Mech Pilot who wants to hear the wind sing for the first time in 1000 years.
this is just the plot of the anime Gasaraki
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Yeah, on the surface it's the story of this one elite Japanese family that owns an industrial company making a new two-legged mech for the JSDF, but there's also a plot thread about how their family back in the Heian era was making mecha-like giant living armor for the Imperial Court, and the protagonist in his past life was a pilot of one. The armor was activated by kagura, which is a kind of ritual dance sometimes accompanied by singing and instrumental music.
Yup! It was one of the first anime I watched, and it influenced both my professional career (my PhD is in pre-1871 Japanese history) and my creative career-- my latest novel, Confluence, is rather significantly about another fictional Japanese family that builds bodies for combat-specialized cyborgs but also gear and vehicles like power armor. Gasaraki's a little dated in terms of CG, but I still recommend it-- if you're on Crunchyroll, it's up in its entirety there.
I'm intentionally mixing up Noh and Kabuki here, but this is the term I've heard for that single drum hit / jump cut to comical reveal comedy-beat trope that some anime seems to have borrowed from the Kabuki toolbox
oh like, a beat on one of the little drums in Kabuki! I know what you mean! Sometimes followed by a Yohhhhh!
Which, I think, is intended to be extra funny because that call originally might be used as part of introducing characters or highlighting something, but it but is used as a kind of missed cue / anticlimax