Mecha: The Rise & Fall of Giant Robots 

Gundam the origin shows just how strong the realistic and "weak" mechs can be.

Fittingly enough, Gundams have giant lightsabers.

don't know dude. I always thought lightsabers were lame.

Fuck you then... I kid... Mostly.

And the Pope is catholic. So, *NO SHIT SHERLOCK!* Also, Really nice connection.

In this political landscape? Give it time my guy. Mecha will arise.

Let's do it

World war 2.0 + 1.0 is gonna happen before Evangelion 3.0 + 1.0

😂 holy fuck man...holy fuck 😂

Massacre millions of Mongolians using Napalm. That should jumpstart the comeback of gundam

Sivabalan J Please let it have a fall, I want my Season 2s. Totally agreeing with your prediction of Gigguk still doing videos in 31 years.

@@excaliburring753 Nah. Season 2s suck. We only get defined 'season 2' when there's a cour gap. Ideally, we're in a transitional phase right now where studios will eventually stop looking for projects that are still in production and start focusing on stories that are finished or wrapping up. That way we can have glorious no filler shows that start and finish without breaks.

It's the opposite of Hollywood. There everything gets endless sequels/reboots whether the audience wants it or not.

majority of "good" isekai do get multiple seasons. really its only NGNL thats makes me wet my pillow with tears each night

Only No Game No Life😔

Hmmm maybe

Maybe

Maybe, plus he he's a power to connect with each other in a spiritual way and this says Eren is a new type (science 100)

My favorite mecha is optimus prime

@@blitz4561 Transformas cames from Japan and has an Anime also Optimas Prime is legit a Mecha

That sounds reasonable. -_-

Damn it Thanks for the laugh

Yoshiyuki Tomino: ok guys we need another angry mustached man to start a world war Steve: how about we come up with some new ideas? Yoshiyuki Tomino: Steve.. Steve:yes? Yoshiyuki Tomino:shut the fuck up

@@giovannisantantonio3053 What Steve should've said was, "We got an orange wrinkly bigot on the verge of starting one. Why not use him as an example?"

Ha,I love politics

Y e s y e s

AMURO! GET IN THE FUCKING GUNDAM!

Evangelion isnt Mecha ... technically ...

Everyone in the world Shinji get in the robot Shinji no I don’t think I will

Lmao I hate this meme so much HE GETS IN THE ROBOT EVERY TIME Granted sometimes he needs a slap or a wank first 🤣🤣🤣

That makes sense the power that you could command in a giant mechanical titan you could feel like a god or a devil

Makes sense

A young rat tries to hide his giant human from his family while trying to fight a restaurant war

The rat actually pilots the french"man".

Genius!

Fuck you’re right

Megas XLR theme song should have played in the background when he said that, would have fit so well

Don’t forget that toy sales of mecha shows are important too. Whether their for kids or adult collectors.

And the more recent example, Pacific Rim. The first movie was a masterpiece, the sequel was unnecessary.

I know this was 3 years ago. But just to point out Power rangers is Japanese.

@@EdgytheHedgy In a similar way, Transformers is too.

Power Ranger is not totally japanese. Yes, they use almost all the fight scene of the japanese super sentai, but the scenes where the actors are unmasqued, are shots by the Power Ranger production. So it's a western adaptation, but a lazy one.

Stellvia Heonheim shut the fuck up boomer

-OkuyasuIsTheBestJoJo - wooosh ever heard of another persons opinion

Mini Keanu Reeves ever heard of a bad joke kaworu best waifu tho

LongXp lol

Very glad someone else noticed this, I immediately looked in the comments for it!

But the problem is the world is not in peace, not in the classic war way. you know the atomic bullettin clock? is a clock that show how much humanity is close to the doom day, for ex. with the cold war the clock was close 3-2 min to midnight. now? WELL 2 MIN! not cause we are close to another world war, but for social crisis, economic and climate change. in fact i not see in 10 years a batter world, the countrys are gona make stupid decion (just watch USA) and the society are back to old hate like racism and offended poeple are the cancer of web. soooo the world have not horrible wars like years ago but we are still in deep shit, a more sophisticated shit but still shit.

