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No, that's small.
Small: Knight Sabers, Sakura Wars' Koubus
Medium: Patlabors, Exo-Squads, Macross Variables
Large: Gundams
Intergalactic: Gurren Lagaan, Gunbuster, Sanger Zonvolt
Medium=roughly human sized, androids etc.
Giant= everything bigger than a human, what are you basing your scale on if not humans???
The problem with your scale is giant can range from like 12.5 feet for a scopedog to billions of light years.
Steam
This is what you sound like!
Well, it's definitely ideal... but you usually only see one or two guys working on mechs that size in other shows.
The Magic Knight Rayearth cast are lucky, don't have to maintain magical entities.
Full Metal Panic? Escaflowne?
I’m just saying we’re mostly discussing pilotable robots so I would probably start the small scale at the scopedog. Medium would be like a standard gundam or Mazinger Z. I don’t have a good example of large from anime but like Pacific Rim Jaegers. Giant would probably start with Gunbuster. And then yeah the TTGL is off in it’s own category way farther down the line.
Steam
they need to be carried around on a humongous 4-lane-wide transport truck!
you can do this but you have to say "small giant robot" vs. "large giant robot"
"small robot" vs. "giant robot" without the qualifier includes the full range of sizes including non-giant robots
this is a nonsense metric, the number of maintenance personnel is rarely something the story actually cares at all to illustrate beyond "there's a maintenance guy in this scene to convey some information or banter with the pilot" even in the more real-robot-y giant robot stories
yes I am choosing to die on this giant robot-shaped hill today
Average
Then halfway through the show they made the parts be able to fly together on their own and later there's a shot of the maintenance guys going "So do they still need us now that the parts can fly are we gonna get fired?"
you lot contend that a fictional robot that's the size of a semi truck and trailer or small house is not a "giant" robot because much larger fictional robots exist???
Yes
Well, they become marginally less impressive if you have robots that can crush them underfoot. You have to quantify things somehow.
My logic is unassailable by virtue of being non-existent
Madmen I tell ya
wait, 2b and r. dorothy wainright are medium...
you might be onto something
Bubblegum Crisis has all three in one show!
Knight Sabers: small
Boomers: medium
Tinsel City: large
They do however have transformable motorcycles which can operate either in autonomous mode or as additional pilotable armor for the Knight Sabers. Therefore the motoroids are both robots and mecha.
What show is this?
I believe it was this one- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dai-Guard
Beyond some stylistic touches its cultural cache in Japan seems comparatively muted
Some anime simply hit big in the USA/West in a way they don't in Japan, and I think TTGL does here because it's a sort of "Queen's Greatest Hits" cassette tape worth of super robot anime
It hits all the biggest notes of the genre in 26 episodes, with a solid budget and recognizable traces of FLCL (another show huge in the USA that barely registers in Japan), stands on its own reasonably well, and doesn't overstay its welcome
See also: Gundam Wing being enormous in the USA where the UC has never really gotten major traction here
gundam had a truly bizarre release order in the west overall though
True, Wing hit right at the start of the '00s anime boom while TTGL hit at the very end
My kingdom for an official USA Turn A release tho
Hence my "Intergalactic" category, also including most OG mechs with attacks that can rend entire solar systems in half.
Most shows don't go to the scale of TTGL, much less the movie version deciding to one up it even further.
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