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Re: Most Inspiring Anime/Manga Poll
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Thu, 10 Feb 2000 16:12:03 GMT
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<ramble>
The first anime based show I remember watching was Star
Blazers/Battleship Yamato (Though I don't remember mecha, per se.)
Later I discovered Robotech and devoured every episode. Then I found
Battletech, which at the time I thought was just another division of
Robotech, since I recognized many of the mechs. (At the time [I was
about 12] I thought Battletech must refer to non-tansforming mecha and
Robotech refered to veritechs. It wasn't until years later when I was
introduced to the Battletech RPG that I realized the difference.)
Strangely, though, I didn't really start building mecha until the last
three years or so. I attempted a veritech in my early teens a couple of
times, but mostly I used to build wheeled vehicles and
spacecraft/airplanes. I think therefore that while my more recent
exposure to things like M.D. Geist and Bubblegum Crisis stimulated me to
build mecha, influence for the actual models comes more from the older
stuff. </ramble>
Sproaticus wrote:
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> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> 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. :-,
>
> 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.
>
> > 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.
>
> 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.
>
> Cheers,
> - jsproat
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| (...) There weren't any. There were a lot of spaceships, but no "giant robots" or other mecha. (...) Battletech "borrowed" a number of mecha from a number of sources, not just Macross (I don't remember seeing any Southern Cross/Mospaeda mecha in (...) (25 years ago, 10-Feb-00, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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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. I also got a (...) (25 years ago, 10-Feb-00, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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