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Having just finished watching evangelion rebuild today: it is definitely a robot anime
attack on titan is also a mecha anime
My favorite mecha film is Ratatouille.
Are Japanese anime robots isometric or allometric?
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#63Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
The Gurren Lagann is only 12 metres in height though. Lagann is around the same height as Simon and Gurren is about nine metres on top (technically below) of that.
It gets bigger.
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#64Evangelion has robots...?
Having just finished watching evangelion rebuild today: it is definitely a robot anime
Thanks for mentioning this, I didn't know that it existed. I just started watching.
Any other new dubbed mecha anime recommendations would be highly appreciated. Ideally, less child-focused.
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#65Interesting choice of unit of reference. Admiral Chester Nimitz (who gave the name to USS Nimitz) was the one to sign the Japanese surrender in WW2.
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#66> In contrast, Macross is very unrealistic because Macross is equal to a pile of 182 Nimitz class aircraft carriers in terms of mass. Is it? It's also 5 times longer (and presumably wider) than the Nimitz aircraft carrier. That would mean that Macross is only about 5-6x denser than the Nimitz aircraft carrier, which isn't entirely out of the realm of reason for a futuristic space battleship. If nothing else, having s…
They do mention the origin story of Macross a few paragraphs up so it seems like an odd criticism. On the other hand, it's kind of neat to see that alien technology is an outlier according to their analysis.
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#67Then, 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…
In case anyone was wondering:
Long ton = 2240 lb (1016 kg)
Short ton = 2000 lb (907 kg)
Tonne = 2205 lb (1000 kg)
Long tons are rarely used outside shipping. Short tons are what people mean when they say ton in America. Tonne is the metric ton and is what most of the rest of the world means when you hear something that sounds like ton.
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#68Earlier quoted context omitted.
Having just finished watching evangelion rebuild today: it is definitely a robot anime
Thanks for mentioning this, I didn't know that it existed. I just started watching. Any other new dubbed mecha anime recommendations would be highly appreciated. Ideally, less child-focused.
Tempted to troll by recommending Valvrave.
Gundam: Hathaway is quite excellent. Adult characters dealing like (idealistically pragmatic) adults with not just the events of the film, but where, exactly, they are in the history and sociopolitical standing of their world.
Others in the thread have mentioned 86, that is a good one. Without spoiling: very interesting setting, themes that get touched on include racism, AI, drone warfare, relationship of soldiers to civilian life.
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#69Earlier quoted context omitted.
attack on titan is also a mecha anime
definitely not. Titans are closer to summoned creatures. And they're not the product of technology. Otherwise, a fight between two pregnant women could be seen as a mech fight.
Considering [SPOILERS] the derivation of the evas from Shinji's dead mother and the heavy use of womb imagery as the pilot sits in amniotic-like fluid, arguably this is a valid interpretation of Evangelion lore.