Sunday, March 23, 2008

Mecha, now far less manly

If there was one thing I never thought the evil tendrils of Moe could infect, it was Mecha. A genre filled with young pilots screaming out attacks like "Rocket Punch!" was of course far too manly to be infected by the dread spectre of Moe.

I was wrong.

Behold Mecha Mususme, Moe versions of our beloved Mecha, complete with cat ears, huge eyes and.... Miniskirts.


Sky Girls, an example of Mecha Mususme. I've never seen this show, but the little girl wearing a thong is enough to tell me, I don't wanna!


According to Wiki (I really didn't want to Google this for fear of what might come up!)

"MS bishōjo are girls drawn wearing helmets and armor designed to resemble various mobile suits, usually gundams or zakus"

It was this which made me realise, its all Gundam Wings fault. There was a time when Mecha were piloted by real manly men. Men who could destroy an army of mechanized dinosaurs without batting an eye! And when these men were told they would have to pilot a Giant Robot, their answer would inevitably be, "Hell Yeah!"

Then Gundam Wing came around with its Hippie/emo pilots, whining about why they hated their life and it led to this. Mecha Musume.

Eva can be blamed too.

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

damn you Gundam Wing!

Charleston said...

Actually, we should really blame eva, since alot of people creamed their pants for wussy-feely fucking pilots. They need to bring back men who wanna pilot mecha when their offered it without thinking about anything else except for the fact that their gonna kick some dino ass!

Anonymous said...

Yes!

We can blame Eva! Fuck you for taking away the manly aspect of robots!

Getter BEAM!

IAmZim said...

Don't worry though, New Getter Robo brought the maliness back!

You can always count on Go Nagai

Unknown said...

Ah man it's almost as if some evil organization telepathically read my mind and held like a board meeting.OK guys how can we destroy the real robot genre for djd.

(scumbag1)Sir we can introduce moronic moe characters into this show.And to top it off , we'll make it so that they're half naked.

(scumbag2)Hmmmphh.Sir if I may.The perfect way to totally piss him off , is to put those fucking retarded EVA brainsync crap on their heads.


(boss)Claps slowly and increases tempo.I want this show yesterday.Also give scumbag2 a fucking raise.(Goes back to snorting crack cocaine off a naked 9 year old Thai boy)

Unknown said...

Mecha was always moeshit, what do you expect in a show where people have to strap themselves into giant robots in order to compensate for their lack of courage and strength?