Gurren Lagann? More Like License to Drill!
From Gainax, the madmen who brought us Neon Genesis Evangelion and FLCL, comes Gurren Lagann, the show whose motto is "The only thing better than a mecha is a BIGGER MECHA."
My brother had been telling me to watch it for a while, and allsunday recommended it as well, so she let me borrow her DVDs in exchange for 100 Bullets. Coincidentally, the last anime ( Read more... )
My brother had been telling me to watch it for a while, and allsunday recommended it as well, so she let me borrow her DVDs in exchange for 100 Bullets. Coincidentally, the last anime ( Read more... )
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I've seen tons of over-the-top, silly mecha anime, and they're pretty much all about the triumph of the human spirit. Just saying.
(Eh... don't mind me. I'm just very fed up with shounen anime of late.)
And I still say that if Gainax is claiming that they're reconstructing the mecha anime after Eva, they're more than a decade too late: Nadesico did that the very next year after Eva came out, and the genre has achieved a happy medium between fun and serious for a long time.
(If they want to deconstuct shounen anime, how about a series where "manly determination" does not allow people to triumph without proper training and with no plan or thought? Oh wait, that's been done.)
Anyway, what's next?
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The best I could do was Durum Wagon.
I've seen tons of over-the-top, silly mecha anime, and they're pretty much all about the triumph of the human spirit. Just saying.
Heh. Yeah, I don't know what differentiates Gurren Lagann from the others except that it's one people have recommended to me. I really enjoyed it, so I'm good!
And I still say that if Gainax is claiming that they're reconstructing the mecha anime after Eva, they're more than a decade too late: Nadesico did that the very next year after Eva came out, and the genre has achieved a happy medium between fun and serious for a long time.
Well, I don't know what Gainax claims. I know what scifantasy claims. And, huh, I'm not sure I realized that it only came out in 2007. It's pretty popular!
If they want to deconstuct shounen anime, how about a series where "manly determination" does not allow people to triumph without proper training and with no plan or thought? Oh wait, that's been done.Oh, interesting. I was wondering whether ( ... )
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You definitely went with the better option.
I was wondering whether anyone had tried to do a realistic mecha series.
There have been a number of them. Some manga/anime creators have a better grasp of science and more of an eye towards those sort of details than others. Masamune Shirow, for instance, is just way too obsessive about being realistic with those little details for any of his cyberpunk to not be as realistic as he can make it.
No idea. Still deciding. I've got a busy few weeks ahead of me, so I won't be starting a new series until the middle of August anyway. Probably won't be anime, though. Unless it is.
If it is anime, then I recommend one of the following: Noir (you know why), Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex (cyberpunk based on manga by the aforementioned Shirow: social theory, the internet, terrorist memes, transhumanism, brain-hacking, information warfare and not being able to trust your own senses) or Seirei no Moribito (low-magic fantasy written by an anthropologist). ( ... )
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And I have your three favorites in mind, no worries.
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