#super robots

[superman-the-secret-third-thing]

Superman's robots (2025 sneak peek)

OH my God I only knew them for like two minutes but I've grown so fond of them.

First, they use proper lifting procedure- lift with your legs, not the back. OSHA approved...wait would OSHA cover sentient robots?

Superman thanks robots that claim to lack emotions.

Him seemingly rolling his eyes like he's heard this spiel before.

The bots immediately contradicting this by 12 being visibly happy.

Them trying to be gentle when he's either: in pain, or indestructible. To summarize, they're funny guys and I hope to see more of them in the movie!

OH NOOOOOOO!!!!

[bozemane]

from Go Nagai's Mazinger Z, 1972-'74

[neokamui414]

Although they all obviously contain similar elements as each other to some degree or another since each is functionally a remake / indirect sequel to Xenogears and a incarnation/ reinterpretation of the Perfect Works meta plot epic myth space opera cycle, many of the later Xeno games are often direct cognates to earlier entries in the "franchise" .

Xenoblade Chronicles X and 3 more so than any of the others directly reinterpret large portions of Xenogears.

Xenoblade Chronicles and Chronicles 2 take more after Xenosaga.

Also in terms of like what games I think would appeal to other fandoms / franchises and or make really good material for crossover fanfics:

Xenoblade Chronicles 1 - Bionicle

Xenoblade Chronicles 2 - Zoids

Xenoblade Chronicles X - Transformers

Xenoblade Chronicles 3 - Fuga Melodies of Steel

Also also I always like to think about how Xenogears and by extension all of the Xeno games are to Final Fantasy, specifically Final Fantasy 7 what Devil May Cry is to Resident Evil 4

[3heads2tails]

Im utterly convinced that super robots are the coolest form of mecha ever

[peterkothe]

INKtober 2024-Team

Casey (armadillo), Vik (tiger), Luna (rabbit), and Roddy (baboon), the unlikely heroes of Team KaiMECHA, the Chimera Mecha. Piloting the the epic, super adaptive bot to protect their world from evil and the MANY giant creatures it can throw at them!!

An original comic idea born from my old Zootopia/ Pacific Rim mash-up and one that’s MY OWN thing; one I hope to make into an epic fun comic someday! A cool mash up of Zootopia, Talespin, and the old Archie Sonic comics, meets old-school anime super robot series and tokusatsu kaiju battle properties!!

[fujikosouvenir]

[beingernst]

Robot Collector's Lament

[iczer-ryuga2]

The full roster of Megaranger/PRIS mechas by me. ZZTheDark and nuts, forgot to put my logo on there. X_X

[magicaldogtoto]

Me: I'll always love Transformers, but lately I've been feeling fatigue over how every new iteration is just some variation of G1 but with little details changed. I need something new with super robots but the plot and characters are completely different from Transformers. GaoGaiGar: Hey.

[evilmidnightlurker]

Bang Brave Bang Bravern is the gayest Super Robot anime ever and I have seen Star Driver.

[degeneracygenerator]

I will keep complaining about Getter Robo High's translation status until someone does the whole thing or I die, whichever happens first. It's not terribly long as manga goes, and has high quality raws easily accessible online. It may seem confusing as to why I care so much about a manga I can't read, considering dubiously canon Getter spinoffs can be extremely hit or miss. Let's go over the bullet points:

"High" is a strange romanization of "Hai," a mahjong reference. Not only is this a strangely mahjong-oriented mecha manga, but the three main characters are adults. It is not in high school, as the name would imply.

This is the only Getter manga I know of that stars three women (rather than men) as the Getter Machine pilots. They are a feral gambling addict, a sadako-styled horror ghost, and a buff robot woman.

The robos are genuinely unhinged but rad feminized variations on the original designs. As a mecha fan I say this with my whole heart, these really feel like someone wanted to fuck the robot, and I love them for it. Speaking of which,

Drill Jill.

Back when I was a teenager, I read quite a lot of hentai scanlated on the internet platonically. My first tumblr was actually an immature, edgy and frankly nasty little hentai blog that I'm happy to have nothing to do with anymore. But that means that when a particular name pops up on the art for an official Getter Robo manga, I have a fun little story to tell you.

Drill Jill is a hentai author, first and foremost. I won't speak to his character, because I don't speak japanese, but know that he specializes in noncon (or "mind break" as the online hentai community would call it) manga. Specifically, he often replaces violence with sex scenes, expressing a battle or argument physically, with a clear victor and plot resolution at the end.

