Mecha Anime Recommendations Please?

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Mecha Anime Recommendations Please?

Postby EkaCoralian » Mon Jun 21, 2010 9:01 pm

Hi all, for the past month or so I've been looking for a really good mecha anime: something similar to the genre of Eureka seveN or The Vision of EscaFlowne.
I haven't really found anything on par with those two (save for Gurren Lagann. That was awesome), so I was wondering if any of you had any suggestions. =) If the show contains romance, that's an added bonus!
Also, please, no Gundam recommendations. I'm thinking about looking into 00, but other than that I'm not interested.

I've seen:
-Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann
-Eureka seveN
-The Vision of EscaFlowne
-Macross Frontier (watching)
-Heroman (watching)
-Overman King Gainer (watching)

I'm open to watching any mecha anime old or new, so do any of you have some suggestions?
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Re: Mecha Anime Recommendations Please?

Postby Ishbalan » Tue Jun 22, 2010 12:29 am

Gunbuster
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Re: Mecha Anime Recommendations Please?

Postby Kariudo » Tue Jun 22, 2010 1:00 am

Full Metal Panic! (and FMP Fumoffu if you want comedy, and The Second Raid if you like the first season)
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Re: Mecha Anime Recommendations Please?

Postby mirkosp » Tue Jun 22, 2010 1:39 am

Mazinger Z
Great Mazinger
UFO Robot Grendizer

Aka fuckyeah for Go Nagai's mechas. :nose:
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Re: Mecha Anime Recommendations Please?

Postby Êricō » Tue Jun 22, 2010 2:45 am

Here is a list (I may repeat some):
Soukyuu No Fafner- this series is epic drama-wise but the mecha action is not as great as others.
Heroic Age- same as Fafner but a bit better fighting.
Sousei No Aquarion- a fairly classical style based anime similar to Voltron but more modern.
Voltron (in general)- oldie but a goodie.
Code Geass- not particularly centred around mecha but good series and great mecha fights.
Macross Zero- If you like Frontier, then you are going to like Zero which is a small OVA set way before Frontier.
Genocyber- technically not a mech but it still is labelled under that genre. Good series if you are looking for insane amounts of gore.
RahXephon- again not technically a mech but is still categorised as one. This is similar to Evangelion.
Evangelion- really psychological based story and hard to understand but I would recommend it to anyone.
Gasaraki- a great mecha if you are in to the most realistic depiction of mecha. Everything is really precise and great animation.
Gundam (in general)- never seen all of them but I would recommend Gundam Wing from the franchise. Gundam the 08th MS team is a realistic depiction of Gundam.
Asura Cryin'- interesting anime and high quality animation. This is a refreshing type of mecha anime.
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Re: Mecha Anime Recommendations Please?

Postby Flame-X » Tue Jun 22, 2010 12:14 pm

Macross: Do You Remember Love?
After War Gundam X
Mobile Suit Gundam 00
Metal Armor Dragonar
GaoGaiGar
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Re: Mecha Anime Recommendations Please?

Postby EkaCoralian » Fri Jun 25, 2010 6:40 pm

Thanks for all of the suggestions! (though I would've appreciated no Gundam ones, as explained in the first post. ^^;; )
I've started watching Gunbuster and I'll probably start on GaoGaiGar soon.

(Gunbuster is p. amazing so far. :ying: )
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Re: Mecha Anime Recommendations Please?

Postby kireblue » Fri Jun 25, 2010 10:54 pm

Code Geass is the only mecca series that I've really liked.......And it actually became my absolute favorite anime series.
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Re: Mecha Anime Recommendations Please?

Postby Knowname » Sat Jun 26, 2010 5:00 pm

Hulu.com has Gadgard (I think) I suggest you check that one out.
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Re: Mecha Anime Recommendations Please?

Postby EkaCoralian » Sat Jun 26, 2010 11:57 pm

Well unless I can find Gadgard somewhere else, I am unable to watch it. =[ Hulu has something against Canadian viewers, so we're not permitted to view their stuff. *shrugs*
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Re: Mecha Anime Recommendations Please?

Postby Knowname » Mon Jun 28, 2010 1:05 pm

oh google it lol I think any proxy program will work, but I forget which ones are suggested. It may be extra work but for free anime I don't know why you wouldn't lol. All the program does is confuses the location finder thing.
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Re: Mecha Anime Recommendations Please?

Postby Knowname » Mon Jun 28, 2010 1:11 pm

you may have to set your browser's tools to work with it, that's the only tricky part. And I'm sure you can't do this at a library/ school w/e. But yeah, not just for gadgard (I seem to recall it as just another Madhouse anime) but for all the rest they've got too! I myself am amazed! You kids nowadays got it SO easy! We didn't have ANY free anime when I was a wee one xD.
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Re: Mecha Anime Recommendations Please?

Postby Uncandescent » Sun Aug 15, 2010 3:49 pm

Did you like Evangelion, but didn't think it was angsty and depressing enough? Well then, you might be interested in Bokurano! Without giving out spoilers, let me just say that a lot of people die in this. And none of them deserve it.
It doesn't help that the resident mech is about ten times the size of your average skyscraper, meaning that every time it takes a step it runs the risk of killing 20 people. But it is a very good show, and it sure makes a hell of a lot more sense than Evangelion.
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Re: Mecha Anime Recommendations Please?

Postby Flame-X » Sun Aug 15, 2010 4:13 pm

Uncandescent wrote:Did you like Evangelion, but didn't think it was angsty and depressing enough? Well then, you might be interested in Bokurano! Without giving out spoilers, let me just say that a lot of people die in this. And none of them deserve it.
It doesn't help that the resident mech is about ten times the size of your average skyscraper, meaning that every time it takes a step it runs the risk of killing 20 people. But it is a very good show, and it sure makes a hell of a lot more sense than Evangelion.


Oh really? You should check out Space Runaway Ideon which is Eva's inspiration. This show literally kills off every single character. No joke. Check out this clip here. Beware, some are pretty gruesome.
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Re: Mecha Anime Recommendations Please?

Postby MortalGathum » Mon Aug 16, 2010 4:24 am

Be sure to checkout Zone of the Enders: Dolores,i
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