#giant robot mikazuki

[filthyneverdie]

MG 1/100 GUNDAM BARBATOS

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[kaxtwenty]

So is there any actual evidence that Atra and Mika fucked in the Gundam or was that just a joke?

[billveusay]

'Sup

If you just landed here, you should be warned about what to expect from this account. Mostly Gundam stuff since as of writing, I've decided to watch every animated thing that came out of it and document my feelings on each of them in excruciating detail. For some reason. I also dabble in memes and random thoughts on occasion, and am working on some fanarts because I regularly forget to draw for long periods of time and need the practice.

Here's a map of the park, don't let your children run around unsupervised.

Gundam Reviews :

> Hathaway's Spark > Mobile Suit Gundam > Gundam Zeta > 0083: Stardust Memory > 0080: War in the Pocket > 8th MS Team > The Witch from Mercury > Gundam Thunderbolt > The Origin > Turn A Gundam > F91 > Gundam Unicorn > Gundam 00 > MS IGLOO > Gundam Narrative > Iron-Blooded Orphans > Gundam Wing

Art

> Loran Cehak portrait - Turn A Gundam > Cinder Karla portrait - Armored Core 6 > JelloApocalypse Danganronpa stream 1 (comic) > JelloApocalypse Danganronpa stream 2 (comic) > Heero Yuy gets invited to Tekkadan (comic) > Mora Boscht (alternative timeline outfits) - Stardust Memory

Gundam Memes (and random thoughts):

> Elevating the Amuro-Char duel > Gundam ice cream flavours > WfM parental double standards > Why giant robots are cool (micro essay) > Turn A Gundam priorities > Harry Ord does a thing > Setsuna and Tieria's fuck you friendship > Is IBO just 00 but good? > Scolding pieces of media with long titles > What every Char-clone needs > Mikazuki summed up in one shot > Stardust Memory x Iron Blooded Orphan fanfic synopsis

Screencaps from my Gundam Wing liveblog that I found funny:

[Part 01] / [Part 02] / [Part 03] / [Part 04] / [Part 05] / [Part 06] [Part 07] / [Part 08] / [Part 09] / [Part 10] / [Part 11] / [Part 12] [Part 13] / [Part 14] / [Part 15] / [Part 16] / [Part 17] / [Part 18] [Part 19] / [Part 20] / [Part 21] / [Part 22] / [Part 23] / [Part 24] [Part 25] / [Part 26] / [Part 27] / [Part 28] / [Part 29] / [Part 30] [Part 31] / [Part 32] / [Part 33] / [Part 34] / [Part 35] / [Part 36] [Part 37] / [Part 38] / [Part 39] / [Part 40] / [Part 41]

[dire-straits-fn8ic]

I'm on episode 6 of Iron Blooded Orphans and I'm really fascinated by Mikazuki as a protagonist. He just doesn't give a shit about the political side of things or even the business side of things, he's just interested in helping out his friends.

Delivering food to the staff, risking his body in order to protect people, ruthlessly murdering anyone his bestie asks him to.

Homeboy doesn't give a shit about the wider implications of anything he's just a weapon to be pointed in a direction. And he also wants to deliver food and maybe hang out.

He'd be perfectly content as a pizza delivery driver who also hangs out and smokes weed, but his buddy has business plans so Mikazuki merges his mind with a giant robot and cuts down his foes without hesitation.

[space-catholic]

The tonal differences between the mechs in Super Robot Wars 30 is wild.

Like Combattler V’s pilots in their brightly colored costumes combining their machines and defeating enemies with the power of friendship.

But on the same ship you have Mikazuki and the Barbatos, which is piloted via a neural interface system almost as dangerous to the pilot as it is to the enemy and defeats enemies by beating them to death with a giant flanged mace.

These two machices operate together from the same mothership and their lore has been modified so they’ve always existed in the same timeline.

Wild.

[weeb-polls-with-pip]

Autistic Anime Boys Side A Round 2 Match 11

Propaganda:

Kamille -

"his autism is literally powerful enough to pilot a giant robot, he regularly misses social cues and doesn't understand why people are upset with him for being kinda blunt, he takes every possible opportunity to punch cops, and every girl who meets him is obsessed with his autistic tboy swag (same tbh)."

