Am in the middle of watching Gundam Origins.

I'd watch gay mechs fuck.

Pacific Rim?

Japanese businessman: AHHHHHHH! On top of the corporate headquarters!?

Same goes for sci-fi in general

"tHeY mAdE sTaRtReK pOlItIcAl"

Transformers?

680 episode seasons, from which only 3 episodes are not space Aesop’s fables.

I swear on Char Aznabel's big red Zaku, if they take the yaoi and politics out of my big ass robot shows, I'm going to drop a space colony on Australia!

Is that the one that feels like Char is recounting the story of 0079 but in a way that makes him seem way more cool and badass than he was?

1980's? Yes.

2000's? No. Full of politics. Government waste, spies, Area 51 coverups, discussions of the deep state and military use in civilian areas. One of the movies referenced wars in the middle east.

It went easy on the politics, but they were an important part.

That's the problem when you find someone too stupid to even understand the analogies used to try and teach them. For someone it's just the story of "stuff happening to a little girl bringing food to her grandma in the woods".

I'm pretty sure you have to be in some kind of love with your partner to pilot one of those.

1980s had political themes. Even the basic premise was a civil war between authoritarians and rebels fleeing a world ravaged by industrial over exploitation.

And one of the 80s episodes referenced the Cuban Missile Crisis as the US and USSR almost went to war over a missing jet.

Mind you it was a kids show from the 89s designed to sell toys, but it had some politics. Everything is ultimately politics, you can’t avoid it.

Same folks who thought Colbert was a conservative commentator.

A show about big fighting mechs isn't complete if the pilots aren't gay and in love and hate each other and exclusively communicate through monologues of their ideals on the current political climate.

No, that still leaves underage pilots going into combat and suffering immense mental trauma.

What mecha story has gay shit? I'd like to watch it.

The most popular recent one is Brave Bang Bravern.

Keep in mind Japan has heavy censorship so a lot of the "gay mechas" are implied and subversive theming instead of openly gay.

Squid in a schoolgirls ass is just fine and dandy but heaven forbid someone is gay.

Heated Circuit Rivalry

Politicians = stupid

How about Robot Jox?

Darling in the Franxx

Ahh, my second boyfriend.

He was an idiot but tried to convince me I was the idiot.

Most Gundam shows, Evangelion

Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch from Mercury

Post-apocalyptic is automatically political. Plus it is 2 opposing super powers. Sounds like a cold war that went hot.

And another one on Ireland.

And then retroactively drop one on the midwestern United States years before that totally happened despite nobody ever mentioning it.

There was that episode where Optimus Prime discussed the AIDS crisis with Michael Dukakis.

What’s the original meme from?

It's looks like You Can't Do That On Television but I don't think it is.

https://youtu.be/BG7273yDpdA

This was a TV commercial for string cheese initially. It was I want pizza minus the bread and no tomato sauce.

LOL I’ll let you know once I get around to it.

The human drama is the central focus, the mechs is just changing the set pieces.

there's only so many plots.

For example: It's a standard workplace love story exploring the ego and id. It's just that the workplace is an underground base where some dudes are letting teenagers pilot alien hybrid mechs to bring about the end of humanity.

Or you can take that out and backfill with 90s era pop culture satire. Megas XLR is a masterpiece.

Living here in jersey, fighting villains from afar...

Mecha are useful in that they combine the "shining armour" and "gallant steed" of classic stories into a single object.

It's robot fights instead of waging war? Like saying g gundam isn't political

Vassiiiiilllllyyyyy!

Gay stuff?

Shit maybe the reason I don't much care for mecha anime is because I've never seen one that was even a little gay. Er... Unless FLCL counts as a mecha anime. 🤔

Pacific Rim. If two straight people merge their minds through a psychic bridge, they both become bigender and then it's gay. Sorry, I don't make the rules.

It's also a climate change allegory and there's a stupid wall that doesn't work.

Glad to hear the ancient tongues still spoken 👍

Censorship rules always end up stupid because individual morality isn't consistent and blacklists are never comprehensive

A poor imitation. That's clearly none pizza with up beef, not left beef.