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[Mecha anime] It’s kind of unusual for a robot anime to have two main machines.

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1: Japan Otaku Reviews25/05/26(Mon)18:15

Strike and Strike Rouge, etc.
That armor’s color is probably just a changed program.

2: Japan Otaku Reviews25/05/26(Mon)18:17Yeahx2

Isn’t the image in the thread another unit meant for parts?

6: Japan Otaku Reviews25/05/26(Mon)18:21Yeahx3

>>2One is for Giron, and the other is for a companion.

3: Japan Otaku Reviews25/05/26(Mon)18:18

08th MS Team and so on

4: Japan Otaku Reviews25/05/26(Mon)18:19Yeahx2

Because model kits will sell twice as much.

8: Japan Otaku Reviews25/05/26(Mon)18:22

>>4It’s cooler and looks stronger when it’s a single unit.
I think it will become popular and sell like crazy.
Rather than a protagonist like a mass-produced machine

12: Japan Otaku Reviews25/05/26(Mon)18:29

>>8Bottoms are good, right?

5: Japan Otaku Reviews25/05/26(Mon)18:20

In the early days, there were actually two identical units of Ingram from Patlabor.

7: Japan Otaku Reviews25/05/26(Mon)18:21Yeahx5

Is it true that there are multiple identical machines?
I almost thought that it wouldn’t be unusual to have more than two types.

9: Japan Otaku Reviews25/05/26(Mon)18:22Yeahx7

The broken one is the main character.

10: Japan Otaku Reviews25/05/26(Mon)18:26Yeahx3

Three Danbines were fighting at the same time.

11: Japan Otaku Reviews25/05/26(Mon)18:29

“Bottoms goes without saying.”
There are also ones that look like Valkyries from Macross, but with only the head and color different.

13: Japan Otaku Reviews25/05/26(Mon)18:31

>>11But Scopedog is not from Armored Trooper VOTOMS, and Valkyrie is not from Macross, Zambungle is Zambungle, you know.

14: Japan Otaku Reviews25/05/26(Mon)18:31Yeahx3

The Byfom also has a mass-produced machine as the main character.

15: Japan Otaku Reviews25/05/26(Mon)18:33

Moreover, the main character machine has changed for the first time.

18: Japan Otaku Reviews25/05/26(Mon)18:35

>>15Moreover, it’s rare for the replacement main character’s machine to look uncool.

16: Japan Otaku Reviews25/05/26(Mon)18:34Yeahx1

It feels like the design of the Zabungle is out of place.

34: Japan Otaku Reviews25/05/26(Mon)18:47

>>16It seems that Iron Gear started out as a project originally planned for space exploration.

17: Japan Otaku Reviews25/05/26(Mon)18:34Yeahx4

It’s rare to have two of them.
It’s not like a mass-produced machine is going to come pouring out.

19: Japan Otaku Reviews25/05/26(Mon)18:35Yeahx1

It’s super cool, but it’s too cool and stands out.

25: Japan Otaku Reviews25/05/26(Mon)18:41

>>19The model kits at the time could not reproduce that coolness.
I wanted it to be made cool, regardless of the deformation.

20: Japan Otaku Reviews25/05/26(Mon)18:36

Both Zabungle units are properly used in the main story.

21: Japan Otaku Reviews25/05/26(Mon)18:36

I feel like whenever I think of robot anime from around here, there usually seems to be a coexistence of the new protagonist’s mecha and the old protagonist’s mecha…

22: Japan Otaku Reviews25/05/26(Mon)18:37

Dunbine breaks easily, doesn’t it…

24: Japan Otaku Reviews25/05/26(Mon)18:40

I got three Gundam Mark IIs from Z Gundam, but I think only one is left and the others are being used for parts.

26: Japan Otaku Reviews25/05/26(Mon)18:41

If the main robot had a heavy machinery design like other walker machines, it would be plain, so this is fine.

27: Japan Otaku Reviews25/05/26(Mon)18:43

The Scopedog is also a mass-produced machine, but since the others are often the latest models or suited for the environment, it frequently ends up looking like a dedicated machine for Kiriko.

28: Japan Otaku Reviews25/05/26(Mon)18:44Yeahx2

Even a black enemy mech called Brackery appears.

29: Japan Otaku Reviews25/05/26(Mon)18:45

>>28It’s cool, isn’t it?
I wish there was a model kit of Dron too.

30: Japan Otaku Reviews25/05/26(Mon)18:45

You can see the cool Zabungle in the opening every time.

31: Japan Otaku Reviews25/05/26(Mon)18:46

It’s because we’re sharing the frame, but I feel like Nadeshiko is close.

32: Japan Otaku Reviews25/05/26(Mon)18:46

It’s not a mass-produced model, but it might be rare to have a few units.

