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Author: Kurosambei

Feb 1st 2013 at 12:13:08 AM

All of this is way too vague. Yeah, it's a combination of RealRobot and SuperRobot tropes, but what combination? Personally, I'd define two different types of Hybrid Robot:

Type 1 is where you have a robot that, while it acts like a Super Robot (i.e. fights monsters, is strangely alive, protects the innocent, etc.), is maintained and repaired by a regular staff, potentially controlled by a military, and treated like a weapon of war, as in Evangelion.

Type 2 is where an otherwise Real Robot setting contains one or more robots that, beyond standing apart from the Mook robots, exhibit Super Robot traits like empathic weapons, a kind of spirit of their own, and a connection with their pilots that goes beyond the somatic, as in EurekaSeven.

I wouldn't know how to change the examples, but essentially, I'd use this definition because it would keep Gundam, the progenitor franchise of the Real Robot genre, from being considered NOT a Real Robot show. Then again, if the above replies are correct, the original Gundam series would count as Type 1.