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In Japan, "robot anime" (known as "mecha anime" outside Japan) is one of the oldest genres in anime. [18] Robot anime is often tied in with toy manufacturers. Large franchises such as Gundam, Macross, Transformers, and Zoids have hundreds of different model kits. The size of mecha can vary according to the story and concepts involved.
Mecha, also known as giant robot or simply robot, is a genre of anime and manga that feature mecha in battle. [1] [2] The genre is broken down into two subcategories; "super robot", featuring super-sized, implausible robots, and "real robot", where robots are governed by realistic physics and technological limitations.
Beast Wars II: Super Life-Form Transformers: Transformers: TV series: 1998–99: Neo Ranga — TV series: 1998: Brain Powerd — TV series: 1998: Maze Bakunetsu Jikuu: Tenpen Kyoui no Giant: Maze: Film: 1998: Super Mobile Legend Dinagiga — OVA: 1998: Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz -Special Edition-Gundam: Film: Compilation 1998: Mobile Suit ...
A mecha defender robot consisting of three separate components: the Dino-Mecha's head, an arm unit, and a leg unit (the arm and leg units are stored inside the Dino-Mecha and exit from a gateway located below the Dragon's head). These three launch from the Dino-Mecha and combine, while in flight, to form Gaiking.
Real robot anime and manga is a subgenre of mecha anime and manga, featuring robots that operate on a hard science fiction basis, and/or are mass-produced and used as tools. [ citation needed ] Subcategories
Now and Then, Here and There (今、そこにいる僕, Ima, Soko ni Iru Boku) is a Japanese anime television series conceived and directed by Akitaro Daichi, with a screenplay by Hideyuki Kurata. It premiered in Japan on the WOWOW television station on October 14, 1999 and ran until January 20, 2000.
Maschinen Krieger (Ma.K ZBV3000), often abbreviated as Ma.K., is a science fiction intellectual property created by Japanese artist and sculptor Kow Yokoyama in the 1980s. It consists of an illustrated series, a line of merchandise comprising display and action figures of mecha characters, a 1985 short film, as well as an upcoming Hollywood-produced film by Vertigo Entertainment's Roy Lee.
Along with Gundam, a real robot mecha series of which Shoji Kawamori is a fan, Macross explored how individuals cope with warfare. Whereas Gundam is far more political and direct on the horrors of war, each Macross television series is unique for never depicting the antagonists as inherently evil and proved in the end that love, culture, and ...