Why do so many mecha OVAs waste their time on boring shit instead of just making action romps?

action is harder to draw than boring shit

>>21683261 (OP)

They did that. It was Madox-01, which was a moderate hit, but nothing spectacular. Even at the height of the 80s model boom, unless you were Bandai selling Gunpla--which had already captured the casual plastic model demographic--you would want your OVA to have cross-demographic appeal. And that meant creating character drama that people cared about.

>>21683261 (OP)

Action is pointless without context grounding it and giving it meaning.

>>21683261 (OP)

All the best mecha would have lost nothing at all if the robots were replaced by regular guys with guns or whatever. That's what makes them great. They're not relying on huge robots to be good, they know they're good. Giant robots are added on top of that simply because giant robots are cool.

>>21683261 (OP)

>amazing setting

>excellent atmosphere

>incredibly boring set pieces and action

>dumb time jumps that shat on the first movie

Megazone was a huge disappointment.

The first one wasn’t that great either. Shogo is a horrible protagonist.

I thought the 3rd one was the most interesting and had the best concepts for action scenes and designs, but the animation was complete garbage.

Why is Japan so obsessed with an utterly mediocre film such as Streets of Fire?

The Tominofag Twitter cabal seethes hard about this anime even though it has the same writer as 0079 and Turn A

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>the G-Bitch trolls are bots

>>21683261 (OP)

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with Redline, the all sakuga action romp that sold millions of BDs and made Takeshi Koike a household name. Except it didn't.

This, It's like those stick figure animations that were popular back in the early 2000's. Sure it's fun the first few times, but It's not something you remember or care about for very long cause it's devoid of any rhyme or reason.

Cause it had soul, something you'll never understand.

How can it have soul when slants aren't human?

>>incredibly boring set pieces and action

Everything you said is true but this part is not. For me the animation &amp; action sequences was the best part of part 1 &amp; 2

Did it? It was a bomb everywhere but in Japan and the main lead was very shitty and unconvincing as a hero just like Rick Moranis was completely miscast as the asshole manager. The music is the only good thing about it.

Maybe the Japanese dub is really good.

This, it's way too white and fun to be considerred a serious film. Get Out is far superior

>>21683261 (OP)

Probably because Birth came out right at the beginning of the OVA era and proved that even if you had some of the best talent in the industry animating it that that alone wasn't enough.

I still think about them a lot. The first ones had unmatched choreography because they copied from kung fu movies, but later ones eventually started to get more anime and rely on flashy effects and zooming around at 500 mph. I still go back and rewatch my favorites from time to time.
