Saying that certain Newtype powers only work through a Minovsky particle medium makes sense with what we see on-screen, but it doesn't really explain (at least, from where I'm sitting) what those Newtype powers actually are. A guy with a brain that weighs about three pounds or so is able to do *some...

Chara Soon gets one personality change from becoming a Cyber-Newtype in ZZ Gundam; maybe she got another? I'm just making up wild guesses here, but maybe they re-re-brainwashed her when she was "decommissioned". I'd imagine that the Federation wouldn't be happy with the idea of Cyber-Newty...

Illia Pazom is a weird character. ZZ Gundam spoilers here, obviously, but with a lot of stuff in ZZ Gundam, her character is just kind of dropped abruptly; she's introduced in the last third of the series, seems to have some sort of attachment to Our Man Mashymre, but we never really learn anything ...

I figured that Gym was dead simply because someone would have probably thought to check. I mean, with the way Earthlings were with technology, they were probably all over the Turn A/Turn X site, trying to pick off whatever technological secrets they could. Plus, it's a fitting end to Gym in terms of...

I dunno, Char's always had a serious problem with priorities. In MSG, he starts out wanting to both advance the cause of Zeon but kill the Zabi family. Later he adds "killing Amuro" to that list. He ends up focusing on Amuro almost exclusively, and when that doesn't work out he decides to...

I was doing some random Googling for pictures of powered armor, and found these in someone's image directory. Googling for "CCCP paraplegic power armor anime" hasn't worked, sadly. Can anyone kindly tell me what this mecha is, and what series it is from? It's the kind of thing that you can...

I wouldn't be too surprised if a few of the AEUG's members joined up to fight the Titans, but were also of the "anti-Earth Federation, pro-colony" sentiment we see often in Gundam, and decided that fighting for Neo Zeon made more sense than staying with the AEUG (which, to a point, seemed ...

While watching ZZ Gundam recently, the Bawoo did kind of jump out and bite me. I didn't identify the Zeta Gundam elements there, but it did seem to be a lot like a "hero mecha" or "Gundam mecha" design rather than something the bad guys would usually be found piloting. I think Gl...

I don't mean to pry, but... why is your friend ok with blood and violence yet he's not ok with some drug usage and nudity? What makes one worse than the other? I guess it's a trivial thing, but I just thought it was kind of odd. That's the way TV standards in America generally work, and that's what...

The MechWarrior and Robotech novels had pilots mentally controlling their robots to a degree, with the mind working to keep the machine's balance and for fine movement controls (tiny wrist and leg adjustments etc.) while inputting the larger gross movements with the physical cockpit controls, which ...

Fanton laav Algis aside from being a very charasmatic individual also has the personal color of gold. He pilots a gold Capule, in space, the earth and in colonies also his ship is a golden Endra class ship called Indra. Whoa! Sorry, I have to ask a bit more about this. A Capule ? Is there any justi...

The VF-25 can accelerate at 27.5G, which thanks to the inertial compensators in the EX-Gear the pilot can actually do without turning to paste. The VF-27 is apparently capable of even better. The V2 Gundam can accelerate at 20G, but I don't know if Usso ever actually does this. I don't think the Gu...

It's hard to say without knowing how Armored Core's laser blades work. They have a finite range, which suggests that they're not light but rather some particle, maybe a short-lived plasma burst, but we can't be sure. I always thought it might be plasma because, well, it's hard to explain why some pi...

Some of the games seemed to imply to me that minovsky particles "leaked" out from things using minovsky fusion reactors, but by the looks of things, the games aren't necessarily canon on the issue. I always assumed from the way they worked in games that the particles didn't interact with p...

Something that has bugged me for years is that at one point a character in Cowboy Bebop casually mentions a certain star as a location, which implied to me that interstellar travel was possible , but maybe not common or practical. I forget the name of the star, but it's one of those specific, one w...

I've always wanted to ask this, and this seems like a related enough question for it to be in this thread: what are some of the mecha that also serve as spaceships? To be a bit more specific, something like the original Gundam can obviously move through space, but it's not meant to be too far away f...

Something that has bugged me for years is that at one point a character in Cowboy Bebop casually mentions a certain star as a location, which implied to me that interstellar travel was possible , but maybe not common or practical. I forget the name of the star, but it's one of those specific, one wo...

I consider myself humbled. I wrote an article once that went into BattleTech's Macross and Dougram designs, but this right here is a lot more in-depth (i.e. actually true). Surprised to learn about the Crusher Joe stuff, too.

The end of Mellowlink ends with an attack on one of the two groups' military bases, so I always assumed that it took place after the main Votoms show, where they were dropping hints in the last episode that the war between the Balarant and the Melkian forces was about to restart.

Do you have any particular reason why you have to keep reposting topics that are already being discussed on /m/? I know you've done this before, and if a topic is being discussed and answered there, why do you have to repeat it on here? Whether or not he is or is not doing this, I don't visit /m/ m...