Anime for not weebs

[JZStudios]

10 hours ago, Aereldor said:

No anime cliches, amazing concepts, and thank fuck, NO HIGH SCHOOL

Eh, there's some decent high school stories. Most are trash. But yeah, a lot of super cliched recommendations. I tried to only recommend things I thought were actually worth watching on their own for someone who's absolutely not into anime.

Erased, Ancient Magus' Bride, 91 days, and Kino's Journey are all excellent.

[Lii]

On 6/7/2020 at 8:48 PM, fpo said:

I am looking on Crunchy roll to watch these.
I couldn't find some, so I'm quoting you all to respond to all of you.

 

Gundar

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Got it!

We'll see!

If I can't then uhh... I'll say it's bad haha

Eschew

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Couldn't find it.

Couldn't find it.

Going to watch these all.

Dr2D2

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Added it. I liked Red Vs Blue.

AtxCyclist

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Added them all.

Vong

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Added it to watch

Kawaii Koneko

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Police & military are fine. It's just that like well... Police shows can be cool but do you know how many NCIS tv shows there are? How many "He's the best cop we've ever seen... but he doesn't play by the rules."

Transporter or whatever was a good movie. Yknow "I will find you & I will kill you."
Now there's a thousand movies & TV shows where the protaganist gets really angry & just shoots everybody. That's the character's personality trait. I can watch explosions and CGI compilations on youtube yet it doesn't make it any more satisfying if you get what I'm trying to say.

I didn't watch game of thrones but I saw the first 3 episodes & they have sex a lot. I can just watch porn instead, yknow? Nothing felt like it was happening & everyone said

"And there's alot of sex."

"okay? There's sex on porn websites."

 

Death note was about 1 investigation the whole time. No clue really felt pulled out of ones back side.

No

I like serious media. That doesn't mean I dislike comedy. I love South Park & The Boondocks.

There is wiggle room. TBH the only reason I finished season 1 was that the gun guy was funny to me & it felt like a comedy making fun of weebs or /k/ in a zombie apocalypse.

I watched some Evangelion movie or something. I couldn't find this on Crunchy roll. Where else can I watch it?

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Nena 360

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Which is the first mobile suit gundam? Presuming there's an order.

Xvaster

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I recall that sorta being explained but I felt let down when they were breaking out of the facility.

I couldn't find any of these. Where can I watch them?

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I actually saw this that was good.

Which is the first one?

I couldn't find any of these.

@Rohith_Kumar_Sp

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Too many in picture format.

Feels like you just showed me every anime you ever saw.

Do you have a top 5 picks?

Valdyrgramr

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I couldn't find these ones.

The rest I added to watch.

@Thorium19

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Added them to watch!

Dr0y

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I couldn't find these.

 

I got the rest of the anime on queue.

2FA

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Is "Parasyte -the maxim-" the right one?
If not do you have a link to the right one where I can watch it?

Eigenvektor

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I couldn't find these.

Bitter

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I saw one punch man. It was good. Some of my friends are/were hardcore weebs.

one wore a costume of an anime character everyday.

commodus

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That was a good show.

Zodiark1593

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I liked it.

Added them to watch!

I saw their Spirited away & castle in the sky.

They were okay.
Many people rave over the company. I didn't think they were particularly stellar. They're decent movies though.

 

 

 

For redline someone posted both dub (this dub it didn't seemd to me bad) and sub eng on YouTube

For others.. might I contact you via pm?

[Aereldor]

5 hours ago, valdyrgramr said:

Giant Robot/Mech/Robots is fine, and not all of it is bad.  Gundam, some of Zoids, and Go Nagi versions are fine.  It's more when you get into Astro Boy, Gigantor, NGE, and others where it becomes super weebish.  OP seems to want to avoid feeling like a high school kid, too too much non comedy fan service, and some other weebier stuff like K-On.  They don't mind some stuff with cliches, like High School of the Dead.  They seem to be interested in darker animes, gore, and good story plus comedy that has fan service.  They implied so in their responses.

