Why no super robot love?
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Was that due to low DVD sales or because they were so drained after all that work on the Voltron box set?
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- RahXephon
- Gravion
- Godannar
- Machine Rescue Robo
- Top wo Nerae 2! Diebuster
- Gravion Zwei
- Panda-Z
- Genesis of Aquarion
- Gaiking: The Legend of Daiku-Maryu
- Super Robot Wars Original Generation: The Animation
- Demonbane
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- Super Robot Wars Original Generation: Divine Wars
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- Kotetsushin Jeeg
- Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann
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You REALLY need to start doing your research man....
And GaoGaiGar a real robot...? Really? :sly::sly:
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I think he was trying to say was "Sunrise could make a super robot show, but thay have not done so since 98's Gao Gai Gar. Gundam is Real Robot."
But still, yeah. That list omitted remakes, re-imaginings, and a few things I wasn't sure would count to his "no supers since '98" claim. Even with those left out...that's still a hefty amount of super robots.
But still, yeah. That list omitted remakes, re-imaginings, and a few things I wasn't sure would count to his "no supers since '98" claim. Even with those left out...that's still a hefty amount of super robots.
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no all Yuusha franchise shows are Super robo in my eyes for the same reason Eva is not a real robot anime so i say GGG is a Super robo
if a mech can talk or has it own independent bonding procedure its a Super robot
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they worked on a Butchered super robo show i a huge Golion fan o]i dislike voltron and robotech
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Okay, first off you said "other than remakes." That said nothing about about continuations/sequels. Panda-Z...yeah, it's a parody, but it's a parody of a super robot. The SRWs I'll go ahead and agree that they shouldn't really be on that list since they've got just as many reals as supers. Kotetsushin Jeeg's actually a sequel, not a reboot (I had to double check that one myself). And Gurren Lagann as a real robot show....the ****? How on earth can you consider a mech that ends up using GALAXIES as cover a real robot? And for that matter, how the hell is it an Eva ripoff? Can it even be considered a ripoff, since it was made by the same people?
Regardless of that, RahXephon's good...though you'll probably think it's an Eva ripoff as well.
Regardless of that, RahXephon's good...though you'll probably think it's an Eva ripoff as well.
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Same production studio is not the same people, necessarily. I don't think a single major member of the Evangelion production team worked on Gurren-Lagann. That was mostly the team that did Abenobashi and Top wo Nerae 2.
That said, describing Gurren-Lagann as an Evangelion knockoff is basically insane. It doesn't use any characters, concepts, motifs, plotlines, or even visual sequences that are remotely like Evangelion's.
Gurren-Lagann is not a ripoff of anything made after about 1979 or so. What G-L was about was updating the feel of the peak Super Robot shows of the 70s for a new audience, with more complex plots and more characters.
I have to side against you here, good sir. Rahxephon reuses numerous visual sequences, plots, motifs, and character concepts from Evangelion. Japanese fans even broadly consider it an Evangelion clone and, generally, Japanese fans are more indulgent of shows ripping off other shows.
It's very weird because when BONES did Rahxephon they explicitly considered it a remake of Brave Reideen. There are some concepts and characters in Rahxephon that are 1-to-1 correspondences with Reideen. The emphasis on singing is clearly a stylish update of the concepts behind Reideen's famous God Voice ability.
I can only presume that at the time BONES produced Rahxephon, someone on staff decided that the only way to update a property was to make it more like Evangelion. It's a shame, though, all of the parts of Rahxephon that went into Evangelion's territory are easily the worst. If it had stuck to its guns as a Reideen remake I think it could've been a much better show.
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