Why can't comics and cartoons into mecha? All Yas Forums attempts at mecha fall flat. The best and most successful attempts to do Yas Forums mecha are Transformers and that Voltron show. The former barely counts as mecha and the latter just fell apart by the end.
Why can't comics and cartoons into mecha? All Yas Forums attempts at mecha fall flat...
Adrian Mitchell
Colton Bailey
Tiny guess but probably because they're machines of war and death and why Gundam space opera and politics works out otherwise we get the kiddy version of giant death machines just punching each other and doing no damage or hurting anyone and by the end everyone's friends!!!
Daniel Cruz
Because it doesn't interest Western audiences. Simple as that. Even among katana wielding Naruto running weebaboos, mecha fans are considered the EWWW NERRDS.
Jose Smith
genlok
now come back when you dont have to larp on sunrise which only keeps their shows going because of the sell of toys for neets. The moment it becomes no longer profitable they will switch over the the other thing they own that makes 3x more profit; idol shit.
Camden Turner
Feels strange thinking about Transformers as mecha when they don't have pilots.
Ethan Russell
In the west we tend to want to skip the middle man and just have the giant robot as a person.
Exceptions exist. Megas XLR, Battletech/Mechwarrior, Exo-Squad, Headmasters and Godmasters Transformers, Big O.
But ultimately, being friends with Optimus Prime is more appealing than being a pilot. Unless of course you can do both.
James Peterson
>genlok
I'm sorry, that's your idea of good mecha?
Asher Collins
Fittingly, Transformers mecha is almost exclusively Japanese. Its for storylines where most if not all Cybertronians went back to Cybertron, and human/humanoid alien cyborgs kept up the fight by interfacing with remaining Autobots/Decepticons or piloting blank Sparkless bodies. The closest we ever got to that in the west is one of the two ultimate fates of Daniel Witwicky is being turned into a transforming cyborg who becomes Arcee’s head, and he lives on as part of her when in robot mode or by himself when she’s a car or is fine walking around headless.
Otherwise whenever they try to do it in the west they wuss out, and throw in GI Joe or MASK out there instead. Fuck, they referenced the main two human pilots, pic related, in the previous IDW as Overlord dicking around on Earth in human form trolling humanity as “Megan Gigalino” or whatever.
Jose Howard
Headmasters remains overcomplicated. Why can’t the small robot just be a dummy pilot they can remotely control when they want to walk around on the human level? Why does it have to be strange nightmare fuel that you can’t explain out loud with a straight face?
Owen Cooper
Even Japan has lost the knack.
This giant, moon-headed, bodiless bracket is supposed to be ZEUS. Just look at how ugly and lame it is.