Never seen a good giant robot anime... Except for The Iron Giant lmao. Even Evangelion is brainless. Although Hideaki Anno himself did say that people who aren't mentally screwed up won't learn anything from it... He was right, fuck that show

If OP doesn't want to feel like a kid of any sort or weeby, he/she needs to stop watching stuff with outrageous female characters and giant cartoon titties.

 

2 hours ago, JZStudios said:

Eh, there's some decent high school stories. Most are trash. But yeah, a lot of super cliched recommendations. I tried to only recommend things I thought were actually worth watching on their own for someone who's absolutely not into anime.

Erased, Ancient Magus' Bride, 91 days, and Kino's Journey are all excellent.

Never seen a good high school anime, and only one of those is in a school at all and it's in Middle School... Erased, and it's trash. So it 'Ancient Magus Bride'. Kino's Journey is set on a motorcycle, not in a high school. And I have never seen 91 Days but itsn't it a comically Japanese take on the Mafia?



Oh literally anything by Masaaki Yuasa... Except for the stupid surfer girl one.

[JZStudios]

2 hours ago, Aereldor said:

Never seen a good high school anime, and only one of those is in a school at all and it's in Middle School... Erased, and it's trash. So it 'Ancient Magus Bride'. Kino's Journey is set on a motorcycle, not in a high school. And I have never seen 91 Days but itsn't it a comically Japanese take on the Mafia?

I never said any of those were set in a high school. I literally can't understand why people can't follow conversations anymore.

And secondly, wow. It's not like Cowboy Bebop is any good. Death Note was pretty mediocre too. Along with anything else you said. All garbage.

[Aereldor]

  

12 minutes ago, JZStudios said:

And secondly, wow. It's not like Cowboy Bebop is any good. Death Note was pretty mediocre too. Along with anything else you said. All garbage.

You're out here recommending Assassination Classroom, Durarara, Food Wars,and 'Ancient Magus Bride', and Bungou Stray Dogs, all of which are full of weebiness and cliches. If you hate Cowboy Bebop, it's probably the opposite of these - not weeby and with no cliches, and a really good recommendation for a 'non weeby anime'. Food Wars has weird food sex ffs lmao.

 

On 6/8/2020 at 1:08 AM, JZStudios said:

A lot of anime is just tropes that are entertaining at first, but after about 5 series it's just completely based around trope predictions.

I mean, this describes all of these shows.

 

On 6/8/2020 at 1:08 AM, JZStudios said:

Western TV shows are completely aimless and go on way too long. Outside of Psych, Malcolm in the Middle, Monk, and How I met your Mother

120, 151, 125, and 208 episodes respectively... And also Durarara and Food Wars have several seasons. If you want to recommend shorter stuff... Which is good... Then these don't exactly fit.

Also-

21 minutes ago, JZStudios said:

I literally can't understand why people can't follow conversations anymore.

 

Wanna chill out? 

[Aereldor]

8 hours ago, valdyrgramr said:

Giant Robot/Mech/Robots is fine, and not all of it is bad.  Gundam, some of Zoids, and Go Nagi versions are fine.  It's more when you get into Astro Boy, Gigantor, NGE, and others where it becomes super weebish.  OP seems to want to avoid feeling like a high school kid, too too much non comedy fan service, and some other weebier stuff like K-On.  They don't mind some stuff with cliches, like High School of the Dead.  They seem to be interested in darker animes, gore, and good story plus comedy that has fan service.  They implied so in their responses.

I appreciate your effort, but I've yet to find any giant robot anime I like besides Bokurano, only because that one gets SUPER dark and is unlike anything else I've seen. Oh, I loved the action sequences in the first 2 Akito the Exiled, and I've heard decent things about Iron Blooded Orphans - I've just tried pretty much every gundam series and cannot, for the life of me, get into it.

Cowboy Bebop also has the only good fanservice ever

[SpaceGhostC2C]

Based on what you said in the OP, and as a fellow anime non-watcher, I'd say you could give "Attack on Titan" a try (I've seen it mentioned before, I just thought I'd second it from my angle).

