A Visual History of Mecha - Episode 1
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- Опубликовано: 25 авг 2024
- Episode One: The Post War Era
Covering Japan in the 60s and the events leading up to the birth of the Robot genre.
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This was a great first episode, It's really insightful and I appreciated the way you started this series by explaining the mindset of the Japanese people of the era and how they came to have that also.
I love the history-focused nature of this video. I'll be happy to see more of this series in the future
I really liked the old school powerpoint approach!
This series feels like it would be on the history channel. I’ll have to watch the rest.
Outstanding. Looking forward to watching the rest.
Thanks for the upload! I stumbled upon your channel and several other gundam channels recently and I have been enjoying the binge of mecha lore.
Glad to hear it, it goes even deeper as the series progresses
ProfessorOtakuD2
It sure seems like it even just at the end of episode one! Could you perhaps point me to any other channels or even just videos that deal with similar topics? Videos like this one or even channels like Zeta Rise for example.
+ElectronicControl3R well, I only really know of my own series right this second, but there are retrospectives on power rangers and one piece that i know of
The power rangers one would certainly be interesting to me, I unfortunately never got to interested in one piece.
Also if you have never heard of the channel Zeta Rise id would highly suggest it, he has some seriously detailed gundam videos.
Tank Tankuro.
Also that Shonen Club story from during the war with a robot Kraken fighting the US Navy.
(Also the express train from Kansai International to Osaka looks like Tetsujin 28)
There's a lot to cover man. I hope you're up to it. Beside that, great to have more work out of ya Prof.
NICE!!
Outstanding! Thank you!
Can't wait for the next episode.
the early years of mecha
interesting video series
The word "robot" does not come from a word slave, it was actually based on an archaic word meaning "to do work" or "worker", usually in the context of physical labor like mining.
The word "Robota" is translated most readily as "Forced Labour" which has the context of slavery in English.
@@ProfessorOtakuD2 I'm a native speaker, it's just an archaic word for labor.
Take it up with the people translated the books I read then, because they said 'forced labor' and 'slave' interchangeably when talking about it.
@@ProfessorOtakuD2 Both Czech and Slovak have a somewhat rocky history with translations, especially with wordings and grammar, so it makes sense.
"Robotovať", the noun form of "robota", was used within a physical labour context often associated to feudal serfdom, which could be why it has an association to slavery, since being a serf is basically being a slave.
Sounds like slavery to me.
you deserve more subs
Nice use of the Pacific Rim music, here.
It means that I never make a penny off this though X_x
Just realized this, Gigantor was original Nuetro.
4:40 Heh, War Machine
And nothing about the American novel Starship Troopers which came out on November 5, 1959, by Robert A. Heinlein, which showed the Military group piloting Mobile suits our power armor the flight bugs.
I know what Starship Troopers is, thanks. Its not necessary to this narrative, because this is about a country's relationship with technology.
Assistance please: I remember a show from my childhood that was 3 robots that formed 1 mecha, but could change up the way they came together. I viewed all your videos and either missed it or saw no mention of it. If you know what it is please let me know
You sure its not Getter Robo from 3-4 episodes in?
Just a thought for future videos: Would it be alright if you linked to your sources in the description? A lot of people like to do the fact-checking themselves, and it's always interesting to see just how much research went into this video.
Epic Ebi A lot of this is based on class notes I took while at Uni so it'd be kind of useless to do that, combined with wikipedia for timeline accuracy. So its a bit moot.I'll see what I can come up with.
I see. Well, in any case, I look forward to the next video.
+ProfessorOtakuD2 Wait... WAIT! There are classes containing this material in Universities? Fuck... may just go back to school after all!
What's the first show in the intro? Anyone know?
Its from Blue Comet SPT Layzner
@@ProfessorOtakuD2 bows
It's all down hill from here.
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Mighty nice of him.
I think the first Japanese mecha in history could also be that robot Ogon bat fought in the 1930's Kamishibai. www.interestingtimespodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Golden_Bat_Giant_Robot.jpg
Very well might be but I'd have to do some research on that before I say up or down.
I think you're overstating Russia's prestige at the time of the Russo-Japanese war. If the war had happened before the Crimean war, yeah, that's when Russia had all the street cred. But by the Russo-Japanese war, Russia was regarded as pretty backwards.
DarthBobCat Well yes, most of Europe thought of the Russians as brutal asiatics, but they were still a massive powerhouse even without the prestige at the time. The point of that was to show just how huge it was that a nation went from zero to beating up long-standing empires.
Did you ever do an episode covering Mighty Orbots?
This is mostly anime focused but I will be going back and covering stuff I missed.
ProfessorOtakuD2 Was orbots originally a Japanese series? Thank you very much for answering my question!
Kinda sorta. It was had a Japanese production staff, but was designed for an American broadcast audience, and then would take it for home video in Japan a couple years later.
ProfessorOtakuD2 thank you very much.