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Stopping what I'm doing to post a gif from my favouite anime.

On the first day of Christmas my true love gave to me ten dire avengers, nine scorpions striking, eight reapers dark'ned, seven banshees howling, six hawks a'swooping, FIVE SHINING SPEARS, four farseers, three warp spiders, two avatars and a sixth-ed spiritseer box...

Rats hanging out is great.

Oh right. I just remembered you'd set several chapters in Japan, so that's where my mind went.

Couldn't they go to one of the early ones, like Neko no Mise (2005)?

I think all mech games should be tank games. (Tank simulator gang represent!)

DIY HRT is sort of like drag-and-dropping files into the game folder to overwrite the default character model.

So no, Mobile Suit Gundam is not a mechsploitation show, I'll take my ban from the forum moderators now please. :V

In summary: The definiting characteristics of mechsploitation are explicitly pornographic, and an attempt to define it by the non-pornographic elements casts a too wide net and really just identifies common themes of the mecha genre at large.

5)"extreme" (sexual) acts
5.1) typically BDSM
5.2) and petplay

This is what the genre label actually gets used for, in the overwhelming majority of cases, on places like AO3. The genre doesn't really exist without reference to its pornographic form and, specifically, Warhound.

label for that whole thing. For one, mechsploitation is characterized by some highly specific elements:
1) A "handler" figure that's directly a dominatrix figure.
2) A focus on the erotic elements of the unequal power between the handler and the pilot.
3) Mind control
4) woman/woman sexual pairings

It's wrong in the details (c.f. Minky Momo, any remote-controlled mecha), but reflects just how common these themes are in popular works that it can be an assumed default.

It makes some sense to draw out this specific element as something you like seeing in mecha anime, but I reject mechsplo as a

I want to emphasize here that these themes and elements are so common that people were making jokes about it being the central theme of ALL mecha shows long before mechsplo came on the scene. Variations on this have been floating around for a long time:

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basically just the thematic background radiation of the entire genre since MSG released in 1979. Soldiers alienated by war are so common in art about war, and mecha pilots alienated by piloting mecha such a natural distinction that mechsplo and "real robot" become practically synonymous.

mechsplo works are largely pornographic.

You can, in theory, make up any distinction and call it a genre, but I don't think that makes sense for things retroactively labelled mechsplo. The defining features of mechsplo when defined without reference to its pornographic origins are very thin and

to give it a kind of serious legitimacy by distancing it from its pornographic origins. To wit: nobody was talking about this as a distinct genre before the AC6 trailer dropped, it's called "mechploitation", analogous to exploitation films and their edgy, often sexual content, and self-labelled

I have very strong opinions about this and will bore you with a long explanation: No. The term came into use to describe a specific kind of pornography. I think the attempt to tie it into earlier, non-pornograpic mecha and establish it as a genre defined by non-pornographic elements is an attempt

Did everyone decide on a definition of "mechsploitation" that wasn't a kind of pornography when I wasn't looking?

Gonna sue for false advertising because they say it's for the World's Greatest Roleplaying Game and yet I can't run it in Price of Freedom.

After that I'm coming for the "for any system" Kickstarters that don't work with AMBER, Phoenix Command, and Night's Black Agents.

It's so weird that people use it that way, because "Death of the author" is when J.K. Rowling says "my depiction of goblins was not antisemitism" and I say "sure, Joanne" and then ignore her to figure out whether it's antisemitism by reading the actual books. (I probably won't read the books.)

Happy birthday!

Basically. Happosai is the old pervert archetype without any of the redeeming qualities. Just an odious creep.

It makes for a comic that never tries to convince you there is anything excusable about being a sex offender, but also, a recurring character has nothing likeable or redeemable about them.

"Instead of thinking about your partner, your thoughts are occupied by an unseen, imaginary, deceased turtle."

Gundams keep having Char clones when they really should be having Jerid clones. There's more to get invested in with a character who is personally motivated by things to fight the protagonists, over a villain largely defined by being enigmatic.

I expected it to get Cpl. Adrian Shepard, but when it asked "is the character associated with the color green?" I knew it had me.

Eimskipafélag Íslands Presents: Freyja Erlingsdottir's Advanced Catgirls & Catacombs

They are.

Nice try but I'm still going to do an evil playthrough of Planescape: Torment.

The manga about the albino virgin pro-domme who hunts ghosts with her living shibari rope is actually really good horror.

Table 1: 11, 11, 21, 32, 42, 55, 61 Table 2: 14, 24, 33, 42, 52, 55, 61

Punished With Bondage By The Church For Getting Involved With The Catgirl Mafia In Another World

(You have to deal with the author's bondage nun fetish—healing, punishment, AND greetings involve bondage—but the sheer amount of research into 16C Church politics makes it *almost* worth it.)