Giant Mecha Report

Everybody loves giant robots. I'm personally a fan of GaoGaiGar, Voltron, Mobile Suit Gundam, G Gundam, Nadesico's Gekigengar, Super Robot Wars, among others. In mecha anime, the giant robots usually have human pilots and may or may not require certain rare types of people, for a variety of reasons. Usually special talents or physical characteristics. Aside from piloted mecha some are remote-controlled, autonomous or even sentient, then you have the wearable powered-suit types.

In the case of the Gundam series, they're usually mechanical but in the case of Eureka Seven and Evangelion (as general examples) they're some kind of biological-mechanical hybrids.

Normally they're used as military weaponry in the (sometimes not-to-distant) future or alternate realities.

As mentioned before, Super Robot Wars is a great series of RPGs revolving around, what else, giant mecha.

It's a pretty straightforward battle strategy game system and features some characters from the Gundam series in addition to original characters. It's also mixed in with a type of magic system.

And I should mention the mecha from Xenogears here. Especially Weltall and Weltall-Id.

My favorite mecha anime as a kid was Tranzor-Z (Mazinger Z). My first was Voltron. It's what was on TV at the time, around 1985 and 1986.

As for an all-time favorite, that would be hard to choose. Xenogears is my favorite video game of all time so I might have to pick the Xenogears gear from the game. Weltall is cool but pales in comparison to Xenogears.

Without a doubt I like Gundam Wing the best when it comes to mecha anime. All of the main characters' Gundams are cool but Death Scythe is my favorite. The top pick.

Duo Maxwell and Quatre are my favorite characters, aside from the magnificent b****** Zechs.

I remember when Gundam Wing aired on Toonami. It was neat but I had a hard time following the story.

The story can get complicated, Nitro. That's typical of any Gundam series.

It's about more than robots beating the crap out of each other