How do I get in to /m/?I was considering pic relates.
>>23956195You don't.>>>/wsr/
>>23956195The Origin is a terrible Gundam entry and one of the worst ways to get into mecha as a genre.
Release order is always the correct answer.
>>23956195OP if you're not trolling/just playing footsies then I'll be willing to help with basic categories:>super robots>real robots>fantasy robots>power armor (more so in tokusatsu than anime, but still)>biomecha>warships>sentient robotsAfter that you got themes:>space exploration>capitalism>insurrections>historical>crime>isekai>psychics>post apocalypticAnd locations>Japan only>internetional>moon>Mars>Jupiter>far off colonyI'd go into more detail, but >>23956199 is right, this really isn't a spoonfeed happy board.
>>23956253 >>23956199damn , alright
Make a thread on >>>/wsr/
I'm assuming you've already seen a few of the really high profile mech shows that escaped /m/ fandom like Evangelion and Gurren Lagann, and are just looking to experience more.Really the best place to start really getting in to mecha proper is Gundam. It's the biggest tentpole franchise that always has something coming out.Gundam has multiple timelines. The big one is the Universal Century, or UC for short. When you think of "a gundam" you're likely thinking of the main suit from the first show, Mobile Suit Gundam. I do recommend starting with the UC, mostly because all of the alternate time lines call back to and riff off of the UC. A lot of non-gundam mech shows call back to and riff of early Gundam too.If you want to read a manga, The Origin is an excellent introduction. It is a manga retelling of the original show, with some extra tidbits thrown in. It's a fantastic read.If you want to watch anime, The Origin anime serves as a short prequel to the original Gundam and expands on the motivations of major characters and sets up the main conflict.After that is the original Gundam; you have a choice between the anime and the 3 compilation movies. Unless you are a anime boomer with a lot of patience and love for 70s Japanese animation like me, I'd honestly recommend watching the 3 compilation movies. They clean up and reanimate a lot of scenes, remove a lot of "villain of the week" filler, and remove some of the questionable things forced in by toy execs like the Gundam Hammer. The anime is good it's just dated in many ways.After that, if you really dig the UC you can check out other shows in that timeline like 08th MS Team, Stardust Memory, War in the Pocket, Zeta, etc. A lot of these have manga too, Zeta also has compilation movies.
Ignore the fag above me, Gundam is for plebeians and pseuds
>>23956195Origin is not a good entry point nor a good manga. Just watch the 0079 anime.
>>23956195Just watch Mecha anime and if you want more you'll find more.Gundam, Patlabor, Getter Robo, Brave series, list goes on. There are a million places to start and people here will tell you all of them are shit because they personally don't like them. Just pick a series and go with it, doesn't matter which one unless there's a timeline that you need to follow. I recommend Gundam 00, self contained, good, and was popular even among "normies" in the late 2000s.
>>23956372They're all shows for marketing toys for 8 year olds, who cares.
>>23956417Only retards who watch nothing but Gundam recommend the 0079 anime, because you dumb fuckers don't realize how really fucking badly it aged. The goofy music literally written to be played in toy stores, the poor animation by Sunrise's B-team, the dumb monster-of-the-week format of things that look like actual monsters like the Gogg, the stupid toyetic combination sequences of the Core Fighter and G-Armor, etc. Yeah they tried to make something good at first, the first few episodes are legit sci-fi, then the realities of poor TV ratings set in and then it turned to pure garbage.Hell I bet you don't even realize it, because you've never actually watched the show and are only recommending it based on an idealized version in your head that never existed.If someone had only previously watched something like Attack on Titan and then you told them to watch this outdated nonsense as their introduction to mecha, they'd never watch a robot anime again.
>>23956492filtered, chop off your dick and slit your throat.
>>23956492>all this cope
>>23956195>How do I get in to /m/?Consume media that contains the type of mechanical objects you enjoy. Like there are a bunch of racing Anime, if you're into that. The French also made racing comics and dominate the fighter pilot comic. market.There's Space Brothers and Planetes if you like hard scifi space stuff, and Moolight Mile/ 2001 Nights if you've slipped in from the classic scifi movie side of things.Space racing series also exist, such as Classroom Crisis, and Battleship Yamato spawned an infinite number of space fleet operators series, ranging from the cartoony to the realistic in their treatment of the subject.If you're into guns and powered armour, then the Sonoda/Shirow works will be your jam. Red Eyes is pretty okay too, but this end of the mecha genre kinda bleeds into Special Effects Suits (Kamen Rider&Sentai), psychics and ninja fiction, as stuff like Spriggan and Tiger and Bunny show.
>>23956492I've seen 0079, but I still haven't seen Attack on Titan. I also haven't seen Bleach, Naruto, and/or One Piece.How do I get into anime for teenagers now that I am almost 40? Nitrous oxide?
>>23956492Go watch Getter or Mazinger and then come back and call Gundam monster-of-the-week, better yet, come back when you watch the show with your eyes open and see that it actually has some substance.If an AoT fan can deal with that below-average pseudo intellectual show and not Gundam 0079, then they were only fans of WIT and MAPPA's slave labor and not the actual show.
>>23956584Gundam is also for teenagers, don't be fooled into thinking show for teenagers = bad.Many modern shows for teenagers just tend to be more focused on "hype" and "aura". The solution is to either find shows that aren't just critically acclaimed battle shonen. You could also move on to seinen works, those are generally made to cater to young adults and on.
>>23956589Can't I just do whippits and then watch anything?
>>23956591Of course you can, just be careful or your brain might actually fall to the levels of a current day teenager.
>>23956492Gundam aged better than other real robot shows.The problem is that the B team writers ignored Amuro character so there is like 5-10 chapters.
>>23956195If your specifically interested in reading gundam the origin just get the 12 volume hard backs on amazon they’re decent quality, not terrible priced, and look nice as a collection. I enjoyed them but I recommend the OG gundam movie recompilations as a starting point for getting into gundam. Or just any of the AUs those are fine too.