The thing that makes his name really memorable to me, however, is his paneling. Granted, some pages are difficult to follow, with the busyness of the art and complete irreverence for panel borders, but their flow usually remains intact. At times, it can really feel like every single page has something to appreciate and analyze. I haven't found another artist who does it quite like this, in any genre of comics.

I can't say for sure, but I'm guessing that Drill Jill was hired to do the art for Getter Robo Hai because of his multi-chapter genderbent Getter Robo doujin, in which girl versions of the three original Getter Machine pilots get into some situations i'm sure you can predict if you've been reading up to this point. But a love for more than just weird fucking bleeds in through the edges of each chapter.

Hopefully it's immediately obvious here: Getter 3 reaching for the third panel. The beam blasting through the entire second page. The sword cutting through two panels, foreshadowing itself. These are CONSECUTIVE pages. The ero scenes are over in this chapter, but so much was still poured into these moments.

It's a hard sell to recommend people hentai, much less this kind of potentially upsetting hentai, just to gush at its paneling and page composition. So I'd like to have something a little more safe for work to suggest, and a cool robot story as well.

Keep in mind as well that Getter Robo Hai is drawn by Drill Jill, but it is not written by him. Rather, the story is by Bingo Morihashi, the scenario writer for Devil May Cry 3, 4, and 5. I'm not enough of a fan of that series to really gush over it in this post, but that may be an interesting lil detail for u (;. It's the writer and artist together who make this comic what it is, and folks who don't speak Japanese don't have access to that right now.

If you still don't care, maybe you never will. That's fine, we all have our own passions. If you do care, YELL WITH ME, SPREAD THE WORD, RAISE FUNDS FOR TRANSLATOR COMMISSIONS, FORCE EVERYONE TO LOOK AT GETTER 1'S FAT ASS AND BANKO BENIMARU'S SHARK TEETH.

Thanks for reading! After all my talk about paneling and writing, I still would just really like to read a cool robot story about evil women. I think everyone deserves that. So I'll leave you on the last two translated pages of Getter Robo High as of this post. This is what we're missing.

[steelthroat]

One of my old obsessions is coming back violently and I have to rant about it...

I'm pretty sure that in my country they butchered it with the adaptation but I don't care. I love it so much it hurts!!! (Like They mistook mothers for sisters, etc)

Does someone remember Goldrake or Grendizer? idk- however, it was called in your country, please!?!?!!? It was one of the first cartoons(yeah anime but I didn't wven know what those were when I was 4) my parents showed me from their childhood paired with Kyashan and Candy (however they're called in other countries)

Can we talk about the fucking villain character designs????? Like- hello???? CAN WE BRING THINGS LIKE THESE BACK????

There was a dude with a computer in his eye with no pants, a giant t-shirt worn as a dress, long boots and slutty waist

A dude with HIS WIFE (small redhead screaming lady) coming out of his face???? Like breaking it in half, screeching and then going back inside???

A dude with the head of a bird on his shoulder

And I can go on!!!!

You don't understand. I was so obsessed with this series that a friend of my mother gifted me the entire series in DVD with the censored episodes still in Japanese with terrible subtitles, and I ATE THOSE EPISODES. (The dvds were NOT official)

This thing is so strong that is tearing me out of art block???? WTF???

[ogiuemaniax]

The Roles of “Characters” in Mecha Anime

Sometimes, you’ll see a wild claim about mecha anime, like “Gurren-Lagann was the first giant robot series to be about characters instead of the robots,” and it inevitably results in a backlash—in this case, the counterargument that all giant robot shows are about characters. Whether the initial statement is made in jest or as a genuinely ignorant take by someone with only surface-level knowledge…

[khobra81]

Robots!! First poster in a series featuring some of the most famous mechs in anime and pop culture. Available at www.khobra.art

[peterkothe]

DAI-X from STAR FLEET aka X-BOMBER!

It’s Star Wars meets Thunderbirds meets Getter Robo; or what if Star Wars had a giant robot!!

In the future of 2999, the galaxy is at war with the alien invaders of the Imperial Alliance, who, led by the terrifying Imperial Master, seek to conquer the universe by obtaining the mysterious power known as F-Zero-1. (Not the Space Race F-Zero)

The galaxy’s only hope, the brave unlikely crew of the powerful starship: X-Bomber and its three transforming ships; which, when the going gets tough, combine together to form the mighty super robot Dai-X!

- A lesser known and very ambitious live-action tokusatsu series by Mazinger Z creator Go Nagai, but one that’s gone on to become cult-classic (especially in the UK) for its impressive visuals, model work, action, and the dubbed version’s iconic Starfleet theme song by Brian May!

Oh and Happy May the 4th!