Editing Approved Anime (section)

==Mecha==
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*'''''Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion''''': When you take terrorism, high school, chess and a protagonist smoother than a dwarf (mine)shaft then throw in some mech suits you get Code Geass. The plot focuses on a masked [[Batman|vigilante]] called Zero <s>[[Alpharius|who may remind you of a certain someone]]</s> and their efforts to fight back against the Brittanian Empire but that's not all. The power of geass plays a major role (explaining it properly would be a spoiler but it's basically [[magic|magic]]/hypnosis). The mechs of the series are known as [[meme|Knightmares]] which serve as the main fighting force for Brittania and the rebels. If you want a show that has [[Heresy|qualities even the Emperor's Children would appreciate]] then watch it. [TV series: 25 episodes]
**'''''Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion R2''''': Follows as a continuation of the first season. Just as [[Pretty Marines|fabulous]]. [TV series: 25 episodes]
**'''''Code Geass: Lelouch of the Resurrection''''': An alternate timeline based on the compilation movies made of R2, which had slight but ''significant'' changes to series events (like, oh, Shirley being ''alive''), it follows C.C's life after the end of R2, as well setting up Lelouch's return (as the compilation movies didn't have him "dead"-dead). Series writers have stated that any continuation of the series will use this timeline moving forward.

:Related games: [[Battletech]], playing with Imperial Knights in [[Warhammer 40,000]]

*'''''Eureka Seven''''': A boy who aspires to become a 'sky surfer' (think floating surfboards) links up with a cute girl who pilots a gigantic mech for the 'Gekkostate' organization. Said mechs ride upscaled versions of hover boards and battle government forces for control of a rare power source. To get a good idea what the mechs look like, picture Evangelions that can transform into vehicles and that carry fuckhueg surfboards. Noted for having references to vintage rock music. [TV series: 51 episodes + 1 movie in an alternate universe setting]
**'''''Eureka Seven AO''''': A sequel to the original that shits on basically the themes of the first series was about in [[Rage|the most aggravating manner possible]] (the reason being, the writer absolutely loathes the TV series ending and has made it his duty to make ''each'' following iteration in the franchise much more closer to his vision -- i.e. as depressing as possible). However, it has fans that didn't care for the first series and it got praised for having better mechs and monsters so if you're more into that take a stab at it. Like the first series it retains its vintage rock music references. [TV series: 25 episodes + 1 OVA]
 
:Related games: [[Traveller]], [[Battletech]]

*'''''Macross''''': One of the best mecha franchises of all time, this show revolves around fighter jets that transform into mecha. Started with ''Super Dimension Fortress Macross'', and spawned multiple series and movies afterwards. Kinda took a left turn into the idol-genre (especially after the 'Do You Remember Love?' OVA), but overall pretty decent. Involves humanity fighting giant aliens with the help of transforming starfighters called Variable fighters. It should stand on it's own merits, rather than on my explanation of the plot. (4 TV series, 6 OVAs, 8 Full-length animated movies)
:Related games: [[Battletech]], [[Star Frontiers]]
 
*'''''[[Robotech]]''''': An abomination born out of the early days of the US anime market, Robotech is a composite localization of '''''The Super Dimension Fortress Macross''''' (see previous), '''''Super Dimension Cavalry Southern Cross''''', and '''''Genesis Climber MOSPEADA''''' into a single work.  This isn't as crazy as it sounds, the same thing was done to make ''Power Rangers''. Anyway, here's where it gets interesting. The original [[FASA|creators]] of [[BattleTech]] were lazy and couldn't be bothered to actually design any giant robots; instead they licensed designs from Macross franchise. But Harmony Gold (owner of Robotech) called it infringement and sued FASA, which spiraled into suing Microsoft due to ''Mechwarrior''. Robotech used to be pretty well known but since ''Macross Frontier'' the Macross-vs-Robotech fight has ceased to be a thing.  [TV series: 85 episodes + 4 movies + 2 OVAs]
 
:Related games: [[BattleTech]], or you know Palladium's Robotech game

*'''''The Big O''''': Batman meets mechs meets Japanese monster movies in a post-apocalyptic world where nobody remembers anything prior to forty years ago and advanced androids walk the streets of an otherwise 1920s-era city dominated by glass domes. One of the biggest contenders for "Most Confusing Ending" award, it is otherwise well-regarded by the anime community and it's lack of a third season to answer all the questions is much-lamented. That said, the director had originally been given two seasons to plot out his story, had it cut to one due to poor ratings, then had a second season greenlit thanks to its performance in the US, only to give us another season of questions. [TV series: 26 episodes]

:Related games: [[Mekton]], Dungeons & Dragons: [[Eberron]], [[Spirit of the Century]]
 
*'''''Armored Trooper VOTOMS''''': A Mecha pilot of few words and fewer expressions seeks revenge on those who framed him, uncovering an ancient conspiracy along a way. One of the grittier and "realest" entries of the real robot genre without going into the hard sci-fi. Inspired [[Heavy Gear]], which the Japanese described as "The Votoms mecha in the Dougram setting", the latter referring to '''Fang of the Sun Dougram''', VOTOMS creator's earlier real robot series. It also has its [https://rpggeek.com/rpg/4111/armored-trooper-votoms-role-playing-game own role playing system] running off the Fuzion rules. [TV series: 52 episodes + 10 OVAs]
 