I personally found the English dub really dumb, but it's fine with subtitles (I don't speak a single word of Japanese, but the intonation helps with the vibe). I'm not familiar with English dubbing, though; if you are, maybe it's just par for the course to you.

[divito]

17 minutes ago, SpaceGhostC2C said:

Based on what you said in the OP, and as a fellow anime non-watcher, I'd say you could give "Attack on Titan" a try (I've seen it mentioned before, I just thought I'd second it from my angle).

I personally found the English dub really dumb, but it's fine with subtitles (I don't speak a single word of Japanese, but the intonation helps with the vibe). I'm not familiar with English dubbing, though; if you are, maybe it's just par for the course to you.

As an aside for the OP, please don't watch dubs. I know some people find it irritating to read subtitles when they're supposed to be "watching" something, but there are very, very, very few dubs that do justice to the original.

[divito]

1 minute ago, valdyrgramr said:

Honestly, there are plenty of Japanese voiced animes that don't work well and make the character sound closer to a countertenor or high tenor even when they're supposed to sound intimidating.   Jouji sounds less intimidating than Crispin to me as Alucard.   The timber sounds darker where it should with Crispin and he's even able to toy with vocal weight to fit different lines for good delivery, but with Jouji he sounds too high and goofy, unintimidating, and at one point it sounds like he's doing bad black metal vocals.  

I think this comes down more to cultural perspective. I'll admit that some shows I've watched, the voices didn't seem to match how I envisioned the character, and some of the intonations were foreign to me (literally. One that comes to mind, and only because I watch so few dubs, is someone like Piccolo).

After some time watching more shows, that feeling disappears pretty quickly. However, the dubbed version almost always comes off as more cringey to the original.

 

8 minutes ago, valdyrgramr said:

I don't think it's really fair to say subs are better in the context you did.   A better argument is what voice actor/s are better at delivering the lines for the role.

And that's fair. There is something to be said for the actual production to choose a voice actor that matches their vision for the show and character, and in its original language as intended. Some cultural things don't translate very well, and aspects of delivering certain performances are tilted differently towards different languages.

Not all dubs are bad, and there is only so much they can do sometimes, and the way I phrased it probably wasn't the best. There are some dubs that do well for English-speaking audiences, and make some of the cultural nuances more palatable. A better statement is that original audio with subtitles is preferred for me, because everything is as intended.
 

[ChairSpelledWrong]

The only anime Ive ever enjoyed enough to want to constantly talk about was Watamote. It's a cringe-comedy based around a teenage girl who wants to be popular.

Here's a crunchy roll link:

https://bit.ly/37aWz1K

[Guest]

Hunter x Hunter update:

Too many anime isms. I can't count how many times the characters over explain things going on & things are just in the air for no reason.

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the guy with the burning candle thing. He offers a long one and a short one  okay. As a viewer I can see that he will either have rigged something or not give the candle gon picks. Now, the tall guy is all “how could you possibly know if one is booby trapped or not?” Then the blonde guy is all “one of the candles could be rigged... gon pick one or we will waste time!” 

 

Then he picks one and they’re like “what if the one he picked was rigged to burn faster?” 

And then they burn the candles. 

Okay it looks like the Guy was honest and prolly just wasting time  

now the candle explodes, I figure maybe the candle could’ve been tampered with. But now the blonde guy tells me “hmm... that bad guy must have used some sort of explosive or accelerant to make it burn faster! He must’ve done this to make the obvious candle choice burn faster!”

 

then the bad guy says “ahh yes, I dipped that candle in oil to make it burn faster. Your candle is going to burn out faster than mine. You fools... you see, it doesn’t matter which candle you chose because I had 4 candles. No matter which candle you chose, you would always get one dipped in oil to make it burn faster.”

 

 

did i really need that many explanations for things I could see? 

 

Then with a more violent flame, I as a viewer could see “yeah maybe he could just blow out the opponent’s candle. I guess the wind stopped him earlier.”

