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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 following is a list of mecha anime. Year(s) Name Series Type Notes 1963–66: Astro Boy: Astro Boy: TV series: 1963–66: Gigantor: Tetsujin 28-go: TV series: 1964:
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.
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]
Armored Trooper VOTOMS (装甲騎兵ボトムズ, Sōkō Kihei Botomuzu) is a Japanese military science fiction mecha anime series produced by Nippon Sunrise, created and directed by Ryosuke Takahashi and featuring mechanical designs by Kunio Okawara.
Mobile Suit Gundam Wing, also known in Japan as New Mobile Report Gundam Wing [a] (新機動戦記ガンダム W (ウイング), Shin Kidō Senki Gandamu Wingu), is a 1995 Japanese mecha anime series directed by Masashi Ikeda and written by Katsuyuki Sumizawa.
But for a genre anime, Giant Robo does not feature many giant robot battles; [23] instead, it is the human characters who do the fighting. Most of the "Experts" featured in The Day the Earth Stood Still come from Yokoyama's manga adaptations of Outlaws of the Marsh and Romance of the Three Kingdoms , [ 24 ] both wuxia novels and half of the ...
Golden Warrior Gold Lightan (黄金戦士ゴールド・ライタン, Ōgon Senshi Gōrudo Raitan) is a mecha anime television series that aired from 1981 to 1982 in Japan. The show was also popular in Hong Kong and was aired there around the same time. There are 52 episodes that were aired at 30 minutes each. [2]