Why aren’t mecha popular in Western media?

Why aren’t mecha popular in Western media?

No idea, everyone thinks they’re cool but nobody really tried aside from Robot Jox (shitty title + low budget) and Pacific Rim (shitty title + came out at the wrong time).

How does one get into mecha anime/manga? I have only seen Evangelion.

the faggot from Sweet Tooth is doing the liveaction for Legendary Pictures.

Because white people understand physics. There is no way these 20 meter tall robots could punch someone or fight with laser swords without wrecking themselves.

My personal issue with mechas is that they’re completely impractical. The human form is not remotely optimal for combat.

because westerners preferred fantasy.
Japanese fantasy is cool too, but it is probably too proximate to their current culture ( we literally had to nuke their old culture out of them) so it doesn't feel as interesting

original gundam and original macross

Not even japs care about mecha anymore outside of the x generation age group.

Why aren’t mecha popular in Western media?

Because jap versions do not always translate well to normies and the people in charge are retards who do not instead adapt a western version of the genre.

Because it's dumb, retarded trash

There's no way they could even walk.
They would sink into any surface they stood on.

It's too authentic for the ironic minded west

I remember the same complaints from my friend when Pacific Rim came out. We grew up watching mecha anime, but he wouldn't accept a live action giant mech movie. I had received tickets for an advanced IMAX screening and he refused to come lol

You have to legitimately be autistic to enjoy real robots.
Super robot shows like Evangelion, Gurren Lagann and Code Geass were popular for a reason.
Gundam and Macross or whatever will always be niche because you have to be autistic to enjoy them

bested by superior technology

creates giant machine fantasies where they're fighting larger forces and winning

Jap mecha anime was power fantasy cope for their entire country ending up cucked by the Allies after WW2.

why are giant robots too unrealistic, westerners can suspend disbelief for all sorts of thimgs but draw the line at giant robots?

Japanese cultural autism combined with toy/model manufacturing industry. American business is mostly importer-resellers, with very few creators driven to pursue mecha gate-kept by a risk averse investment atmosphere. US distributors can just license pre-existing franchises that already have an ecosystem of products.
As an aspiring creator obsessed with mecha in the US my options are submit myself to the Disney slave pits or be an obscure indie operation. In Japan there is a pipeline that supports a large pool of indie creators like a minor leagues and a history of model/toy manufacturers willing to speculate on them as part of a lively national industry that exports most of the worlds related product. The closest thing the US has to that is the prolifetatiin of streaming shows, but that industdy operates as a Jewish money laundering scheme that farms subscriptions.

Mecha insists upon itself.

It will be soon

boobs

hope she's Char

Ara ara, Amuro-kun

Nice

Because knights aren't.

Code Geass
86
The Big O
The Five Star Stories

god i just know l the live action movie is gonna suck
Gundam is to soulfull and optimistic to be adapted into an mainstream hollywood movie
Even though the original trilogy got pretty dark at times it always had an hopefull undertone to it all
The oyw felt like just an temporay setback and soon humanity will ultimately progess into space and advance the human race and whatnot
Could anyone in hollywood really make an optimistic movie about future space travel?
there just gonna focus on the most supeficial stuff and make it dark and gritty to get teens into it

manga

Cyborg 009, Kamen Rider
Giant Robo, Mars, Babel II
Space Battleship Yamato, Harlock
Mazinger Z/Devilman
Getter Robo
Blazing Transfer Student
Ghost in the Shell

anime

Space Battleship Yamato, Harlock
Armored Trooper VOTOMs
Giant Robo OVA
Mobile Fighter G Gundam
King of Braves: GaoGaiGar

Your friend is autistic.

does logh count as mecha?
If so start with that one its easy to get into and the story is one of the best written in all of fiction

god i just know l the live action movie is gonna suck

They already had to fire the first director because he tried to big league Tomino, so that tells you how much respect for the series they're going into this production with

Yup, it counts.

I am stupid
what does “tried to big league” mean?

Ignored him and acted like he was too good to even pretend to listen to whatever he wanted to say, which got Tomino to shit on him in a nip interview.

Is Tomino still alive? Why is he even on the project?

live action gundam

Oh cool can't wait for the action, neat effects, and political intr

it's bankrolled by Legendary

Never mind

Is Tomino still alive?

Yes

Why is he even on the project?

He's not, but a Hollywood live action Gundam was something he was interested in and he wanted to talk to the director about it. And even if you weren't going to bother with a thing he said it's stupid to not at least go "haha alright very nice grandpa"

Delusional. The only interesting mecha has been armored core.

Code Geass
Appleseed
Big O
Gurren Lagann

Not mecha but the ships have grappling arms and fist fight so fuck it:
Outlaw Star

They aren't popular in the east either because all the tech otaku are old. All the popular mecha anime are popular because of everything surrounding the big robot and the storytelling it can enable and people have mostly realized you can do that same thing without 10 story tall robots just look at >geass
people watch this because of politics, hot bitches and lelouch's magic eye

appleseed

is a show about being a cyborg with a GF

big O

is a noir mystery where the detective gets in a robot before punching the crook of the week

gurren laggan

a show about superheroes and resisting oppression

Super Robot
Manga
-Mazinger Z
-Getter Robo
Anime
-Gunbuster
-GaoGaiGar
-Mazinkaiser
-New Getter Robo

Real Robot
Anime
-Gundam
-Macross
-Votoms