Is Five Star Stories the closest mecha has to offer as an art? The avant garde styling of both the characters and the Mortar Headds seems to be something that the mechanical designers and character designers of today seem to avoid entirely.

I wouldn't be surprised if this is just a case of FSS being something of a pinnacle in both Japanese art and Japanese story telling. The themes of post-humanism as well as strength through vanity seem so common and reoccurrent that I can't help but see it as a, not only a classic piece of mecha history, but as a piece of art to the world.



Why is it that NOTHING has come close to matching the quality of FSS's art and story telling? Is the mediocrity of today's Japanese artist because of their blatant lack of skill, or is Nagano just among the greatest storytellers of the world?

>>21671406 (OP)

????? almost ten years old now too

>>21671406 (OP)

I think FSS is top tier and among the best, but your post is insufferable. 

So, I'm not going to contribute your antagonistic thread.

>>21671406 (OP)

>avant garde styling

embarrassing thread OP

>>21671406 (OP)

Mamoru, is that you? Put Gothicmade on Blu-Ray already you dolt.

Nagano still living rent-free in OP's head all these years later

is this bots? what possesses people to post the exact same thread over and over?

Right now there are posters indistinguishable from the spambots that predate the implementation of captcha. We are at levels of "thanks op I cum on cat she hiss at penis" levels of consistent call and response never before thought possible in over a decade. 



Fuck.

Jesus fucking christ op what are you doing

>love FSS

>the only FSS threads that make it past 1 reply here are these shitty falseflags that give every newfag a bad taste of it

Seeing that Jagd Mirage kit fills always me with overwhelming dread.

Nagano does that himself

The only thing holding Nagano's talent and genius back is that he's a paranoid nutter who regards IP licensing agreements with the same mistrust a gun toting "git off mah land" appalachian redneck would have for an urban planner.

trash of the highest order, maybe

fair enough considering the Acquisition Wars going on for all thought and ideas right now.

> right now

The manga is over 30 years old.

>>21671406 (OP)

Tomino already did the same concept but better with L-Gaim you fucking moron.

we all call kojumbo a genius and he got fucked out of his IP.

Isn't it still being officially translated and published in Italy and Taiwan? I don't think he cares that much

I am Nagano's secret apprentice, ask me anything.

What's his favorite wig.

The good one, with the foam.

>We'll never get FSS Vidya because Nagano has a huge stick up his ass over IP licenses.

I'll just continue dreaming of piloting a LED Mirage instead I guess...

??? Nagano literally worked on L-Gaim with Tomino and FSS is an expanded vision of it. You're free to like it but acting like it's superior is ridiculous

>falling for the SRW meme

Can we get a new release of the manga in English?

No, it will ruin the viewer's interpretation of the original work. Five Star Stories can only be told in English if it was redone from the ground up by an American.

You can always make an L-gaim thread and wait these 20 posts untill anons inevitably start discussing FFS