"a more sophisticated shit" Dude! I fucking love you! here, have all my respect!

well said brother

Clearly we need a giant robot to go around vacuuming air pollution

In the great words of the Iron Giant "Superman". Watched that movie...right? No? Never Mind, I'll go back to playing War of the Monsters...

2REAL

As a grown man in tears, I can confirm

25 years ago, got a boner for giant robots watching Gundam. To this day, its still raging.

You aren't wrong.

We can only hope...

JaxBlade YOU GOTTA FIND FIRST GEAR IN YOUR GIANT ROBOT CAR!!

Megas XLR was fucking glorious

JaxBlade A classic.

Did he ever pay those 2 bucks?

JaxBlade i can assure you that if chicks digged giant robots I would have a very different life.

Then anime adapted first from manga and now light novels, will be slaughtered by anime adapted from video games (most of 'em from Nintendo platformers, except for Studio Trigger's Super Smash Bros. anime adaptation, because that is a crossover fighting game), even if most of 'em are gonna be the best, especially the Smash Bros. one.

mecha has been better Gundam & Transformers rank on the top 20 global media franchise of all time. both are estimated at around $60 billion net worth.

I only purchase perfect grades

@@ReignofStorms nice flex bro

The prices don't help either. 25 dollars for a 10 cm figures? FUCK OFF GUNDAM!

@@returnedtomonkey8886 better than 144 dollars waifu figures or 64 dollars figma action figures that you can't do nothing except photo them

@@gamergangtalk0080 there is another option. BIONICLES. You can just buy bulks of pieces at fairly low prices and create whatever tf you want from.them. Even gundams if you have enough imagination.

And chicks dig giant robots.

I disagree on some points. You can make fantasy mechas and these kinds do not need engineering background and the like. If you can make fantasy full armor then you can make fantasy mecha. Knights and Magic is practically this. Or heck, just something resembling fantastical human would be enough as there are fantasy mecha shows even back then. The main problem with mecha genre is that it can't escape the idea that all it could be is about battling. People that doesn't like it caught on and grow bored of it. People that do like it won't accept anything else therefore the mecha genre can't try to be something different. Do a mecha show where they play sports instead of battling and you'd lose what little mecha fanbase left. This is the main problem of the genre; people's expectations. And the producers aside from the select few know it which is why they don't want to take the risk in mecha shows anymore.

When you say that, it makes me wonder if the legacy of the 2008 financial crisis is still being felt in anime.

@@secondsein7749 Of course, that's why those fantasy mechas are forgetful and not gonna be as competitive as Macross and Gundam. Those 2 franchises have legendary designers. That's why you don't see many fantasy mecha animes have toys, it's usually a sculpted PVC figure and rarely a toy or model kit. Eva is a good example of both fantasy and well engineered mecha.

@@Vision33r I attribute fantasy mecha to be forgetful because the lack of marketing to keep them in the front and back of people's minds by the publishers/producers. Unconventional/fantasy mecha designs do work as evidenced by Eva, Gurren Lagann, Escaflowne and the like. Problem is that Bandai wants to play safe and typically work with franchise brands. This make smaller brands have to pick up the slack. Granted it is likely due to rights issue but if Bandai decided to say give m even one fantasy kit an RG spotlight what they did with the Eva, it would help a lot. As it is now, other brands have to do it such as Good Smile with mechas from other shows. They are willing to push for fantasy designs as evidenced with their SD kits, but again they are playing safe and only 'fantasy-fy' their own brand.

@@secondsein7749 Bandai would only play safe by constantly using Gundam designs and morph them with some outrageous new look. I'm ok with new mecha designs but don't need to keep using Gundam look mechas with crazy fantasy designs. Do competely non-gundam mechas right. In Japan from the 70-90s, I estimated there are probably about 40-50 mecha franchises that could've succeeded up to today if they wrote good stories and not add kiddie themes to them such as making them all so similar to Power Rangers. Macross is a good example of mature audience that doesn't die. Kawamori if he wanted to, could've made 10+ Macross series and rival Gundam.

