Weebshit Thread

[Dehbashi]

If Harmony Gold is actually dead, I'd like to see a source. Because I've been hearing that for decades now and I don't believe it.

Last I heard, some sort of streaming Macross deal was cut with Disney+, but Harmony Gold was still preventing Macross and Do You Remember Love from being part of that package outside of Japan. You know, the heart of the franchise.

Yeah not quite dead, just desperate enough to deal with Disney and Hulu, according to Bounding Into Comics. Hopefully they’ll die eventually.

Yeah. That makes more sense. I remember them cutting a deal with Funimation a couple of years ago for Robotech as well.

[rabidtictac]

They were basically patent trolls, just for licenses. Good fucking riddance! It was annoying as Hell how many cool mechs never had a chance to appear in Mechwarrior Online because they were "unseen" mechs squatted on by Harmony Gold.

Sounds like I'm going to have to start playing Mechwarrior, because I looked and apparently a ton of mech designs were, um... Borrowed by Battletech from various mecha anime, including Armored Trooper Votoms.

The Commando and Griffin are apparently a Scopedog, while the Shadowhawk is taken from Dougram.

As far as I can tell, Harmony Gold still exist and are still copyright squatting to some extent.

[VoiceOfReasonPast]

You're right on the money with Dougram, but whoever told you about Votoms is bullshitting you. Votoms has never been part of any BattleTech deal, the Commando is not an Unseen, and I fail to see any similarity between it and the Scopedog.

That's not to say they've never been "inspired" by animu outside of the Unseen autism. I dare you to say this one doesn't look like a Zaku variant:

[rabidtictac]

That looks like one of the early concept arts for the Zaku. I don't have the link, but I saw it recently. Since the Gunpla toy marketing cancer of 0079 was limited mostly to the Gundam series (of mechs), the art designer for Gundam was allowed a lot more leeway building Zeon mechs. Which is also why the best mechs in original UC Gundam are all Zeon.

[Kugelfisch]

Large robot suits will never be mechs to me.

[rabidtictac]

Large robot suits will never be mechs to me.

You talking about this? Looks like a mech to me. Or do you just mean you don't like the anthropomorphic designs?

[VoiceOfReasonPast]

24+ meters of pure waifu.

[Uguuboi]

This should be renamed the mecha thread lol

[Kugelfisch]

You talking about this?

Yup. That's just an upscale robot.

[rabidtictac]

So you prefer this?







I guess I'm wondering how humanlike is too much.

I personally think it's fine for a mecha to have a head, so long as the pilots are not IN the head. The head would be a horrible place to put a pilot seat. Really, any mech would have cameras mounted all over the structure, as well as internal cameras and a manual perescope. The pilot should ideally sit in the torso, where the largest concentration of armor can be mounted. I've noticed a lot of "real robot" anime and games still put the pilots in the head portion of the vehicle.