>Travels the world on a dragon-themed battleship
>Pillages every legend and historical site (read: ancient alien superweapon) in it's path
>Name is a play on Viking
It'd be really funny if Gaiking turned out to not have a single episode based on Norse mythology, including SRW games and the 2005 reboot (key word being "if" because I'm only about halfway through).

All joking aside, it's a pretty good show.
Animation and choreography can be kinda sucky on average (I guess most of Toei's better animators/storyboarders were busy with Grendizer), but the characters and occasional expeditions to historical sites definitely make up for it.
It also has my favorite backstory to any weapons or equipment upgrade, namely the Daiku Maryu getting captured and the turncoat engineer using the occasion to commission a pair of drills.

>>22630979
Gaiking is an underrated gem, only held down by the Boss-clone cringe episodes

>>22631244
Are there any good homages to Boss? <s>outside Geppy-X</s>

>>22632725
Other than almost all 70s mech shows had a fat comedy character like Boss?

>>22632725
comic relief side characters in general during the era were usually a miss, very few shows did them right. look at the Combattler kids.


Watch Patlabor TNG

Anonymous

There's like barely 10 minutes of actual mecha action in this entire show.

>>22632382
Just like the original Patlabor!

Can we talk about Oshii stuff?

I've never really been into Lupin though I did know that Oshii's cancelled Lupin film influenced stuff like Patlabor and Angel's Egg and even 009 RE:Cyborg but I didn't know that he got a crack at Lupin again in 2021 and did an episode about the damn angel fossil which seems to have an actual answer to some of the mysteries in Angel's Egg and RE:Cyborg, namely that the angel fossil <s>isn't the fossil of any angel, it's a fossil of a FALLEN angel, i.e. Lucifer, which completely turns Angel's Egg on its head</s>

>>22632382
The tekken shilling episodes made me cringe.

>>22632338
The iconic Dougram pose, but what's the other one from?

>>22632382
You didn't watch any patlabor

Is everything from this series translated?

>>22632553
One of Tomino's lesser works.


How come there's no Mecha Isekai anime when the genres positively demand to be combined?
>hit by a truck
>wake up in another world
>god grants you any mecha you want
>you have to defeat the evil empire to return

>>22632271
You are, without question, one of the dumbest new fag pieces of cum guzzling shit I think I've ever seen.

>>22632291
dunbine "isekai" elements are so fucking dumb i can't. i mean the whole people going back to byron well or whatever is fine it's just the weird moment when shu or whatever his name is comes back
>"WHAT DO YOU MEAN WHERE IM AT MOM???? I WAS AT BYRON WELL"
>"ARE YOU AN ALIEN???????"
like lmfao i know tomino makes some weird ass shit but holy fuck that whole episode took me out of the experience with how dumb everyone was

>>22632354
haven't seen it yet but i know he ends up with his mom and i checked how his mom looks and now im kinda meh about it. like i'm all for milf action but damn that milf kinda looks bad for me

>>22632352
Go back to twitter you fucking huge faggot.

I DONT KNOW WHETHER OUR MIND AND MIND OR SPLIT. I DONT KNOW HOW WE GOT SEPERATE BUT WE ARE JUST ONE PERSON.<br>"we die together?" PROBABLY. no it can't be true. IM NOT JOKING 12TH AND 13TH CENTURY FOREIGNERS SURROUND ME. i must somehow make sense of our convoluted situation.

>>22632365
oh come on you gotta admit that scene was stupid as fuck

>>22632271
Isekai is a plague to anime and I can't wait for it to stop.

>>22632371
Dunbine is fucking garbage, you simply talk like a twitter tard. Now get the fuck off this board and go back to that shithole.

>>22632352
Weird ass dumb ass, what (you) are. Imao.

>>22632371
>>22632707
Dunbine is great & both of you suck each other's cocks. Die. In a hole together. Faggots.

>>22632271
I can thing of 4 of them from 4 different decades.

>Aura Battler Dunbine (80s)
>The Vision of Escaflowne (90s)
>Isekai no Seikishi Monogatari/War on Greminar (00s)
>Knights & Magic (10's)

>>22632271
Enough people have called you a newfag, I'll just say unlike Isekai Mecha that has other wordly parts are not apart of wish fulfilment. mecha is never about fighting but the situations in the fighting. Fucking Isekai watchers think that Mecha's all about the mechs and fighting but then you watch the Schlop of Isekai and it's like
"I must fight the demon lord to get stronger and all his generals." Man fuck Isekai watchers

>>22632352
Sounds like you're a speed watcher.

