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For use when referring to works in the (typically) Japanese sci-fi genre featuring robots or machines controlled by humans.

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I'm trying to recall an older mecha anime I watched on cable, but the details are a bit hazy. I remember the animation was quite good for its era, comparable to classic Gundam series, though it ...
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I'm looking for the name of a manga (or Americanized version) in the mecha genre about a boy whose grandfather or older uncle finds a giant robot in the desert in America. I think the robot is red, ...
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I remember this manga because I read it in the middle school library and it surprised me with all the gore that was in it. It’s been a while, I think this was in the year 2018-2019, but I think the ...
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I remember as a kid (late 80's) I got an animated film from a video shop. My only memories of it are robot suits (maybe like gundams?) dropping out of an airship, and the Easter Island heads were ...
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The anime was basically about a group of girls who are used as pilots for these huge fighter machines to combat invading aliens. Pretty sure the machines are like sentient ancient technology from a ...
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I saw this on Teletoon in the late 90's- it revolved around three characters who'd known each other since childhood- a woman and two men, the latter two being military pilots. Each of the pilots were ...
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The animated film I am looking for is from either the 70's or early 80's. A boy finds a silver star and when he throws it in the air it summons a mech suit, and they do different tasks that save ...
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I don't know where I saw this anime, but I remember it faintly and this doubt triggers everytime I see a mecha anime. I remember a little boy wandering in the woods maybe with his sister? And he found ...
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I'm looking for an animated film I remember watching when I saw a kid, so would have been available by mid-90s on VHS There are a few details I remember, the main one being that one of the early ...
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I'm trying to find a show I watched in Canada in the 90s when I was a kid. It could have been a little older, so 80s-90s. The show was about three humans that piloted three giant machines, each with ...
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I was born in 2000. However as a kid I used to watch a movie or tv show during long car rides to anywhere. However I only remember what seems like nothing useful. I remember the movie starting out ...
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As the title suggests, I've been searching for an anime I wanted to watch when I was in elementary. I remember it was on Toonami. Its plot is based on mecha-like anime, and the main character ...
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I need help finding a mecha anime that I have stuck in my head. I saw a clip of it on Instagram reels about 2-3 months ago and it refreshed before I could share or hit like and I was very interested ...
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It's an anime that's no older than 2012? I think. It's from my childhood and I don't remember much, but the things I remember are: Two girls, two boys. They have watches that can summon animal mechs ...
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There was a movie I watched with my brother around 2010, but I'm not sure. It was on DVD; we were young and did not know much about how they got those movies at that time: they download it, put some ...
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The main character has orange hair. There was a special school they attend to fight the villains. They fought in a pod while the robots are in outer space. I remember when the villain was captured. ...
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I don't remember a lot of details; I was young when I watched it. I remember that it was in a dark setting, like most 1980s/early 1990s anime (though it could have been a late 90s or early 2000s, ...
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I remember this show vividly. I used to watch it on an old CD of my dad's and I don't remember the title. All I can remember is a guy getting into a giant robot. The robot is shaped like a human with ...
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The pilot would be in danger the more he piloted the mech suit. The pilot was male. I believe it had a space setting. It was probably also on Cartoon Network / Toonami.
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Which 90s anime is it? Where pilots had their blood circulate through the robots and the lead protagonist was in love with the princess and used to summon a smaller more capable robot with a knife. ...
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Looking for the name of old school anime. There was one giant mecha piloted by 3 different pilots. The mech changed forms depending on which pilot was in control. The different forms for the mech ...
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I once had a short comic (maybe a promo of some sort) I read as a kid about aliens attacking in flying ships, and the protagonists had to find these mechs. All I remember was that there were some sort ...
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Really struggling to find a cartoon show I watched as a kid. There were multiple pilots who flew jets / spaceships that would join together to make a giant robot. It was very Voltron-like, but the ...
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Between 1999 and 2007 I got multiple CDs with multiple games for my birthday. One of those games was "Mortimer and the Riddles of the Medallion," which came out in 1996. But I am interested ...
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I am looking for an animated series or a movie, which I suspect is an anime, that I've seen somewhere in (probably early) 90s. I barely remember anything about it but it has been nagging me for ...