33: Japan Otaku Reviews25/05/26(Mon)18:47

I think it’s rare, or perhaps a first in history.

36: Japan Otaku Reviews25/05/26(Mon)18:48

>>33It’s not real-time; it’s an anime from over 40 years ago, so if there’s something similar afterward, those two can coexist.

37: Japan Otaku Reviews25/05/26(Mon)18:49

>>36It doesn’t matter whether they can coexist or not.

35: Japan Otaku Reviews25/05/26(Mon)18:48Yeahx1

It’s great that this cool robot makes clumsy moves.

38: Japan Otaku Reviews25/05/26(Mon)18:50

Regarding the Zambungle, the mothership was also engaged in battles with similar ships.

39: Japan Otaku Reviews25/05/26(Mon)18:50

Without a doubt, it has expanded the possibilities of robot anime.

42: Japan Otaku Reviews25/05/26(Mon)18:52

>>39It’s amazing to have set a precedent where it’s acceptable to transfer within a single program.

40: Japan Otaku Reviews25/05/26(Mon)18:52

The Zambungle model’s goggles were clear parts and looked cool.

41: Japan Otaku Reviews25/05/26(Mon)18:52

The rifle was originally designed as a beam rifle.

43: Japan Otaku Reviews25/05/26(Mon)18:55

Doing gags with realistic mecha is something new, isn’t it?

49: Japan Otaku Reviews25/05/26(Mon)19:00

>>43I try to do it with Elgaim and ZZ as well, but it just doesn’t feel as right as with Zabungle.

44: Japan Otaku Reviews25/05/26(Mon)18:56Yeahx1

Also, a well-known one would be Ingram, I guess.

59: Japan Otaku Reviews25/05/26(Mon)19:06

>>44The initial concept for Patlabor was a world similar to Zambungle, where robots like Zambungle would engage in chaotic antics.
It was a work called “Lightning Flash Galakles.”
Since that time, the robot was called the Labor Machine.

61: Japan Otaku Reviews25/05/26(Mon)19:07

>>59From there, it often turned into conversations about the police.

76: Japan Otaku Reviews25/05/26(Mon)19:14

>>61Even when it comes to the police, they’re still being chaotic…

67: Japan Otaku Reviews25/05/26(Mon)19:10

>>59Is the original source of Gardyne?

73: Japan Otaku Reviews25/05/26(Mon)19:12

>>67The setting of Galacレス is very similar to Zabungle, and it has become a police story called “Baidoll.”
Based on that, I planned the Patlabor project and presented it, and at that time, I also submitted Gardein simultaneously.
In the end, Patlabor was adopted as planned, and Kou Hiwatari, who was struggling to come up with ideas for a new work, asked if he could make it into a novel.

86: Japan Otaku Reviews25/05/26(Mon)19:18

>>73Well, write it until the end!

91: Japan Otaku Reviews25/05/26(Mon)19:20

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45: Japan Otaku Reviews25/05/26(Mon)18:57


Did you watch the new anime?

47: Japan Otaku Reviews25/05/26(Mon)18:58Yeahx4

>>45Iron Gear is nice, isn’t it…?

54: Japan Otaku Reviews25/05/26(Mon)19:02

>>45I’ll take the delicious part at the end, so this is Zabunguru Graffiti.

46: Japan Otaku Reviews25/05/26(Mon)18:57

I was surprised when the wing broke and the tire was gone early in the game.

48: Japan Otaku Reviews25/05/26(Mon)19:00

Macross and so on

50: Japan Otaku Reviews25/05/26(Mon)19:00

It is said that the real-time enthusiasts physically broke the wings of the plastic model to recreate the Giroon machine.

78: Japan Otaku Reviews25/05/26(Mon)19:15

>>50Recently, everyone has broken wings, so it’s compassionate…

82: Japan Otaku Reviews25/05/26(Mon)19:16

>>78When it comes to equipping weapons on the shoulders and arms, I definitely want to do it with a Gelgoog.

51: Japan Otaku Reviews25/05/26(Mon)19:01Yeahx2

BlenPowder has some details that are different at first glance, but there are many similar ones, and I enjoyed remembering them.

52: Japan Otaku Reviews25/05/26(Mon)19:01

The protagonist being a perfect dumpling is also an unconventional choice, isn’t it?

53: Japan Otaku Reviews25/05/26(Mon)19:02

I haven’t seen the main story, but I feel like the models have been coming out a lot lately, so it must be popular.

58: Japan Otaku Reviews25/05/26(Mon)19:06Yeahx1

>>53Another Gale is also interesting.

