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The following is a list of mecha anime, a genre of anime featuring giant robots. [1]
Super robot anime and manga (16 C, 151 P) Pages in category "Mecha anime and manga" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 236 total.
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.
In contrast to earlier mecha anime which focused on combatants, Macross portrayed mecha conflict from the perspective of non-combatant civilians, such as the singer Lynn Minmay. [39] Voiced by Mari Iijima, Minmay was the first fictional idol singer to garner major real-world success, with the theme song "Do You Remember Love?"
Mazinger (マジンガー, Majingā) is a long-running series of manga and anime featuring giant robots or mecha created by Go Nagai in 1972. It introduced the concept of mecha as robots which are ridden by humans and controlled like vehicles to Japanese science fiction (previous depictions of human-controlled giant robots in Japan, such as in Tetsujin 28-go, depicted the robot as remote ...
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
Mecha anime and manga (3 C, 236 P) P. Pacific Rim (franchise) (11 P) T. Transformers animation (2 C, 2 P) Pages in category "Mecha animation" The following 7 pages ...
The manga and anime Astro Boy, introduced in 1952, with its humanoid robot protagonist, was a key influence on the development of the giant robot genre in Japan. The first anime featuring a giant mecha being piloted by the protagonist from within a cockpit was the Super Robot show Mazinger Z, written by Go Nagai and introduced in 1972. [10]