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Re: Most Inspiring Anime/Manga Poll
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Thu, 10 Feb 2000 08:43:59 GMT
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On Thu, 10 Feb 2000 05:16:19 GMT, "Sproaticus" <jsproat@io.com> wrote:
> In lugnet.build.mecha, Nick Crocco writes:
> > I was just wondering what anime/manga everyone here is most inspired by when
> > making their own creations.
Mecha wise my first big attraction was Robotech, but I had seen (and
liked Starblazers years before). I also watched much Battle of the
Planets and Voltron (liked the lion series better).
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> Robotech, man! :-, Then Go-Bots and Transformers (blech now), and Battletech
> later, though since early Battletech stole mucho from Robotech (which in turn
> stole mucho from Macross and Mospeda) I feel I can't really count that.
Well my understanding from the past is: Robotech is a blend of three
different Japanese series including Macross and Mospeda that were cut
dubbed and maybe a little bit fresh animation thrown in to bridge
things a bit. So it isn't really a rip off of Macross its a
derivative of it. Unfortunately I don't have any factual evidence to
back this up. I do remember that at one point the was a "Perfect
Collection" series that had both the Robotech episodes and the
original japanese origin series episodes (subbed) for sale but I never
got any.
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> I also got a kick out of Voltron, esp. the one which assembled from 15 other
> vehicles. But I never really drew any inspiration from that.
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> As a kid, I absolutely inhaled Star Blazers (i.e. Starship Yamoto) and Battle
> of the Planets (?). Inspector Gadget fit somewhere in there too, but I'm
> almost too ashamed to admit that. :-,
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> Today, I'm still drawing lots of inspiration from Macross and Ghost in the
> Shell. A lot of Dark Horse comics -- e.g. almost anything in the Aliens
> series -- have some really cool vehicles as well.
Ghost in the Shell, I love that film! That's the game that clenched
the decision to buy my Playstation :^)
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> > Personally, Gundam first started me in the idea of
> > making Lego Mecha
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> Personally, I can't see why Gundam is so popular. I haven't seen the show
> (and I suspect that this accounts for a lot), but the all the mecha look
> so...ornamented. Lotsa exciting curves and stuff, but otherwise kinda
> vapid-looking. The mecha in Macross, OTOH, look more functional. But then
> again, I've watched Macross, but not Gundam.
I have only seen one Gundam episode so far, not bad, dated (animation
wise) but not bad. Of course I comparing it to things like GITS so
the comparison probably is not fair :^)
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> IMHO, Macross is *much* better in terms of story line and characterization
> than Robotech. Even with subtitles, I found it to be much more entertaining. • See above for why :^)
>
> Cheers,
> - jsproat
Mike
(I will now apologize for the non-LEGOness of the post, but its still
mecha topical :^)
All other themes are just spare parts for Castle!
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