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Plot Summary:
Video Warrior Laserion is a Japanese anime series aired in 1984 to 1985. It was the first Japanese anime series to feature the idea of virtual reality. It is also referred to as Rezarion, Laserion, Video Senshi Laserion. It was broadcast in Latin America as El Super Laser.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 105
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, mecha
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Macross 7 (1994)
Plot Summary:
Macross 7 is an anime television series. It is a sequel to the show The Super Dimension Fortress Macross that takes place many years after the events of the first series following a cast of mostly new characters. The show ran from October 16, 1994 to September 24, 1995 at 11:00 AM, and 49 episodes were aired. Although it has been distributed in the other parts of the world, at present has not been licensed in North America. Macross 7 is best known for its music, and since the show began airing over a dozen albums have been released by the fictional band Fire Bomber that stars in the show. Macross 7 exists in the official Studio Nue chronology and canon, with story concept by Shoji Kawamori, who also handled mechanical designs along with Kazutaka Miyatake. A theatrical episode, Macross 7: Ginga ga Ore wo Yondeiru!, was released in 1995. Several OVAs were also released, including Macross 7: Encore and later, Macross Dynamite 7.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 391
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: anime, mecha, cyberpunk anime
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Gigantor (1964)
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Gigantor is an American adaptation of the anime version of Tetsujin 28-go, a manga by Mitsuteru Yokoyama released in 1956. It debuted on U.S. television in 1964. As with Speed Racer, the characters' original names were altered and the original series' violence was toned down for American viewers. The series "was resurrected, in color, as The New Adventures of Gigantor, by the Sci Fi Channel in 1993.".
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 244
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: anime
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Flag (2006)
Plot Summary:
Saeko Shirasu is a 25-year-old war front-line photo-journalist who became a celebrity after taking a picture of civilians raising a makeshift UN flag in war-torn Uddiyana. The image then became an instant symbol for peace. However, just before the peace agreement is achieved, the flag was stolen by an armed extremist group in order to obstruct the truce. The UN peacekeepers decide to covertly send in a SDC (pronounced as "Seedac"—Special Development Command) unit to retrieve the flag. Because of her connection with the "Flag" photo, Saeko Shirasu was offered the job of following the SDC unit as a front line journalist. Among the SDC unit's equipment is the HAVWC (High Agility Versatile Weapon Carrier—pronounced "havoc") mecha armored vehicle.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 139
Genere: Animation, Action, Sci-Fi, War
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, mecha, seinen
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Mech Cadets (2023)
Plot Summary:
An underdog teen joins a group of young Cadets who've been chosen to bond with Robo Mechs from space and defend Earth against alien invaders.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 637
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: mecha, anime, futuristic, 3d animation, computer animated
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Robotics;Notes (2012)
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In 2019, Kaito Yashio and Akiho Senomiya are the sole members of the Robotics Club at Central Tanegashima High School in Kyushu, Japan. Kaito is a laid back student and a skilled gamer who is just trying to help Akiho, his childhood friend. She is an energetic positive-thinking girl who yearns to complete the ongoing project of the club: building a functional replica of Gunvarrel, the main robot of a once popular TV series. As they gather new members and try to assemble the robot, Kaito starts stumbling upon secret reports that might reveal a conspiracy of large proportions. Unaware of what he is actually dealing with, Kaito little by little starts discovering clues laid by the mysterious Ko Kimijima.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 410
Genere: Animation, Action, Comedy, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: anime, captivating, entertaining, disturbing, semi serious, mecha
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Mazinger Z (1972)
Plot Summary:
Mazinger Z, known briefly as Tranzor Z in the United States, is a Japanese super robot manga series written and illustrated by Go Nagai. The first manga version was serialized in Shueisha's Weekly Shōnen Jump from October 1972 to August 1973, and it later continued in Kodansha TV Magazine from October 1973 to September 1974. It was adapted into an anime television series which aired on Fuji TV from December 1972 to September 1974. A second manga series was released alongside the TV show, this one drawn by Gosaku Ota, which started and ended almost at the same time of the TV show. Mazinger Z has spawned several sequels and spinoff series, among them UFO Robot Grendizer and Mazinkaiser. It was a very popular cartoon in Mexico during the 1980s, where it was dubbed into Spanish directly from the Japanese version, keeping the Japanese character names and broadcasting all 92 episodes, unlike the version aired in the U.S.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Animation, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: anime, mecha, shounen
