On an odd subject for myself as anime, which is something I have no investment and that fact is apparently known to many, which also so happens to be a matter this thread is speaking to in this moment, I recovered a memory fragment. When I saw
this I suddenly had perfect recall of it and what "Zoids" had been, this is despite not watching the series,
only the scenes with these specific combat platforms. This suggests to me that there was an engram related to it which had been inactive until the proper stimulus was given again and so the neural pathway was accessible once more. More fascinating is the time frame I would have witnessed these characterized machines aligns perfectly with the lapse in recall but also creates an interesting situation wherein at the time, my proclivities were already manifesting. Apparently some of those most core things survived the rest of what died.