Mecha & Robots in Anime | Gundam, Evangelion, Ghost in the Shell & More | live at ACMI Melbourne
40With the rise of AI and so much of our lives online, our relationship with technology is ever changing. But anime has been exploring these ideas for decades. As machines and technology shaped our world, anime reflected it back. Whether its giant mecha wars in space or philosophical questions about our identity in the digital age, anime has given us an incredible legacy of stories about technology, robots and mecha.
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00:00:00 A live episode at ACMI in Melbourne
00:00:38 Introduction
00:02:40 A History of Mecha: Overview
00:04:56 Beginnings: Astro Boy
00:06:41 History of Robots in Fiction
00:11:07 1920's: Galutensoku - The frst robot built in Japan
00:13:43 An Optimistic Perspective on Robots
00:14:18 Tetsujin 28-Go (Gigantor)
00:16:03 Mecha Genre Explained
00:17:24 1970's: The Mecha Boom
00:18:04 Super Robot vs Real Robot
00:18:30 Super Robots
00:19:50 Mazinger Z
00:22:54 Real Robots
00:24:20 Mobile Suit Gundam
00:28:19 Macross
00:30:11 Dark Futures: Mecha Matures
00:32:46 1990's Robots & Mecha
00:33:19 Neon Genesis Evangelion
00:41:47 Ghost in the Shell
00:44:21 Influence of Mecha on Hollywood
00:45:42 2000's Mecha
00:46:26 Code Geass
00:50:33 Gurren Lagann
00:52:03 2010's to Present - The Dark Ages of Mecha
00:52:42 86 (Eighty-Six)
00:53:03 Darling in the Franxx
00:53:32 Attack on Titan
00:58:02 Q&A
00:58:20 Q: Did Super Sentai come first?
01:00:55 Q: Which mecha would you want to pilot?
01:02:42 Conclusion
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