Questions tagged [mecha]
For use when referring to works in the (typically) Japanese sci-fi genre featuring robots or machines controlled by humans.
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What are the in-universe reasons to use Battlemechs over conventional armor?
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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Cartoon about robots that are controlled by humans
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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Anime with a girl stuck on top of a huge mech that was walking towards a city; she had to disable (or enable) a bomb by remembering a phrase
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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pre 2000 space mecha anime/cartoon very similar to gundam shows
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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Anime where half American half Japanese guy comes to Japan to fight
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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Manga where a girl reincarnates into a super tech world and she pretends to be a boy to inherit her new dad's things
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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Retro mecha-esque anime where a girl visits a garage, and exits it in a red mech/vehicle hybrid
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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What are the logistics behind sending Jaegers into battle?
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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Manga about miniature people piloting cloned women
There’s a really disturbing manga that I remember reading, but for the love of all things, I can’t remember the title. However, I remember the story.
It’s about people that pilot these things that ...
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Mid-90s mecha action anime with wearable sentient robot suits
I was recently reminded of an anime I saw between 2000 and 2002 on VHS. The actual production date was probably from late 1980s, a la Bubblegum Crisis (but not actually, I checked), to the mid 1990s. ...
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Name of Mecha Anime from the 70s/80s Based on One Episode
I have searched over and over trying to find this, so now finally posting the question to see if anyone else has a clue about this. My details are vague, but here goes. I remember watching a cartoon ...
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Windows PC Game with pseudo-3D action in a maze with two mechs trying to kill each other
I played this somewhere in the early 90s, I think, downloaded off of a Bulletin Board System and played via a direct connection over the phone lines the twice I actually got to play. It might have ...
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Sci-fi Anime episode search: kid turns into weapon
In the '90s, saw an episode of an anime (Robotech???) where the team encounter a young male child who can turn into an adult-sized cyborg-like destructive weapon (with great anime hair?). The female ...
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1990-2000s mecha anime series or movie, white mecha, wings, and pilot sacrifice
Looking for a mecha anime, either a series or movie between 1990 and early 2000s.
All I remember is the mecha being white and wielding a sword. I don’t recall if the pilot had angel type wings or the ...
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Mech fighting anime where the good guys deliberately lose
I watched this a few years ago. The storyline followed a young man who had a mech (built it himself?) and joined in an arena fight, where there were two sides: One side were the rulers of the city/...
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Looking for an obscure mecha manga from the 90s or earlier [duplicate]
So I have a real challenge for the mecha manga/anime buffs around here. Here goes:
Way back in the mid 1990s, I borrowed a VHS tape from a schoolmate that was some kind of mecha anime. The only ...
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Anime/cartoon where the main cast uses 2 golden coins to summon a mech from the sky
I remember watching it on tv the 2 protagonists went to an arcade and they insert the coins into an arcade machine and this would activate the mech. They also changed the cast 3 times so I think the ...
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Mecha Anime from the 80s or 90s where the main character is a cop or detective
I am looking for the old Mecha anime from the 80s or maybe 90s. I vaguely remember the main character is a cop or detective some sort. The opening he was chasing some guys and some how he got suck ...
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Classic sci-fi anime, where mechs are launched by space shuttle like booster system to hotspots on earth
I am looking to find the name of a series for which I had seen a few episodes quite a while back - say about 15 or so years back - on either Animax India or AXN (AXN India used to show some anime ...
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Looking for an older maybe 20 year old Mech Anime
So I'm not a big time anime fan but I'll watch it occasionally but I remember trying to watch this one anime about 20 years ago when I was a kid.
I thought it was Neon Genesis Evangelion but I'm ...
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Mecha anime where the hero gets two robot suits
What is the name of the mecha anime where the hero uses one mobile suit but when the battle gets tough he calls for another suit that comes from somewhere and takes him in?
I saw it on Cartoon ...
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Are the AT-AT's from “Empire Strikes Back” a deliberate reference to Mecha?
I was recently reading the entry on The Empire Strikes Back on the website for the Encyclopaedia of Science Fiction and was intrigued by this reference to "mecha" (emphasis mine):
A first viewing ...
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Mech book where a dying super soldier transforms into a Japanese girl
Looking for name of a book I read on my Kindle a few years ago. It was about a retired or dying super soldier traveling to a planet. He gets attacked on a ship and when about to die a dormant program ...
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Which was the first story to feature a human manned mecha “robot”?
In the Pacific Rim live action movies (2013 - 2018) they feature human manned mecha "robots". Before this, there were many others live actions / animated series featuring this, Evangelion (1995) , ...
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80s mecha anime about a boy and a girl with bunny ears
A boy gets a gun and a disc with a star on it from an old man. He shoots it into the ground, the disc makes a circle, and a robot emerges from the ground. The boy is inside a robot and controls it by ...
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Anime short about two girls shooting each other with guns from their mouths
I saw an anime short some years ago on YouTube. I can't find it anywhere. The things that I remember are:
The "protagonist" is a girl with brown hair tied up and yellow clothes. She is a robot that ...
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80s Mecha anime/cartoon about a giant spaceship that could transform into a humanoid robot form
Need help finding the title of anime or cartoon movie or series, from the late 80s or early 90s.
All I remember is that it was about a giant spaceship that could transform into a humanoid robot form.
