>>23956195
You don't.
>>>/wsr/

>>23956195
The 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.

>>23956253 >>23956199

damn , 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

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>>23956195
Origin is not a good entry point nor a good manga. Just watch the 0079 anime.

>>23956195
Just 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.

>>23956372
They're all shows for marketing toys for 8 year olds, who cares.

>>23956417
Only 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.

>>23956492
filtered, 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.

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>>23956492
I'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?

>>23956492
Go 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.

>>23956584
Gundam 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.

>>23956589
Can't I just do whippits and then watch anything?

>>23956591
Of course you can, just be careful or your brain might actually fall to the levels of a current day teenager.

>>23956492
Gundam 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.

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>>23956195
If 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.

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>>23956195
Go ask there.

>>23956195
I read GTO, and it was based. Too bad the Zeta Gundam anime wasn't adapted into a sequel to GTO.

>>23956584
AoT is worth your time, don't bother with the other three.

>>23956492
That's on them for having shit taste you cretin. The truth is, good things are always good. You are just a retarded filtered faggot.

>>23958114
I would recommend origin but definitely not the TL version. they ruin so many of char's lines

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Start with the greeks

>>23958114
these recomp movies fucking suck and make 0079 4x times more boring. why do people keep recommending them? is watching 43 episodes that much of a struggle?

>>23956492
The reactions to this post are incredibly telling

>>23972827
yeah good to know most mecha fans don't suffer from shounentard lobotomy
if you genuinely get filtered by 0079 you shouldn't watch mecha, simple as. 80% of all mecha is taking inspiration from it

>>23972867
Retard

>>23972868
Cope faggot

>>23972870
You are a retard

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>>23972637
Yeah I liked Mazinger. Was surprisingly good, though the slow pacing and monster of the week format makes it impossible to binge.

>>23956195
also Origin is where you'd think it starts, but that's an alternate universe retelling. Maybe you'll like it, but just watch the compilation movies or anime. There's people saying do one or the other or do neither, it does not matter. You can look up the differences, they're minor. Other stuff to look at are some non-gundam IPs, like the super robot animes. There's a bunch like getter robo that I liked. Then there's some of the cyberpunk inspired ones like Votoms. I liked Votoms, but I immersed myself in too much of that genre, I knew what was gonna happen before it happened. Votoms is pretty solid though. Patlabor I also felt was like that. Fullmetal Panic was fun for a surprisingly quality detour.

Oh yeah another option is to look in an SRW game, and pick out one that sounds cool on repeat.

>>23956195
>>23956492
just so you know people who were introduced to gundam through origin made this >>23949709 dogshit
20 years or so of people being afraid to recommend old anime culminating in catastrophic self-destruction

>>23956195
Not the worst option but I'd go with 00 Gundam.

>>23956584
Attack on titan becomes an /m/ show

>>23974763
seconding this

SDF macross is probably imo the best paced show of all time that I've ever watched
By contrast macross7 and delta are tied for the worst pacing in that they have 75% of their middle episodes being episodic repetitive filler

>>23974793
Retard alert.

>>23974763
My problem with 00 is it's the perfect amount of melodrama that seed had, less incoherent and refined Z/ZZ, and a lot of fun gags, callbacks, and references
It's just so good I feel like OP would need to watch something "good but flawed" to appreciate it fully
Basically for how mid Gundam has been the past decade 00 is too great
It's like being a full metal panic! Or Raildex fan waiting for more shit

>>23956195
>get in to /m/?
why would you do that?

>>23956492
>goofy music literally written to be played in toy stores
notice the self conscious embarrassment about watching something associated with kids and toys that prevent him from enjoying things for what they are
Char ga kuru is peak music by the way
>the poor animation by Sunrise's B-team
minor surface level flaw and the type of person that would be bothered most by this are children that only watch anime for the flashing lights and jingling keys
>the dumb monster-of-the-week format
something having an episodic structure does not mean its bad and this is only a problem for fags that insist on binge watching shit as if theyre on netflix instead of spreading out their viewing over days or weeks
>things that look like actual monsters like the Gogg
completely subjective but notice again the embarrassment at watching something with toyetic designs
>the stupid toyetic combination sequences of the Core Fighter and G-Armor
see above
>outdated nonsense
the fact that you call art outdated and think the newest shit must be better gives away that you view anime like toys more than the people that made gundam ever did

>>23956195
read mazinger z, and getter robo. watch ideon, gundam in release order, macross, and nadesico. play xenogears and xenosaga

>>23975369
Retard

>>23975369
You didn't have to bother putting that retard in his place but I appreciate the effort.