The MEGASHOCK Saloon Thread

[Volt]

2 minutes ago, Angel said:

a show with teenagers using doggy style power robots fighting monsters that make their clothes dissolve.  

What kind of teenagers are we talking about here? If they're 18+, I'm sold. 🤣

[Vhozite]

11 minutes ago, Volt said:

Uhhh... Megas XLR 🙃

I said mecha not “giant robot cars” 😉

[misterBee]

20 minutes ago, Sonero said:

I haven't tried Darling in the Franxx yet. Heard its basically Eva without the good parts.

Eva sucks, Darling in the Franxx is actually a really good show that gets shit on a lot by people who have never seen it due to the pervy designs.

 

It's basically a story about a special group of clones who figure out sex ed by themselves and uncover the secret behind the messed up dystopian world they live in.  Somewhere in there there's also robots and giant monsters.

 

9 minutes ago, beesuit said:

Darking in the Franxx just took the fruity looking mecha straight from Star Driver

 

https://youtu.be/B5NTMFraP2Y

 

I liked Star Driver too. 🙃

[Illwill88]

14 minutes ago, Vhozite said:

What other big mecha series are there? Only non-gundam one I’ve seen is IGPX, and that was pretty short. 
 

shit I loved that show. Just typing it makes me want to rewatch it. 

Umm the patlabor and macross movies. 

Oh and Big-O  it didn't come back but it's one of my favorites off atmosphere alone.

[Sonero]

1 minute ago, misterBee said:

Eva sucks

 

Hmm...

 

On SRK since 09...late 20s early 30s, aye?

 

🧐

 

[AriesWarlock]

I heard @DangerousJ and @MillionX watch ASRM. This video helps me fall asleep. The whispers are deep. And the comments lol: "British people be like “Djou wannit arda or softa”"

 

https://youtu.be/PDk7czDXtdc

 

 

 

 

 

[beesuit]

2 minutes ago, misterBee said:

I liked Star Driver too. 🙃

Kiraboshi! ☆ ≦・ω・

[misterBee]

2 minutes ago, Sonero said:

 

Hmm...

 

On SRK since 09...late 20s early 30s, aye?

 

🧐

 

I watched all of Eva on DVD a million years ago. I gave it a fair shot but the obvious lack of budget and flashbacks mixed with mindfuck weren't enough to make me love it like some people seem to.  I watched both movies too and honestly the only thing I can come up with is that Eva isn't that good -- the director is just so messed up he forced everyone into liking it through shock value alone.

 

I haven't seen the remakes -- maybe they will change my mind.  But there's a lot of modern anime out there that's way better than Eva.

[Sonero]

Pretty sure ASMR has people who actively view it on some sort of watch list.

 

Or at least I'd hope so.

 

 

[DangerousJ]

I do post ASMR videos here unlike srk1.

I will admit that 80 percent of it is for the girls and 20 percent for the relaxing lol.

 

 

[DarkSakul]

22 minutes ago, Vhozite said:

What other big mecha series are there?

Here a Short List of Japanese Mecha Anime

Big O, Macross, Macross/Robotech, Voltron (80s), Voltron (Netflix), beast King GO Lion (OG Anime Voltron based on), Genesis Climber MOSPEADA, Brain Powered, Armored Trooper Votoms, Gurren Lagann, Patlabor (Mecha-Police series), The Transformers Armada Trilogy (3 separate but continues series), Blue Gender, Apple Seed, Bubblegum Crisis (team of all Female Iron man suit wearers set in Cyber Punk Tokyo), Getter Robo, Mazinger, Sakura Wars, Vision of Escaflowne, Space Runaway Ideon (Grimdark as hell), Aquarion, Maze the Megaburst Space, Ghost in the Shell, Super Dimension Cavalry Southern Cross, Gunbuster (Most Bad Ass Intro for title/hero Mech ever), Magic Knight Rayearth, Martian Successor Nadesico, Galaxy Fräulein Yuna (Magic Girl Anime but with power armor instead of Magic), Full Metal Panic, Diebuster (Sequel to Gun Buster), Guyver: The Bioboosted Armor, Mega Man: Upon a Star, Aura Battler Dunbine

Edited October 8, 2020 by DarkSakul

[Sonero]

1 minute ago, misterBee said:

the director is just so messed up he forced everyone into liking it through shock value alone.

