Mecha anime & manga - Big robots. Other than Gundam.

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Does Bubblegum Crisis count? Rewatched that this week and really enjoyed it. Tokyo 2040 was alright but Crisis really captured that 80s cyberpunk mecha experience for me.
 
I recently just finished Gurren Lagaan and it’s in my top 3 mecha anime of all time. I was hesitant to watch it for the longest time, mainly due to the fans who boast about it being a “masterpiece”, it was the same feeling I had with Godzilla Minus One until I watched it. Especially as a huge Getter Robo fan, I’m glad it didn’t disappoint.

I have yet to watch the movies but I hear they’re just complications of the anime with some slight differences (i know the second one’s final battle is apparently better than the anime, i already thought the final battle was really good there), through not sure about the first movie.
 
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Flabba Wabba Jabba said:
Does Bubblegum Crisis count? Rewatched that this week and really enjoyed it. Tokyo 2040 was alright but Crisis really captured that 80s cyberpunk mecha experience for me.
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BGC is the good shit
and I thought 2040 was actually kinda good, once you got over the NOT MUH hump
Islamic Jihad Rocket said:
I recently just finished Gurren Lagaan and, it’s in my top 3 mecha anime of all time. I was hesitant to watch it for the longest time, mainly due to the fans who boast about it being a “masterpiece”, it was the same feeling I had with Godzilla Minus One until I watched it. Especially as a huge Getter Robo fan, I’m glad it didn’t disappoint.

I have yet to watch the movies but I hear they’re just complications of the anime with some slight differences (i know the second one’s final battle is apparently better than the anime, i already thought the final battle was really good there), through not sure about the first movie.
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I preferred the TV ending, but yeah there's a lot of little odds and ends that are fun enough to make it worth watching, like there's a part where that one guy who's running the ship has to hack into the computers, and they get way more in-depth about the high tech hacking skills
also catch the Parallel Works music videos before you go for the movies, they lift some footage from those too iirc
 
Flabba Wabba Jabba said:
Does Bubblegum Crisis count? Rewatched that this week and really enjoyed it. Tokyo 2040 was alright but Crisis really captured that 80s cyberpunk mecha experience for me.
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Bubblegum Crisis is lght power armor on the smaller end of the sliding scale, so it counts as a mecha property.

Edit: Since no one mentioned them yet, the sequel Bubblegum Crash is meh personify. Being very generous to it to say it maybe worth a watch once but definitely not worth paying for it. The prequel A.D. Police despite being someone's very undisguised fetish for each OVA and largely lacking in the mecha action; is worth a watch for the underlining character stories.
 
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Fatsuit Shinji said:
Bubblegum Crisis is lght power armor on the smaller end of the sliding scale, so it counts as a mecha property.

Edit: Since no one mentioned them yet, the sequel Bubblegum Crash is meh personify. Being very generous to it to say it maybe worth a watch once but definitely not worth paying for it. The prequel A.D. Police despite being someone's very undisguised fetish for each OVA and largely lacking in the mecha action; is worth a watch for the underlining character stories.
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iirc the 2040 spinoffs are mostly cromulent too

and iirc technically MADOX-01 is a very distant prequel to BGC according to production notes
 
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Fatsuit Shinji said:
Bubblegum Crisis is lght power armor on the smaller end of the sliding scale, so it counts as a mecha property.

Edit: Since no one mentioned them yet, the sequel Bubblegum Crash is meh personify. Being very generous to it to say it maybe worth a watch once but definitely not worth paying for it. The prequel A.D. Police despite being someone's very undisguised fetish for each OVA and largely lacking in the mecha action; is worth a watch for the underlining character stories.
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I also thought Crash was very mediocre, apart from the music. I've been planning on watching AD Police soon so thanks for the heads up.
 
Another good Grendizer this week! I really like the redesigns for this show; I like how the Photon Lab has a parking lot/traffic circle and how there are all sorts of cool hallways in it. Koji's phone is one of the few modern minimalistic devices that feels truly futuristic. I can already kinda predict what the endgame/twist will be, but I really like that kind of twist, so it will be super cool even if it's predictable.
 
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