Anime Robot Vintage
There’s new anime — including new mecha anime — coming out all the time! With daily new choices, it can be hard to catch up to the classics if that’s your thing. So how do you know where to start? You let us tell you, of course!
We’ve picked a handful of giant robot shows to try out. They’ll give you a look into a history of the genre, and are also just super cool. Let’s get started!
To take a trip down the vintage robot rabbit hole, the very first Mobile Suit Gundam is a good place to start. Less appreciated in its own time, this coming-of-age story establishes the franchise’s real robot action and political intrigue. Plus, it introduces you to characters who become heroes of the Universal Century.
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Did for super robots. This mecha anime gave us rocket punches and larger-than-life monsters, and established the very same hot-blooded heroics that Amuro Ray would subvert. The original anime ran surprisingly long (92 episodes) and there’s a lot of filler, but it’s worth seeing to know where the tropes we know came from.
Series, Giant Robo is an adaptation of Mitsuteru Yokoyama’s manga of the same name. The OVA premiered in 1992 and came out over the course of seven years. When put together, it’s an inventive retrospective of Yokoyama’s whole body of work — not just its source material. And for the guy who basically invented the giant robot in anime? That’s a big deal.
Character designer Yoshikazu Yasuhiko, is a complex story surrounding the surfacing of an undiscovered island. When a professor studying it is killed to cover up its existence, his son must pick up where he left up — learning more about the island and its giant protector.
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Is another OVA, this one hailing from Gainax and legendary director Hideaki Anno. The larger-than-life series blends sports anime and American action films with a completely reworked system of astrophysics. (Don’t worry, there are science lessons between the episodes to get you caught up!) The sheer galactic power of the title bot wouldn’t be outdone by Gainax ’til
Kara Dennison is a writer, editor, and presenter with bylines at Crunchyroll, Sci-Fi Magazine, Sartorial Geek, and many others. She is a contributor to the celebrated Black Archive line, with many other books, short stories, and critical works to her name.“How disgusting.” Remembering what Asuka said after Shinji does the unthinkable in Hideaki Anno's widely lauded finale to the Evangelion saga, The End of Evangelion [1997], one can't stop but think about how there's a disgusting amount of mecha anime out there outside of his most celebrated work.
Always eclipsed by the towering EVA Unit-01 and the granddaddy of mobile suits, RX-78-2 Gundam, some lesser-known robot shows will be highlighted here by . Most often overshadowed, but never to be forgotten. Usually shying away from the contemporary anime fan’s top 10, but never unappreciated. The robots here come in just about every shape and size, and more importantly, in different characteristics. There are surfing robots. There are robots that pierce the heavens. There are even robots that turn into dragons.
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The ever-famous sci-fi genre has been around since the 50s, way before many of you were born. Bipedal robots as tall as buildings, weapons that shoot pink laser beams, speeds that could break the sound barrier, and massive space colonies dropping on Sydney, Australia. Themes that were oh-so-futuristic and unusual then, but are extremely common now.
Before anything else, let’s talk about the two types of robots in this electronically hypnotising breed of sci-fi anime: the super robots and the real robots. Super robots are almost always what comes to mind when it comes to mecha anime. These are the gigantic robots that “volt in” and save the world from Boazanians and the apocalypse. On the other hand, Osamu Tezuka showed everyone the world’s greatest robot through Astro Boy, and Mamoru Oshii’s adaptation of Ghost in the Shell [1995] gave us a look into the future where the advancement of technology can have its consequences.
These real robots, or cyborgs in its more colloquial term, are more realistic, science-based, and are dead ringers to their organic counterparts. In this sweeping look into the vast world of mecha anime, we’re going to talk more about the former. Who doesn’t want high octane fights between gigantic robots and monsters over bionic people discovering that they actually do have souls, right? Nah, we’re just kidding. We love both, but let’s focus on the colossal ones for now.
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For those expecting Gundam shows here, sorry. It would be cheating if we added some since we are pretty sure that everyone has an inkling of what that amazing franchise is. But if you really must, please do check out the remarkably underrated Mobile Suit Gundam: The 08th MS Team [1996].
Without further ado, here is a mecha anime list curated for the kids and the kids-at-heart who have always dreamt of being inside a robot’s chest cavity where the cockpit is located, saving humanity from the impending doom, and to the people who are just tired of seeing Evangelion in every robot list that has ever been and will be.
Without any exaggerations, and outside the live action works he creates, Gunbuster might be Hideaki Anno’s best offering to the colorful medium of anime. To say the least, it was superb, and one can see the labor of love, and the hours put in everything, from the animations to the OST, that the team behind it has put in, especially in the earlier episodes inside the robot’s cockpit and to that amazing finale.
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A tour de force all packed in six episodes, Gunbuster has everything—a phenomenal story, lovable characters, an intricate mech design, and an intense final episode with an ending that seamlessly ties in with its sequel, Diebuster [2004]. It is also a lingering thought as to why Neon Genesis Evangelion had the longer run and not Gunbuster.
In the realm of sequels, there are hits and misses, and there are rare cases like this one that just does it right in unimaginable ways. The cute exterior may steer original Gunbuster [1988] fans away, but do not be fooled by it.
Diebuster is a sequel made right. It came out 16 years after the original series, a rather long pause between seasons. Like its predecessor, it runs in six episodes, and all six make up a colorful, enjoyable, loud, and exciting watch.
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The soundtrack is full of early 2000s—danceable beats, full of ‘oohs and ahhs’, warm distorted guitars drowned in reverbs and choruses, and vocals very reminiscent of that simple time where the only thing we cared about were robots and pocket monsters. The opening, Groovin' Magic, is just a perpetual bop; it may remind you of Cardcaptor Sakura OPs.
Viewers will also see how these two shows influenced Gurren Lagann wherein all of them came from Studio Gainax. [There’s also this tiny bit towards the last few episodes of Diebuster that will definitely remind its watchers of the final moments in Darling in the FranXX.]
With a main character named after Sonic Youth’s Thurston Moore, and episode titles with references to The Beatles, Oasis, and New Order among others, what's not to love? Fun, exciting, and robots with surfboards. Again, what's not to love?
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With missiles locked on surfing robots, the aerial fight scenes make great use of what they call the Itano Circus, wherein the targeted hunk of metal gets followed by missiles that leave a trail of smoke. It was made famous by Ichiro Itano for Macross [another notable mecha anime. Now that would be breathtaking to see in real life [minus all the deadly explosions of course.]
Aside from that, the OST is all sorts of amazing and nostalgic. Its rave-inducing soundtrack has lots of guitars drowned in reverb, and upbeat drums that make the viewers not want to stop tapping their feet and bobbing their heads. And then the viewers hear Supercar’s Storywriter, which starts off with ambient noises most likely from an electro harmonix small stone phaser, and then comes the over driven downward strummed guitars, and then the iconic guitar riff. That’s when you know something fun is about to happen.
What makes Eureka Seven such an iconic show is that it never shied away from using too many mecha and shounen tropes. What with finding your true love inside a mysterious flying machine, and then leaving the person who raised you to travel with people you’ve only read about in magazines, and MAYBE, just maybe saving humanity and the world from total annihilation in the thick of it. It’s just hard not to love everything about it.
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What the team will be talking about here are the 1988 OVA, The Early Days, and the movies that followed it.
Ghost in the Shell director Mamoru Oshii's less-talked about work is a slow and steady character-driven mystery/drama with some huge bipedal robots in it. The Patlabor movies can stand on their own, and the 1988 OVA “The Early Days” is not a requirement so to speak. However, watching it would really help
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