FGO is not representative of any fucking thing other than Nasu and Takeuchi wanting to bleed the franchise until it's fucking dry.
Is that even supposed to be a mecha or are you just complaining about stupid shit?
Why can't comics and cartoons into mecha? All Yas Forums attempts at mecha fall flat...
Zachary Gomez
Caleb Murphy
>Why does it have to be strange nightmare fuel that you can’t explain out loud with a straight face?
Because the only reason Headmasters existed was "fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck we're not making as much money as we were and, what can we do to keep this ship going" "I know, lets.....make then fit INSIDE he man toys, kids like he man right, we'll call them PRETENDERS, and lets uh....lets make the transformers be vehicles for little pilots, and those pilots will transform into heads!" and on and on with all of the late G1 gimmicks, they were just trying to come up with new toy ideas to keep kids interested.
For the fiction...they then had to come up with explanations, and, yeah, they tried.
Tyler Perry
Been trying to figure this out as well. You'd think with how much us Americans LOVE guns, war, and impractically huge vehicles, mechs would be hot shit over here. And yet.
Maybe indeed we don't really care about the mechs unless they are themselves characters.
Owen Russell
What this guy said. In the west, we tend to prefer sapient robots, while Japan seems to, by large, prefer piloted ones, with something like the Brave series being an exception. But then again, you have things like Magas XLR and Pacific Rim which became cult favorites in the US. Maybe it's just still considered "too nerdy" or dumbasses here think it's silly or unrelatable.
A shame, because I like /m/ shit.
Asher Scott
I think it's because of America's history of super hero culture...which is largely, aliens, monsters, freaks, mutants of some kind becoming the hero
Japan has a little bit of this when they blatantly rip off the idea of super heroes from the West, but they are much more nationalistic overall. Mecha is just army men but the tanks look like people, in the USA G.I. Joe was the closest thing to that that was ever popular on a massive household name scale and it hasn't been popular for a long time either.
Austin Barnes
In fairness, having the mechs themselves BE the characters makes a lot of sense from a production standpoint. Fewer character models, less time having to show the characters getting in and out of the cockpit, no need for interior shots, surviving high damage is more plausible, easy to justify new abilities, easy -if well trod- jokes, , adds a sense of exoticism to the cast, etc.
Easton Adams
Why do we like mechs anyway? Is it the same appeal as cars, but with limbs?
Sebastian Allen
Tanks, but with limbs.
Cameron Davis
Japanese Headmasters IS what you said it is. Tinier Transformers built bigger bodies for themselves to combine with for combat and for interacting with their cybertronian cousins.
Jaxon Edwards
The army man thing is just for Gundam though. Mazinger and Getter are closer to superheros than warmachines. Heck, Getter Robo is Jack Kirby's New Gods in terms of lore.