Gundam creator Yoshiyuki Tomino: Young animators must “crush” Hayao Miyazaki
Yoshiyuki Tomino, the creator of the Mobile Suit Gundam franchise, encouraged young professionals to "crush" Hayao Miyazaki and surpass him. Tomino's comments are praise for Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli…
Why did you get filtered by the giant robot? Also asides gundam, I think you should dai guard next.
I just didn't feel the genre was for me. Though I did have my exceptions--for example, I adored Gurren Lagann, and it's still one of my five favorite anime of all time.
But I knew that show was meant to be a celebration of the genre, and to a lesser extent masculinity itself.
You'll eventually get roped into it lel, I felt the same way about it, TTGL was my original "I don't really care for mecha but I love this" anime, and then gradually I gave more and more of them a shot and became a moderate/casual mecha fan of sorts. (Though I'm far from the level of the super fans which the genre seems full of).
I don't feel any of them I've watched/read lived up to the bar TTGL set, but that's more because of TTGL setting the bar so high imo.
Another exception that I think counts? Full Metal Panic. Loved the original, Fumoffu, and The Second Raid, even if Invisible Victory was kind of disappointing.
Tessa Testarossa does not get enough love.
I want to recommend gridman/dynazenon then. Made by the same staff and is just as hopeful.
Already seen it for my own reasons--I was a huge fan of Superhuman Samurai Syber-Squad as a kid.
And so was its English dub director, Clifford Chapin, to the point of bringing his old toys to stand on his desk while they recorded for it. In fact, I asked Greg Ayres (who is in the dub) about this personally at a con several years ago--he confirmed it's all true.
This is also why Alexis Kerib's voice was done as a Tim Curry impression. There's even a nice little Kilokahn reference added to the dialogue in the last episode--normally I hate dub changes, but this one, I'll allow it!
Oh, and yes, because of this anime, I watched the actual original Gridman show. Man, that show got weird--but now I have proof that Syber-Squad was pretty accurate to it!
heres to hoping the movie dub is good