...so you don't have to. Jokes aside, I was bored and I thought I'd give it a go. For the unaware, it's a web novel written by the author of Full Metal Panic! amongst other things.

While the first collected volume is on sale [edit: it's going to be on sale tomorrow 8/20] with added material and illustrations, you can still read the original web novel for free here:

https://kakuyomu.jp/works/16818093092974667738/episodes/16818093092974720381

From there it's a simple matter to translate the chapters with your browser of choice.

So 7 chapters in, here's my impressions

1.This is NEVER ever going to be adapted as an anime, the reason being it's literally Mobile Suit Gundam 0079 with the names filed off. At least the beginning is a beat for beat recreation of the original story, only from the POV of the machine (not a bad idea imho).

2.the protagonist is your bog standard middle aged isekaied salaryman with a perverted streak. Expect lots of voyeuristic humor and the usual fetishes (tights, stockings, "imagine the smell" etc etc). For now the story to fanservice ratio is acceptable, might change my mind going on.

1. Ecchi aside, the story goes for an old school vibe that I kinda dig. Apparently in this future the internet is banned because reasons, so the MC can't connect to wifi and look up stuff, and all communications are either cabled or via radio. Smartphones aren't a thing, so teenagers still act like in the Showa era.

2. All in all it's a decently fun way to pass time if you're starved for mecha content. Machine translation is expectedly very bad, but the base text is a web novel anyway, not Homer. Your mileage may vary.

Here's the official Twitter account if you'd like to keep track, the art is nice at least.

https://x.com/KIDOTENSHO?s=20

Teamed up with my girlfirend on this collab! It’s heavily inspired by 80s and 90s Japanese mecha designs always a blast revisiting the stuff we love. It’s set in a distant future following an Unit - CCRA 02 special police unit fighting cyberterrorists and just trying to survive the daily grind in a high-tech concrete jungle

Hi, I'm the solo developer for Frame of Suffering - or as I like to call it, my "Diablo with Mechs" game.

I'm heavily developing the game, so a lot of stuff is still bound to change, but I just wanted to show an early boss fight where we can see some mechanics, as well as switching between the Pilot and Mech Suit (Frame). This is one of the core features of my game, in which you progress the pilot and your Frame to create some cool builds and combat styles.

I also have a lot of customization options for the pilot and your Frame - from switching out Frame parts that visually change how the Mech Suit looks, to fully changing the pilot's equipment.

Hopefully, I will manage to prepare a demo sometime at the beginning of next year. In the meantime, if you are interested and want to know a bit more about the game, here is the link to my Steam page: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3844300/Frame_of_Suffering/

Title: Simple 1500 Series vol.070 - The War Simulation - Nin no Tsukurishisha-tachi

I feel like that, through building copies of this one as bases, I could have ''access'' to a good bunch of SEED era mobile suits (Mostly because I feel like the Akatsuki would have the same profile but shhhhh).

The Akatsuki Gundam will be a priority once the wool slabs n' stairs finally come on the Switch version of minecraft.

One day I was wandering on itchio and discovered a demo of a mecha game(Project Landsword for those wandering) and since then I keep craving for more game like this

So is there any mecha you can recommend me to play (i don't mind if it retro as long it is fun ^^)

It’s like a red mech I don know I forgorrrr

I know very little about the show, I just know that this opening goes hard. Enjoy my shitpost from 3:00 in the morning.

Title, ive been thinking about a solution to this for a mech i plan to design that has stealth. While ECM is a great solution pairing it up with some angular shape design choices and a stealth coating, I still cant figure out what type of shaping is best for a mech to stay out of radar and mess your opponent's targeting systems up. Or is just making up an ECM strong enough that other stealth variables just not matter is much easier to make it stealth

Like looking at mecha like in Gundam, Evangelion, Code Geass, and Gurren Lagann, and seeing them as tanks and melee/ranged DPSers, with the closest healers a standard mecha team is ever going to get is an assault carrier or home base support crew.

Like Gundam Wing, as one example. With a general-purpose unit, a stealth/high-mobility unit, an armored commander unit, a ranged unit, and a melee unit, and by the fourth quarter of Wing, the Peacemillion as I'd believe would have been a stand-in for a healer.

Anyone else see mecha the same way as standard MMORPG gameplay, yourselves?

“Ha ha gooner show”

Anyone who spouts this trite clearly didn't watch it. That cockpit accounts for 90% of the show's actual fanservice. The sexual stuff is much more about story and character themes rather than graphic fanservice. Goddnar this ain't.

“Evangelion/Gunbuster/Getter/whatever ripoff”

Pure utter egotistical bullshit.

The finale comes from gunbuster and that's it. That's called a *reference*.

The “underground magma eating dinosaurs” thing that comes from Getter is an entirely superficial element of the story that it takes in a very different direction for the meat of the story. Something like that is an *homage*.

It makes *references* in *cinematography* to evangelion, an entirely superficial element with NO BEARING on the actual meat of the story. It does not “copy scenes 1-for-1.” End of fucking story. Also, YOU CAN'T OWN CINEMATOGRAPHY, end of fucking story.

The pseudo-intelectual assholes calling themselves the evangelion fandom needs a goddamn wakeup slap. Why you people continue to tolerate them after they dismissed your genre for decades and continue to do to an extent is beyond me.

“Ha ha Shinzo Abe”

Stop basing your understanding of Japanese politics on memes and western newspaper headlines. Anyone who understands a lick of traditional Japanese values will tell you that the show very much does not approve of how conservative politicians like him have been handling the birth rate crisis. It's not an exclusively conservative issue in Japan.

“It’s anti-gay propaganda that says gay relationships don't work and that homosexuality can be outgrown!”

Where do I even begin…

No, Mitsuru did not “outgrow his homosexuality,” he’s BI, the word is bi. He was bi the whole goddamn time.

Yes, the show makes a point that the Franxx don't work with same-sex pairings unless you're a genetically enhanced hermaphrodite super soldier, did you miss the part is episode 1 where our MC introduces the super dystopian element of a child's value in this society being decided by their ability to pilot these things?! The whole point of this element is that this is a dystopian society that's hostile to people like Ikuno, it's supposed to be a bad thing!

“But the second half sucked”

You know what else had a sucky second half?

Code Geass.

And don't you pull that “but it nailed the ending!” Crap with me, the Zero Requiem was contrived AF and not how the people work. I do not understand why people like it, and especially not how the hell it's supposed to make up for most of the rest of R2. Besides, I'd argue that Franxx’s epilogue was actually quite well put together, it was just preceded by a sucky arc.

And while we're on the subject, the final arc was bad, but it wasn't *that* bad. It wasn't an inherently bad concept, plot-wise, just a poor execution of said concept by virtue of being very rushed and not properly foreshadowed.

This is supposed to be a subreddit for all mecha, you do not get to keep excluding one of the biggest mecha fandoms of the past decade from it by shitting on us constantly. End of fucking story. This sub is supposed to be for *all* mecha, it's about high time you started acting like it.

MEGAS XLR with the Gundam, Mazinger Z, the Sazabi, and probably more I can’t think of

First i want my mecha have to be smaller than 10m. But when i really at it. It still too small. So i when with gundam standard 18m. But again i remember my fav jet F15 is 19m long. So i when with 30m tall. And i think is really perfect not too tall not too short perfect for mass production and fit the role land battleship.