>>22632982
It's just since isekai had a huge boom in popularity that it became pure escapism fodder,. Twelve Kingdoms is a great example of good isekai and criticizes one of the characters for thinking this is great and not wanting to go back home, but compare it to anything from the past decade

>>22632990
You are right there are some great Isekais, Escaflowne, Twelve Kingdoms, Grimgar, Dunbine,techincally Now and them here and there and bunch of others. But the issue is modern Isekai is based on escapism. The majority of things pander to that fantasy ever since the lost generation.

>>22632271
I'd rather not revisit this one. The OP song is great though.
>https://animethemes.moe/anime/chou<wbr>jikuu_seiki_orguss/OP1-NCBD1080

>>22633015
>MC get isekai'd
>buys a loli slave
>has steamy episodes with the female crew
>attempts to romance <s>his own daughter</s>
Orguss would be at home in the modern isekai landscape.

Choujikuu Seiki Orguss - 07 (BDRip 1440x1080p x265 HEVC FLAC)[sxales].mkv_snapshot_07.21.jpg

>>22632990
>>22632999
I like Konosuba. Mostly because it doesn't take itself too seriously. I do agree with both of you that the genre has become oversaturated.

>>22633202
>the genre has become oversaturated
Yeah back in 2016.

>>22632271
Sounds boring as fuck anon. Hope you’re not considering writing as a job

>>22632271
There are a lot of isekai and near-isekai mecha series. You're just not widely read/watched.

>>22632825
If Escaflowne, does Brigadoon count?

>>22632982
There are many isekai that aren't "wish fulfillment" and they are worse for it.

>>22633202
Oversaturated or just lazy? I think isekai is basically limitless because you could have so many different settings and cultures that the Japanese MC find themselves in and having to navigate. But the lazy authors and publishers only put out slight variations to the same 3 stories and sell it entirely on the basis of the LN artists.

>>22633177
>attempts to romance <s>his own daughter</s>

You forgot:
> gets <s>cucked by his former partner</s>

>>22633288
Are there any isekai that don't have the MC end up in a fantasy world?

>>22633343
There's ones where the MC is from a fantasy world and ends up in our world, but I don't think there's really any where it's a sci-fi or another modern world involved.

Really though that's not the problem with isekai, it's that it almost always follows exactly one of two plots:
>Loser MC is sent to fantasy world and discovers that their loser skillset is actually great in a fantasy world
>MC is sent to RPG mechanics world as the Weakest Thing, but it turns out that the Weakest Thing is actually the Strongest Thing if you spend more than two minutes level grinding, something only the MC has ever tried

>>22633404
We can't forget them getting nearly every girl they meet to fall in love with them. Also, I can think of two that have someone from a fantasy world end up in a regular world. Devil is a Part Timer or Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid. Would Re:Creators count as well?

>>22633285
>There are many isekai that aren't "wish fulfillment" and they are worse for it.
Explain. I find that hard to believe

>>22632982
>Schlop of Isekai and it's like
>"I must fight the demon lord to get stronger and all his generals." Man fuck Isekai watchers
Isekai is the most garbage dog water genre in fiction. Infinitely worse and more retarded than shonen shit. It is a genre made for emotionally stunted manchildren with arrested development.

>>22633251
Empty. Boring, hollow and dumb AF. With a plot that's not worth making a story about. Like 99% of stupid isekai shit.

>>22632357
>Escaflowne
>moms
Holy shit are you retarded? There are literally no moms in Escaflowne. The main character isn't even a man. You have brain damage.

>>22633473
Technically there's Van's mom, but she's a <s>ghost </s>

>>22633343
>>22633404
There's quite a few isekai into a sci-fi/science fantasy world isekai. The ones I actually read are

Butcher Demon: Mid-late 21st Century Earth is invaded by the fantasy world. The MC is a reincarnated human soldier who ends up in the body of a Butcher, a biological weapon/demon of the fantasy world.

Reborn as a Space Mercenary: Basically what it says. A salaryman gets reborn as a late-game space merc in a setting reminiscent of an MMO with an advanced space cruiser at his command.

Mobusekai: MC is reborn in the world of an otome game he played. It's a pastiche of fantasy otome tropes, Skies of Arcadia, and Escaflowne, and the MC pilots his own mech thanks to the cooperation of an ancient AI he uncovers. There's a spinoff that people think is better because instead of being a harem it's <s>monogamous incest</s>.

Sentouin, Hakenshimasu!: As much of an isekai as Escaflowne but the mecha/robots are either imported from Earth or ancient relics hidden beneath the fantasy world.