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Name of a Mecha (horror?) anime movie. I know it is older and my parents had gotten it for me on dvd from best buy maybe 10-14 years ago
I have been recently trying to remember the name of an anime movie that I have hazy memories about. I think I remember it being mecha where humans in what I think is a military unit are fighting these ...
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What benefits do Evangelions possess over normal “conventional” mechs?
Evangelion Units are pretty impressive in what they are capable of, and can be a game changer in the world of Angels trying to end the world one attack after the other, but they are greatly flawed. ...
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Anime/cartoon with kids battling with robots in a game
So I watched this as a kid, best guess was around the early 2000’s. It was dubbed in Cantonese so the actual show might be older.
The show follows a couple of kids and some professor type character. ...
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Mecha anime where 2 girls fight with mechas
Looking for a mecha anime I saw on a YouTube ad; it's was about 15 mins long and started out showing a girl being choked by a girl with white hair and yellow eyes. The girl being choked had blue hair ...
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Cartoon about a boy and a girl with mech suits that could merge
I don't know exactly when it came out but it had the drawing style of a 90s cartoon.
There are 2 main characters with mechs, 1 male and 1 female. They both have suits and the 2 suits can merge into ...
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Anime about a boy and 2 girls and they had to find these mechas
I was trying to find this old anime I used to watch, it was about a boy and 2 girls (1 with red hair and I remember the other one had blue hair) and they had to find these mechas.
I remember there ...
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Cartoon from the 80's or early 90's with 3 robot suits
This was a cartoon TV show from the 80's or early 90's.
There were 3 different sets of robotic suits one small, one medium and a large one. The small one would go inside the medium one, and then the ...
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Anime: Girl travels to a foreign country with an ongoing alien invasion
I'm looking for this anime where this girl went to a foreign country but there was an alien invasion. I think the anime focuses on the mecha side of the genre. Does anyone know about this anime?
I ...
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Cartoon/anime about people transforming into giant white robots to fight aliens
Can anyone name this cartoon movie, which may even have been an anime? I saw it in the 80s or 90s.
Members of a family are able to turn into giant white mecha-looking robots to fight aliens that come ...
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a feature length animated movie (before 1990s) in which people leave the earth
I'm looking for an animated feature length movie, possibly 2nd or 3rd movie in a series where people of the earth leave the earth on a big spaceship due to possibly pollution and the protagonist ...
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1980s mecha anime. Main character has a suit comprised of three smaller robots
It was an anime where the lead character has a mecha suit that's composed of 3 robots, one bigger than the previous, the smaller one fits into the medium one and this fits into the bigger one. I think ...
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A 90s anime/cartoons/ with a main character who has a red mecha suit with a weapon like a spear!
I am searching for an animation with 2 partners. They travel around the world, and they have robots suits. I remember the suits have some neuronal connections with the pilots. The main character has a ...
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Looking for a mecha anime where a boy is crushed by a robot, but brought back to life?
Trying to recall the title of this series, but I have had no luck doing so thus far. In the first episode, the protagonist is killed by a giant mecha landing on him, but it's pilot somehow brings him ...
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Anime series with the underdogs in school being selected to use a new type of mecha
I'm looking for a anime series.
There are four students, and they are the underdog group in their school. They get selected to fight in a new type of mecha robot. They are taken from place to place ...
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Name of anime where kids train to be goddess pilots
Eventually one does and syncs with it and gets a partner that acts as an engineer for the suit and then he and his team of goddesses go up in space and fight monsters that regularly attack Earth. The ...
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Book where a male super soldier changes into a teenage female
I am looking for the name of a book I read, but I forgot the name of it. A retired, deactivated, dying super soldier is attacked in a space ship at the start of the book and he goes into a trance and ...
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Anime movie played on Adult Swim, guy gets enrolled in a mech program to fight against blue crystals
A few years ago I saw an anime movie on Adult Swim.
This movie began with a guy walking into an empty city with a photo of a girl with an arrow pointing towards her boobs. Later in the movie he gets ...
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2000s (or earlier) anime movie with a mech powered by holy men, and a bad guy killing his family while pretending to be an idiot [duplicate]
I watched this on the Sci Fi Channel - SYFY UK about 15 years ago. It ended with a giant mech battle. The bad guys' mech was powered by holy men (that chanted to keep it working). The good guys' mech ...
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Early 90s mecha anime where the mecha was like Voltron in that each pilot controlled a portion of the mecha that would merge into a bigger mecha
I'm trying to find an anime movie I watched when I was younger; I believe I first watched it in 90/91. The story revolved around the recruitment and training of a group that would pilot a mecha that ...
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Looking for a science fiction omnibus where one of the stories had mock combat games for political purposes
I read this story over twelve years ago. It was published with a lot of other stories (by the same author IIRC). The main story that I remember had to do with some kind of war games using pilots and ...
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Anime with boy who can see fighting mecha robots in parallel world
I think this anime aired on the Catalan public TV some years ago, maybe around 2005.
I only remember watching the first episode, but probably it was a TV series. Or maybe it was just an one-shot with ...
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How tall would a Warhammer 40k Wraithknight be if it were real?
I have used Google quite a bit to try and find this answer. I've tried to scale the 9" model metric with some sort of consistency, but to no avail.
Does anyone have any idea how big these bad boys ...
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Why doesn't Voltron just stay Voltron?
What's the point of the 5 lions? It seems like their enemies can never be fully defeated without them forming Voltron, so why bother fighting individually? Why not just start and end each fight as ...
