When fans get into mecha anime, they start out by coming for the giant robots. After watching a while, they start to see mecha anime can be so much more than just the robots, discussing politics and ...

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Few anime have resonated on the same level as Neon Genesis Evangelion, an experimental and existential take on the mecha genre that absolutely redefined the genre during the ‘90s. There’s a lot of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo Credit: Sunrise/Bandai Namco Filmworks The genre of mecha anime circles around robots. These robots, in the anime universe, ...

Since the humanoid robot from Tetsujin 28 walked across screens in 1963, mecha anime has endured within the cultural ...

There are plenty of anime genres that are credited by the fandom for bringing new life to the medium. In recent years, we’ve seen plenty of dark fantasy and science fiction series take on the weight ...

Episode 7 of the hard sci-fi mecha anime Snowball Earth aired on NTV in Japan on May 15, 2026, and landed on Crunchyroll ...

The upcoming mecha anime Bang Bravern, directed by the legendary Masami Obari, will be out this January and has a very Gungriffon-esque trailer. The latest trailer (shown below) reveals more of how ...

Mecha BREAK, at first glance, has all the flash of a mecha anime brought to life. I’m talking massive, colorful robot suits, each with their own movesets, roles, and specialties strafing across arena ...

In recent years it finally seems like Crunchyroll have started to understand the value of hosting mecha anime on their streaming platform. The latest of these being the thoroughly excellent Orguss.

If you are new to the anime fandom, then there is one thing you should know: Japan loves robots, and it likes them big. Really, the intensity of Japan’s fascination with robots isn’t surprising. The ...