>>22633473
was it another mecha show i was remembering? i swear someone fucked the reincarnation of their mom
>>22632982
>>22632818
>>22632819
im not saying dunbine was bad but it was also fucking STUPID. i s2fg you retards i will find the episode on post screenshots of it

>>22632271
there's a mecha isekai manga by Butcha-U

though its more of a slice-of-life mecha than something with a concrete plot

>>22633763
Is this by Butcha-U or just art by Butcha-U? Pretty sure Sekkaku Cheat is written by someone else just like how Orc Hero Monogatari is just illustrated by Fatalpulse and isn't written by him.

>>22633692
>im not saying dunbine was bad but it was also fucking STUPID
That's rich coming from a midwit that enjoys seasonal isekai. Don't even bother looking shit up. Just, Stay off your phone kid.

>>22633792
just illustrated the comics version

the light novel is illustrated by Mizuryu Kei

>>22633288
I think the main problem is that it's done by a generation who consumed primarily the same five generic RPG's so their imagination is stunted on slop.
If the fantasy world has people speaking in video game mechanics, I skip it.

>>22634128
>Mizuryu Kei
I recognize that man anywhere

>>22634128
I thought the name and art looked familiar. Middle girl even looks kind of like Kurumi Souma.

>>22632819
You are a stupid faggot with shit taste, Dunbine is fucking trash and you should kill yourself. You also type like a Redditor and you should fuck off back there.

>>22634193
>You also type like a Redditor
That's wrong because no one posts like that there, you stupid dumb fuck. You should take your own advice and blow your brains out. How can you be this retarded? Also your taste is the one that's garbage. Nice try with that terrible failure of a come back that took your low iq brain hours to conjure up. Dunbine is based, btw.

>>22632352
The whole point was that his mother was deluding herself so she could justify rejecting Sho, as him showing up so publicly in the Dunbine and fighting could get her in trouble by association. Her father didn't take that idea serious and criticizes her for how she is responding to the situation.

>>22633177
Yeah, Orguss proves that isekai has always been a trash genre.

>>22634239
He's too retarded to read in between the lines without the plot explaining that to him. OP is a dumb halfwitted speedwatching faggot.

>>22634239
God Shou's mpm.is such a bitch that entire arc was damn sa. I felt terrible for him and the re s t of his family at yhe arcs end

>>22634128
Really? Why do they use the Butcha-U art on Novelupdates then?

>>22633661
>Mobusekai: MC is reborn in the world of an otome game he played. It's a pastiche of fantasy otome tropes, Skies of Arcadia, and Escaflowne, and the MC pilots his own mech thanks to the cooperation of an ancient AI he uncovers. There's a spinoff that people think is better because instead of being a harem it's <s>monogamous incest</s>.

The Mobuseka author has another isekai SF work going on, though it's more LoGH-style space feudalism with occasional fleet battles

>>22633288
>>22633288
>>22633404
Shout out to that one Isekai that was about the OP going after parodies of various Isekai mains that lasted only one chapter because a bunch of isekai authors got salty

>>22634243
I liked A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, but it could have been improved with a giant steampunk spider mech.

>>22634128
I need cat-ears and the one on the right on my dick IMMEDIATELY

>>22634245
>>22634239
are you fucking kidding me??? literally the first thing you see your son in a bug machine robot and you ask him where he's been and he's like "MOMMM I WAS AT BYSTON WELL!!!!!!!! like everyone's suppose to know where that is"
like are you literally autistic? because that was the most autistic i've ever seen tomino.

It's funny how the isekai trope was already played out in the 90s yet here we are in 2020s and people still can't let it go.

>>22636727
Alternate world stories are old hat and go back much further than that everywhere (ie. the fucking Wizard of Oz), the current fad is not actually that but cheat skill power fantasies and related or inverted gag premises that play on the preexisting staleness of the genre with increasing absurdity, which people refer to by isekai just because the word appears in so many of their overly descriptive and jokey titles.

Fantasy world where average person is summoned to be a hero? Old hat. Fantasy world where fucking loser is killed by being stung in the dick by a bee, is summoned to be a sex slave, and then uses his magic cock to rape the demon lord into submission and take 100 wives? REAL TWENTY FIRST CENTURY SHIT. "I was summoned to an alternate world and then I was a Gundam main character with a slightly diferent episode 1 backstory" is not a new or exciting concept, Buddy Complex is narratively the same thing even if it's using time travel instead of dimensional travel. Also it goes without saying Muv-Luv exists.

>>22636704
Terrible & embarrassing post, mate.