 

but then they outright say it like twice. 

I'm gunna move onto the next anime. I think Hunter x Hunter is made for tweens. Most anime probably is, but the protaganist & his friend both being 12 shoulda been a flag I should've taken more seriously sooner.

 

edit: there is a lot of good use of foreshadowing, but it feels a bit too in your face like they don’t want you to forget. Feels patronising when it’s okay for me to forget minor details that come up later. 

[SpikeSpiegel]

Rurouni Kenshin: The Motion Picture, known in Japan as Ishin Shishi e no Chinkonka (―維新志士への鎮魂歌, Requiem for the Ishin Patriots)

 

Best RK/Samurai X Movie

[JZStudios]

4 hours ago, Aereldor said:

  You're out here recommending Assassination Classroom, Durarara, Food Wars,and 'Ancient Magus Bride', and Bungou Stray Dogs, all of which are full of weebiness and cliches. If you hate Cowboy Bebop, it's probably the opposite of these - not weeby and with no cliches, and a really good recommendation for a 'non weeby anime'. Food Wars has weird food sex ffs lmao.

• Assassination classroom, I can see. I still don't know what "weeb" is though. It had a variety of characters with their own arcs and growth and was entertaining to watch.
• Durarara has some cliches (Especially Yuri Lowenthaals character), but it's the best example of a wide interweaving narrative I've ever seen.
• Food Wars has some excellent recipes and cooking methods, despite the clothes blowing off. That's why I had the addendum of "If you like cooking." If it wasn't so in depth about its core concept of creating recipes and trying new methods, I wouldn't recommend it. It also still has elements of humor that make me chuckle instead of sigh and find something else.
• Ancient Magus' Bride doesn't even take place in Japan. It's based explicitly in England about a girl discovering her self worth and becoming involved with a new fantastical "world." If this is weeb, then so is Harry Potter. It's also beautifully animated. Sometimes it's nice to just look at pretty things.
• Bungou Stray Dogs I sense no weeb in, but I'm still missing out on what constitutes as weeb. Also not sure what cliche's you're getting out of it.

Primary point is, I made those recommendations with those thoughts in mind. I also stated that in my initial post, again, you're not really following the conversation. They all do something different and are in fact, not, based entirely around cliches. The few that are present are pretty minor. There's no wackadoo ridiculous anime bullshit, outside of Food Wars (Which is why I had that stipulation) and possible Assassination Classroom. That being said, Assassination Classroom and Durarara do very well with handling a large cast of characters that are all equally important to the plot. This alone makes them unique since most shows don't focus on more than 2-4. Duraraara has at least 15 characters in complex storytelling done right, and AC has about the same, though the story telling isn't as complex.

5 hours ago, Aereldor said:

 I mean, this describes all of these shows.

Not really.

5 hours ago, Aereldor said:

  120, 151, 125, and 208 episodes respectively... And also Durarara and Food Wars have several seasons. If you want to recommend shorter stuff... Which is good... Then these don't exactly fit.

? I simply stated those were the few western shows I actually watched. They had nothing to do with my recommendations, of which also don't matter that they're long or short. Also note that every one of those shows is a comedy. I watched them because they were funny. If it's funny it's entertaining whether or not there's a plot.

5 hours ago, Aereldor said:

 Wanna chill out? 

Absolutely not. And these advances towards me are entirely unwarranted.

 

4 hours ago, divito said:

As an aside for the OP, please don't watch dubs. I know some people find it irritating to read subtitles when they're supposed to be "watching" something, but there are very, very, very few dubs that do justice to the original.

My biggest issue with dubs is that there's only like 4 voice actors that do it. And they suck. That one woman in particular is especially garbage and doesn't even bother trying anything different for any show she's in. I don't know her name, but you know exactly who I'm talking about.

[The Flying Sloth]

Weeb

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Cells at Work is actually great though for anyone that enjoys biology.

 

[SpikeSpiegel]

1 hour ago, valdyrgramr said:

Eh, the Samurai X back story stuff is better imo because they show how he got the scar.   