Wisecrack just did a fantastic vid on it.

We'll probably get it sometime around when we get the next episode of EVA Abridged

Just like we haven't got the last bloody REBUILD OVA episode yet!

wisecrack did an episode on eva not about eva influence in anime.

It's a pretty bad video imo. First of all they pronounce "Evangelion" wrong throughout, and then they devote a lot of the video to concepts already explained thoroughly enough in the show itself (e.g. Hedgehog's Dilemma). It never got really into what makes Eva special if you ask me.

I've checked he didnt.

Waiting XD. If you are hungry for great ones tho i'd check BestGuyEver's and one called "TTGL'S underappreciated maturity"

Breadsword made a good one.

Just who the hell do you think he is

Ill join you! We can combine to haunt him!

Once I noticed it, I paused the video to see who in the comments got it too :D.

@Ron Swanson - yeah, saw it too :D And NGE was the title which made me anime fan 18 years ago... It may not be the best start title, but hell world was never the same after that weekend I watched it whole at once... ;)

Ron Swanson AHHH I SAW THIS!!!

Good one, BakaShift* He's the one editing afaik

You forgot ROBOT ROCK

Totally agreed, and this is especially interesting because I tend to have different taste in music than most people and Gigguk seems to pull song after song I used to listen to when I was really young.

Agreed!! The "what is it good for? Absolutely nothing" part of the song with the visuals of WWII behind it was perfect 👌 very engaging video! And I love that you mention Full Metal Panic with such enthusiasm! I can't wait for the new season!!!

I just wondered how the hell he handled the copyright strikes!? That's why you don't hear this type of music in the average RU-vid video!

Does anybody know the name of the song he uses last in the video?

I know Pacific Rim 2 is doing a pretty good job with the pre-built figures. I bought the Gypsy Avenger figure for 20 bucks and it's a really nice pre-built figure given the cost!

An anime where Idols go to war with Mecha you think im dumb but just you wait

Dongus.inc subplot for recreators season 2 confirmed

Dongus.inc I guess nobody here have watched Macross. Go watch every Macross except 7 & Delta. Idols don't have to die. But in the case of Macross Delta, *they have to.*

emm.. thats what Macross delta have been doing ... except idol dying.. but close enough

So true. Blame modern society for liking the degenerative shit

HEHEHEHEHEEEEEEE...

konohamaru77 bloody murders

They didn't do it directly. But goodness be damned for the case of Macross Delta.

I'm not the only one that would actually watch an "idols vs mecha" series, right?

Jotham Smith again, that has already happened with the Macross franchise.

What if your waifu was killing mecha? 0_0

saba agniashvili so something like Unforgiven or Watchmen comic how they reject their genre.

I guess you could say that don't know about the Unforgiven, but as far as i know the watchmen are a more dark vision of super heroes I want to focus on the aspect that the Mecha are just not needed anymore, In light of recent, more efficient tech, they are either scrapped, or shipped to undeveloped countries for use in labor or war. You dig?

saba agniashvili I might be a little late on this, but didn't Active Raid have an entire episode dedicated to that?

i don't follow

saba agniashvili in the show Active Raid there was an episode where the designer of a "super robot" went into retirement because of the inefficiencies that they provide (i.e.: too much gas is used and too much money was spent into maintenance). The main characters use a light weight metallic body that makes them only about 3 feet (1meter) taller, but we're unable to stop the "super robot", so the designer and original pilot of the "unfinished super robot" team up to fight off the rouge pilot showing that even though "super robots" lost their charm they will always have a place in people's hearts.

12:33 song name? It's bothering me. Too much nostalgia

Robot rock

Black Sabbath, Edwin Starr, Iron Maiden, Nirvana, Daft Punk, etc. Great rock classics, tbh

KiddKoalaz, Robot Rock by Daft Punk

I came here to say the same thing

ZDY there's just more casual anime watchers

You are (not) alone

ZDY 4.0 will (not) see a release

You obviously haven't watched Captain Earth then.

Lia Kh Do (not) say that

You get a like for giving that brutal burn.

