super Dimension Fortress Macross, Macross II Lovers Again, and Macross Plus. I tried watching Macross 7 and Macross Delta, and I just couldn't get into them. Not really sure why. Just didn't hold my interest like the classics.

    NGE also isnt really that long. It has the 26 episodes of the TV show and EoE, and then the 4 alternate movies. D&R is basically just a recap movie. Much less than something like Code Geass or Macross, and definitely much less than Gundam.

    Maybe something like VOTOMS or Patlabor? What do you consider "big long fanchise? If 26 episodes + 5 movies is too much, you might be stuck with 12 episode seasonal shows and one-off movies...

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  • [–] 1 point 4 days ago

    Long franchise in the sense of confusing start point at this point, because their names are like ∆, frontier, iron blood, and what not. And long in the sense that its been around since the 80s and I am not in the mood for something old.

    Also if the anime has like 5 movies then I'd also reconsider starting it because the commitment of a movie is bigger, but as stated I have already seen nge (and the rebuild and eoe and d&r).

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  • [–] 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

    I watched Macross delta first, tbh it doesn't really need much of the beginning. They mention like 3 people from previous Macross, and the one fighter. Everything else is standalone.

    I did delta first, then og, 7 , and then frontier (my fav)

    Edit: dammit now I want to watch delta again

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