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.
I liked The Big O personally, but it’s very short and highly stylized (if you like noir).
Oooh I have watched some of this back when it was on Toonami or some such. I’ll have to watch the whole thing.
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.
The rare shojo mecha is not be underestimated
Debatable but I think maybe Outlaw Star could count as a mecha anime, the grappler ships kinda control like a mecha
Gundam has a ton of flavours of Mecha anime depending on what you’re looking for, but my recommendation is ALWAYS 08th 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.
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
I love 08th MS Team! It’s so good
