Every time an American claims our mecha are more realistic because they're walking tanks with gun arms, we're usually talking about something copied from stuff like Macross because it got repackaged to us as Robotech and Battletech.

They're all built on the AT-ST from Star Wars... but if it's got gun arms, torsos shaped like modern military vehicles, and thrusters, that's a blueprint Japan put together and popularized. It's just funny that we keep insisting there's a distinction or that it belongs to us after decades of messy lawsuits.

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i dunno, battletech has pretty much moved beyond lincesed designs from anime by this point

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We have reworked them into their reseen editions, yeah. But imagine it from the other direction. Like if half of Japanese nerds kept insisting what separates realistic mecha like Gundam from kids' cartoons like Star Wars is that Gundam is about space wizards dueling with beam sabers.

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