Subaru -

"To me, the only reason that he is not canonically autistic is that it is never explicitly stated. He maps very closely to my experiences. He doesn't like changes in environment so he never travelled with his parents on vacation, however his parents always made sure that if he wanted to go with them that it would be something that would be comfortable for him. Always involving his interests (books and authors) in some manner and paying attention to what times would be quieter and would have fewer crowds. Then there was the incident where he mistook the pet store assistant's questions about his cat as questions about himself. Questions such as Haru's (the cat's) name and age."

[wordsandrobots]

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[@lilenui informs me today (8 April) is Shino/Yamagi day. Actually, they informed me of this via a post four days ago, which proves I can write fast when I have a looming deadline, since I bashed this out inside 24 hours.

Anyway, in honour of today, here's a flip-side piece to accompany Falling for a Fool. Content warnings for extremely bi himbo energy and general dumbassery.]

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It shouldn't have meant anything.

It probably didn't.

Touching other people was such a normal part of everyday life, Shino barely thought about it most of the time. A nudge here, a knock there, the clasped hand or bumped fist, a slap on the back for a job well done or a kick to the ass for being an idiot. He couldn't count how often he'd lifted one of the little guys where they couldn't reach, or knocked about with those in his weight class, or simply slung his arm around a familiar pair of shoulders just because.

What was there too think about?

Why couldn't he get this time out of his head?

The battle with the mobile armour had been intense. A giant monster robot from hundreds of years ago on a rampage that nearly ended with Chryse getting flattened, that was only stopped because Mikazuki went all-out. When the dust settled, Tekkadan were heroes once again. They'd done something nobody had since the Calamity War and by rights it ought to have been the start of bigger and bigger things, putting them on the path to truly becoming the kings of Mars.

Hadn't worked out that way, but still: they got to prove how awesome they were!

And in the middle of it all, Shino headed out to fight in a mobile suit he barely knew how to use.

Yamagi had been pissed at being dragged into the cockpit to work the new Ryusei-Go's equipment. He didn't wait to start bombarding Shino with homework afterwards, insisting he wasn't about to take a job as a full-time operating manual. That sucked because reading a mountain of technical mumbo-jumbo was more likely to send Shino to sleep than help him understand the rail-guns and the transformation mechanism and so on, but he supposed it was fair.

He'd practised hard until he could remember which buttons did what, first try.

His record now stood at switching to and from shelling-mode three times in a row without throwing anything out of whack, which had earned him a rare nod of approval.

So all in all, the situation worked out well, for him specifically. He got a Gundam to call his own, did his part in the battle, bringing down a canyon to split the mobile armour off from its drone swarm, and Yamagi was still talking to him despite everything. Sure, with what had happened since, it felt like a very small achievement in amongst a storm of massive disasters, but you took what you could, right? It definitely wasn't nothing, to finally have the strength to protect his friends.

Yet the memory kept worrying at him, like a stone in his boot.

Not the whole thing, just one particular part.

Because there'd been this moment, on-route to the target, where he'd needed to swerve. He can't remember what he was avoiding, exactly. An outcropping or a crater, some common hazard of speeding across a rocky desert, pinging on his sensors. He'd done what he always did, throwing the Ryusei-Go into a sharp sideways jink, and normally that'd be that. Only, he had another person stuffed in there with him and when he hit the dodge harder than he'd meant to –

The cockpit rocked as he regained his balance.

And Yamagi's hand struck his shoulder.

Which made sense. Yamagi was sitting across Shino's knees, folded practically in half, and there wasn't anything else for him to have braced against. It was that or being pitched across the cabin. In any case, Shino hardly felt the touch. Yamagi was not what you'd call heavy, or especially strong. He could've pushed with all his might and it'd likely have done very little had Shino been standing up, much less sitting down with a back-rest behind him.

But Yamagi didn't push.

He flinched away and hunched up, and began tapping furiously at his data pad.

Now, true, Yamagi wasn't the world's biggest fan of being manhandled. A holdover from how he got treated when he first joined the CGS and quite a lot of the time after then, before Orga took charge. Probably from being a small, slim little guy who worked for a military company in general, really, especially since getting so badly sick from the Alaya-Vijnana surgery meant he never took to the training. It was understandable, if he was sensitive over getting shoved around

Shino did his best to respect that, even when circumstances meant he needed to physically move Yamagi about the place.

