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Originally Posted by C.A.
You can have almost every genre out there as a mecha story. People just don't watch much mecha in the West, they don't know how broad mecha is and how much it really is about. Alot of mecha out there don't sell more toys than moe animes sell figures of the girls. While mecha itself suspends belief, it takes on genres alot more seriously than other genres, simply because death and violence is everywhere.
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So, in summary, I take it that moe is to otaku audiences today what mecha was for otaku yesterday?
Meaning to say, mecha anime is, probably was, just a trend — yes, they still help to sell toys today, but not as much as moe does. And within each trend exists the archetypes and stock characters that make up generic anime, mecha or otherwise.
Nothing much has changed except the chosen fad to make money out of, perhaps.