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Mobile Suit Gundam AGE (2011)
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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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Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch from Mercury (2022)
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A.S. (Ad Stella) 122― An era when a multitude of corporations have entered space and built a huge economic system. A lone girl from the remote planet Mercury transfers to the Asticassia School of Technology, run by the Beneritt Group which dominates the mobile suit industry. Her name is Suletta Mercury. With a scarlet light burning in her pure heart, this girl walks step by step through a new world.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Animation, Action, Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 22 min
Plot tags: anime, mecha, yuri, 2d animation
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Gundam Build Divers (2018)
Plot Summary:
The Gunpla Force Battle Tournament is a big event held in GBN once per year. Competing in the final round are Avalon, led by the champion Kyoya Kujo, and the elite 7th Panzer Division led by the cunning Rommel. Starting with Kyoya's Gundam AGE II Magnum, a variety of Gunpla take to the field to determine which is the strongest force!.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 117
Genere: Animation, Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi, Sport
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, mecha, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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Zegapain (2006)
Plot Summary:
Animation studio Sunrise has announced at AnimeJapan 2016 that its 2006 mecha anime series Zegapain will be re-edited into a movie titled Zegapain ADP. The movie will also include new scenes not present in the TV anime.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 131
Genere: Animation, Action, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, mecha
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Gundam Build Fighters (2013)
Plot Summary:
Sei Iori is a Gunpla builder whose family runs a hobby shop in a small town. He aspires to be a Gunpla Battle champion like his father, but despite his exceptional building skills, he lacks the combat abilities to compete with other contestants. Then one day, he meets a mysterious boy named Reiji, who helps him improve his confidence in participating in Gunpla Battles. Together, Sei and Reiji battle their way to the 7th Gunpla Battle World Tournament.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 308
Genere: Animation, Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi, Sport
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: mecha, anime, exciting, captivating, entertaining, futuristic, 2d animation
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Parallel Dual! Trouble Adventure (1999)
Plot Summary:
Dual! Parallel Trouble Adventure is a fourteen episode series created in 1999 by Masaki Kajishima and produced by AIC, both well known for the Tenchi Muyo! franchise. It is licensed in the US by Pioneer LDC, later known as Geneon. In addition to the original run, an OVA special was added to conclude the series as a de facto "14th episode".
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 163
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: anime, mecha
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Mazinkaiser SKL (2010)
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Mazinkaizer SKL (マジンカイザースカル Majinkaizā Sukaru?) is a Japanese OVA spinoff of Go Nagai's Mazinkaiser, which was in itself a spinoff of Mazinger Z. The first episode was released on November 27, 2010 and was first screened on November 27, 2010. It also has a novel adaptation serialized in ASCII Media Works' Dengeki Hobby Magazine and a manga adaptation published in the mobile phone magazine Shu 2 Comic Gekkin. Like Shin Mazinger Shougeki! Z Hen, characters and references to other works of Go Nagai appear in this series.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 127
Genere: Animation, Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 27 min
Plot tags: anime, mecha
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Giant Robo: The Day the Earth Stood Still (1992)
Plot Summary:
An adolescent with the ability to control a looming war-golem becomes entangled in the Experts of Justice's fight against the infamous group Big Fire.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 481
Genere: Animation, Action, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: anime, mecha, futuristic
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Daigunder (2002)
Plot Summary:
Akira Akebono, a young boy who is competing in a robot tournament where many of the robots are capable of transforming into animal forms. Akira wants to win the ultimate prize, the Titan Belt, with the help of his group of robots, all of which are capable of forming into the robot Daigunder. Daigunder is the creation of Akira's father, Professor Hajime Akebono. Together with a girl named Haruka, they compete under the name of Team Akira. However, Team Akira faces opposition from not only their competition, but a robot named Ginzan who is under the control of the evil Professor Maelstrom. Created by Aeon and Takara and animated by Animation Studio Brain's Base, the series aired in TV Tokyo from April 2002 to December 2002.
