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[Loki Laufeyson]

thanks to this thread, i now know the difference between real and super robots.

also, i recommend ko century beast warriors.

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[Cacophanus]

Ideon can cut planets in half and Gunbuster makes Jupiter go "boom". They're supers.

Cougar beats them all by defeating an uber bad guy within the mind of a god (and then skewering said god with a rather large sword). Plus, it's made of robot animals.
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[Martial Loh]

Shinkai Goddanar?

that has lots of big robots fighting strange monsters. and fan service. lots of that.

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So does Giant Robo qualify as a 'real' or 'super' robot? I mean, he's obviously surrounded by tons of Ridiculously Super men and women -- and piloted by one comparatively 'real' boy -- but I'm not sure that Robo himself is any more 'super' than your average Gundam (even if he is way more AWESOME).
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[DonMarco]

Gundam 08th was the most "real" of any Gundam series. I'll offer it up as an option because I really enjoyed it. In the series, the camera rarely had the entire Gundam in the shot, to emphasize how massive they are. Also shown is the down-time between conflicts, the military command in action, and a more intimate take on things.

The damage dealt was handled better and more visually. There's strategy and planning before and during combat. With this series, Gundams were taken out of the hands of chemically imbalanced teenagers and into the hands of hardened soldiers.

C'mon, it's only 13 episodes long, and really, really good. As are Gunbuster, Megas XLR and Evangelion.
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[Ebrey]

[luvcraft]

We finished watching GaoGaiGar last night.

BEST. SUPER. ROBOT. ANIME. EVAR.

Thanks for recommending it!! It is a must-see for anyone who wants to feel like an optimistic, energetic 9-year-old on Saturday morning again, but if you're still working off the last of your teen angst then you probably won't like it for a few more years.

Now I have all of Great Mazinger (with no subtitles! this should be fun) and Getter Robo to watch.

Oh, also, having finished GaoGaiGar and having been VERY pleased with its happy ending, I get the feeling that I should NOT watch GaoGaiGar FINAL, the 12-ep OAV follow-up, since I've heard that the ending is kind of a downer. Should I pretend it doesn't exist, or should I make the effort to see it?
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Wow, that sounds like the very antithesis of super robot anime. GET THE FUCK OUT OF THIS THREAD!!

KTHXBYE. ;)
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[Sonicrain]

Just check any series from Super robot wars
if you dont know what that game is.... play it now... lol its my favorite series.

Also check Gekiganger 3 ova and the movie it's pretty funny to see spoof of getta robo and combattle V and voles V.


G gundam is not a super robot anime in my opinion but its one of the only gundam series worth watching.

I suggest anything from the 70's. My favorite is Grendizer, third in the series of the mazingers. Daitarn 3, Daimos, Raideen (they make a 2k7 remake also) Dancougar is ok...

but hey thats me =p

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Thanks, sonicrain! We're watching Great Mazinger now, and were correct in our assumption that the plots would be so simple and straightforward that the lack of subtitles would not be a problem. It's like learning Japanese by immersion, only you're being immersed in 70s macho men.

If you haven't seen GaoGaiGar I highly recommend it, especially since it's the last and best in a long line of spiritual successors to Brave Raideen.
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[Cacophanus]

The new Cougar is a world of offensive WRONGNESS. Everything about the new show makes no sense, well less sense than aliens invading and teenagers using the HOT BLOODED POWER OF ANGER to kick their ass. The new characters are also massively offensive.

The new Reideen is very interesting though and has taken the source material in an interesting direction (oh and Tomino left the original show because he hated it, so his imprint isn't really present anyway).

As for the other stuff; a super robot exists regardless of the context it is placed in (the same can be said for a real, but that is far far rarer these days, the last one was technically Evangelion). So, Gunbuster is resolutely a super despite the show that hosted it being based mostly on realistic physics. If anything the juxtaposition of realism against stupidly uber mecha only accentuates their superness (something that Gainax were going for anyway).

Ideon is the king of all supers.
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[Sonicrain]

i have watch 1 episode of raideen on youtube and honestly his design is uber shit. It looks like it's being drawn by the same guy that did raxpheon so the robot looks nearly the same in my eyes. I thought it was cheezy and he looks flimzy, but raideen never was the best looking robot anyway.

Also anyone saw the new gaiking they did 2-3 years ago? It looked ok.

And yeah i saw some of gaogaigar but not all of them i should order the DVD box some day... when money permits!

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[Cacophanus]

Golion is a lot like Combattler V in SRWW; big, clumsy and a bit wussy. Good animations though.

I am *aware* of Voltron but I have problems with repackaged anime. Golion was a really weird show to pick, it's a very niche show in Japan. Maybe they got the rights cheap?

Zeorymer isn't that cheesy in SRWJ. It's the final form of Zeorymer that's cheesy. Fully pimped out, Great Zeorymer is of Ideon levels in terms of carnage. It's a bit silly.

Final Cougar is in SRWJ though and it's just as uber as it was in Alpha 3.

The Layzner SPTs are really very good in SRWJ though.
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