Super Robot Anime suggestions?

Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨TheMinions@lemmy.dbzer0.com⁩ to ⁨anime@ani.social⁩

I’ve seen Gurren Lagann (10/10), Code Geass (8/10), and pretty much all of Neon Genesis Evangelion + movies and rebuilds.

Are there any other really good super robot anime?

I watched Darling in the FranXX and had a good time til about episode 18 or so when it jumped the shark.

At one point I tried and dropped Eureka 7, just seemed really childish? Might need a revisit, but the MCs being so young was strange to me.

What other mecha shows are worth the watch? I haven’t ever seen a Gundam show, but did watch Zoids as a kid, hah.

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MissesAutumnRains@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Gundam has a ton of flavours of Mecha anime depending on what you’re looking for, but my recommendation is ALWAYS 07th MS Team. It follows a single unit in a war and that focus on not being about giga-protagonists feels SO refreshing. You’re just watching a unit of grunts struggle to survive. Cogs in a machine so vast, that they can’t be heroes, just survivors. It also has some SUPER cool fight moments.

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- Die4Ever@retrolemmy.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  I love 08th MS Team! It’s so good
  
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- SGforce@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  One of the Gundam movies was like that. Can’t remember the title, but it followed an unlikeable kid who befriended a terrorist cause he thought he was cool. Got both good and bad reviews cause well, yeah
  
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Die4Ever@retrolemmy.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Debatable but I think maybe Outlaw Star could count as a mecha anime

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- bishoponarope@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Was to be my rec also. Absolute banger anime and an all time favourite of mine.
  
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wjs018@piefed.wjs018.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Brave Bang Bravern! - A great show and one of the finalists for anime of the year from 2024 in this community. It never fails to escalate the weirdness while not losing touch with the heart and what it means to be a hero.

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- TheMinions@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Oooh a one and done type show? My kind of anime.
  
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- zabadoh@ani.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  I second this. The villain robots having “genuine people personalities” was a huge win for this show.
  
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Unboxious@ani.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
First off, I’m gonna say Eureka 7 is a show that gets better as it goes on. Also, I saw that someone was recommending Brave Bang Bravern which is a favorite of mine. If you want something a little more classic though definitely check out Gunbuster (also known as Aim For the Top). It’s only 6 episodes and it’s some of the coolest stuff I’ve ever seen. Really good depiction of time dilation.

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zabadoh@ani.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
It’s more like sentai tokusatsu robots (think the Mega Zords from Power Rangers) but SSSS.Gridman is a cool reboot of Tsuburaya (Ultraman) Productions.

Along similar lines, Samurai Flamenco is another fun take on tokusatsu heroes, complete with a combining sentai robot

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- Mesophar@pawb.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Have to second Samurai Flamenco. It’s not technically a mech anime, but if Gurren Lagann was 10/10 for OP, there’s a good chance they’ll really enjoy it!
  
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thesohoriots@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
I liked The Big O personally, but it’s very short and highly stylized (if you like noir).

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- TheMinions@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Oooh I have watched some of this back when it was on Toonami or some such. I’ll have to watch the whole thing.
  
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Wrufieotnak@feddit.org ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Knights of Sidonia has great visuals and lore ideas but boring storytelling and characters.

Argento Soma had interesting aliens and story but the robots were pretty basic looking.

Bokurano has great visuals and very interesting story, but it has some heavy topics. (Epstein related…) Also I think the manga is better, but the p is worth just for the song.

Fullmetal Panic has move robot battles, but you might not like the combination of highschool sillyness and serious war story.

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Zachariah@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Macross and/or Robotech

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- zabadoh@ani.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Try for the original Japanese 80s Macross TV show. It’s packed with young animating talent of now-classic directors.
  
  The movie Macross: Do You Remember Love is a classic.
  
  Macross Plus was a sequel OVA series that has some nice jet fighter dogfighting sakuga.
  
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  - GrayBackgroundMusic@lemmy.zip ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Macross plus another vote here. Favorite all time. Also amazing sound track
    
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pastermil@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Rahxephon

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Chronographs@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Star Driveeeer

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Lumidaub@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Well, your obvious next move is 1978’s tokusatsu Spider-Man.

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Captain_Baka@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
“Daimidaler: Prince vs. Penguin Empire” definitely counts as Mecha Anime. But that one is more from the WTAF territory.

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