The Mobile Suit Gundam franchise is the premiere mecha anime brand, with the property introducing several iconic giant robots over the years. These include the RX-78-2, the Zaku II, the Wing Gundam ...

Mecha shows like "Neon Genesis Evangelion" and "Mobile Suit Gundam" have helped popularize the present robot games. Fighting your opponents with your laser or gun-equipped robot is a common scenario ...

Mecha is one of anime’s most misunderstood genres, mostly because the metal is marketed more than the message. The flashiest posters and toy-friendly silhouettes make it easy to assume these stories ...

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One of my formative experiences with anime (and television as a whole) occurred while watching “Mobile Suit Gundam 00.” It’s a show containing many themes: energy crises, religious and ethnic ...

Super Robot Wars Y is for mecha anime sickos. The tactical RPG franchise Super Robot Wars is back with Super Robot Wars Y, once again offering mecha anime fans a mish-mash of various characters from ...

There’s an argument that Evangelion isn’t really a mecha series, as the machines the characters pilot are not technically fully mechanical. The show is also more concerned with how piloting the Evas ...

Engineers in Japan have been hard at work building a gigantic, 60-foot humanoid robot modeled after those in the “Gundam” sci-fi franchise. And while construction of the robot has slowed due to the ...

Hold fire on those Christmas lists. Japanese artist Kogoro Kurata has unveiled a 13 ft (4 meter) tall, 9900 lb (4500 kg) prototype mecha robot called Kuratas, which comes complete with "weapon systems ...

We may earn a commission from links on this page. The heat was unbearable. A group of kids scurried to find shade, but they did't find it under trees. A 59-foot robot statue towered over the people ...

A Moldovan-American master designer and a Korean robotics company have teamed up to build a giant, 13-foot tall walking mech suit robot that looks like it's just lumbered off the set of Avatar. With ...