Love Snake Kaja
So what are some mecha shows I absolutely should watch?
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Like, classical, new (not that there are many of those), etc.
Love Snake Kaja
Comics too
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if you can tolerate really old animation, mobile suit gundam
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the OG
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Evangelion, Gurren Lagann, Gunbuster/Diebuster
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There are actually a lot of new mecha anime! The genre has been in a creative renaissance since about 2018. You can check out:
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probably give Macross a pass, it's very music-centric
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New Getter Robo is the best combination of good and accessible in the Getter Robo franchise and is also gonna be in Q
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Mazinger Edition Z / Shin Mazinger is an absolutely bonkers reboot of the original classic, consider skipping episode 1 because it's a bizarre pre-recap of the entire series
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Code Geass
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-Planet With: A series from the perspective of the mysterious masked rival working for the alien invaders, who kind of doesn't want to be there and has no idea what his bosses' game is. Can't spoil much else because the status quo changes a lot. 1 cour, Crunchyroll.
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-SSSS.Gridman: A kid connects to a digital warrior to protect the city from reality-warping kaijuu; the main draw is actually the depression metaphor and canon f/f. Connected to a 90s tokusatsu franchise and filled with homages but stands on its own. 1 cour plus sequel, Crunchyroll/Funimation/physical.
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-GRANBELM: Mecha and battle royale with magical girl elements; a girl with no dream or place in life falls into a secret tournament to control the magic sealed away 1000 years ago. Source of my poor little meow meow who did everything wrong. 1 cour, Crunchyroll/physical.
lily!
To quibble a little bit, SSSS.Gridman isn't actually a mecha show and is more in the realm of tokusatsu, but it has a lot of trappings of the genre.
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it is still very very good and you should watch it tho
Ramases II
"Giant guy fights things" toku and "super robot fights things" anime are very close on the genre spectrun
Be Maki-Mine🎆
+1 SSSS.Gridman
Snake-Kun
SSSS.Gridman is mecha enough in my book and also really good
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Most of the ones I can think of have already been covered, but for the various Gundam AUs, Gundam Wing is delightfully deranged and Gundam 00 is VERY pretty
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The people and the robots
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And Crossbone Gundam is a manga about gundam space pirates that kind of extremely rules
DoveEaterXC
it's universal century AND has characters from a previous work - and is still totally fine to go in blind imo
DoveEaterXC
the protagonist knows about as much as you will and probably cares even less
Snake-Kun
It's LOOSELY a sequel to Gundam F91 which is like
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a mediocre movie
owl time
Planet With is definitely in the wheelhouse of Kaja and weird high concept stuff
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Also since I know you like Weird Shit
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Iczer-One, it's very 80s and is about all these lesbians with very 80s haircuts and also the cthuluwolf which are some real grody ass cybermonsters
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and then I convince you to play nagisa to my iczer-one and somehow make it work in srwq 
Love Snake Kaja
Sadly I swore off playing canon characters. Too stressful for me.
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I'm waaay more confident playing OCs
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Oh! You gotta watch Eva
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Eva's both a classic and also real fucked up
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I know you like some body horror
Love Snake Kaja
So, some of those I've seen, Eva is one, but yeah it's pretty good.
DoveEaterXC
makes sense even if I'm the opposite for like the same reason
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Evangelion, Iczer-One, Getter Robo Armageddon are all real good for that albeit Armageddon doesn't know what autism is
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Big O! I know you like a cerebral experience about identity
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Dorothy seems like a character you'd like a lot
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Star Driver, even if it does have a lot of singing in the plot, I think the themes and visuals are strong enough to stand on their own
DoveEaterXC
big o is good
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Star Driver - Dazzeling the stage! HD
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Look at this!!
Princess Emily
Big O seems like something you'd be into yeah
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I enjoy this quote "Hirano's ICZER so emphasizes non-stop kinetic action that the storyline is barely comprehensible on a logical level."