You mean this scene? 

 

[SpikeSpiegel]

2 minutes ago, valdyrgramr said:

Yes, it's from the Trust and Betrayal OVA that some treat as a movie of its own.   I don't mind that movie as a close second to it.   I did have some gripes with the live actions, but they weren't terrible either.  Also, that's only the first scar they didn't show the part with his "wife".

I prefer this last scene from Samurai X - Trust and Betrayal OVA

 

[xAcid9]

4 pages in, i still don't know what OP mean by weeb. 

[xAcid9]

14 minutes ago, valdyrgramr said:

I literally explained what I weeb is vs an otaku.

 

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Weeb Definition number 2 is the most accurate.   The third one is describing an otaku at first.

I know what weeb mean, but i sure OP's meaning of weeb is different.

[SpikeSpiegel]

Anime Rap Battles of History

[Aereldor]

1 hour ago, JZStudios said:

• Assassination classroom
• Durarara has some cliches
• Food Wars        the clothes blowing off.          elements of humor 
• Ancient Magus' Bride -- If this is weeb, then so is Harry Potter.
• Bungou Stray Dogs I sense no weeb in, but I'm still missing out on what constitutes as weeb. Also not sure what cliche's you're getting out of it.

 They all do something different and are in fact, not, based entirely around cliches. The few that are present are pretty minor. There's no wackadoo ridiculous anime bullshit

 

That being said, Assassination Classroom and Durarara do very well with handling a large cast of characters that are all equally important to the plot. This alone makes them unique since most shows don't focus on more than 2-4. Duraraara has at least 15 characters in complex storytelling done right, and AC has about the same, though the story telling isn't as complex.

 

>Durarara
>Complex storytelling
 

It's literally store-brand Baccano. 'Oh look our story is so crazy, look at our amazing setting!' It's literally a normal-ass generic Anime city. Protagonist is literally YET ANOTHER kind-hearted country bumpkin who 'goes to the big city for high school'. His best friend is a jackass pervert, and his love interest is the shy girl with big tits. The characters are cardboard cutouts and the story is a 12-year-old girl's fanfiction. The two mafia gangs are literally called 'yellow' and 'blue'.

Character depth? There's some weebs, 'immigrant', emphasized to a racist degree. Angry guy who throws fridges. Slimy guy who is slimy. It speaks volume when the only non-terrible character literally doesn't have a head.

 

They wanted to make Baccano 2. Instead, they made the cheap DVD successor that isn't better in any way. Baccano was set on the fuckin Orient Express. 

Assassination Classroom is show about kids trying to kill their tentacle monster teacher ith assault rifles and grenade launchers. I mean... 

Bungou Stray Dogs just attributes random bullshit 'quirks' to characters based on some stupid shallow caricature of legendary authors. You have the Dazai guy killing himself for laughs all the time, Doppo doesn't even make sense... They're just anime cutouts ffs. You wanna see a Dazai anime, watch the first arc of Aoi Bungaku or actually read his books. 

Ancient Magus Bride is basically a hentai. This is the actual summary for the show-

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Chise Hatori, a 15-year-old Japanese girl, was sold for five million pounds at an auction to a tall masked gentleman. Abandoned at a young age and ridiculed by her peers for her unconventional behavior, she was ready to give herself to any buyer if it meant having a place to go home to. In chains and on her way to an unknown fate, she hears whispers from robed men along her path, gossiping and complaining that such a buyer got his hands on a rare "Sleigh Beggy."

Yeah, creepy old fuck buys a 15 year old child bride. wanna remind me where that happens in Harry Potter? People who enjoy and recommend this shit give the whole industry a bad name, a stigma that genuine, serious creators who are good at their job like Masaaki Yuasa, Satoshi Kon, and Isao Takahata have to fight against. 

 

And yes, Food Wars is stupid, has like 80 episodes, and, again, has weird food sex. 

