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Plot Summary:
A story of the bonds between those who fight, in a world pushed to its limits. On one of the countless parallel worlds that exist throughout spacetime, humanity has fought a decades long war against the BETA, hostile extraterrestrial invaders, using humanoid fighting machines called Tactical Surface Fighters. This is a story of how humanity lives and dies while on the brink of extinction.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 72
Genere: Animation, Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: mecha, anime, exciting, tense, captivating, ecchi
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Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin - Advent of the Red Comet (2019)
Plot Summary:
This is the story of how Char Aznable, the Red Comet, came to be. Zeon Zum Deikun suddenly dies, in the middle of declaring the Autonomous Republic of Munzo’s independence, and the republic falls into turmoil. His children, Casval and Artesia, escape to Earth while the House of Zabi rises to power. Living in secret, the siblings must find their place in a world preparing for war.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 137
Genere: Animation, Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, War
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: mecha, tense, captivating, futuristic, disturbing, anime
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Mobile Suit Gundam Hathaway (2021)
Plot Summary:
After Char's rebellion, Hathaway Noa leads an insurgency against Earth Federation, but meeting an enemy officer and a mysterious woman alters his fate.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Animation, Action, Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: anime, mecha, exciting, tense, captivating, disturbing
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Mobile Suit Gundam AGE (2011)
Plot Summary:
Mobile Suit Gundam AGE is a 2011 Japanese science fiction anime television series and the twelfth incarnation of Sunrise's long-running Gundam franchise. The series was first announced in the July issue of Shogakukan's CoroCoro Comic, and has gaming company Level-5's President Akihiro Hino in charge of the story. This installment of the Gundam meta-series is set on a futuristic Earth plagued by an interplanetary war that spans a whole century. Its story revolves around three protagonists from the same family, each piloting his own version of the eponymous mecha, fighting to defend Earth and its space colonies from an enemy race far more advanced in terms of technology. The series was officially unveiled by Bandai on June 13, 2011, during a special event at the 2011 Tokyo Toy Show. Gundam AGE premiered on the MBS and TBS broadcasting stations in Japan on October 9, 2011 and 49 episodes were broadcast, with the last episode on September 23, 2012. A compilation OVA titled Mobile Suit Gundam AGE: Memory of Eden will be released on July 26, 2013, focusing on the second protagonist of the series, Asemu Asuno.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 158
Genere: Animation, Action, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, mecha, exciting, captivating, entertaining
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Valvrave the Liberator (2013)
Plot Summary:
Haruto Tokishima, a student from Sakimori High School living on the sphere's "Module 77", discovers a mysterious and powerful mecha called Valvrave (ヴァルヴレイヴ Varuvureivu?) and uses it to defend the module from a Dorssian invasion that takes over the rest of JIOR. Once they learn that both Dorssia and the ARUS intend to claim the Valvrave for themselves, with no concern with their lives, the students of Sakimori High declare Module 77 an independent state and abandon JIOR territory. Soon after, several other Valvraves are found inside the school and some of them are claimed by other students who join Haruto's fight to protect it. Once Haruto is approached by L-elf Karlstein, a Dorssian spy who claims to have the intentions to one day stage a revolution in his own country, both join forces in an unlikely alliance to secure the sovereignty of their newfound nation declared and officially recognized as New JIOR.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 317
Genere: Animation, Action, Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, tense, captivating, mecha, ecchi
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Fafner Exodus (2015)
Plot Summary:
2150 A.D. The battle with the Festum, the silicon life-forms from distant outer space, had reached a new dimension. The North Polar Meir that was crushed during the First Azure Operation had dispersed its fragments all over the world. They all started activity on their own as independent Meirs. Most of the Meirs harbored hatred towards humanity and challenged a fight, however, a portion of the Festum chose coexistence with mankind. Amongst the crossfire, the Ryugujima island alone disappeared from the forefront of battle and continued its silence. The island had gained a means to converse with the Meir since their encounter with Misao Kurusu two years ago. The children of ALVISS had been searching for a way to understand the enemy as they prepared for battle. And now, once again, further evolution was about to befall the island. A girl that understands the language of the Festum, and a girl protected by a Festum. When the two meet, the doors to a new universe opens.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 40
Genere: Animation, Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: mecha, anime, exciting, tense, captivating, futuristic, disturbing
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Megaton Musashi (2021)
Plot Summary:
In an ordinary town, there are people who live a peaceful and fulfilling life. But they don't know that it is a false peace. The untold truth... The earth has already been destroyed... 99.9% of the human race has been wiped out by a mysterious alien force from outer space. The enemy is named "Dracters." Eventually, a large hole was drilled in the earth and terraformed into a suitable environment for the aliens to live. Humans have no choice but to hide in shelters to escape their eyes. Waiting for the day of resurrection, which they do not know when it will come... The inhabitants of the shelter Ixia have had their memories of the day of destruction erased, and live a normal life without knowing anything about it. However, some of them, the "chosen ones," have become pilots, driving giant robots called "Rogue" and fighting against aliens. Today, another new pilot is selected.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 29
Genere: Animation
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, mecha, tense, captivating
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Gunparade March (2003)
Plot Summary:
During WW2 a strange new alien, the Genjuu (幻獣), appeared who's sole purpose is to kill off Humanity. Whenever they appear the Genjuu give off a strange odor that is acid to a human and killed off a lot of the warriors sent to fight it. Flash foward 50 years. Hayami Atsushi is a pilot of the 5121. The number of adults killed off in the war has forced the government to form the High School Defense force, where children of a certain age and skill are fostered in dorms to fight off the aliens. They use new mecha (HWTs) and special anti alien suits made by the Shibamura group. One day they get a new transfer student. A hot shot mecha pilot who seems to be made out of ice and is a pro at killing the Genjuu. She introduces herself as Shibamura Mai. Who is this Mai? Why did she come to the 5121? Why does she hate the Genjuu so much. Source: Forbin at MIKOMI.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 107
Genere: Animation, Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, tense, captivating, suspense, futuristic
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Schwarzes Marken (2016)
Plot Summary:
Germany was divided into East and West after WWII, where citizens of either treated the other side as enemies. In the midst of Cold War, however, the Earth was invaded by an alien life form landed on Kashgar, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, known as "Beta." Now, ten years after the first contact, East Germany, formally German Democratic Republic, has become the front line.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 183
Genere: Animation, Drama, Sci-Fi, War
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, mecha, exciting, tense, captivating, futuristic, manga
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Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn (2010)
Plot Summary:
The series begins in U.C. 0001, at the very beginning of human space colonization, when a space station called Laplace is destroyed during a ceremony hosted by the Federation's Prime Minister ushering in the Universal Century Calendar. The main story takes place in UC 0096, sixteen years after the end of the One Year War, three years after the events of Mobile Suit Gundam: Char's Counterattack, and 27 years before Mobile Suit Gundam F91. The story revolves around Banagher Links, a seemingly normal boy living and going to school in the space colonies. His life changes one day when he meets a girl named Audrey Burne, as the encounter brings him into contact with a new Gundam and its connections to an item called "Laplace's Box.".
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Animation, Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, War
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, mecha, exciting, captivating, stylized
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Knights of Sidonia: The Movie (2015)
Plot Summary:
The year is 3394. The solar system has been long destroyed by a strange alien race called Gauna. Now humans are barely maintaining population in their seed ships - the ones they also used to escape a thousand years ago. After several years of drifting though space, Sidonia, a seed ship with a population of over 500,000 people, is once again threatened by Gauna. Follow Tanikaze Nagate, a mysterious young man from the deep corners of the ship, and his friends as they try to strike back against these gigantic creatures and at the same time learn what they really are for the sake of humanity's survival. -MAL.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 132
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 134 min
Plot tags: anime, mecha, exciting, tense, captivating, cyberpunk anime
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Levius (2019)
Plot Summary:
With the casualties of war still haunting him, young Levius uses his prosthetic arm to take his fight into the brutal world of Mecha Boxing.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 642
Genere: Animation, Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: anime, mecha, exciting, tense, captivating, seinen
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Sakura Wars: The Animation (2020)
Plot Summary:
In 1930, two years after the events of So Long, My Love, the Great Demon War results in the annihilation of the Imperial, Paris and New York Combat Revues' Flower Divisions. With Earth at peace and the revues' actions becoming public, the World Combat Revue Organization is formed with several international divisions; a biennial international Combat Revue tournament has been organized. Ten years later in 1940, Imperial Japanese Navy captain Kamiyama Seijuurou is assigned as the captain of the new Imperial Combat Revue's Flower Division in Tokyo, which consists of: Amamiya Sakura, a swordswoman and new recruit; Shinonome Hatsuho, a shrine maiden and the most popular actress; Anastasia Palma, a newly-transferred Greek actress; Mochizuki Azami, a ninja prodigy from the Mochizuki clan; and Claris, a Luxembourgian noblewoman. The division once again faces a new demon invasion and participates in the upcoming tournament–while trying to keep their home at the Imperial Theater open.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 74
Genere: Animation, Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, exciting, captivating, mecha, shounen
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Argevollen (2014)
Plot Summary:
The story takes place in a world where two countries, Arandas and Ingelmia, have been warring against each other for a very long time. Tokimune, a young man belonging to Independent Unit 8 of Arandas, saves a girl named Jamie when she is attacked by enemy forces. In order to survive, he pilots the new mech Argevollen and fights. The new mech Argevollen is defined by its U-Link system wherein the Argevollen molds to its pilot's mind and cannot be piloted by anyone else. This customization allows the pilot to envision what the mech will do in his mind to use it, rather than physically move and steer it.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 75
Genere: Animation, Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min
Plot tags: anime, mecha, exciting, tense, captivating, super sentai
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Freezing (2011)
Plot Summary:
Eager to follow in the footsteps of his fallen sister, Kazuya enrolls at West Genetics Academy, a training facility for buxom heroes known as Pandoras. These courageous schoolgirls are genetically-enhanced with enough sex appeal to cripple a man – and the superhuman strength to slaughter aliens by the dozen. Kazuya’s role is that of Limiter, a Pandora’s battle partner, and he quickly sets his sights on the most feared beauty in school, Satellizer el Bridget. This full-figured annihilator of aliens is as desirable as she is deadly, but rubbing her the wrong way could lead to gross bodily harm. Can Kazuya forge a bond with his new partner and rise to the top of the ranks at West Genetics? Or will he fall victim to the mysterious bloodlust lurking within Satellizer?.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Animation, Action, Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, ecchi, exciting, manga, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing
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Planet With (2018)
Plot Summary:
Sōya Kuroi has dreams of people with superpowers fighting a massive dragon in the sky, but his real life is almost as weird. He's had amnesia for about two weeks and been taken in by a maid and an anthropomorphic cat. When a UFO in the shape of a stuffed bear approaches Sorimasaka City and other metros around the world, he's startled to see seven rainbow-sparkling heroes zoom out to confront it – just like in his dream. Even weirder, the maid wants him to leave his shelter to confront these heroes and take the source of their power.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 137
Genere: Animation, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, tense, captivating, mecha
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Buddy Complex (2014)
Plot Summary:
When a giant robot suddenly attacks the city, a high-school student named Aoba is saved by a classmate who's piloting her own mecha. After accepting an offer to join the alliance she's is a part of, Aoba is thrust into the middle of high-flying robot warfare in this new series from the studio that brought you Cowboy Bebop, Outlaw Star, and Escaflowne!.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 149
Genere: Animation, Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, mecha, exciting, captivating, entertaining, semi serious
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Super Robot Wars: Original Generation - Divine Wars (2006)
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Robot bugs suddenly attack Tokyo and robot gamer Ryusei is given a real, mechanical robot trooper to see whether he is a qualified fighter in a war which he has just now become a part of. Amazingly the controls to the personal trooper are just as in the game.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 20
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: mecha, anime, futuristic
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Daimidaler the Sound Robot (2014)
Plot Summary:
In order to stop the mysterious "Penguin Empire" from interfering with world peace, secret organization "Prince Beauty Parlor" has developed a giant robot that is powered by a rare special energy source called "Hi-ERo particles." Organization member Kyōko Sonan has located an ordinary high school student, Kōichi Madanbashi, with high amounts of Hi-ERo particles, making him a suitable candidate to pilot of the giant robot. But there is only one way to release his particles: allow Madanbashi to persuade him with lewd behavior.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 117
Genere: Animation, Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, captivating, entertaining, mecha, ecchi
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Macross Frontier (2008)
Plot Summary:
A human space colony fleet is trying to find a habitable planet near the center of the Milky Way Galaxy. The story focuses on three young adults and the events that occur around them as the fleet faces a crisis of alien origin.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 845
Genere: Animation, Action, Music, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, mecha, exciting, captivating, futuristic, disturbing, adult anime, cyberpunk anime
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Assault Lily: BOUQUET (2020)
Plot Summary:
On Earth in the near future, humanity faced imminent destruction from mysterious giant creatures known as "Huge." The entire world unites against the Huge, and successfully develops weaponry known as "CHARM" (Counter Huge Arms) by combining science and magic. CHARM exhibits high rates of synchronization with teenaged girls, and the girls who use CHARM are viewed as heroes called "Lilies." Throughout the world, "Garden" military academies are established to train Lilies to face the Huge and to serve as bases to protect and guide people. Riri Hitotsuyanagi managed to pass the exam to enter the prestigious Garden known as Yurigaoka Girls' School. She entered in an attempt to find Yuyu Shirai, a girl who rescued her in her past. This is a story about Riri and other girls who aim to become Lilies at one such Garden.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 182
Genere: Animation, Action, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, exciting, tense, captivating, apocalyptic
