Is every robot /m/ or does he have to look robotic?
fuck off and lurk moar, retard
>>23887363Kinda? Tetsujin 28 was inspired by Tezuka’s work so his genes are in the early mecha genre but mecha usually refers to piloted robots or mechanical suits. Tokusatsu is also accepted here but that’s largely because it isn’t strictly /a/. Tldr it probably isn’t and anon is right in saying lurk before you post.
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>>23887363Not necessarily, but in Astro Boy's case that isn't particularly important because Astro Boy is at its heart always about human-machine relations on some level and is nearly alwaysinvolves sci-fi concepts, mechanical friends and enemies and doodads used by all sides. I don't know if this will make sense but Astro Boy, while appearing very human, is still fundamentally always a series of "robot stories". I haven't read nearly enough Asimov to make a comparison to his work, but I think this fundamental nature of nearly always being about machines and humans together in society (when stuff like humans fighting each other or ayylmaos aren't involved) is a part of why Astro Boy is always gonna be /m/.The opening arc is an excellent example of this. Astro Boy looks human, and was made in a human's image to replace a human who died in the heart of another human, but the simple truth is that he isn't human, and this eventually leads Astro on a journey of tremendous pain and suffering both for himself and other machines he encounters who live as objects and property. Even in other stories, robots, humans, or other sapient organisms are exempt from this, and throughout the comics they too come to deal with many issues and tragedies wreaked by some combination of hubris, malice, and machinery, and which Astro Boy is able to solve because he is a robot- not just in the physical sense, but also because from time to time he literally does not think or behave like a human.
>>23887380Fuck me I must be having a stroke. Anyway, replying to myself, but to continue.In general robot stories about robots that just look human can be a bit boring because a lot of the people around here are machine nerds, but it is a longstanding tradition in sci-fi cheesy or otherwise to have perfectly human looking machines. The problem still remains even then of whether you're telling a good story to begin with. Astro Boy is human but interacts with a constellation of different-looking machines, along with humans and others. Battlestar Galactica, as it developed, had a significant focus on a machine race explicitly made in the image of humans for the sake of their long war with humanity. Still, works like that are a bit different to a work like, say, "Terminator", which is about a robot explicitly made just to look like a human, but which isn't necessarily a "robot story" where you tackle things like a living or nearly living thing which must abide by programming. Terminator's an action movie, and usually when mechanically minded guys want to talk about it around here talk turns to skinless Terminators and Hunter-Killers.Terminator is also a good example in this way of a work which isn't deeply for "machine nerds". It is about robots, and you can dig into it and find plenty of machine stuff to nerd out over, sure, but it's not a work where distinguishing models of robot or counting rivets is really rewarded or made to be rewarded.
