Why do Gundam series works use swords and other cold weapons to fight?

In the era when Gundam was born, robot animation was not made to sell advertisements to TV stations, let alone CDs. After all, even video tapes are still high-tech. The essence of robot animation is to sell advertisements for toys.

Maybe today's children don't play with physical toys, but in the past, when there were no mobile phones, no computers, and even game consoles were all black technology, robot toys existed for fun. Just take two Gundam toys. Pretend to shoot biubiubiu with two guns. Might as well just kick with a sword. The delay series will use the design of the deformation fighter, purely for the playability of toys.

Why did the omnipotent electromagnet Maclennan I have so many physical weapons instead of directly ending the battle with his old man's house? Why does Altman mainly use light beams at the end of unarmed combat? One is beautiful, and the other is convenient for children to imitate.

Because selling toys requires a lot of close combat, we invented the example of Minovski, shielding the radar, and all the battles took place at close range, which is where cold weapons come in.

If it's really a customer call, even machine guns and light beams are not allowed to be used, only cold weapons can be used.

Before 1980s, the older animation audience was just a theoretical hypothesis like aliens. Tomino said that our film is for the elderly audience. At that time, the people who laughed at him could go around the world, and finally the film was accidentally cut. 40 years later, aliens have occupied the earth. In turn, we will discuss why "old animation is for children".