Sheesh, am I the only guy left who likes giant robots?
Ay yi yi....
Man, giant robots save the world and fight with each other. It's fun to watch. Sure they may devastate cities but any action anime is going to have mass destruction like that.
I don't like chobits, it was boring to me. They kept alluding to stuff that was never shown (and I'm guessing might be in the manga of course). Persacoms are creepier than a mecha to me because people start to treat them like real people when they are not. People are bad enough nowadays with their normal computers and online lives. It's bad enough to see MMOG widows and orphans with out men literally trying to marry their computers.
Back to giant robots for a bit, the ones with kid pilots bug me a little but i can cope if the anime is cool enough. the ones I like best though are the ones that are just plain machines. Like Mobile Unit Gundam 008 (I get that name right?) or most of the Macross series. They're stories about people that happen to pilot giant robots at war rather than OMG One Machine that can save us!!!!
Maybe it's just that I saw Paprika last night and I'm more interested than usual in defining real and not-real and that's why I'm in an "anti-persocom" mood right now. Chobits did bore me though, it's one of those shows I watched just to have seen it (and because my fiance really likes it).
tofu, why'd you think you were gonna get flamed? Nobody here has actually talked about mecha stuff in a long time! It's all Harahui this and Ouran that. *activate old man voice* Damn emo hipster otaku are taking over! Just watch, somebody's going to start making T-shirts to parody the Uber Geek Nerd Squad, they'll have the same glasses but there'll be big emo bangs in front.