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This anime starts with the main character protecting a small girl. They're underground, hiding from the government. Out of nowhere, just in time the main character's rival/friend beats the government ...
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There was this cartoon/anime I used to watch as a kid on a VHS tape that I cannot for the life of me remember the name of. What I remember from this show/movie was that: It was set in space. The MC ...
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The mecha are unique and one boy finds an ancient robot. Few people have mecha and one is an arrogant blond boy. At the end, one guy sacrifices himself and is stabbed with glowing tentacles. I think ...
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This is going to be a long shot, but the only things I have to go by are that it's a post-apocalyptic film between '80s-'90s which was rented on VHS often. The two factions of people fought one ...
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A group was searching for a powerful artifact that granted power(?). Some people are born with animal features. They stumbled upon a pub and decided to grab something to eat and they noticed that ...
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I saw this on TV once, in the 90's. I only remember vague details, such as a couple of teens being chased around an underground city by a pair of giant machines or robots (them being a pair I'm not so ...
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From what I recall of the show, it involves aliens or something invading the Earth, from space I assume, as I remember them having space battles with the mech in latter episodes. The main character ...
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I'm looking for a show I saw in the 80s as a kid. It had a boy and a girl, I think they were brother and sister. The boy had a medallion that he used to call the robot, and then he hides it in his ...
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I'm looking for a mecha anime I saw on Facebook today but I forgot to save the video. You see 5 mecha in a school coliseum, 4-vs-1 I think. The main character is sitting in an "old" black ...
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I remember watching it in middle school. It has a couple of kids who find this giant robot that is orange and white. I don't remember much of the plot, but I do remember that during the show the robot ...
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I'm trying to identify an anime I saw on TV 15-20 years ago. It was a mecha anime (maybe one of the Gundams?) with two space empires at war. The "bad" side was led by a female commander, and ...
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Anime with little dolls which look like girls in mecha suits fighting as commanded. I once watched a teaser for this anime. I don't know if they were 'micro girls' or human-like dolls/robots dressed ...
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It's not "Glitter Force", but another anime similar to it. I don't remember much of it, but I remember these girls got sent to another world where there be a jungle and such, and they would ...
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I'm looking for an 90s or older anime that aired on Adult Swim back in early 2000s (maybe 2010). I only got to see a little bit of it and am unsure if it was supposed to be a movie or a series. The ...
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Looking for the name of an anime where the robot/mecha was also an airplane. The pilot (white uniform) would typically fly the plane to fight the bad guys then there would be a scene where the plane ...
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I recall a show where a sole pilot would fly a fighter/mech(a) through various patterns under the directions of a base/station commander. I can't remember the English name for it, and don't have any ...
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What are the in-universe reasons that 'Mechs are used for galactic warfare in Battletech/MechWarrior instead of tanks and aircraft? In the real world, it seems that tanks and aircraft would be ...
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The plot is that a team of 3 people a girl, a boy, and a short man with a funny haircut control robots and fight against a white alien that too can control robots. In the beginning I remember there ...
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When I was a child in the early 2000s, I remember watching what I believed to be an anime. I can only remember vague details, however I remember the style being that of the '90s, and it being set in a ...
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Need help finding a title of an anime I watched many years ago. It must have been pre 2000. I remember parts of the story. Started with a few pilots (maybe 4-5), cockpit looked very similar to Star ...
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First episode has a group of school girls in mechas fighting massive bugs/aliens, and all but one are slaughtered. Then it transitions to a young half-American and half-Japanese boy, who’s an ace ...
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It's about a girl who reincarnates into a super tech world. Her new dad had died protecting people and was a SS mecha pilot. She pretends to be a son to inherit all of her dad's things. She has a ...
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I can’t remember much of it, as I only saw a clip of it from YouTube a long time ago, but it looked different from most other mecha anime. It seemed to be an older anime. In the scene, there was this ...
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Logistics is an underrated aspect of warfare and many see it as the most important part about going to war. When the Nazis were making their way into the USSR and were forced to fight in the brutal ...
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There’s a really disturbing manga that I remember reading in 2020, but for the love of all things, I can’t remember the title. However, I remember the story. It’s about people who pilot these things ...
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