>>96258780
Dougram was literally a gundam clone and I mean that in the best way possible. Literally all of it came around because tomino was told to make a superhero robot toy ad and decided to make a gripping war story toy ad instead, and the alterations he made to the formula of giant robot tv show stylings turning out to be real popular is what lead to all of this.
This is just a receding cope timeline.
>anime STINKS, mech not mecha!
>well patlabor movie 2 and 08th are kind of alright
>okay so the early military mecha stories battletech traced from are obvious sources of thematic inspiration too
>oh god it's all gundam

>>96259857
>a locust, which is ground based and has a limited armament, to some of the latest Gundam's which are not only ultra fast, but also pack insane levels of firepower, more akin to how fighter technology scales
Which is funny because we've just had a big discussion on battletechs status quo technology level and the accusation that makes gundam unrealistic is that after a less than a hundred years, the mechs actually got better lol