prokopetz:

prokopetz:

Is there such a thing as a normal giant robot anime? Like, I’m totally down with a series where the giant robots turn out to be lobotomised clones of an alien god and the “good guys” have been collecting severely abused children to pilot them because they’re literally powered by self-loathing, or what have you, but sometimes you just want to see a fifty-meter robot punch a monster.

Recommendations that I have received in response to this post include:

• A show where the giant robot grows to the size of a galaxy and beats up the laws of thermodynamics
• A show where the giant robot confronts mecha-Satan and saves the day by persuading her to reset the universe
• A show where the giant robot turns out to be actually, metaphysically evil, goes Akira and devours the Earth, and is defeated by the power of Love
• A show where a series of giant robots pop out of an adolescent boy’s forehead, and also the whole story might be a metaphor for his penis

I am suspecting that we are employing different definitions of the word “normal”.