Mecha-Mania Project (Interest Gauge)

[OropherZero]

Hey everyone, Clamp-X and I are willing to coordinator a MEP which shows off various mechs in mecha animes. As I'm sure you're well aware of, there are heaps of these shows now, which I think begun with Neon Genesis Evangelion and the early Gundams, now it has pretty much taken part in various other genres such as the mechs in shoujo-ai anime Kannazuki no Miko. The goal of this project would be to have one place to show in a spotlight the efforts of the producers to create detailed mechs, oh and battleships will be allowed to, as long as it's portable in some way like a mech Seriously, wouldn't it be cool to compare and contrast various mechs from different animes (this idea came to me when I was apart of an argument on IRC on which Gundam is the strongest).

So, feedback would be appreciated, and if it does go ahead, the deadline will be around the end of January next year.

What says you? =)

[Stolen Soul]

i might be interested in this =P

i could use rahxephon

or even magical shopping arcade abenobashi >.>

[Moonie]

It sounds like an interesting project.
Are you gonna have a set of songs for people to use or do they just pick any song they want?

[EvaFan]

So.. The idea would be to create a Mech profile short for an mep? While I like the idea, finding a song that will depict a mechanical monstrosity, and depict it well, it would be really hard. I can't really think of any. The only way I could think of getting this to work would be to make a character profile centered around the pilots and their Machines. For instance Shinji's eva unit got stronger as he became more desperate. A song built around that might work some how. Another one is Gundams, they get so filled with rage and anger that they go berserk. A song could be easilly used to that. Um... in IGPX, well that's simple, use a cool race song like "Phenomenon" or something. I think the problem is your not being detailed enough about what you want from people in this MEP. I'm still kinda confused myself.

[OropherZero]

I was going to let the editor choose the music source, I was thinking songs should be fast paced just like phenomonon as you said, jpop would also go very well in this project.

Hmm I was going to make it more detailed if it goes ahead but I'll write out more descriptions now.

Okay this project isn't really supposed to be drama focussed such as character profiles of the pilots, i was just thinking of it being action - jammed pack - eye candy of mechas in action rather than the experiences of the characters. Of course you can put in footage of the characters if they are apart of the action scene. I think this notion would have more focus as a 'mecha MEP' rather than say a 'character angst' MEP, what do you think? I'm willing to change my ideas around if people think it'll work better.

Edit: Better yet, lets have a mix of these two ideas, a character profile to go with the action scenes of the mechs. Remember though, this is primarily a mecha project so try not to include drama which is unrelated to the piloting of mech(s). Mech angst is delicious and it adds more depth to the action scenes

I want the MEP to include as many mechs as possible, so for example, if two people want to do Gundam Seed/Destiny. One person could focus on Kira's mechs, Strike, Freedom, Strike Freedom, and the other person could focus on Athrun's mechs, Aegis, Justice, Saviour, Infinite Justice etc

If more than one people want to do NGE, one person would focus on Shinji's eva while another person does the various angels or Asuka's eva.

The anime should be of a mecha genre, for example Kannazuki no Miko is shoujo-ai AND mecha so is allowed. magical shopping arcade abenobashi I imagine only parodies mecha animes so please include real mechs not comedy ones (that being said I haven't seen magical shopping arcade abenobashi).

Are you getting an image of what I'm trying to achieve through this project or any parts need more ellaborating? Please post your opinions

[EvaFan]

i was just thinking of it being action - jammed pack - eye candy of mechas in action

HELL YES! That's exactly what I was hoping for. I'm fuking IN. Hook me up with VANDREAD XD!

[OropherZero]

Hahha awesome, this is the interest gauge topic so I'll get the rules and guidelines done shortly

[Flame-X]

Let's try avoid using EVA. ^^;

[bluetrain]

hehe, how about calling the project "Mechanical Monstrosity"

[OropherZero]

Mecha-Mania-Mechanical-Monstrosity tongue twister of the year!

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Hmm.. an interesting proposal