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I will certainly miss it (though I imagine a second season is forthcoming), and imagine it ascends to the pantheon of all time great anime. It's one you don't have to caveat at all when you recommend it, to boot! A rarity in every sense.
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I don't mean "Fantasy world via VR gaming" like SAO or similar, but actual giant mecha/star ship settings that real world people wind up in? It seems like it'd be a natural place to take the theme, but I haven't come across any. Granted, my anime experience is limited, but figured I'd ask the hive mind what I should be looking for.
Something where Bob, the general mecha enthusiast main character, gets run down by a horse drawn buggy and wakes up in Gundam or Evangelion (with the serial numbers filed off) or some other grim "War is hell... but, hey, cool robots" kind of setting?
I remember reading a manga where kingdoms use giant robots to fight constant battles, and a person's worth is based on how big their Giant Robot Pilot Number is. The protagonist, in true isekai fashion, has such a big number it rolled over the scale back to 1 and nobody noticed, so they thought he was trash and enslaved him. He broke out, got a giant robot, made some friends with giant robots, and started a mercenary company where they and their giant robots fight more giant robots in all these wars going on.
I remember one more but not enough details to be sure.
Edit: Oh. also Escaflowne might count
That doesn't seem as likely if they get transported to a future society where everyone is probably more educated than the protag.
I have read stories where primitive people were transported to future societies and used their big caveman strength and propensity for violence to succeed though.
e: oh wait yeah now and then, here and there is exactly what you're looking for if what you're looking for is an anime to kick you in the gut
Rayearth and Escaflowne are isekai with mecha, but fantasy settings.
Crest of the Stars/Banner of the Stars might be something you could look into, the MC is from that universe but a lower tech planet I believe, and gets thrust into spaceship royalty shenanigans.
Aura Battler Dunbine is also an option, but it's also in the same universe as Garzey's Wing...
Does Orguss qualify?
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Maybe parts of it?
I feel like Stargate SG-1 is a different offshoot of portal fantasy compared to isekai's another world, but I base that on basically nothing. They generally gather data before going to other worlds, and the technology used to do so it better explored/better maintained than typical "I woke up in another life" style stories.
The movie, on the other hand, probably qualifies.
And I remember almost nothing from Universe, but they're traveling on a ship that isn't from their world already, so I feel like that's closer to fictional space exploration than other world fantasy.
OH FUCK IT'S THAT ELF
I liked the detail that when Lehrner attacked Frieren with Zoltraak, he used the Anti-Human version (black) instead of the Anti-Demon version (white) we normally see everyone using.
Wonder if that "uwu" annoyed face is something that's just intrinsic to elves.
And when I saw Ubel walking alone during the post-credits scene I want to believe that Land ditched her by literally dispelling his clone right in front of her like that "peace out" meme.
About as perfect an adaptation as I could have ever asked for.
Perhaps not quite what you're thinking, but you could try looking up the Valerian anime series from a few years back.
old news by now for sure but like, boy
fantastic series all the way through, might be one of my favorites? at least in recent memory. Cannot believe the payoff on some of those bits, honestly.
I know zilch about this show, but the dub(and the vibe) seem super endearing. We need more couple arcs.
It's okay to have relationships! They are a thing!
Buddy Complex is pretty much exactly that. Regular dude gets jumped by a girl in a mech and kidnapped to the future to do fightsies with robots.
I'd agree that Dual! also likely counts since the parallel world is all more advanced tech and giant robots.
How about people time traveling from like the sengoku era to the present day with giant robots, or mid-apocalypse? There's a few of those (eg Kuromukuro, Gibiate). Getting sent to the 'past' or fantasy world which is essentially the future with giant robots (eg Escaflowne, God Mazinger, El Hazard (kind of), etc) isn't too uncommon either. If you REALLY wanted to stretch it, you might say something like Aquarion and Aquarion Evol count as well. They're both mid alien invasions, but the protagonists are relative normies that get dragged out of their 'regular' lives into it, though Aquarion's protagonist is a literal feral Mowgli-like dude while the rest of the cast are more normies whose regular lives prior to the apocalypse are gradually revealed, and Evol's is more like just... Venice, but also X-Men and mechs, so neither are THAT normal.
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Oh, right. There's also Muv Luv Alternative. Basically similar to Dual, but not wacky. Regular dude in modern regular world sent to parallel world that's in the middle of alien invasion with giant robots already invented or whatever. Not TECHNICALLY the future, but pretty much is. And definitely a war is hell kind of traumatic setting. Not so much robots are cool though. More... girls in skintight suits, because it's from a porn game.
The focus of the story is less on the giant robot fights themselves though, and more on how all the kids choose to respond to their imminent deaths in the days before their fight begins.
It's got a banger of an OP too, highly recommend the full song and reading the lyrics.
It certainly isn't an anime.
Because we all know that Farscape is a Looney Tune.
I really should have seen the flags waving when they cranked the gay knob so hard it broke off in the first half of the episode. Real curious what this last episode is gonna be.
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I don't think I've ever heard of "Tales of Wedding Rings" before. Apparently it was airing this season? Wild.
It's an ecchi harem, which isn't everyone's brand of tea. The Japanese title is a direct reference to the Japanese title for Lord of the Rings, and it has a bunch of allusions to LotR throughout (it's not trying to be an adaption or anything though).
The manga is still going, but it's been in it's epilogue for over two years at this point (not sure if that's also a LotR reference or not).
But on a lighter note:
Also, this is a thing apparently:
To reiterate, it is an ecchi harem isekai so that's not going to be for everyone. The main thing I liked it for was something that won't happen for a while, but before getting to that:
For a few spoilery ones:
And the big spoilery thing:
I don't know if any of that will ever get animated though. It'd be a season 3 that doesn't have action scenes, and I don't know if a studio would want to tackle the genre shift.
So I know the voice actress for BG1&2 Jaheira pretty well as a family friend (she retired from VA work around 2002 and did not reprise the role for 3) and made sure to show her these a few weeks ago when she was in town visiting
Was kinda cool watching the Baldurs Gate section of her brain light up in real time for the first in over two decades