Never watched any mecha.
What's the appeal of the genre?
Never watched any mecha
Jacob Carter
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Tyler Parker
you posted it
it's cool robots dummy
Zachary Scott
>What's the appeal of the genre?
CHICKS
DIG
GIANT
ROBOTS
And by "chicks" I mean cool dudes who like rad mechanical designs
Jack Gomez
I like sci-fi and mecha anime are probably the most numerous sci-fi content in the medium. Of course I like the robots, but often there's cool stuff outside of the robots. Like Gundam has plenty of cool moments not involving robots and so does Patlabor.
Connor Rivera
Mecha is not a genre, is a setting. You can make the robot not show up for more than 3 minutes during an episode and it'll still be considered a mecha anime.
Benjamin Howard
Mecha is just sci-fi with a particular sort of visually interesting humanoid machine included. It allows for super hero stories when the robots have super powers, war stories when the robots are war machines, dramas about the pilots of the robots, etc. And because big human -shaped robots aren't realistic, that gives story tellers maximal freedom to freely give/limit the abilities of the mecha, so there's an advantage to using them in stories instead of real world machines that have well-understood limits and associations.
Thomas Jenkins
There are plenty of mecha anime without robots in them.
Levi Ortiz
Cool, big robots
Cooper Powell
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Geopolitics, conspiracies, military porn, massive sci-fi battles, often more ambitious philosophical themes about humanity and the world. Mecha is often the sci-fi equivalent of epic fantasy like LORTR or GoT
Lucas King
cool robots
because most mecha shows are about war there's generally a lot of politics
just fucking watch Evangelion already, it's the most important anime of the past 30 years, just do it
Thomas Rodriguez
The appeal for mecha is giant robot fights, but most of the time they barely have any robot fights honestly, it's a broken genre, only watch the all time best stuff like VOTOMs, iczer 1, overman king gainer, patlabor 2, gundam 08th. Macross do you remember love is kind of the Akira of the mecha genre. It's hard to find mecha anime with legitimately good animation.
Parker Gray
if it wasn't obvious already then you're never going to like it.
Jack Murphy
Based on your examples you for some reason gravitate to the ones that don't have many fights. Possibly because you only want top tier animation. Though you list VOTOMs, which is a TV series and in my opinion isn't any better animated than other TV mecha at the time. People shit on Gundam's animation for some reason while VOTOMs' animation is just as clunky. Not to mention that VOTOMs has more recap episodes than most Gundam series.
Angel Jones
Giant robot-on-robot action.
Sometimes, its giant robot-on-monster action.
But anyways, giant robots are cool.
Joseph Green
Adding on to what everyone else said (sci-fi, politics, philosophy); mecha are usually giant robot samurai, nuff said.
Gabriel Lee
Patlabor TV is a great way to trick normalfags. Tell them it's a cool robot action show and watch them get confused as they gradually figure out it's a SoL comedy where literally nothing happens.
Andrew Flores
the gap between Patlabor the TV series and the two Patlabor movies is incomprehensible
Robert Miller
watch neo ranga
Justin Rivera
For me it's the hotblood
John Walker
I’m glad the show was more comedy sol and not a constant barrage of robot fighting.
Josiah Powell
Giant robots are cool, simple as.
Blake Morales
They're not part of the same continuity. Though read the manga. It has aspects of both the TV series and the movies. Watch the OVA series too because there's a couple episodes that lean more towards the tone of the movies in that. Though are you talking about both movies?
Kevin Roberts
I love the depictions of war. Very seldom do you see wars in anime but Mecha tackles the subject constantly. Its also just fun to watch Mechs fight.
Luke Gray
Mecha is definitely a genre,
for example this is mecha despite giant robots only showing up in the form of model kits
Ethan Barnes
having char and amuro's voice actors doesn't make it a mecha anime
Chase Anderson
VOTOMs just has a really good plot in my opinion, the animation is a little clunky but it has a lot of action and some of the fights are really cool, the explosions are unique.
I just listed a couple random mecha I enjoyed off the top of my head, can't really think of a single mecha with LOTs of fighting. Mazinkaiser I guess, gundam AGE and 00 sort of
Joshua Clark
But Patlabor is garbage
Nathan Nelson
name a single anime that's a constant barrage of robot fighting, I'd love to see one
Benjamin Bennett
Which explains why nobody watches it.