Hmm..you ducked my age question.

 

I think there's certain age groups that are going to respond differently to Eva. Its similar to something that goes on when people talk about Cowboy Bebop. I've noticed a lot of younger anime viewers say that it sucks (which is preposterous but I'll hold off on that for the moment).

 

Why do you feel Evangelion sucks?

[Disciple0fAnrky]

7 minutes ago, Vhozite said:

What other big mecha series are there? Only non-gundam one I’ve seen is IGPX, and that was pretty short. 
 

shit I loved that show. Just typing it makes me want to rewatch it. 

 Macross is the other old school iconic mech show that is internationally known.   Aka Robotech here in the states after it got bastardized. 

 

If you want to find a mecha you always have a good chance of finding them by the studios that mostly put them out like of course Sunrise and Bones.....  You got Gainax too of course but I haven't seen anything from them for a while now, just all their old stuff I guess.     I think Production IG put out one of my favorite mecha shows recently being Gargantia on the Verdurous Planet.    Was mad with what Satelite did with their second go at Macross with that shitty delta anime, but it's not like Studio Nue is that active so we get what we can I guess.   Really anything is preferable to Sunrise wasting all their talent on shitty Love Live sequels

[Hawkingbird]

21 minutes ago, Vhozite said:

What other big mecha series are there? Only non-gundam one I’ve seen is IGPX, and that was pretty short. 
 

shit I loved that show. Just typing it makes me want to rewatch it. 

Rahxephon is pretty good if you looking for an Eva type show.

[TheInfernoman]

ASMR is still weird to me...If you like it great but...I find it odd. 

[misterBee]

Just now, DarkSakul said:

Guyver: The Bioboosted Armor

Guyver is about monsters, not robots.  It was my favorite show growing up -- it sparked my life-long dream of becoming an animator and is the reason I went to film school.  I learned how to sing the show's theme song when I was 5 years old. ❤️

 

1 minute ago, Sonero said:

Hmm..you ducked my age question.

 

I think there's certain age groups that are going to respond differently to Eva. Its similar to something that goes on when people talk about Cowboy Bebop. I've noticed a lot of younger anime viewers say that it sucks (which is preposterous but I'll hold off on that for the moment).

 

Why do you feel Evangelion sucks?

Yeah I'm 31.  I watched EVA in middle/high school and wasn't impressed.  I liked the some of the story ideas and the animation was good when it wasn't being rehashed over and over, but I feel like it was more of an exercise to see how much weird stuff the director could get away with.  It may have been revolutionary, but that doesn't always mean good.  I could get into a whole long spiel about it...

[Disciple0fAnrky]

Lol at Bee claiming that there was an "obvious lack of budget" in the og eva show......this came out in 95?    Please compare the animation in that to shows that came out that year and try again bud.     

[Vhozite]

That’s for all the suggestions yall. Definitely game me plenty of options. 
 

might even watch some of that daring show just out of pure “wtf” curiosity from that gif

[beesuit]

Watch Bible Black you cowards

[Hawkingbird]

1 minute ago, Angel said:

Lol at Bee claiming that there was an "obvious lack of budget" in the og eva show......this came out in 95?    Please compare the animation in that to shows that came out that year and try again bud.     

I'm pretty sure the 25th and 26th episodes of that show came about because they ran out of budget. 

[misterBee]

1 minute ago, Angel said:

Lol at Bee claiming that there was an "obvious lack of budget" in the og eva show......this came out in 95?    Please compare the animation in that to shows that came out that year and try again bud.     

A lot of the endless recaps and white text on black background was because of planning/budget issues.  The animation that DID get completed wasn't the problem lololol.  The issue was that they couldn't get their shit together and animate everything they wanted to.

