Super Robot Showcase: Powered Suit from "Hot Space Cowboys" / スパロボショーケース：「蒼き狼たちの伝説」のパワードスーツ

[@Sliferzero]

We Love it the Giant Robots/Mechas my friends. Thanks.

[@nachinachi5085]

I need someone to make a Gameplay vs Lore meme but with Cross Ange Lore vs Legend of the Blue Wolves Lore.

[@小森俊輔-t6r]

スーパーロボット大戦参戦して欲しいです。

[@Rassenomatjutut]

Super Robot Showcase suggestions: Godmars (Rokushin Gattai Godmars) Getter Robo (New Getter Robo) Daizyujin (Kyouryu Sentai Zyuranger) Gipsy Danger (Pacific Rim)

[@nachinachi5085]

Is this the closest thing we got to a Yaoi Mecha anime?

[@NetScourge]

What do you mean closest lol this is a straight up yaoi mecha anime they even go full penis

[@l_thammy]

It looks like KZbin may have hidden a reply to this, but I'll respond to it anyway. There's actually a bit of a language issue involved in this. In the original sense, "yaoi" essentially means gay romance stories made for a largely straight female audience. How explicit the subject matter is isn't really relevant, and in fact, a lot of it is decidedly chaste since it's more styled after romances and dramas written by and for women and girls rather than actually trying to depict real gay relationships. A lot of it is written for teenagers and younger audiences and so is naturally has less wiggle room than work for adults. Many of them don't actually acknowledge that they're depicting a gay relationship at all, but just use implications to suggest one, because the subtlety is appealing to the target audience. Going by that definition, Legend of Blue Wolves isn't a yaoi work since it's primarily made for gay men, not straight women. The fact that it's explicit in every sense is arguably part of this; some of the things that gay men do might be "icky" for straight women, so to speak. As far as I can tell, "yaoi" is also a heavily outdated term in Japan nowadays and "BL" is much more commonly used nowadays. It might have to do with efforts to be more inclusive and grab a male audience that was being ignored, or it might be to rebrand the genre to make it more palatable to the mainstream, but this is admittedly this is above my head. This area of manga history isn't my specialty. The term "yaoi" probably sounds worse to an English-speaking ear because the culture around it is more limited. Yaoi manga goes back to the 1970s in Japan, but anime only really started becoming popular in English in the 1990s, at which time gay rights were just starting to become mainstream. Gay characters were generally edited out of mainstream anime like Sailor Moon as part of the effort to adapt them to a nascent English-speaking audience. So for a lot of English-speaking anime fans, their first encounter with yaoi is probably not going to be mainstream pop culture, but through more underground things like fan works.

[@Themeir]

It was but now we have bravern.

[@catkirby7046]

This was one of the first Bara yaoi anime