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Originally Posted by Sentai

It had the depth of storytelling, the beautiful animation style. And you believed, for those fleeting one hour and forty five minutes, that those Labors could exist in a real world. They moved with a real weight to them. Now, I love Gundams. I love how wild and crazy the designs can get. But I love a real Mech anime. Maybe that's why I loved 8th MS Team so much. Gundam, but they were real'er Gundams.

Agreed, these were machines first and foremost, and were treated as such by the production staff. And the storytelling and animation, the pacing was appropriate and I just got swept up into the story. Even to this day.

Dangit, I know what I'm watching tonight.