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Author: Kurosambei

Feb 1st 2013 at 11:50:17 AM

I'm going to further elaborate on my definitions here.

Type 1 is, essentially, a SuperRobot show (robots are rare, treated exclusively as superheroes and supervillains) that fills in the plot holes about, say, how the robot is repaired, where it goes when it's not used, and either fully explains or completely discards the robot's sentience. Basically, a demystified SuperRobot show.

MobileSuitGundam is Type 1 if, as was stated earlier, the series had a Monster of the Week format with the various Zeon mobile suits. However, this may not be the case. I have to watch Gundam to find out.

As for Type 2, no Gundam series, save possibly MobileFighterGGundam, falls into this category. Having an AceCustom or SuperPrototype is not enough for a work, i.e. any of the given Gundam series, to be considered a Hybrid Robot series.

Don't think about Gundam, think about EurekaSeven, in which the Nirvash typeZERO and typeTHE END are EmpathicWeapons and sentient creatures amongst robots that are little more than mobile suits.

Or TengenToppaGurrenLagann, which places the Ganmen, EmpathicWeapons that run on the passion of their HotBlooded pilots, amongst the Grapearls, mass-produced RealRobots.

The key to Type 2 is that the Super Robots in the show are a different beast entirely from the Real Robots in the show, not just a super-variant constructed from more advanced technology or something similar.

Essentially, if the Gundam franchise at large, the TropeCodifier for RealRobot shows, can be considered this, the definition needs to change.