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86 (2021)
Plot Summary:
Called “Juggernaut,” these are the unmanned combat drones developed by the Republic of San Magnolia in answer to the attacks by the autonomous unmanned drones of the neighboring Empire of Giad, the “Legion”. But they’re only unmanned in name. In reality, they are piloted by the Eighty-sixers—those considered to be less than human and treated as mere tools. Determined to achieve his own mysterious ends, Shin, the captain of Spearhead Squadron, which is comprised of Eighty-sixers, continues to fight a hopeless war on a battlefield where only death awaits him.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Animation, Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, War
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: futuristic, anime, exciting, tense, captivating
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LBX Girls (2021)
Plot Summary:
In an unplanned field trip, Riko is transported to an alternate Japan where metal-based life forms known as Mimesis ravage the world. Only girls equipped with LBX armored weaponry can stand up to this scourge. Joined by four other displaced young women, Riko will have to adapt to save humanity. The hope of a planet now rests on these heavy metal soldiers who desire one wish—to return home again!.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 38
Genere: Animation, Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: mecha, anime, exciting, tense, captivating, futuristic
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Getter Robo Arc (2021)
Plot Summary:
Taking place several years after Getter Robo Go, Earth is now a post-apocalyptic world. Hayato, now an aging scientist, has completed Professor Saotome's masterpiece, Getter Robo Arc. Piloting it are Ryoma's son Takuma, the human-dinosaur Kamui, and the younger brother of Tayel, Baku. Alongside the reformed Dinosaur Empire, they fight the insectoid Andromeda Flow Country attacking from across time and space.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 42
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: mecha, anime, exciting, tense, captivating, suspense, shounen
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revisions (2019)
Plot Summary:
An isolated city. An unknown enemy. An uncertain past and a prophecy of the future. The children fight the "future" to bring back the "present". No matter what, they're going home.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 691
Genere: Animation, Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 36 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, tense, captivating, futuristic, disturbing
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Pilot Candidate (2000)
Plot Summary:
The planet Zion is mankind's last hope for survival. But the legions of Victim are intent on destroying humanity! Five humanoid fighting weapons called Ingrids are capable of stopping the onslaught, but only the best pilots are chosen to become Pilot Candidates. The fate of Zion rests with these chosen few.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 220
Genere: Animation, Action, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, tense, captivating, futuristic, disturbing
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Scarlet Nexus (2021)
Plot Summary:
Saved by the Other Suppression Force as a child, psychokinetic Yuito enlists in this elite team formed to fight Earth’s enemy. Meanwhile, prodigy Kasane was scouted for her abilities. Kasane’s dreams tell her strange things, dragging the two into an unavoidable fate.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 236
Genere: Animation, Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, exciting, tense, captivating, disturbing, dark fantasy
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BBK/BRNK (2016)
Plot Summary:
It’s been ten years since Azuma Kazuki has been in Japan, and upon his arrival he is taken prisoner by a group of armed men. Azuma is saved by his childhood friend, Kogane Asabuki, thanks to a living weapon she wields on her right hand, known as a Bubuki. Learning about these weapons, Azuma becomes a Bubuki wielder himself and sets out on a journey.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 101
Genere: Animation, Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, mecha, exciting, tense, captivating
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Kuromukuro (2016)
Plot Summary:
During the construction of the Kurobe Dam, an ancient artifact was discovered, and so the United Nations Kurobe Research Institute was established. Intellectuals from all over the world gathered to study the object, and the children of those researchers attend Mt. Tate International Senior High School, including the institute head's daughter, Yukina Shirahane. In the summer of 2016, a lone samurai once again awakens.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Animation, Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: mecha, anime, exciting, thought provoking, captivating, suspense, futuristic, manga
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ID-0 (2017)
Plot Summary:
I-Machines are the general term for robots that operate in extreme environments. While Alliance Academy student Maya Mikuri is in the middle of operating an I-Machine, she gets involved in an incident with pirates, and ends up serving as a crew member on an excavation company's spaceship.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 355
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, mecha, exciting, captivating, entertaining, futuristic, disturbing, scenic
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Gen: Lock (2018)
Plot Summary:
Fifty years in the future, an oppressive authoritarian force threatens to conquer the world. A daring team is recruited to pilot a new form of weaponized neuroscience that powers devastating mecha, but they must be willing to sacrifice everything to save the world.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: adult animation, anime, exciting, captivating, entertaining, futuristic, mecha