yokoyama mecha thread gr3 edition

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Anon06/23/26, 06:41No.23917575

Ancient Greek invented mecha

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Anon06/23/26, 07:42No.23917604

Who are your personal best Yokoyama Star System characters?

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Anon06/23/26, 08:38No.23917625

Gigantor is a better name than Ironman 28. Fight me

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Anon06/23/26, 23:35No.23918308

I'm still sad we won't ever get to see the Siege of Babel. It's probably better this way, the mystery of what comes before and after The Day the Earth Stood Still is part of the fun.

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Anon06/23/26, 23:47No.23918324

>debate over whether Yokoyama really invented mecha Did he invent people commanding golems and robots? No. Did he invent giant robots? No. But he meaningfully codified the Japanese anime/manga subgenre of giant robots.

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Anon06/24/26, 01:27No.23918415

Manga editor Shin Aizawa (Super Robot Wars) had this to say today about Yokoyama souring on GR OVA and Godmars: >"I worked on the "Super Robot Wars" manga for many years, but the use of material from "Giant Robo" and "Six God Combination God Mars" was strictly forbidden. Why? I once visited the still-living great master Mitsuteru Yokoyama. The master's confession, tinged with anger: "I hate them. I hate that my own works were being treated like that." The tyranny of media mix." https://x.com/wingletter/status/2069385329292021821

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Anon06/26/26, 14:22No.23921460

Ms Takamizawa walked so Misato could run

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Anon06/26/26, 15:21No.23921502

Is this the thread where we are supposed to argue about that every single robot is a real robot aside from uhhh God Mars?Oh and that mecha was created for trannies? I think this is it.

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Anon06/28/26, 20:51No.23924106

Whos' the robot in the GR OVA opening who looks like William Murderface from Metalocalypse causing a blizzard?

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Anon06/29/26, 13:28No.23924967

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Anon07/01/26, 13:02No.23927598

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Anon07/02/26, 10:33No.23928725

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Anon07/02/26, 19:27No.23929204

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Anon07/04/26, 23:55No.23931323

So to recap what everyone already knows, in the 50's & early 60's before the modern tankobon format because universal in the late 60's, Yokoyama did a separate book version of Tetsujin, an abridged & sometimes rewritten version of the original, & that’s what was reprinted for decades, the original serialization version wasn’t fully reprinted until 2004. The abridged version itself consists of the 7-volume "long-form detective manga edition" which covers the first chunk of the series, & the 20-volume Kappa Comics edition which covers most of the rest of the series (except the very last arc with the dinosaur robot Galon). I bring all this up simply because I’m morbidly autistic & obsess over stupid, meaningless statistics, so I did the math to find that the “long-form detective manga edition" covers roughly the first 6 volumes of the original serialization version, but in only 45% of the total number of pages 849 pages (give or take) vs 1808 pages (give or take). So there you go in case anyone else here likes obsessing over stupid, meaningless statistics.

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Anon07/05/26, 04:16No.23931986

Just finished reading Mars. I kinda knew it was going to be one of those older manga with an abrupt bad ending but dang I was really hoping that things would turn out ok for the earth for once.

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Anon07/05/26, 06:21No.23932158

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Anon07/05/26, 11:28No.23932346

lanky manga neon blue Tetsujin 28>fat 2004 desaturated Tetsujin.

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Anon07/06/26, 14:40No.23933548

What's up with Shinseikiden Mars? I can't find the english sub anywhere.

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Anon07/06/26, 15:10No.23933586

When I saw this thumbnail I thought it was Brago for a second

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Anon07/06/26, 16:48No.23933695

crabstick subs my beloved, soon becoming a lost art

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Anon07/06/26, 17:06No.23933715

When did you realize that Mars is Japanese The Day the Earth Stood Still?

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Anon07/06/26, 18:53No.23933808

"Klaatu barada nikto" >planet fucking explodes

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Anon07/09/26, 19:28No.23937015

Wait so let me get this straight MARS the manga was the original Godmars is the anime which just kinda used the name and premise but was otherwise completely different? Then there was an OVA more recently that was more accurate?

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Anon07/09/26, 20:03No.23937036

https://myanimelist.net/manga/77453/Giant_Robo__Babel_no_Roujou has nobody read this? the site says it's six volumes and in the same setting as the animation.

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Anon07/09/26, 22:19No.23937126

I'm really enjoying Babel 2. It's a little crazy how Yomi went straight from "join me" to "kill this guy" though.

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Anon07/10/26, 16:06No.23938067

Off topic but does anyone else really love stock phrases like "have you taken leave of your senses"? It's such a pretentious way of saying "are you crazy?".

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Anon07/12/26, 18:38No.23940107

The Babel II manga was a big hit in the Korea, to the point where in the 80's they did their own sequel, Babel III. Too bad it's probably next to impossible to get your hands on.

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Anon07/15/26, 04:58No.23942525

So the first 26 episodes of the original Tetsujin anime (the ones that adapt the manga) are subbed. archive.org/details/tetsujin-28-birthIf by any chance someone watches that & then wants to try watching the rest through the Gigantor dub, the dub's episodes are in a totally different order, so here's the guide for that. If you notice any Gigantor episodes unaccounted for, that's because, contrary to popular belief, some of the earlier episodes were actually adapted in Gigantor, those ones were usually multiple episodes combined into one.

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Anon07/15/26, 22:50No.23943399

I finished reading Babel 2. I really liked the concept but good god did they overuse Yomi. Mad scientist characters are their best when they're coming up with crazy plots from the shadows (pic somewhat related) but Yomi is almost always a punching bag for babel.

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Anon07/16/26, 14:31No.23944319

Site i was using to watch the toku giant robo subbed is kill, is there anywhere else to find it subbed?

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Anon07/17/26, 00:48No.23944837

Really wish I could live in the timeline where the original anime kept adapting the manga instead of pivoting exclusively to original stories. They hadn't even got anywhere near to catching up to where the manga was at the time. For context the anime stopped adapting the manga at the Robby arc, & at the time the manga was in the Dr. Bigfire arc, so they probably could've gotten all the way up to the Saturn or VL2 arcs before they were caught up.

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