Mecha pilots

So what happened, Sup Forums?
Why were pre-Evangelion pilots such useless shits and why did they get so much more competent after Evangelion?

Shinji is the manliest.

Shinji had the honor of being the one to bottom out the whole reluctant pilot premise.

Yes, they were all literal faggots before Eva.

See pic related.

>tons of Gundam series in SRW but no Valvrave
smfh fampai at least we got SEED

>all of them are pussy ass characters

>Shinji
>pussy ass

OUT with you

All of them are unregistered military pilots. So you know why they dont know the rules of engagement and proper military regulation.

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We got saved by Aquarion Logos

And by saved I mean we as fans of mecha

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Bellri is the manliest.

I know this is cheap bait but
>Domon
>Uso
>Amuro
>Chirico
>Max fucking jenius
And that's just the stuff I can remember from the top of my head

Amuro is in the picture, and if I tried hard enough to cherrypick I could probably find an appropriate picture for either of these except Chirico and Max (they're too hardcore) to stick in the left side.
This was done half as bait and half as a way to point out the hypocrisy nostalgiafags love to use so much i.e.
I am quite proud of Sup Forums for not taking the bait, though.

Is Amuro the greatest mecha protagonist of all time? Does anyone even come close?

I don't even know why I like him.

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valvrave isn't even the valvrave of its decade.
almost poetic.

Uso, Sousuke, Kyou-chan, Kazuki provided you listened to the drama CDs

Reminder to not call yourself a mecha fan if you're a fraud like Woolie Madden

>unironically believes Zeon's lies
>will sell out his own species for the promise of a jetpack

How can you even start a race war when this race traitor keeps selling you out?

Yeah, you show those nostalgiafags who watched untranslated 80s mecha anime when they were kids.

So the best mecha shows of its decade?

>but...

But fucking what? Stupid picture

Ryoma is my favorite mecha pilot, but I'm a complete newfag to mecha that mainly just really like super robot gattai stuff and all I've seen is stuff like Voltron from my childhood and Digimon Xros Wars.

After I finish Getter, watched Armageddon and am working through the manga then the other anime afterwards, what other good gattai stuff is there?

Holy shit fuck you, 08th MS Team is mecha as fuck and really good.

That's not the point of that image, the point of it is it's a collection of anime that people who claim to be "big mecha fans" but that is all they have seen and think it's the pinnacle of mecha. I used to follow 2 best friends, where the Woolie in question is from, and even when I knew jack shit about mecha I knew he was a poser when he claimed to be a huge fan of mecha.

But what do you expect when all 4 of them think TTGL is a top 10 anime?

Well, it was a warning to all the other pilots

Aside from Aldnoah all those shows are fine though.

To be fair people don't like those shows for the mechs except Aldnoah.

The issue isn't the quality of the shows you sperg.
The issue is that all of those shows are generally all the mecha casuals know about or are willing to talk about.

If you see someone mention those series it's like if someone came on Sup Forums and started talking about how they're not a big anime fan but have watched Naruto, Dragonball Z, Sailor Moon and Cowboy Bebop.

So people with a casual interest tend to stick to popular works. What is that supposed to tell us about the works themselves, except that they're popular? Why should those with only a passing interest be expected to explore beyond them?

It's not that they don't explore it's that they generalize and say the entire medium is bad EXCEPT for what they've seen which is stupid.

Because Shinji was basically useless shit overdrive and everyone got tired of it.