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Mecha seem to have disappeared from Japanese anime. Here's the anime list for Spring 2024.[1] [1] https://anichart.net/Spring-2024
*Excluding Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann
Kept looking for GL’s outlier dot in the super robot section, then figured the just left it out so as to not bastardize the results. For anyone OOTL, the show features robots at an intergalactic scale, such that the crew needs to invent FTL communications and travel just to communicate and move within the ship proper.
Mecha seem to have disappeared from Japanese anime. Here's the anime list for Spring 2024.[1] [1] https://anichart.net/Spring-2024
Mecha was a 1960s-1980s war-inspired fascination that maybe, if anything, we should be surprised at the longevity of. We haven't really been getting that many giant robots or pilotable mechs in popular media outside of Japanese animation.
Then, what is the heaviest movable machine of human civilization? The answer is aircraft carriers. The U. S. Navy Nimitz class aircraft carrier is one of the largest ships, and each ship is about 325 m long and 99,000 t heavy. Looks like some ships are a few times heavier than that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_machines#Sea_v...
Surprisingly the difference isn't quite as it seems. There's an important distinction between mass of the vessel's own structure, the bare necessities like fuel, stores & crew, and its payload. Naval engineering and insurance talks several interrelated measures, for our purposes "light load displacement" is the closest to the weight of the bare structure, while "full load displacement" includes all typical stores, fu…
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Gundam, the niche that does 100 billion yen in revenue per year.
Actually I wouldn't let my kids watch it until they were at least 13 or so, maybe more depending on the child. A lot of war and mass-scale death there, and frankly, a lot of adoration for fascism - the space nazis turn out to be right.
Mecha seem to have disappeared from Japanese anime. Here's the anime list for Spring 2024.[1] [1] https://anichart.net/Spring-2024
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Suffice it to say, the multiple life-scale Gundam statues that have been put up/dismantled over the past few years speak to its enduring popularity. I will say that there haven't been as many non-Gundam mecha anime as there were in the 2010s. We did get G-Witch and Bravern last year, and Hathaway on Netflix in 2021. And, as someone said, AOT is essentially Meat Gundam.
EDIT: Also, I don't know that I'd even call 86 mainstream. It felt like it actually got way less recognition than it should have.
I thought the word "mecha" is used to describe devices which are operated by humans, like a Gundam. Essentially mecha is anthropomorphic tank. "Robot" is used to describe autonomous system, like Marvin or Laputian Robot Troopers
But they're .... not robots? It's more like "big, stompy powered armor"
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Gundam, the niche that does 100 billion yen in revenue per year.
The toys are appealing even to children that never saw the anime. Actually I wouldn't let my kids watch it until they were at least 13 or so, maybe more depending on the child. A lot of war and mass-scale death there, and frankly, a lot of adoration for fascism - the space nazis turn out to be right.
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“メカ” refers to any mechanical design. The artists who do “mecha” design in anime will do everything from guns to boats. The English term’s meaning changed when it was re-borrowed.
> The English term’s meaning changed when it was re-borrowed. Like the meaning of the term "anime" changed?
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Attack on Titan is for all intents and purposes a mecha, and one of the most mainstream anime of recent memory.
Other than their kits, everything else they operate is very standard WW1-esque tech.