Really good to see someone cover a legend like okawara. I would say that Okawara's influence does got a bit deeper with Zambot, Time Bokan, and even the braves shows, but Dougram, Votoms, and especially Gundam are definitely his most important designs. There's a lot of mech designers I'm a fan of, but out of the bunch Okawara has always been my favorite, He's do such much great and iconic work throughout the genre that it can't be understated. For me his peak was in the 80s and the 90s, though I do really like his stuff for the 70s and even am a fan of his 2000s stuff(mostly). The designs I usually gravitate towards the most are his designs for Votoms, Dragonar, Layzner, The braves series, Dougram, and of course the gundam series.
Yes i felt bad not mentioning Lazyner and Braves, but i do hope its obvious this series is not attempting to just be an encyclopedic entry of facts, i want to try to get into aspects of creators backgrounds, style and importance beyond what can be found just on Wikipedia.
@@argonbolt Yeah no worries, I already picked that up from the get go and besides it's more in depth than how most other channels would go on about things.
I don't really like when the word realism gets thrown around in terms of Mecha, I am a 60/40 Mecha fan. I prefer battletech slightly over gundam but I still really like both of them. The reason I like battletech isn't because it is realistic (because it isn't nor will mecha ever be realistic unless some kooky guy called atlas magically invents myomer bundles). I like battletech because it takes something inherently unrealistic and makes it plausible. There are actual good explanations for why such and such is like this and so on. The only major gripe I have with battletech as a setting is that at times it comes off as very pro-war which is probably a relic of the time it came from but a lot of the more modern material being made for the setting is starting to dumb that down a lot which I prefer.
It's kind of funny because I love Okawara's designs (obviously) and especially the wierd inhuman and maybe slightly silly ones, and hate all the Battlemech designs except maybe the urbanmech (I wonder if that's a stolen design? IDK). Battletech stole cool design ideas from Dougram and Macross, kept the bad stuff like exposed glass cockpits, and fucked the line art for their redesigns meaning battletech was doomed to almost every design being arkward, badly proportioned and really ugly. No, that's not it, I think the issue is western mecha design is based on the star wars mechs, making everything look like the ATST and ATAT. The western redesigners butchered the stolen designs so they fit into the clunky stop motion style when these designs just don't work like the ATST. Also I know its an unpopular opinion but I think Katoki gets way too much hate. What he has done for the models especially is insane with his internal mechanics, like its the little things like maybe the Guntank redesign which you wouldn't even notice is different but is just so much better realized. I even think the Unicorn looks great (until it goes into destroy mode). Yeah yeah long legs but every designer has stuff like that like haha Kondo big skirt. He is not the most original though and I think thats why people don't like him.
Listen all you friggen cool kids in your "angry dogs" and "Atli" and "wood mammals" can have your fun, i will hang out with the Urbie mains cause they tell better jokes and accept my alien Uziel ways easier.
Really good to see someone cover a legend like okawara. I would say that Okawara's influence does got a bit deeper with Zambot, Time Bokan, and even the braves shows, but Dougram, Votoms, and especially Gundam are definitely his most important designs.
There's a lot of mech designers I'm a fan of, but out of the bunch Okawara has always been my favorite, He's do such much great and iconic work throughout the genre that it can't be understated. For me his peak was in the 80s and the 90s, though I do really like his stuff for the 70s and even am a fan of his 2000s stuff(mostly). The designs I usually gravitate towards the most are his designs for Votoms, Dragonar, Layzner, The braves series, Dougram, and of course the gundam series.
Yes i felt bad not mentioning Lazyner and Braves, but i do hope its obvious this series is not attempting to just be an encyclopedic entry of facts, i want to try to get into aspects of creators backgrounds, style and importance beyond what can be found just on Wikipedia.
@@argonbolt Yeah no worries, I already picked that up from the get go and besides it's more in depth than how most other channels would go on about things.
Building cars is cool, especially making them very low performance and mobility
Man sos dios, adoro estos videos
Finally.
Really great video bro!
I don't really like when the word realism gets thrown around in terms of Mecha, I am a 60/40 Mecha fan. I prefer battletech slightly over gundam but I still really like both of them. The reason I like battletech isn't because it is realistic (because it isn't nor will mecha ever be realistic unless some kooky guy called atlas magically invents myomer bundles). I like battletech because it takes something inherently unrealistic and makes it plausible. There are actual good explanations for why such and such is like this and so on. The only major gripe I have with battletech as a setting is that at times it comes off as very pro-war which is probably a relic of the time it came from but a lot of the more modern material being made for the setting is starting to dumb that down a lot which I prefer.
Battletech people literally stole his design
It's kind of funny because I love Okawara's designs (obviously) and especially the wierd inhuman and maybe slightly silly ones, and hate all the Battlemech designs except maybe the urbanmech (I wonder if that's a stolen design? IDK). Battletech stole cool design ideas from Dougram and Macross, kept the bad stuff like exposed glass cockpits, and fucked the line art for their redesigns meaning battletech was doomed to almost every design being arkward, badly proportioned and really ugly. No, that's not it, I think the issue is western mecha design is based on the star wars mechs, making everything look like the ATST and ATAT. The western redesigners butchered the stolen designs so they fit into the clunky stop motion style when these designs just don't work like the ATST.
Also I know its an unpopular opinion but I think Katoki gets way too much hate. What he has done for the models especially is insane with his internal mechanics, like its the little things like maybe the Guntank redesign which you wouldn't even notice is different but is just so much better realized. I even think the Unicorn looks great (until it goes into destroy mode). Yeah yeah long legs but every designer has stuff like that like haha Kondo big skirt. He is not the most original though and I think thats why people don't like him.
so basically all mech fans are weebs, and you incorrectly refer to the timberwolf
brave words for someone in er ppc range
Listen all you friggen cool kids in your "angry dogs" and "Atli" and "wood mammals" can have your fun, i will hang out with the Urbie mains cause they tell better jokes and accept my alien Uziel ways easier.
@@argonbolt don't you lie, it's because one of them is packing an ac20
also we wouldn't want to anger our flea overlords now wouldn't we
Watched several videos.. have you gotten into why you don't like Katoki's styles?
Not yet Katoki deserves his own full video at some point
@@argonbolt Sweet, looking forward to it
Can we get a sub sub sub video series examining specific mecha designs by Okawara