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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.
The good and evil robotic doubles of Bill and Ted in Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey (1991) Newman in And You Thought Your Parents Were Weird (1991) Eve from Eve of Destruction (1991) Mecha-King Ghidorah, a cyborg from Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah (1991) Mr. Static, The Robot from Demonic Toys; Alsatia Zevo, the gynoid sister of Leslie Zevo and ...
In fact, its concept is to be the renewal of the first Gundam; [3] and the mecha are designed by Kunio Okawara, the mechanical designer for most of the Gundam series. [ 4 ] Though the series enjoyed good ratings and earned a loyal fan following, it failed to surpass Gundam and ended up as a single series, probably due to its light, ZZ Gundam ...
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Macross popularized the concept of transforming mecha, which can transform between a standard vehicle (such as a fighter plane or transport truck) and a fighting mecha robot. Shōji Kawamori introduced the concept with Diaclone in 1980 and then popularized it with Macross. Kawamori then went on to design transforming mecha for Transformers (1986
Mecha also have roles as transporters, recreation, advanced hazmat suits, and other research and development applications. Mecha have been used in fantasy settings, for example in the anime series Aura Battler Dunbine, The Vision of Escaflowne, Panzer World Galient, and Maze. In those cases, the mecha designs are usually based on some ...
Classic Transformers franchise logo used until 2014 Spider-Man battles Megatron on the cover of The Transformers #3. Generation 1 is a retroactive term for the Transformers characters that appeared between 1984 and 1993. The Transformers began with the 1980s Japanese toy lines Micro Change and Diaclone. They presented robots able to transform ...
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 ...