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Super Robot Anime suggestions?

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Super Robot Anime suggestions? - Divisions by zero

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.

thesohoriots Mar 10

I liked The Big O personally, but it’s very short and highly stylized (if you like noir).

TheMinions Mar 10

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.

Brave Bang Bravern!

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I second this. The villain robots having “genuine people personalities” was a huge win for this show.

Genuine People Personalities

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TheMinions Mar 10

Oooh a one and done type show? My kind of anime.

MissesAutumnRains Mar 10

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.

Die4Ever Mar 10

I love 08th MS Team! It’s so good

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

Die4Ever Mar 10

Debatable but I think maybe Outlaw Star could count as a mecha anime, the grappler ships kinda control like a mecha

Was to be my rec also. Absolute banger anime and an all time favourite of mine.

Captain Baka Mar 10

“Daimidaler: Prince vs. Penguin Empire” definitely counts as Mecha Anime. But that one is more from the WTAF territory.

Lumidaub Mar 10

Well, your obvious next move is 1978’s tokusatsu Spider-Man.

Zachariah Mar 10

Macross and/or Robotech

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 Mar 10

Macross plus another vote here. Favorite all time. Also amazing sound track

Unboxious Mar 10

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.

The first season of Aldnoah.Zero plotted by Gen Urobochi is a fucking brilliant concept: Think Patlabors piloted by a genius vs high end Gundam fantasy mecha. The second season was meh though.

Speaking of Patlabors, the Patlabor Movie 1 and Patlabor Movie 2 both directed by the great Mamoru Oshii are really great.

It’s more like sentai tokusatsu robots (think the Mega Zords from Power Rangers) but SSSS.Gridman is a cool reboot of a vintage Tsuburaya (Ultraman) Productions live action show.

Along similar lines, Samurai Flamenco is another fun take on tokusatsu heroes, complete with a combining sentai robot, which admittedly only shows up towards the end of the only season.

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Mesophar Mar 11

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!

Chronographs Mar 10

Star Driveeeer

pastermil Mar 10

Rahxephon

Wrufieotnak Mar 10

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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Attack on Titan (technically speaking, they’re fleshy super robots)

Gundam Iron Blooded Orphans

TheMinions Mar 10

I almost mentioned AoT in the body lol. I enjoyed the manga.

Iron Blooded Orphans I’ve heard of. I’ll add it to the list.

FearMeAndDecay Mar 11

Planet With reminded me of Gurren Lagann quite a bit and I thought it was fun

TheMinions Mar 11

Is that anything like Snowball Earth? I liked that manga a lot.

FearMeAndDecay Mar 11

I haven’t read snowball earth so honestly, no idea. It looks interesting tho so I might pick it up lol