Damn man. That was such a brutal burn there was just a squad of Salamanders looking impressed.

Shiny Certification

you look like a mexican gigguk btw

Blaze it boys

Then you here Daft Punk, which makes you stay longer

I saw TTGL. I'm interested

So anyone collect gunpla

@@IvanAndreiRRada i wish I had the money and time

Can you tell me the name of the song at the beginning? Thank you.

take your time, good luck and have some fun with it.

I recommend the original Gundam compilation movies, G Gundam, and 0080 as good entry points to the franchise.

I wish you the best soldier! *Gundam Salute* 0079, Zeta, 0083, 08th MS team and War in the Pocket, are some of my favorites. Hope you get to see them all.

I agree with everyone pointing you towards the Compilation Movies of Gundam 79 and the rest of the Universal Century Timeline. They are awesome!

Anything with the UC timeline is excellent, MS Igloo saw the one year war through the Zeon eyes

Its going to have that same impact on the whole of anime Adam awakening in the background. Superbly edited.

And the background song lel

what is the song in the background

hitmon126 komm susser tod, it’s played in the end of evangelion

You mean cause diabetes, because it's too sweet for our own good.

What about Radiohead my guy

@@HumansFreshlyBorn and Iron Maidens The Trooper

Mr. Tempestilence I honestly hope someone saw or thought of this and plans to make a series based on that concept. XD

It's funny because it's true.

Hal B. Noire Macross Delta is about that. Gigguk put it in the video. Besides Macross is always about idols and pilots of mechas...

Actually idols saved mecha anime. Love Live has helped Sunrise stay afloat and not go bankrupt, so they can still produce Gundam anime.

ErebosGR Well, in that case, Love Live saved Sunrise. Love Live brings the money that Sunrise needs to do the shows that they really like to do. But in the whole, idol shows making way more money then mecha shows really weakened the influence mecha anime once had in the past.

Please don't believe the lies this Gigguk is spreading. The giant robot genre is more alive and kicking ass than ever before. He seems to miss one tiny white elephant in the room - The Transformers franchise along side Gundam are bigger than anyone could imagine today.

@@OtakuNerd94 So I guess you missed the fact that this video is over a year old? Of course it's not going to be entirely accurate today. Time passes. Things change.

It's even older than that

@@hostiledodo1150 even if its a year old giant mecha has not fallen yet and still thriving better than ever.

@@OtakuNerd94 Sure but at the time of the video it was on the decline. Again, time passes. Things change.

Lp Amlong YES

Iron man - Black Sabbath, War - Edwin Starr, Feed My Frankenstein - Alice Cooper, Fly, Gundam - Andrew W.K. cover, NOT SURE, Smells like Teen Spirit - Nirvana, Something from the Eva OST, Robot Rock - Daft Punk. That's the limit of my knowledge

5Xeno woah! Me too! Super exited for the movie though. Little worried it won't hold up to the first though. But i mean I thought the first was a masterpiece so...

Matt N There's no way it will hold up to the first to be honest I don't want to go see it because it looks so disappointing.

Higher than you think. Googly algorithms get more advanced by the day.

5Xeno Let's hope that and it's predecessor can get people into Mecha anime.

could casual western audiences be the (money) saviour for the mecha genre?

Poison Bang i appreciate his existence

xXShadowLion I count it.

Mecha also made a huge comeback in video Games in 2023 with Armored Core 6 and many more announcements

Have they ever indicated when it might come out? I also can't wait for it!

Evangelion: 3.0+1.0: It Will (Never) Come Out

True

There are already a bunch of NGE weird spin-offs

Firstname Lastname well that's sad

yes, after being slapped of course

When Gundam dies... Anime will also die

That’s why Amuro is no.1 in top 10 Gundam pilots in Watchmojo.

boi gridman was awesome

Dezha Vhu gridman isn’t really a mecha show it’s more an anime tokusatsu

Iron blooded orphan

@@vintageproductions3197 but tokusatsu can still be mecha, both genres often intersect

How dare you compare Gridman to DITF!, Gridman is a good show, that didn't ruined itself like DITF

Angus Jameson that would be smart if that was true, Gunpla still sell more than any cute girl merchandise.