2 hours ago, JZStudios said:

• My biggest issue with dubs is that there's only like 4 voice actors that do it. And they suck. 

LMAO. There are dubs with Christian Bale in them. Crispin Freeman and Steven Blum are some of the most celebrated voice actors of our time. Some creators prefer the dubs. But then again, you think Cowboy Bebop and Death Note are trash lmao. To be fair, bad as Durarara is, good dub.

 

2 hours ago, JZStudios said:

• Absolutely not. And these advances towards me are entirely unwarranted.

You're not 'defending the honour of your anime collection with the power of your blade'... This is Linus Tech Tips.

 

 

 

[Aereldor]

7 hours ago, valdyrgramr said:

I couldn't get into most of Gundam minus Wing and G.   With Go Nagai I started on Demon Lord Dante, and I like the art for it.   I never watched the original Getter Robo, but saw the better art style with New Getter Robo and thought it was done well.

9 hours ago, valdyrgramr said:

Go Nagai is the gore god of anime, revolutionized giant robot with story/gore/art style and more.  One of his better being Getter Robo, and I'm not super into every version of Gundam outside of Wing and Mobile Fighter G Gundam/the UFC version one.  I only watched the normal zoids and chaotic, but there's a few other versions, iirc.   I really only suggest Chaotic Century as it's the only one with voice acting I can take seriously.   NGE has more slice of life than actual robot fighting that's interesting.

 

Hmm, Idk I tried the originals, the 79 one, the remake, iron blooded orphans, and 'the origins', wing, and Unicorn. I couldn't stomach them. Maybe they'll make a very targeted 'adult' gundam that maybe deconstructs the setting... I remember some dark stuff, doesn't the protagonist save an Indian girl from a brothel? Potential there.

 

Hey they should make a UFC anime... I would watch the shit out of that lol. Giant robot Conor McGregor sells his giant robot whiskey. Giant Robot Tony Ferguson is a freak. Giant Robot Jon Jones does coke in the corner.

 

You know, I really liked Made in Abyss though... That was a very good recent show. I hope it doesn't go on for 100 episodes. 

2 hours ago, valdyrgramr said:

Eh, the Samurai X back story stuff is better imo because they show how he got the scar.   

 

If you mean Tsuiokuhen, the one before he's a pussy and basically has his entire life brutally ruined, that's probably in the top 5 anime of all time... I can't believe something as dark as Tsuiokuhen came out of such a silly franchise. 

 

7 hours ago, valdyrgramr said:

I've watched a lot of fanservice anime thanks to an ex,

This is such a common story haha. I was introduced to Anime by a one-night stand when in high school, she tried to show me attack on titan, and I fell asleep 5 minutes in. 

[Aereldor]

 

1 hour ago, valdyrgramr said:

Yes, it's from the Trust and Betrayal OVA that some treat as a movie of its own.   I don't mind that movie as a close second to it.   I did have some gripes with the live actions, but they weren't terrible either.  Also, that's only the first scar they didn't show the part with his "wife".

 

1 hour ago, CalintzJerevinan said:

I prefer this last scene from Samurai X - Trust and Betrayal OVA

 

Greatest of all time contender. Fuck me Studio Deen was genius... Japanese voices were good though, made Kenshin sound young but also like dead inside. I gotta watch this again thanks lads.

[Aereldor]

1 hour ago, xAcid9 said:

I know what weeb mean, but i sure OP's meaning of weeb is different.

Maybe someone who glorifies the lowest of the culture... Giant cartoon titties and whatnot.

[Aereldor]

7 minutes ago, valdyrgramr said:

@Aereldor Did you try Mobile Fighter G Gundam?   It's like really different than the rest of Gundam.  You watched the space opera crap.   This one literally is martial arts with giant robots in tournament fights rather than space opera story meets military battles.

 

Also Trust and Betrayal is the name outside of Japan.

Hold up so it's actually giant robot UFC? 

[Jimpen]

4 minutes ago, Aereldor said:

Hold up so it's actually giant robot UFC? 

I am not think so that,that is my opinion.