God bless Mercury Falcon.
This channel cut a video today aiming straight at the poseur faggots in AniTube--Gigguk, looking at you, you poncy git--that keep talking bullshit about mecha in manga and anime in the 1970s leading up to Mobile Suit Gundam, and concludes by pointing out specifically that Reals are a branching path of mecha- not a superceding successor.
The big myth Falcon dispells is that Super Robots never got past Elementary School levels of narrative complexity. Complete bullshit. By the time Mazinger Z aired in the early 1970s that died like so many of Mazinger's enemies, and with the increase in narrative complexity and maturity--albeit within the confines of needing to push merch--came a shift in the audience. That is what got realized by Gundam when they found that far more model kits than toys sold, launching Gunpla and--like how Games Workshop claims 40K to be--turning it into its own hobby.
Super Robots never died. Not even Evangelion did that, and we still get new ones--Gurren Lagann was not the last--like Gridman, and old favorites retain their global fanbases even generations after originally airing as proven by Mazinger Z Infinity, Getter Robo Arc, and the upcoming Grendizer project.
What is changing--in the manner of beating it through the dense skulls of terminally-retarded poseurs--is the comprehension of what Super Robots and Super Robot stories are, how they differ from the Reals, and therefore how to make original Super Robot stories that work.
Don't think so? You still haven't seen Pacific Rim, haven't you? Del Toro get it, and he is not the only one outside of Japan that does. He's just the first to succeed.
Go watch Super Robot shows. Go read Super Robot manga. Get a solid mastery of the form. Then do what so many of them did: remix with other elements to make your own.
(N.B.: We'll be back on the RPG beat tomorrow.)
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