Super Robot Wars Z3 PV 1

It’s finally been announced. The third in what is probably the most prolific of Super Robot Wars sub-series. Super Robot Wars Z3 is here with quite the extensive cast list for just the first PV. I mean, freaking look at it:

• Getter Robo Armageddon
• Gundam (Original, Zeta, Wing: Endless Waltz, 00, Unicorn)
• Trider G7
• Macross Frontier
• The Big O
• Orguss
• GodMars
• Gurren Lagann
• Tetsujin-28
• Dai-Guard
• Dancougar Nova
• Shin Mazinger Z Shogeki Z Hen
• Code Geass
• Full Metal Panic
• Aim for the Top! Gunbuster
• Armor Trooper Votoms
• Rebuild of Evangelion
• Aquarion Evol

Yeah, that’s a big list. Not that Super Robot Wars isn’t known for having a metric ton of robot series that it pulls from, but this is only the first PV. It’s filled with a lot of mainstays and faces you’ve seen from SRWZ before. You have your Getter, your Mazinger, your Gundams upon Gundams, the old super and the old reals, and a few new faces both to the Z sub series and the overall series. Full Metal Panic! is coming up from W and the black sheep J, and while the original Z had Aquarion, Z3 is bringing EVOL and its ilk to the table. I look forward to banana punching and Andy finally getting to lead the helm.

Super Robot Wars Z3 will be coming out on April 10 2014 for Vita and PS3. That’s the signal for region free, so everyone get ready.

Super Robot Wars UX Trailer! Vocaloid has Robots?

This is how I imagine it is at the Banpresto conference table: “2nd Super Robot Wars Original Generation? That was like a week ago. It’s old news. It’s time for the next one.” And it is time for Super Robot Wars UX on 3DS.

It may not seem like a whole lot after the incredible animations we got from OG 2, but I like a few of the faces we’re seeing. I only can’t identify the second one and ninth. The lion face on number two makes me want to say Voltron/Go Lion, but I’m not sure. The rest of the video goes as follow:

1. Aura Battler Dunbine
2. Gundam SEED Destiny
3. Macross Frontier
4. Linebarrels of Iron
5. Dancouga Nova
6. Fafner in the Azure
7. Demonbane
8. Superior Defender Gundam Force
9. Mazinkaiser SKL
10. Vocaloid??
11. Gundam 00: Awakening of the Trailblazer
12. Heroman

The cast looks all right. I was one of the few people that was ok with Mazinkaiser SKL, so seeing it in Super Robot Wars is ok by me. Linebarrels of Iron started off ok, but it got really garbage as it went on. Hopefully, they’ll mute that and just let it have lasers and stuff. Oh, and if you visited it and read it, yes Demonbane was an eroge at one point. I really hope that doesn’t make it in considering the buxomness SRW sometimes dips into.

But the big weird one is Vocaloid. I’ve made jokes about not knowing what Vocaloid is, but this time I really mean it. Does Vocaloid have robots? It’s a voice synthesizer, right? Why, what? I’m legitimately lost on this one. I was once told that because Vocaloid doesn’t really have a story being a tool and not a story, everything is canon even the stuff that contradicts the other stuff. I guess someone was playing with it at Banpresto one day and they just went, “You know what? Super Robot. What the hell?” I guess it’s going to kick ass with the power of song. Maybe that’s why it’s Macross Frontier and not Macross 7 Dynamite.

(Thanks to Super Robot War Z for finding the video)