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You know, thinking about genre deconstruction a lot right now, I cannot help but think about how the idea of a "mecha deconstruction" is kinda silly. Like, people talk a lot about how Evangelion is a deconstruction of the genre. But it isn't really. Not because Evangelion is not deconstructing anything, but because it is still very much just Mecha, as Mecha as a genre is basically inherently a deconstructed genre.

Like, everything we call Mecha today is technically all part of the Super Robot genre. Specifically it is the Super Robot anime that are inherently deconstructing the standard Super Robot stuff. But because most Super Robot stuff is somewhat forgotten, we only have the deconstruction over.

Because, like... Gundam 79 was already a deconstruction of the genre. It was already: "Okay, but really, it would mess up a teenager if they had to pilot a war machine during actual war." That was always what Mecha was.

Thinking about deconstruction this just is so clear. Because generally speaking Evangelion does not do things necessarily that different from other traditional Mecha stuff. My first Mecha was Eureka Seven, something that also deconstructed. And I also remember the other shows that were out during my teenage years. RahXephon and Full Metal Panic were on that train as well.

And it is kind of weird.

I was not aware of this until I watched Gundam from the start last year. But it makes for an interesting and fascinating genre.

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It's nice that loud noises don't stick to clothes like smells do. That would be really bad if they did.

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This tells us how clothes respond to two out of the five senses. What can we say about the others?

Colors are kind of the opposite. We try very hard to make colors stick to clothes, but they get unstuck when bright lights hit them too hard. Fortunately this is a slow process and you can enjoy your colors many times before they come unstuck.

It is unclear whether clothes can gain or lose taste through exposure. Most of taste is mediated by smell, and clothes tend not to be exposed to sweetness, sourness, bitterness or umami, and even if they did, they would not give up this taste in turn unless consumed, which one does not do with clothes. We'll call this 'not applicable'.

Textures can go either way: clothes that are touched by things can either become more textured (pilling) or less (wearing thin), but eventually they break the clothes entirely, suggesting perhaps that clothes are most sensitive to touch of all the senses.

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