Comments on: Changing times: Girls are crossing over guys’ ‘mech’ hobbies

By: Lars Anderson

Lars Anderson — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 02:43:15 +0000

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By: admin

admin — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 00:53:54 +0000

That’s the thing I noticed about these modern mecha shows within the past few years.
Their themes’ emphasis are more on the sides of the youth’s common issues of today ie high school students, exams, puberty, getting bf/gfs etc, etc. Less on the action with lack of military presence.
I mean. I used to remember watching great 70s/80s mech shows ie Getter Robo, Voltron, Transformers G1 (including Japanese-spin offs), etc and they certainly brought out all the coolest fights/action sequences many people just get hooked watching them. This is the true essence of what mecha shows supposed to be! (Gosh! I missed them terribly now, when looking back).
Let’s not forget that in old mecha shows format, we used to monster-of-the-week feature on TV every week (all credit goes to Go Nagai). That’s got me(and many other guys) hooked to watching them several mecha anime during my childhood years.
Now, we see much less of that. It’s somewhat sad reality, if looking at another angle.
Too much eye-candy presence. No substance.

By: B-Mecha

B-Mecha — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 02:52:52 +0000

one thing for sure is that… People is more open minded nowdays and it applies to otaku as well.

Somehow I’m not surprise by the girl’s result. My gf and a few female friends are so excited over Code Geass, macross frontier and gundams. Mostly because of the male characters and the interesting story development.

What freak me out is the result for guy otaku. IMO it shows that more and more guy prefer 2D than real human girl friend… How do you think?

By: Tachyon

Tachyon — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 19:44:40 +0000

Well, it needs to be said that mecha shows aren’t really mecha shows anymore. Macross Frontier spends way more time on the pop singer careers of 2 female characters than anything else. Gundam 00 followed the Gundam Wing formula of 5 pretty boy main characters (who get cosplayed by girls at cons) and Code Geass, from all I hear, spends a lot of time on high school issues and not so much on mech/military concerns.

In light of this, I have to ask “In what drawer did the writers and producers of mecha shows leave their balls? Where’s the action? Where’s the focus on anything even remotely adult in nature?”

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