:Related games: [[Heavy Gear]]
 
*'''''Fang of the Sun Dougram''''': A pack of Guerillas with Real-Robot 'mechs fight a war of independence on a shitty-ass planet. Fairly strong amounts of cynicism and grey morality and minimal wacky shit firmly separate it from Gundam and the like. Was one of the direct inspirations for Battletech, which cribbed all it's 'mech designs verbatim and much of the extremely mad-max-esque setting. [TV series: 75 episodes + 2 movies +1 OVA]
 
:Related games: [[BattleTech]], A Time of War
 
*'''''[[Mobile Suit Gundam]]''''': The mecha anime that not only helped popularize Real-Robots in the first place but also started one of the longest-running sci-fi franchises in Japan and in time would help influence the [[Tau]]. Set in the midst of a bloody "One Year War" between the Earth Federation and <s>Space Nazis</s> oppressed colonists called the Principality of Zeon, it follows the trials of a whiny teenager who quickly grows a spine, the titular Gundam and the crew of the White Base as they generally try to win the war in one piece, with some <s>psyker</s> Newtype hijinks along the way. Also known for its grey morality, gritty portrayal of war, intrigue, lots of mass-produced robots dying in droves and even more deaths. Basically, the Japanese equivalent of Star Wars if it deconstructed Star Trek. Had poor ratings at its initial airing in 1979, only really gaining popularity with successive reruns. Now known for its massive library of spinoffs ranging from "Romeo & Juliet (with giant robots)" to "Top Gun (with giant robots)" to "Mortal Kombat (with giant robots)". Also, when we mean death, we mean death - the series creator, Yoshiyuki Tomino is known as "Kill-Them-All Tomino" not only for this series but pretty much any series he touches seeing large parts of the main cast and numerous side characters getting offed, often in just plain brutal ways. [TV series: 43 episodes + 3 movies + many spinoffs]
**'''''Mobile Suit Gundam 0080: War in the Pocket''''': If you want to get taste of the franchise without watching a long ass series or (almost) any prior knowledge about the setting or timelines, then this excellent little OVA migh be for you taste. It's story about one unlucky Zeon rookie (and hamburger lover) who is signed up with a team of bad-asses and send into infiltration/suicide mission to "neutral" space colonie and destroy secret Gundam prototype. During the mission he recruits school kid and meets hot redhead who is pilot of said prototype. Did I mentioned that their failure would meant to the nuking of said colony by renegade Space Nazi. It's awesome... in it's description of tragedy of war, cheapness of civilian lives and futility of honor and sacrifice. Also the main character is voiced (in dub) by David Hayter aka the same guy who voiced Snake from MGS series. 
**'''''Mobile Suit Gundam SEED''''': The Chad Older Brother of the Gundam series that followed it. It still follows the Gundam formula of Earth vs Colonies vs Pacifists, but is notable for having the Best-Girl-Princess of <s>Japan</s> '''the peace-loving neutral state of the ORB union''' joining the mujahideen (a year after 9/11, too), waifu-swapping protagonists, and being censored to shit in NA ''and'' Japan. Controversially showed the obligatory-queen-bitch-character naked in the intro, and showing her having sex with the protag and the antagonist in the show, which got people butthurt. So obviously, the animation studio did the right thing '''[[/d/|and extended the scene]]'''. 
**'''''Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans''''': One of the latest (<s>and most [[Awesome|awesome]]/[[FAIL|failed]] (terrible plot pacing, wonky villain motive)</s> ([[Skub|It's complicated]])) iterations of the Gundam franchise, IBO focusses on a group of young [[Imperial Guard|orphans-turned-soldiers]] and their struggle to protect a princess trying to bring peace to the land. There are only 72 Gundam suits ever produced in this post-apocalyptic setting, and a good bunch of them appear in the hands of both the antagonists and the protagonists. As expected of a Gundam show, the [[Rip and Tear|deaths are aplenty]] and there are a ton of intense mecha-on-mecha action scenes to enjoy. What differentiates this Gundam series from the others is how the protagonists suffer extraordinarily painful events throughout the show, [[Grimdark|despite the fact that they are children barely approaching their teen years]] (as expected, this has generated much debate on the topic of child soldiers and other more [[Serious Business|serious business]] brought up in the plot, such as slavery and neo-colonialism). The main crew will fight [[Freebooterz|pirates]], mercenaries, and a huge military organization along their journey, and the show also features a charismatic soldier [[Tzeentch|trying to manipulate people on both sides of the conflict]] to bring balance to <s>[[Star Wars|the Force]]</s> the aforementioned military organization. <s>[[What|Ignore the fact that he is technically engaged to a kid despite being a fully-grown adult.]]</s> Also, unlike…hell, most anime in general, there’s a semi-legit reason for the child soldiers here. The kids have special spinal implants that are basically 40k mind-impulse links, allowing them to control mobile suits and mobile workers with their minds, as extensions of their own bodies, and thus giving them much faster and more fluid control than any normal pilot. The catch is that only the still developing bodies of kids can safely accept the implants. Then we go into derp territory when these mind-impulse link child soldiers are [[wat|treated as disposable trash by their commanders, considered worthless beyond the fact that they have "whiskers."]] Oh, also, unlike any other Gundam series, this one is not only an on-Earth exclusive one, but (due to advances in armor rendering lasers almost completely impotent) the use of ranged weapons is much more sparse, with XBOX HUEG melee weapons as the main instrument of fighting. [TV series: 50 episodes]
**'''''Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch from Mercury''''': the newest and hottest Gundam series, and one that's taking a very different turn from Iron-Blooded Orphans. Set in a post-Capitalist Corporate Dystopia where the rich have moved into space and left the poor to rot on Earth, it follows the transfer student from the Mercury Mining Colony, the unimaginatively-named Suletta Mercury, and her stumbling into the cutthroat world of corporate politics when a chance encounter leads to her engaged to the heir to the massive megacorporate conglomerate, the Benerit Group. Said heir happens to be another woman, Miorine Rembran, and the possibility of Gundam's first same-sex romance between its two leads has caused an endless storm of [[skub]] and shitposting. In this universe Gundams are illegal due to their technology [[Grimdark|slowly killing whoever pilots them]], and the revalation of the existence of Suletta's Gundam (<s> Which may or may not be possessed by souls of other children. </s>  Its basically confirmed in the second cour that A'''eri'''al is Sulettas big sis.) threatens to overturn the careful balance of power between the [[Meme|OLD MEN, RUNNING THE WORLD]].
 
