Editing Mecha (section)

=Notable Mecha Verses=
There are a '''lot''' of different mecha series out there, so we'll list some of the more noteworthy ones here. As to whether or not /tg/ recommends them... check the Mecha subsections on the [[Approved Anime]] and [[Manga]] pages for that info.

* Mobile Suit Gundam -  Giant piloted robots are used to fight a war between Eerth-based and space-based human factions. [[Mobile Suit Gundam|We have a page for this one.]]
* Neon Genesis Evangelion - A mysterious conspiracy uses sinister giant robots piloted by tormented human children to battle eldritch abominations. [[Neon Genesis Evangelion|We have a page for this one.]]
* Mazinger - Generally regarded as ''the'' original Mecha anime.
* Getter Robo - Created (or at least defined) the Combiner Mecha subgenre with its tale of a universe where three psychos are recruited by force to pilot three experimental vehicles that can fuse together to create three different giant robots, based on which order they are combined with, all of it powered by a mysterious radiation which is implied to be the manifestation of evolution itself. Notorious for its cosmic horror themes and super-gory combat. Has multiple iterations. We could probably make a page on this one.
* Transformers - A race of sapient giant transforming robots fights a bitter civil war. A rare mecha series in that it traditionally does ''much'' better in the West than in its native Japan, which tends to find the idea of making the robots into ''characters'' rather than mere tools to be "weird". The original G1 series did get three follow-up series with more traditional mecha storylines in Japan, though. [[Transformers|We have a page for this one.]]
* Space Runaway Ideon - Human colonists on a remote world unearth an ancient battleship and three fighting vehicles that can fuse into one super-robot, the Ideon. Doing so causes them to come under attack by an alien race, the Buff Clan, who are terrified of what might happen if the Ideon is allowed to wake up, as it's actually a mechanical eldritch abomination powered by the vengeful souls of an extinct alien race. The colonists initially try to flee to Earth, only for humanity to become so scared of the Ideon that it allies itself with the Buff Clan to try and destroy it, leading to a mutual kill of galactic proportions in which all sapient life in the galaxy is wiped out. This was made by the same guy who made Mobile Suit Gundam, and cemented his "Kill 'em All" nickname/reputation.
* Super Dimension Century Orguss - An attept to use an experimental weapon called a Space-Time Oscillation Bomb goes disasterously wrong, trapping a mecha piloting soldier in a mishash world made of up multiple different dimensional versions of Earth that have all been smushed together. He has to find the bomb and deactivate it because it's still operating, and will eventually kill them all if he doesn't.
* Macross - Humanity uses transforming space-jet mecha and humanoid battle-tanks to fight back against an invasion of alien giants.
* Robotech - The first "Western Mecha", a totally unique series created when an American director took three unrelated mecha animes and rewrote them into different parts of a multi-generational single story. [[Robotech|We have a page for this one.]]