Japanese Sci-fi / Mecha inspiration needed

Shrike

Hey guys, I am working on a game with a japanese retro sci-fi touch and am having a really hard time finding anything on the internet and had hoped to find some connoisseurs here ; )

What I am looking for is:

Anything Mecha (not from the present) or sci-fi labor style
Robot or camera / Sci-fi interfaces / Huds / Displays
The common Sci-fi labor / facility stuff
Typography in such a setting
Weapons, military stuff, well anything
Preferably older things

If you have any names of blogs, animes, boards (...) to look up that would be amazing, some pictures for everyone would be cool too!

Artists there have very different impressions than we have here and I really
enjoy that feeling and want to try capturing that

imyj

Check out www.rekall.tumblr.com, hope it helps!

SonicBlue

This is some stuff I collected, it's ok even if some of them are not from Japan?





















You can search for games like: Ace Combat, Zone of the Enders, Omega Boost, Armored Core, Front Mission and their relative artbooks.

Also:
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Muzzoid

http://www.pinterest.com/pascalblanche/juicy-junks/

actually Pascals entire reference board collection is great. https://www.pinterest.com/pascalblanche/

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Shrike

Aw yiss

Thanks guys!
If you have any anime names that would be nice to know too

I found:
Neon Genesis
Elfenlied
Gundam
Ghost in the shell
Appleseed

Muzzoid

Old:

Venus wars.
Patlabor
Tokyo bubble gum crisis
blue gender



Modern:

eureka 7
red line
gurren lagann
last exile
full metal panic

Zocky

Well, some of the animes that you may want to look at:

Code geass (mechas)
Ride Back (bikes that can sort of transform into mecha-bikes...but not quiet transformers style)
Aldnoah.Zero
Eureka 7 (this one has some unique stuff - surfing mechas, cool planes, etc)
Guilty Crown (mechas and other stuff, cyberpunk setting)
Macross Frontier
Gundam00
Psycho-pass (not so much mechas and overall cyberpunk setting, starting with guns with interesting display)
Knights of Sidonia ....maybe
Sword arts online....maybe for some display ideas
Towards the Terra
Soukyuu no Fafner: Dead Aggressor (similar to Evangelion)

that's about it for now....

SnowInChina

shrike
i can really recommend the ghost in the shell series "ghost in the shell: stand alone complex"
really cool designs

SonicBlue

Eureka 7 mechas assumes a different meaning when you know where the names came from.

To add to the list:

Overman King Gainer

Linebarrels of Iron

Mask_Salesman

Seriously like how can you have trouble with this, this is one of the things japan is most known for hahaha

There is far too much reference if anything, everyone has countless pinterest boards of only mechs these days

pior

Another way to get into this would be to go at it little by little ... Pinterest pages and moodboards like Rekall are great, but nothing beats building one's own list of favorites ! It sure takes time though ...

Tackling things chronologically could be interesting too, like starting with 80s OAVs first.

Also, I feel like many of the cool backgrounds you will find in sci-fi anime are actually heavily based on real-life. Like this :

Finalhart

https://www.pinterest.com/search/pins/?q=japanese%20mech&term_meta%5B%5D=japanese%7Ctyped&term_meta%5B%5D=mech%7Ctyped

Odow

How can you have trouble finding about mecha >.< Japan is all about mecha. Here's 44 pages or 862 anime title with mecha in it.
http://myanimelist.net/anime.php?genre%5B0%5D=18&q=&tag=&sy=0&sm=0&sd=0&ey=0&em=0&ed=0&c%5B0%5D=a&c%5B1%5D=b&c%5B2%5D=c&show=0

TAN

In fact they are building one


http://suidobashijuko.jp/

PyrZern

Check out Macross Frontier. And Knights of Sidonia
Great stuff.

Shadownami92

Zone of the Enders also has some good games and anime for mech designs.

Mongrelman

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