:Related games: [[BattleTech]], [[Warhammer 40000]], [[Mekton]], [[Battle Century G]]

*'''''Getter Robo:''''' the granddaddy of the combining mecha and crazy ride even when it started in the 70s. Got a bombastic start being inspired after seeing a minor car pile up. They came up with a mech powered by evolution rays that combined by crashing three jets into one another at Mach 8 piloted by three crazy bastards as they fight off an underground empire of [[repdoids|dinomen]] and their mech-dinosaurs. Then things go more unhinged as time goes on as we get increasingly larger robots, Time travel, body horror, existential dread, cosmic horror, and some of the bolerest of anime opening songs. MANGA timeline: Getter Robo, Getter Robo G, Getter Robo go (don't use anima version), Shin Getter Robo, Getter Robo Arc (original Getter Robo author dead before writing an ending so see anime for a conclusion) ['''READ THE MANGA'''][TV series: 82 episodes + _ movie, OVA series: 13 episodes] 
   
:Related games: [[Mutants and Masterminds]](a mecha related [[GARPS]] supplement) 

*'''''Gunbuster & Diebuster:''''' a precursor to Gurren Lagann in many ways and related to Getter Robo above due to the themes of war PTSD, existential dread, angst and isolation caused by time dilation and escalating stakes that take on ludicrous proportions as the series goes on. The first series is ideal for gauging weather or not the particular kind of mecha anime is right for you due to it's condensed and trope-distilled nature. Aside from that the anime also boasts a fair depiction of realistic space combat that persists through the show (time dilation is a big factor and plot point). [OVA series: 6+6 episodes + _ movie, supplementary material: 11]

:Related games: [[Mekton]]

*'''''Acrobunch''''': A family of six go on a treasure hunt while being chased by an underground kingdom of goblins that want revenge on humanity. This anime was created in 1982 by Kokusai Eiga-sha, the same people responsible for the 80s ''Tetsujin 28'' series (aka ''The New Adventures of Gigantor'' for you 90s kids) and ''God Mars'' with the same staff as the ''J9'' trilogy (consisting of ''Braiger'', ''Baxingar'', and ''Sasuraiger''). Before the late 2010s this remained under most people's radars and even [[/m/]] saw it as just "that one anime that premiered with ''Escaflowne'' and ''Betterman'' in ''Super Robot Wars Compact 3'' and wasn't ''Mechander Robo''". Since its fansubbing completion this hidden gem is notable for being one of the few series that consists of the titular super robot going against real robots. While it includes a lot of ancient alien tech, [[Tzeentch]] having a cameo eating virgin goblins in Ireland, and even [[What|God smiting both sides for disturbing Noah's Ark]], it has enough war gaming minutia: Mass produced units, subfactions, cannon fodder vehicles, combat tactics, and parallels to real life history and religion. In the last quarter we get a red shirt army that doesn't suck ass at their job (shocking!). Also neo Nazis are confirmed to be a rogue goblin group in this timeline, call Goblin Slayer and the Inglorious Bastards. The ending, despite being a happy one, is said to be on a level of bonkers even ''Evangelion'' was unable to reach. No spoilers, but we will say you can't skip any episodes because even the standalones come into play at the end. [TV series: 24 episodes]

:Related games: [[Battletech]]
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