Yamagi usually let him know if he went to far, with glares that had him regretting his life choices.

Except this wasn't that. Yes, Shino did catch hold of Yamagi as well, to stop him going flying, and got shrugged off for his trouble, but he was fairly sure that hadn't been the reason for the reaction. No glare, for one thing. Could it run both ways? Did a dislike of being touched make you hate touching? That didn't sound right. Then again, Shino couldn't say he'd ever paid much attention to who or what Yamagi went around touching. Maybe it was just something he'd failed to notice?

No, hang on, Yamagi helped him put on Alaya-Vijnana connector blocks all the time.

Surely he'd have noticed if that made Yamagi uncomfortable?

If they hadn't been fighting a life-or-death battle, and if Orga hadn't chosen that exact moment to come on the comm to tell them to get a move on, Shino would probably have asked Yamagi what was up then and there. He regretted missing the chance. He got too caught up in the high of victory to remember to do it when they made it back home, only thinking he should after Yamagi had already shoved the pad into his hands and hurried off, boots dangling from his…

Wait.

Did Yamagi run away from him?

He replayed the scene in his head, trying to recall the exact expression with which Yamagi delivered the instruction to read the damn files already. He'd had his head lowered, fringe falling across his face, making it hard to see fully and meaning it was even harder to picture in hindsight. Vaguely annoyed and despairing? That wasn't exactly unusual. Sometimes, Shino genuinely wondered why Yamagi had put up with him for so long.

That was probably why Shino was worrying about this.

He and Yamagi made such a good team, he hated the idea of anything coming between them.

Was it just a gross place to put your hand? Checking for himself, running a finger around the point under his collar bone where the slab of muscle on his chest gave way to his arm, there didn't seem to be any strange bumps or warts or whatever. Maybe the bare skin felt bad? Mobile suit cockpits weren't much better than mobile workers when it came to overheating and getting ugly-sweaty. Except Yamagi had been wearing gloves…

And Shino never got complaints from people who touched him there while working up a nicer kind of sweat!

The thought wrapped around to hit his brain like a live grenade.

No. No! Absolutely not. Why would he think for even a second that that had anything to do with it? Sure, yeah, it was technically an intimate place to touch, and looking at things from that angle – the angle where he hadn't been wearing a shirt and he and Yamagi were closer than they'd ever been before in their lives – then the connection wasn't a totally wild one to make. Under other circumstances, for other people, it might have been sensible. But come on!

Did Yamagi seriously think Shino thought he'd been trying to cop a feel?!

That was crazy!

For starters, Shino would never think that. Tekkadan was his family and as far as he was concerned, that put everyone else in it squarely off-limits when it came to any sort of intimate touching, giving or receiving. That was just… obvious. Orga said they were a family, and Shino cared about the guys around him the way you were supposed to care about your brothers, so of course he wasn't about to start leaping to all the wrong conclusions just because –

It suddenly occurred to him he hadn't ever checked if the others took the same meaning from what Orga said as he did.

Perhaps he needed to change angles again.

Yamagi being into guys wouldn't be the most surprising thing. All the crap the First Group bastards used to sling around aside, it was hard not to notice how uninterested Yamagi was in girls. Or at least, he wasn't interested in going out on the town to pick them up. Like Orga, except without the feeling the point was flying over his head. Yamagi seemed to understand sex as a concept, he just didn't appear to want it with the kind of people who showed up in Shino's magazines.

Didn't he ask if Shino was into girls once? As though there could be any doubt!

…had he maybe wanted a different answer?

OK, this was starting to feel weird. Now Shino was wondering if he'd ever seen Yamagi look at someone in a way that suggested he wanted to get it on with them! He was always so quiet and serious, it was hard to picture him being horny. Or giving anybody the time of day, honestly. The closest he got was maybe how he'd looked when they were putting the Alaya-Vijnana into the Graze Custom. The intense concern he'd shown over the pain the testing caused Shino.

Since then, he'd made it a mission to always perfectly tune Shino's A-V system, to avoid it hurting him again.

Did… did he do that for anyone else?

