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random question: I feel like most mecha series are about either basically world wars or cold wars. are there any about like regular-size hot wars, where majority of nations aren't directly involved?

Is, like, Valvrave the only one where the fight is taking place in a small area and the rest of humanity is spectating the conflict (and tweeting about it, lol)

(I'm guessing there's like fifteen different Gundam series that are like this but I just haven't seen. Also arguably Iron Blooded Orphans counts, and I have seen that, but that fits in a different bucket in my head because of the sort of epic narrative structure being about their traveling through so much of the known world.)

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SpammyV
@SpammyV

FLAG being heavily inspired by the Iraq invasion means all the action is localized inside one country. I could think of more super robot shows where the stakes are global but the conflict is localized.

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kukkurovaca
@kukkurovaca

Had literally never heard of this and it being about a photograph of a flag makes me already have complicated personal feelings, wow!

Looks like it's on archive.org https://archive.org/details/flag-2006

Saeko Shirasu is a 25-year-old war front-line photo-journalist who became a celebrity after taking a picture of civilians raising a makeshift UN flag in war-torn Uddiyana. The image then became an instant symbol for peace. However, just before the peace agreement is achieved, the flag was stolen by an armed extremist group in order to obstruct the truce. The UN peacekeepers decide to covertly send in a SDC (pronounced as "Seedac"—Special Development Command) unit to retrieve the flag. Because of her connection with the "Flag" photo, Saeko Shirasu was offered the job of following the SDC unit as a front line journalist.

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thaliarchus
@thaliarchus

Thinking about anime specifically:

  • Dougram follows a colonial independence conflict, and IIRC it's never suggested that the war it portrays would seriously threaten the homelands back on Earth.
  • Mellowlink takes place in the background of cold-war-style tensions, but is all low-intensity conflicts and personal actions.
  • Overman King Gainer follows one group's attempt at migration, and while that's a big deal for them I don't remember it ever being suggested that their flight is anything like a global conflict.
  • IIRC Egao no Daika is about a local nation-to-nation conflict, as is Break Blade. But it's too long since I saw much of either for me to be sure.

Overall, though, I think you're right that this isn't common. Possibly it's also telling that two of the examples mentioned in these comments were directed by Takahashi Ryousuke (Flag, Dougram), and the third (Mellowlink) is a spinoff from a Takahashi title.

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