IMDB Rating: 8.4
IMDB Votes: 109
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: anime, mecha
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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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Voltes V (1977)
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Chōdenji Machine Voltes V (超電磁マシーン ボルテスＶ Chōdenji Mashīn Borutesu Faibu?, Super Electromagnetic Machine Voltes Five) more popularly known as Voltes V, is a Japanese anime television series that was first aired on TV Asahi starting June 4, 1977. It was created by Saburo Yatsude (a pseudonym referring to a committee within Toei Company) and directed by Tadao Nagahama. Voltes V is the second part of the Robot Romance Trilogy of the Super Robot genre which includes Chōdenji Robo Combattler V and Tōshō Daimos. Like Combattler V, the series was animated by Sunrise and produced by Toei Company. The series was animated by Sunrise on Toei's behalf. This super robot along with the other two aforementioned super robots first appeared the USA as a part of Mattel's Shogun Warriors line of import toys, released in the late 1970s.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 263
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, mecha
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Buddy Complex (2014)
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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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Muv-Luv Alternative (2021)
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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Getter Robo Arc (2021)
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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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Synduality: Noir (2023)
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The year is 2242. Kanata wants to be a Drifter and meets Noir, who is a dud Magus with no memories. However, because Noir excels in battle against the Enders, Kanata partners with her and discovers exactly what it takes to be a Drifter.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 156
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: mecha, anime, futuristic
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After War Gundam X (1996)
Plot Summary:
Taking place 15 years after the 7th Space War, the surviving 98 million residents of Earth try to make a living as best they can in the post apocalyptic landscape. Mobile Suits and weapons left over from the war fall into the hands of civilians as well as other organizations on the planet. In an effort to keep the past from repeating itself, Jamil Neate brings together a crew of Vultures to search for Newtypes and protect them from being exploited. As they try to carry out this task, an old government rises from the ashes to try and unify the Earth as other forces slowly fan the flames of war once more between the newly formed New United Nations Earth and the Space Revolutionary Army. Now the crew of the Freeden face a multitude of enemies as they try to prevent another catastrophic war.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 317
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: anime, mecha, apocalyptic
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Gundam Reconguista in G (2014)
Plot Summary:
The Universal Century, a history marked by space colonization and space warfare, has passed. Humanity's prosperity, which ushered in a new era known as Regild Century (R.C.), was believed to endure alongside the global peace. Beruri Zenamu a pilot in training of the of the Capitol Guard is somehow chosen by the G-Serufu - a highly maneuverable Mobile Suit of unknown origin - to lead to uncover hidden truths that will shake the peace of the Regild Century era.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 165
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 650 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, captivating, futuristic, disturbing, mecha
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UFO Robot Goldorak (1975)
Plot Summary:
Golodorak The Movie.
IMDB Rating: 8.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 26 min
Plot tags: anime, mecha, grindhouse, exciting, serious, futuristic, stylized
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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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Gunbuster (1988)
Plot Summary:
In the very near future, a race of huge, insectoid aliens are discovered traveling the galaxy. These aliens, which are known as the Uchuu Kaijuu, or Space Monsters, seem dedicated to the eradication of the human species as the latter takes its first steps away from the solar system, and they are getting closer and closer to Earth. Humanity has responded by developing space-going battleships and giant fighting robots. These complex robots—RX-7 Machine Weapons—are actually an advanced type of fighting suit, piloted by a single occupant. As advanced as they are, however, they are being used as trainers for a new weapon, the Gunbuster. However, being relatively new technology, they are difficult to operate (stock shots show pilots working multiple controls with hands and feet, while fingers rapidly operate switches on the hand grips), so pilot candidates are selected from the best and brightest youth on Earth and the Lunar colony. These are trained at schools around the world.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Animation, Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: anime, mecha, exciting, serious, futuristic, stylized, spoof, parody, vintage
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Robotech (1985)
Plot Summary:
In the year 1999, an alien battle fortress crash lands on an island in the South Pacific. Over the next ten years, mankind repairs and refits this fortress, using the advanced "robotechnology" found aboard her to create fighter planes that can transform into giant robots. As soon as the repaired fortress is ready for launch, the aliens to whom she belongs finally discover its location. Thus begins a series of wars that will devastate the planet Earth. This television series was created by Carl Macek from three Japanese television series, Super Dimensional Fortress Macross, Super Dimensional Cavalry Southern Cross and Genesis Climber Mospeada.
IMDB Rating: 8.5
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: anime, mecha, adult animation, adult anime, exciting, suspenseful, stylized, semi serious, vintage, cyberpunk anime
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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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Mobile Suit Gundam (1979)
Plot Summary:
Mobile Suit Gundam is a televised anime series, produced by Sunrise. Created and directed by Yoshiyuki Tomino, it premiered in Japan on Nagoya Broadcasting Network on April 7, 1979, and lasted until January 26, 1980, spanning 43 episodes. It was the very first Gundam series, which has subsequently been adapted into numerous sequels and spin-offs. In 1981, the series was re-edited for theatrical release and split into three movies. The characters were designed by Yoshikazu Yasuhiko, and Kunio Okawara was responsible for the mechanical designs, including the eponymous giant robot, the RX-78-2 Gundam. The first movie was released on February 22, 1981.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, War
Country: Japan
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: anime, mecha, exciting, serious, suspenseful, adult anime, bleak, stylized, futuristic, cyberpunk anime