 

The movies didn't suffer from this problem.

[Volt]

1 minute ago, Vhozite said:

might even watch some of that daring show just out of pure “wtf” curiosity from that gif

I'm high key curious about that too. 🤣

 

Sounds like Hentai with extra steps. 

[Disciple0fAnrky]

Saying eva sucks while championing a weirdo show like ditf is a pretty bad take and I am not even an eva fan like that.  

 

Fuck look at these mechas bro...............

 

 

 

 

lol, just say you don't like mecha and have no clue what people actually want to see in the genre.  

 

 

[DarkSakul]

Eva isn't what I think is GAINAX best Mecha series, or eve close to it.

This is

 

 

[misterBee]

3 minutes ago, Angel said:

Saying eva sucks while championing a weirdo show like ditf is a pretty bad take and I am not even an eva fan like that.  

 

Fuck look at these mechas bro...............

 

 

 

 

lol, just say you don't like mecha and have no clue what people actually want to see in the genre.  

 

 

I love all mecha.  I'm super into mecha shows.  I've seen almost every Gundam series, Macross, Patlabor, etc.  I even like obscure shit like Detonator Orgun and Orguss II.

 

I ALSO like weird mecha like Darling and Star Driver.  You definitely can't hate the animation in those shows either -- it's gorgeous.

 

It's not that I dislike mecha.  I just love more kinds than the generic stuff everyone thinks of first. ❤️

 

 

2 minutes ago, DarkSakul said:

Eva isn't what I think is GAINAX best Mecha series, or eve close to it.

Gunbuster / Diebuster are sickkkk

[Disciple0fAnrky]

Take note that fan theories on why the last episode was the way it is are just fan theories......claiming an entire show is bad due to a single episode is just a bad take.     The rest of the show had incredible animation for it's time, just like big o

 

 

edit:   better be glad SouporMan isn't on here to see this Eva slander.   

[misterBee]

2 minutes ago, Angel said:

Take note that fan theories on why the last episode was the way it is are just fan theories......claiming an entire show is bad due to a single episode is just a bad take.     The rest of the show had incredible animation for it's time, just like big o

It's not fan theories though:

 

Starting with episode 16, the show changed drastically, discarding the grand narrative concerning salvation for a narrative focusing on the individual characters.[48][49] This change coincided with Anno's development of an interest in psychology after a friend lent him a book on mental illness.[50] This focus culminated in a psychoanalysis of the characters in the two final episodes.[10] The production ran so close to the airing deadline that the completed scenes used in the preview of the twenty-fifth episode had to be redesigned to work with the new ending.[51] These episodes feature heavy use of abstract animation,[52] flashbacks,[53] simple line drawings, photographs[54] and fixed image scenes with voice-over dialogue.[55] Some critics speculated that these unconventional animation choices resulted from budget cuts,[56] but Toshio Okada stated that while it wasn't only a problem of schedule or budget, Anno "couldn't decide the ending until the time came, that's his style".[57] These two episodes sparked controversy and condemnation among fans and critics of the series.[58] In 1997, Hideaki Anno and Gainax released two animated feature films, providing an alternative ending for the show: Death & Rebirth and The End of Evangelion.[59]

 

I get why people like Eva.  It's got a catchy OP and it did interesting things for its time.  I just don't think it's that good.

 

Anyway that's enough anime discussion for me.  These new themes won't write themselves...

[DarkSakul]

13 minutes ago, misterBee said:

Guyver is about monsters, not robots.

I can say the same thing about Eva, The Eva units aren't really robots, hell there only one episode with an actual giant robot.

Also here one of the best scenes in Diebuster
 

 

[scorp]

I wonder who are the oldest people here?

 

I'm 37 in Dec.

[Disciple0fAnrky]

So it wasn't a budget problem that plagued the entire show like you made it seem it was an Anno problem.    Meh whatever.    If you like butt controls and japanese plots to increase their birth rates then it's whatever, zero two is just a wacker version of Asuka

 

Damn was Orguss that obscure?    I had all the ova's. 

