Is Turn A Gundam the closest mecha has to offer as an art? The avant garde styling of both the characters and Syd Mead's Mobile Suits seems to be something that the mechanical designers and character designers of today seem to avoid entirely. I wouldn't be surprised if this is just a case of it being something of a pinnacle in both Japanese art and Japanese story telling. The themes of post-humanism as well as strength through vanity seem so common and reoccurrent that I can't help but see it as a, not only a classic piece of mecha history, but as a piece of art to the world.
Why is it that NOTHING has come close to matching the quality of Turn A's art and story telling? Is the mediocrity of today's Japanese artist because of their blatant lack of skill, or is Tomino just among the greatest storytellers of the world?
Christopher Peterson
>mecha >good
Dominic Adams
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Adrian Howard
>the closest mecha has to offer as an art End of Evangelion.
William Hall
itt: busta ass niggas that haven't watched Five Star Stories
Parker Phillips
>you will never see Gothicmade
Christopher Davis
FSS isn't art, it's just fashion
Caleb Bennett
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Luke Jenkins
It's both.
Jackson Mitchell
Because the japs are simple minded and have shittaste. That's why Turn A flopped, too.
Asher Bailey
G-Reco is the thinking man's Turn A.
Oliver Hughes
Loran is hot.
Matthew Taylor
slapping trippy images with no meaning onto something doesn't make it "art"
Jaxson Nguyen
>origin >good
Leo Reed
King Gainer is good too.
Ian Smith
It's prettty high up there, though it doesn't beat most Gainax mecha art.
Benjamin Kelly
This reads like bait but whatever, Turn A is one of my favourite anime and the machine itself is a sexy beast.
Luis Morgan
>no meaning >he didn't watch EoE Even if you cut out everything from Instrumentality onwards out of EoE you still have one of the strongest stories in anime in your hands - and you have to be a real retard not to understand Instrumentality, especially as a (presumably) white guy raised in a christian-dominated society.
Aaron Roberts
Wow, vaginas signify birth and rebirth and all the womb imagery! So DEEP and uncommon!
You Eva babies couldn't handle five seconds of the Utena movie, nevermind Belladonna of Sadness.
Mason Watson
>Gurren Lagann babbies in charge of taste
Luke Jenkins
A shame the second half wasn't nearly as interesting as the first. I do love the designs a lot though.
Lucas Martinez
damn...
Wyatt Jenkins
Turn A is objectively one of the best anime out there. Has exponential world building with fleshed out characters that actually handle new situations like you think people would. One of my favorite examples of this is when the milita goes into space. They have to have their hands held the whole time and actually adapt to the environment, it just seemed realistic. G Reco was okay, but it doesn't hold a candle to Turn A. IBO is Seed meme teir garage. Most shows that come out today aren't nearly as original as years past, but there's some good. Sign of the times when we have more DBZ Sailor Moon Geass CCS extensions because the industry is running out of ideas/channeling the market flow to normies.
