This hit pretty close to home since I am a Mecha fan. What I like about the Mecha genre isn't really the genre as a whole, it's really the fact I like to build the model kits.
The ability to build them and have full control of either doing a straight build or customizing the kits by changing the paint, parts or even fabricating your own parts. I enjoy building these giant robots even though I'm only building a hollow shell.
You've won this month's Best Forum Post contest. This was a really cool interesting post. I personally was seriously introduced to anime with Macross (Robotech) when I was pretty young (sixth grade). I had seen Gatchaman (Battle of the Planets/G-Force) and Mazinger Z (Tranzor Z) before then on U.S. TV, but was too young to realize it was a thing called Anime). It wasn't until the Robotech saga that I found out it was from Japan and they had a whole industry creating shows like that called "Anime". My brother and I had all 3 Robotech artbooks that came out (I actually still have all three sitting on my shelf, as I stop typing and turn and stare at them and smile).
It was a mech series that got me hooked onto Anime and got me to start actively searching out this thing some people were also calling Japanimation at the time. WAIT, there's a place in California called Nikaku Animart where they'll mail me a catalog if I mail them a request for it? I can then order stuff from that catalog by sending them the order form and a money order I got from the 7-11 (I had to ride my bike 30 minutes to get there AND 30 minutes to get back home). Then they'll mail me whatever artbook or Japanese animation stuff, of some series I had never seen but the pictures were cool and so was the merchandise (you know, I might actually still have that original catalog, I gotta go look for it).
Come to think of it, I think I got the translated Mazinger graphic novel published by First publishing in 1988 from Nikaku Animart too. I know I have that stored in a bookcase somewhere (time to go find it and re-read it). I used to go through that Nikaku Animart catalog all the time thinking, "I want that, and that and that." Unfortunately for a little kid, money is hard to come by and trying to find anything anime related was even harder back then.
Anyway, gratz again on winning best forum post for posting that really interesting video on the past, present and future of mech anime. The genre that changed my life.
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Originally Posted by Deedo
This hit pretty close to home since I am a Mecha fan. What I like about the Mecha genre isn't really the genre as a whole, it's really the fact I like to build the model kits.
The ability to build them and have full control of either doing a straight build or customizing the kits by changing the paint, parts or even fabricating your own parts. I enjoy building these giant robots even though I'm only building a hollow shell.
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My 1st experience with mecha was Evangelion on VHS at hollywood video. Everything thing since then is history. I wasn't really a "mech" fan because I was enjoying anime as a whole but probably in the last 10 years I've been finding myself leaning towards the Mecha genre more than most others, might be since I've been putting a lot more efforts into my modeling and just so happens that I build a lot of Gunpla.
Touhou has become something of its own culture now. 10 years ago not many knew of Touhou and probably won't play any of the games for being very hard. But now it's more than just a bullet hell, it's a culture that's forged by the fans who like it.
This video shows the hard work of fans putting their ideas and love of the fandom into this.
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