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1. Bernie (codewiz@mstdn.io)'s status on Thursday, 16-Dec-2021 09:56:20 UTC Bernie

   Kotetsu Jeeg is the first mecha #anime I watched on Italian television:
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBN1dZz-GoE

   • Bernie (codewiz@mstdn.io)'s status on Thursday, 16-Dec-2021 10:02:54 UTC Bernie

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     I loved this sequence where Miwa takes off on a weird jet plane called Big Shooter while Hiroshi jumps off a cliff with a winged motorbike:
     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzBCFlf9KTQ
     #anime

   • Bernie (codewiz@mstdn.io)'s status on Thursday, 16-Dec-2021 10:06:45 UTC Bernie

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     All of Go Nagai mechas had unnecessarily complicated launch sequences. Ufo Robot Grandizer had multiple route options:
     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTuEhMXV1ZI
     #anime

   • Bernie (codewiz@mstdn.io)'s status on Thursday, 16-Dec-2021 10:25:14 UTC Bernie

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     The pilot of the Great Mazinger also took a long detour on a jet plane, then return to the Fortress of Science to get into the damn robot 😂
     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GN6wBVTrvw
     #anime

   • Bernie (codewiz@mstdn.io)'s status on Thursday, 16-Dec-2021 10:30:04 UTC Bernie

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     • Fabimaru

     @Fabimaru In the Italian dub, it was called Goldrake, and all the characters got English-sounding names:
     https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/UFO_Robot_Goldrake#Edizione_italiana

   • Fabimaru (fabimaru@framapiaf.org)'s status on Thursday, 16-Dec-2021 10:30:06 UTC Fabimaru

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     @codewiz
     This one was huge in France. There it is called "Goldorak".
     Probably due to the numerous anime broadcasted in the 80s/90s, France became the 2nd largest market for manga (still 17 less than Japan I think), and half of the comics there are manga (and there is a big tradition of franco-belgian comics)

   • Bernie (codewiz@mstdn.io)'s status on Thursday, 16-Dec-2021 10:37:16 UTC Bernie

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     • Fabimaru

     @Fabimaru 😂

   • Fabimaru (fabimaru@framapiaf.org)'s status on Thursday, 16-Dec-2021 10:37:18 UTC Fabimaru

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     @codewiz
     Maybe it looks complicated because they have a process similar to trains where the staff use hand gestures and describe actions to be sure that none is missed.

   • keadamander@mastodon.social's status on Thursday, 16-Dec-2021 17:34:34 UTC keadamander

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     @codewiz

     I grew up with Captain Future 🙂

     in 2015 there was a concept art for a movie :

     https://youtu.be/34j9JsU8Yok

     Still waiting for it

   • Bernie (codewiz@mstdn.io)'s status on Friday, 17-Dec-2021 06:17:20 UTC Bernie

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     Trider G7 came out in the middle of the decadent age of mecha anime, characterized by toy robots piloted by children.

     I thought it was silly even when I was the same age of the protagonist!

     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=soMcPAwIsgk
     #anime

   • Bernie (codewiz@mstdn.io)'s status on Friday, 17-Dec-2021 06:36:14 UTC Bernie

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     Daitarn 3 was another overengineered #mecha #anime where the pilot would drive a flying police car (the Mach Patrol), dock into a hole between the legs of the robot, then take a high-speed rocket railway to the other side of the robot and then begin a long transformation sequence.

     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ar-saNkXQPA

   • Bernie (codewiz@mstdn.io)'s status on Friday, 17-Dec-2021 07:04:57 UTC Bernie

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     For being a #mecha #anime designed to promote a transformable toy, Daitarn 3 had pretty good humor. Plus, the Meganoid commanders were all caricatures of human flaws: narcissism, greed, lust, ambition...

     This one for instance wanted to direct the greatest martial arts movie of all times 😂
     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsQU5-X7Yio

   • Bernie (codewiz@mstdn.io)'s status on Friday, 17-Dec-2021 07:20:55 UTC Bernie

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     The Meganoids also had their own transformation sequences: they used a special machine with four energy emitters to grow and shapeshift their bodies into a Megaborg before the final duel with the Daitarn 3.

     There are cues that becoming a Megaborg is irreversible and a difficult step for some Meganoid commanders who are still attached to their original human form.

     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBiGpa-2JbU
     #mecha #anime