[AriesWarlock]

50 minutes ago, Vhozite said:

What other big mecha series are there? Only non-gundam one I’ve seen is IGPX, and that was pretty short. 

Aight, if you really wanna know,  you can never go wrong  with the GOAT mecha cartoons from the mind of Go Nagai!! They are like from late 70's but many of these got sequels from 2000's forward

 

Daiku Maryu Gaiking or Great Dragon Gaiking. The ship that transports the robot is called the great space dragon. The great fucking space dragon!! 🤘 And the robot has been stabbing fools with his horns before Frieza did it

 

Saiyuuki Starzinger. I suppose the three warriors are not mechas but rebel androids being "brainwashed" to help a space princess travel to a planet to carry out an important mission. Lots of misadventures on the way!

 

  Mazinger

 

 

 

Edited October 8, 2020 by AriesWarlock

[beesuit]

@misterBee

You should check out Granbelm if u havnt. You got magical girls summoning chibi mechs in a battle royale fight to death type setting. 

 

[GreatDarkHero]

I have an extremely important, world-changing, galaxy-brain, reality warping message for each and everyone on this thread discussion: 

 

Some of y'all need this. Badly. This will save yo' spirits. Acknowledge and embrace it. 

Source: Plastic Little

[Volt]

1 minute ago, GreatDarkHero said:

Source: Plastic Little

So you telling me these tiddies are fake?

[Disciple0fAnrky]

Someone mentioned some Manzinger?

 

 

wow this will embed but when I tried to embed the gurren lagann movies I uploaded it didn't work, fucking new facebook is total ass. 

[GreatDarkHero]

1 minute ago, Volt said:

So you telling me these tiddies are fake?

Just a little plastic is *always* good. 

Sometimes. 

But, I prefer none. Just nice, big, and natural. 

[AriesWarlock]

Never watched Gurren Lagann, but it's has provided some interesting cosplay

 

 

[beesuit]

You either on the Gurren Lagann train or you aint.

 

[Hecatom]

1 hour ago, misterBee said:

Eva sucks

While i like Eva, i think that RahXephon is much better, not to mention that has more gut punching moments even to the very last episode.

Without spoiling, in the 1st 5 mins somethong ocurred that had me SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOo pissed because i couldnt believe that shit happened in the very last episode, lol

 

 

[Saikyotic]

2 hours ago, beesuit said:

What we see vs what hecatom sees

 

 

[scorp]

I wish there was an anime thread so I could safely peruse this saloon thread.

[TheInfernoman]

we celebrating #thighthursday on a Wednesday? 

[Disciple0fAnrky]

Yeah weebs take it to the anime thread.  You are lucky we even let your ilk into this site 😉

[scorp]

7 minutes ago, Angel said:

Yeah weebs take it to the anime thread.  You are lucky we even let your ilk into this site 😉

[Sonero]

Man...all the Secret Santa homies coming out of their slumber all happy to get ready for it.

 

Man that one is legit kinda heartbreaking.

 

:sob:

[GreatDarkHero]

Oh shit it's @Hecatom! 

 

Glad you're doing alright!

[GreatDarkHero]

22 minutes ago, Saikyotic said:

 

 

This should increase people's eye perception. 

[Deadly_Raver]

Legend says that Ryu has killed everyone who has threatened to unpause the game.  The power of the dark hadou was not detected during the killings.

[Mattatsu]

1 hour ago, odin said:

I wonder who are the oldest people here?

 

I'm 37 in Dec.

You’re about 3 months older than me. I think @Darc_Requiem may be a bit older? I can’t recall for sure though

Edited October 8, 2020 by Mattatsu

[JustBooming]

Bloody long shot, but any Dutch folk here? A friend sent me some Oliehoorn fritessaus a couple of months ago, and I'm hooked. I'm going to be importing more. Is Oliehoorn the best? All I see here on sale are Remia brand stuff, and getting it imported, I don't wanna screw it up.

Edited October 8, 2020 by JustBrowsing