Kammy nah they don't sell more, they just make more money cause the kits are typically more expensive than straight-up figurines, but those figurines do sell more on a per-capita basis

Geniuses? The mecha design in DiTF technically came from Star Driver, there's nothing genius about that

Fake Name HG kits cost just as much or less than any figure you could get and Gundam makes up a vast amount of plastic market. It's why they generally get their own section in stores.

Nah, HG kits cost far less than a normal figurine--even lesser if your country has a Bandai branch or some sort. For comparison, HG kits cost 20-30 USD in Indonesia. Meanwhile, figurines cost 70 USD in Indonesia (discounting import costs). Figurines definitely are in it for per-capita, not the number of sales. Because they know that their customers are the hardliner otaku, unlike the "everyone can Gunpla" approach Bandai is doing.

@Detective X: What are you so angry about matey boy ? I stated "kickstarted", not "created". Japan in this era was one of the (if not *THE*) most puritan society on this planet, and all it needed to devolve (or evolve, I would say) into this clusterfuck of weirdness was one guy wanting to write a manga about highscool teens wanting to fuck each other. He "created" ecchi, but hentai was born from ecchi, therefore he kickstarted it. I see nothing wrong about what I said.

when i think kentaro and araki is jesus of manga i kinnda forgot him you are goodanm right

arenkai finnaly someone acknowledges the lord and saviour of weebs

Nah. He's the devil of manga/anime. But I still I can praise the Devil....

Don't forget the MAHO SHOUJO. He also created magical girls.

To be fair, the Idol nation was founded by people from Macross city...

Right!? Lol that was a hell of a time to live in in between the 70s and 80s past of classic and epic shows only to come into the 90s to see some bat shit crazy storys pushing it to the limit!

And just before that, I caught some of the riff of Iron Maiden's "Wasted Years". I'm ancient! Or at least my taste in rock music is.

and here I am thinking the same thing when Robot Rock came on

@@djboss302 what song start at 0:10?

Bahauddin Zulhaimi “Iron man” Black Sabbath

Kanedgy Damn right.

Obviously

;-;

Agreed, love all the choices... his reviews have their own awesome soundtracks

MrKodachii what's the title

Wish there was a list of names *wink wonk*

Thedude3rd Only songs I know are The Trooper by Iron Maiden at about 7:40 and Komm Süsser Todd from the End of Evangelion soundtrack near the end of the video

Cyril Gigee yeah, just wish the names were in the description

don't you mean breakdown breakdown?

Is that a Jojo reference? :p

Snow Bird that's a Killer queen reference

That video of the Japanese Coast Guard Band playing “A Cruel Angel’s Thesis”

@@kingandcountry1242 Toyota auris was inspired by char aznable

Out of curiosity is the other 7% transformers toys? Also transformers giant robots that tv show is unkillable and is Japanese as fuck. Also mecha is still going strong just is taking a break to catch it's breath due to America and Japan having real mechs

Darksideconroy no idea what the other plastic models are but I’d imagine them to be something like figures from other anime mostly and anime girls. I mean, they are making a full sized moving Gundam at the moment.

Darksideconroy The remaining percent is probably Macross model kits. A show like Transformers would be more diecast figures, but there are more diecast figures of super robots like Mazinger Z. Transformers has always been more of a hit in the West than Japan.

I'm still pissed off about that finale

Bunnyman999 same. The beginning was gold though.

'Darling in the Franxxx' it's a real competitor (technically and specific) for 'Neon Genesis Evangelion'. However, it was much better if there are no suchlike Season 2 from this sh*t anime (subjectively)!

At least it helped me see why I couldn't fall in love with the genre after loving Code Geass so much, newer than that the only one I have liked is IBO.

I don't think there can be another video like this one considering that close to no other genre in anime is or was as integral as mecha

Gurren lagann>>

Yes! Holy shit. Why haven't we gotten this?

We need to know all 72 gundam frame

@@senriamabuki29 fax man we desperately need it. it's such a big mystery that I'm sure newer generation gundam fans would love it.