Here’s a list of the anime that were shown during Will’s panel, “Craziest Moments in Mecha”.

Note: For GaoGaiGar, to avoid confusion, I felt the need to differentiate between the TV series, which is licensed in Region 1 and has been released in full, and GaoGaiGar FINAL, the OVA that ends the story, which has not.

Gurren-Lagann- Sci-Fi airing of the dub’s last scene. AKA Lagann Sandwich

Big O – Beck’s RX3 Fail

G Gundam –  Master Asia Intro

G Gundam – Love Love Tenkyoken

Mobile Suit Gundam – Brightslap

Victory Gundam – Tactical Nudity

Space Runaway Ideon – Death Montoge

Dai-Guard – Makshift Rocket Punch

Mazinger Z – Breast Missles

Xabungle – ICBM Toss

Macross 7 – Listen to my song! (Bassura jams out)

Macross 7 – Magical throat lasers restore voices. This is science.

The King of Braves: GaoGaiGar (TV) – Various Mic Sounders the 13th system change clips.

Gundam 08th MS Team – Man vs Mech

Gundam 08th MS Team – It’s not the man, it’s the machine. (Gouf Custom)

Overman King Gainer – Opener

Aquarion – Combination sequence

Aquarion – Gen Fudo introduction

One Piece – Pirate Docking Six: Big Emporor

Getter Robo G – General Hidler fight

Getter Robo Armageddon – Stoner Sunshine

Shin Getter vs Neo Getter – Texas Mack

The King of Braves: GaoGaiGar (TV) – Mic Sounders 1-12 test

The King of Braves: GaoGaiGar FINAL (OVA) – TenRyuJin Symmetrical Docking

The King of Braves: GaoGaiGar (TV) – Mic Sounders the 13th plays Disc P

The King of Braves: GaoGaiGar FINAL (OVA) – Mic Sounders the 13th plays the London Bridge

Gunbuster 2 (A.K.A. Diebuster) – Nono, the 7th buster machine, strikes!

Gunbuster – Combination and Fight

Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion: Complimentation. (Not shown due to time constraints)

The King of Braves: GaoGaiGar FINAL (OVA) – The final fight between Genesic GaoGaiGar and Palparepa, and the Goldion Crusher.

It’s interesting to think about how things seem like a good idea until you actually have to use them in practice. Features that you don’t put in to something, ideas you don’t think quite through, things that don’t seem to matter but do.

I’ll use, as an example, the dinky little MP3 player sitting next to my computer, charging. As MP3 players go, it does everything it needs to. It plays MP3s, it can charge, and it does, in general, everything an MP3 player should.

However, it’s interesting to see the ways in which it fails. It’s never anything too big, but the small annoyances add up to an amazingly annoying experience.

For one thing, you can’t rewind past the beginning of one file to the end of another. That may not be a huge failing, except for the fact that I listen to a lot of podcasts. Podcasts are significantly longer than an average song, even a short one. If I accidently hit ‘skip forward” or “skip backward”, which I’m doing all the time thanks to another annoyance, the fact that this device doesn’t have a “lock” switch, then I have to fast forward through the song at a rate of about 1 second of “real time” for 5 seconds of “song time”. That means if I’m say, 20 minutes into the podcast and hit “skip forward”, that means I have to deal with 4 minutes of songlessness while I’m walking to get back where I was. Petty? Yes. Minor? Yes. Annoying as all fuck? Hell yes.

Then look at the iPod. I would not be at all surprised if a significant amount of time was spent at Apple headquarters debating exactly what the right speed was for fast-forwarding and rewinding. You’re never left sitting, wondering what the fuck you’re supposed to do to get something to work. It’s laid out in an intuitive fashion that your brain can immediately parse.

Creating an interface or something of the sort isn’t as tough as people love to make it out to be. If you just spend some time thinking about it, it’s not that hard to figure out how things are going to be used, and figuring out how the most people are going to like it.