An itch spread across Shino's scalp as he took stock of the sheer amount of stuff he relied on Yamagi to do for him. Hell, there hadn't been a question that he'd be the one to head off to the Saisei to get Gundam Flauros fixed and turned into Ryusei-Go the Fourth. Shino bought the paint out of his own pocket but he'd known he could rely on Yamagi to make sure his new machine came back a roaring pink. Shino knew he could rely on Yamagi, full-stop, with pretty much everything.

Which was great!

Having a comrade – a friend – who'd make sure he got what he needed to fight the way he wanted was amazing!

Why though? Why did Yamagi do that? Shino was always bugging him with new ideas and he was always going along with them, despite his better sense. Sometimes, he'd explain bluntly why a suggestion was stupid and impossible given their resources, then come back an hour later with a plan to get close to something like what Shino wanted, and the result would turn out even better. In fact, the only time he'd flat-out refused was…

When they talked about funerals.

When Yamagi said he'd not make ice flowers bloom for Shino because they were too expensive.

Shino got the strong urge to slap himself across the face. He'd known he was being given the brush-off back then, it just hadn't occurred to him that was because – because, well, how could it have been? 'Cos when you started bringing in things like… then you weren't talking about sex any more, were you? And he could deal with somebody thinking he was hot, he could handle them being embarrassed over that, but if it was more than just a guy into guys being into a hot guy –

He was getting ahead of himself.

Way, way, way ahead of himself.

So what if Yamagi's flinch could possibly, maybe be taken as a response to… that. What other clues were there? He hadn't squirmed or blushed. He was a predictable level of snitty over being treated as on-site tech-support. He'd… not exactly been pleased when Shino got a tiny bit loud over Ride using Ryusei-Go the Third to snag the monster's attention. Nothing out of the ordinary for someone so cool under pressure, the only sign of nerves was a single foot tapping against Shino's knee.

Hold on.

Back up.

For a long few minutes, Shino sat with what snatches he could remember from before the flinch. The yelp Yamagi gave on being hoisted through the hatch. The restless patter of his toes, like he was trying to grab on with them. The all-business voice in which he rattled off information about the Flauros cannons. The faint reek of engine oil, soaked into his overalls, mingling with the new-clean smell of the cockpit and the animal musk of another body. The way he kept looking away –

None of it should have meant anything.

It still probably didn't.

But if Shino's suspicions were on the mark, then there was somebody in Tekkadan who did not think of him as family, or at least, not the kind of family Shino had assumed they were. Which meant he needed to figure out what to do next, because he couldn't just leave the guy hanging after going so long without realising. He'd have to say something, do something, decide if he wanted to see what came of saying yes…

Surprisingly, there didn't seem to be much of a question over that.

Good to know.

Even so, he ought to make sure. It'd be a huge pain in the ass if he worked himself up to asking an important question only to find he'd completely misread the situation. That'd be a real jerk move, inflicting such an awkward mess on Yamagi, and then Shino'd be the one dealing with horrible embarrassment. No, the smart thing would be to get a second opinion, check his working, make sure he wasn't chasing down the wrong rat hole with all of this.

And Eugene was sitting right there, so –

“Hey, can we talk about Yamagi? Do you think he… likes me or something?”

[paxesoterica]

More on SRW 30 (some light spoilers).

The combining robots resolved their existential crisis, and the party gained their service along with a giant robot ninja (who sometimes transforms into a wolf), but it was a somber occasion due to the need to fight one of their former comrades.

Since then, the party (which I stuck with the default name of 'Dreikreuz', but in retrospect probably should have renamed 'LGBTQ Community', and I'll probably do just that on a 2nd playthrough) has investigated several timespace rifts and recruited a handful of characters from previous Super Robots Wars games, many of whom have their giant robots use Taoist magic for their special attacks (as one does). Mikazuki from Iron-Blooded Orphans and Ultraman from...Ultraman were also briefly spotted but then vanished.

Having filled out the party's ranks, I proceeded to Gibraltar so the party can start doing space missions and hopefully recruit some Gundam characters. The boss there seemed dangerous, but for all his braggadocio, he turned out to be a coughing baby when pitted against the party's hydrogen bomb of spirit commands that raise accuracy & evasion, support attacks, swanky new attacks for the main mecha and ship, and the occasional tactical retreat to bait him into closing the distance.