84: Japan Otaku Reviews25/05/26(Mon)19:17

>>58I hope Rosso will come out in HG.
Painting blue red is troublesome…

55: Japan Otaku Reviews25/05/26(Mon)19:03

If I were to incorporate it into the setting of the work, I think the Zambungle, which was made with a sense of innocence and effort, ended up feeling out of place, so I consider the Garia to be a bit more down-to-earth.

56: Japan Otaku Reviews25/05/26(Mon)19:04

I liked the heavy machine feel of the enemy mechs and bought a ton of plastic models, but this line unfortunately didn’t continue.

57: Japan Otaku Reviews25/05/26(Mon)19:05

Is the protagonist riding a mass-produced machine?
It might be easier to sell if it’s characterized, so there’s not much.

60: Japan Otaku Reviews25/05/26(Mon)19:06

The Ananguia had a slim axis for the waist when transformed.

64: Japan Otaku Reviews25/05/26(Mon)19:08

>>60Back then, it was supposed to have a mechanism that moved the slide in a way that was hard to understand.
The Takatoku toys were also swapped out.

65: Japan Otaku Reviews25/05/26(Mon)19:08

>>60That probably incorporates the transformation from Soul of Chogokin.

62: Japan Otaku Reviews25/05/26(Mon)19:07

Even mass-produced machines end up getting customized as a result.
In other words, if you can’t distinguish appearances from each other, it’s hard to know who is doing what, so there needs to be some element of differentiation.

63: Japan Otaku Reviews25/05/26(Mon)19:07

I still think that if you make some changes, Black Curry could be transformed.

69: Japan Otaku Reviews25/05/26(Mon)19:10

>>63The Zabungle type had the worst maintainability in the climate of planet Zola, so it became Galleon.
It seems that it has become a machine that just takes the best parts because even that was too much effort.

66: Japan Otaku Reviews25/05/26(Mon)19:09

Stand up to the

68: Japan Otaku Reviews25/05/26(Mon)19:10

It’s currently a big trend in post-apocalypse.

70: Japan Otaku Reviews25/05/26(Mon)19:11

It’s mostly Gun Sword because the narration and world view are the same.

72: Japan Otaku Reviews25/05/26(Mon)19:12

>>70Both are stories of revenge.

71: Japan Otaku Reviews25/05/26(Mon)19:11

I liked Blacklyga, which is like a mix of Zabungle and Gallia.

74: Japan Otaku Reviews25/05/26(Mon)19:12

A guy with an incredible range for merging transformations.

75: Japan Otaku Reviews25/05/26(Mon)19:14

After the release of Robot No. 2, it’s generally the case that the more unassuming heroine pilots Robot No. 1.
Well, it’s hard to say which is more plain between Rag and Elchi…

77: Japan Otaku Reviews25/05/26(Mon)19:14

I was surprised to see the appearance of the protagonist and the successor model since I only knew the robot’s appearance.

79: Japan Otaku Reviews25/05/26(Mon)19:15

Civilians have no development capability, so they are waiting for new models to be captured or supplied.

80: Japan Otaku Reviews25/05/26(Mon)19:16

The Hi-Metal R Zabungle series was really good.
In other words, it seems to be particularly fortunate in terms of being turned into three-dimensional figures, as it was also released as part of the Soul of Chogokin line.

89: Japan Otaku Reviews25/05/26(Mon)19:19

>>80Super Mini Pla
MODEROID
Hasegawa 1/72
Bandai HG
It has increased in the last ten years or so.

81: Japan Otaku Reviews25/05/26(Mon)19:16

At first glance, it looks like a container truck, but the Bungurover has absolutely no carrying capacity.

87: Japan Otaku Reviews25/05/26(Mon)19:18

>>81I wonder why there’s a shutter on it…

95: Japan Otaku Reviews25/05/26(Mon)19:28

>>81If I had designed it to transform on its own, Briger would have come out first.
I made it so that it separates forcefully.

85: Japan Otaku Reviews25/05/26(Mon)19:18

It’s just a little too cool, isn’t it?

88: Japan Otaku Reviews25/05/26(Mon)19:18

It’s realistic that it’s secured with a rifle strap.

90: Japan Otaku Reviews25/05/26(Mon)19:20

Planet Zora, Earth, but people have long forgotten its name… a narration that quickly reveals what kind of world it is.

92: Japan Otaku Reviews25/05/26(Mon)19:20

Even from the perspective of the standards at the time of its release, the Soul of Chogokin Zabungle is doing quite strange things.

93: Japan Otaku Reviews25/05/26(Mon)19:26

Originally, it was planned as a standard space battle story, so both Iron Gear and Zabungle have shapes and functions that clearly look out of place.

94: Japan Otaku Reviews25/05/26(Mon)19:28

I really love Iron Gear and I love battles against ships of the same type.

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