Also, I might be misinterpreting things, but I keep seeing hints that our ship captain, who has vowed to achieve world peace by unifying Earth and fighting anybody who's against that, *might* be secretly a little evil, which, I hope not, but I guess we'll beam saber that bridge when we come across it (no spoilers on what her actual deal is, please).

So, good times.

On a more serious note, I am sympathetic to folks who wish the game had just a teensy bit more structure. Like, having a choice between a couple of missions in the beginning, and then moving on to the next set once finished is one thing, but after the captain, Mitsuda, rallies the troops with her talk of uniting Earth, a whole bunch of missions open up, and you're not really given any guidance on what to do, except for the numbers denoting enemy strength in a given mission.

I think the game would have benefitted from a mandatory non-combat mission at this point, one which debriefed the player on actual strategy, like noting that there currently seem to be six major obstacles to uniting the world peacefully that must be resolved:

The resurrection of the Kikaiju Army and their new, unknown master

The suspected role of Excellent Inc. in the wave of robot crimes

The ongoing conflict with space revolutionaries like Neo Zeon and Zanscare

The emergence of kaiju and other inexplicable phenomena seemingly centered on the city of Tsutsujidai

Hostile extraterrestrials like the Wulgaru

And the increasing appearance of holes in spacetime that deposit new weapons in the world

Laying it out like that, I think, would have been beneficial for players who might otherwise be overwhelmed by all the choices before them (like, for example, prior to actually initiating missions involving the spacetime stuff, you're not really given any incentive to do them, unless say, you were already aware due to meta reasons that they're a good way to recruit more mecha pilots).

Other than that nitpick though, I am enjoying myself.

[differentdragons]

Watermelon Idom, Tekkōki Mikazuki, 2000

original images from: X

[himitsusentaiblog]

Have you ever seen Keita Amemiya’s mecha mini-series “Tekkoki Mikazuki”? If so, what are your thoughts on it?

Sadly, I have not!  I actually had not heard of it before you sent me this ask but now I must seek it out! 

[cina-full-moon-xanadium]

Funny how in Sentai mecha are always the focal point of the toys, but not the actual shows, because before Sentai there used to be DEDICATED mecha toku shows! Giant Robo (1967), Super Robot Red Baron (1973), Super Robot Mach Baron (1974), Daitetsujin 17 (1977), & a 2000 miniseries called Tekkouki Mikazuki. Crazy part is it was Daitetsujin (itself a stealth remake of Giant Robo) & its toy sales that convinced Toei to shoehorn mecha into Supaidaman & Battle Fever.

let's fuckin go daitetsujin my friend from fourze

[filthyneverdie]

HG 1/144 GUNDAM BARBATOS LUPUS REX

[kaxtwenty]

Iron-Blooded Orphans is a show that’s as blunt with its themes and messages as Mikazuki is with Barbatos’ mace, but because it doesn’t always directly look at the audience to say stuff like, “People’s morality are informed by their own circumstances,” and “Codependency is bad,” people come out with the most bad faith interpretations of the series that drive me up a wall.

How is a show centered around giant robots, piloted by child soldiers, beating each other to death TOO subtle for you?

-Guy who just read the most atrociously bad take on why WFM is better than IBO

[kabutoraiger]

mikazuki fans (all three of us) grab your giant robots

[tokupedia]

A freaky monster from one of the more obscure works of Keita Amemiya with a design by Mr. Nirasawa.

Suika Idom 

from Tekkouki Mikazuki, 2000. Designed by Yasushi Nirasawa.

(CHECK THE OTHER CRAZY MONSTERS: crazy-monster-design.tumblr.com)

[hoskinsvarietyshow]

I think the end of IBO gets me so much because, there’s ultimately no coming back from that many body modifications. Like. Mikazuki wasn’t going to survive this. Six surgeries to turn your body into a support system to make a giant robot run harder and faster. Mikazuki’s a battery by that point. And when it comes down to it, I feel like he knew it was either death by the enemy or death in Barbatos. Might as well leave it all on the field at that point.

Gundam as a franchise has always been about two things: Child Soldiers and War Crimes. Gundam is also, unfortunately, about how most of the time, child soldiers don’t get to go home.