This is a genre of anime which features mechanical fighting machines. Often these take the form of giant robots but this isn't the only form mecha can take. There are tons of examples of mecha titles considering the popularity of the series. Blue Gender, Shin Seiki Evangelion, Tenkuu no Escaflowne, and Bubblegum Crisis Tokyo 2040 are all classic mecha titles.
Action: Lots of shooting, explosions, and the like. Contains subcategories of more specific types such as Gun-Action, Martial Arts, and Swordplay; see also: Fighting.
| Title | Rating | Synopsis |
|---|---|---|
| A | ||
| Aim for the Top! Gunbuster 2 | See Top wo Nerae! 2 | |
 Armored Trooper Votoms 1: Uoodo City |
Rent | For 100 years the star systems of Gilgamesh and Balarant have been locked in a war whose cause was long ago forgotten. Now, an uneasy truce has settled across the Astragius Galaxy. Chirico Cuvie, a special forces Armored Trooper pilot, is suddenly transferred to a unit engaged in a suspicious mission to steal secrets from what appears to be their own military! Chirico is betrayed and left to die in space, but he survives and becomes a renegade, hunted by the army and by criminals alike. Taking refuge in the poluted hell-hole known as Uoodo City, Chirico is driven by a haunting image of a mysterious and beautiful woman, his sole clue to unravelling a conspiracy so complex that he cannot even guess at its depths. |
| B | ||
| Battle Skipper: The Movie | Watch | See Bishoujo Yuugekitai Battle Skipper |
 Bishoujo Yuugekitai Battle Skipper |
Watch | At the St. Ignacio Catholic Girl's School the daughters of the heads of Japan's super Hi-Tech weapons industry are playing a bizarre game. The spoiled rich girls of the elitist Debutante Club seek nothing less than to employ their "Battle Skipper" combat suits to seize control of the world(!). Fortunately, the handful of valiant and pure-hearted girls of the Etiquette Club have Battle Skippers of their own, and intend to block this evil scheme from being carried out. |
| F | ||
 Full Metal Panic |
Buy |
A hidden military organization named Mithril mobilizes three crack troops (Sousuke, Kurz, & Mao) to secretly protect a young Japanese girl, Chidori Kaname, from being kidnapped. Sousuke Sagara is assigned to be her personal bodyguard and must go undercover as a fellow high school student while not letting her know she's in danger or that he's protecting her. Unfortunately, Sousuke has little experience in understanding life as a normal high school student thus he considers just about any little action or thing around him to be a threat on Kaname. |
| G | ||
 Gun Sword |
Rent | Armed with a metal sash that straightens into a sword, lanky swordsman Van is traveling through the desert, searching for the mysterious clawed man who killed his bride. Along the way he picks up a fellow traveler: Wendy, a young girl whose town he saves from bandits by summoning a mecha with his sword. Wendy is searching for her missing older brother, whose engraved gun she carries on her back. In their mutual quest they run afoul of more bandits and villains, a mysterious woman named Carmen99, and more mecha battles a la Wild West. |
| Gun x Sword | Rent | See Gun Sword |
| Gunbuster | Buy | See Top wo Nerae! |
| Gunbuster 2 | See Top wo Nerae! 2 | |
| Gunbuster: Aim For The Top! | Buy | See Top wo Nerae! |
| GXS | Rent | See Gun Sword |
| K | ||
 Kenran Butoh Sai: The Mars Daybreak |
Rent |
On a Mars covered in ice and oceans, people have learned to survive by building large floating city-ships in which they can live. And by using submarines to travel beneath the ice and harsh winds that rage overhead, humanity has been able to develop a global community. But during a distant galactic war, Earth looked to Mars as important water resource to support their war efforts. Now that the war is over, Earth still values the wealth of resources that Mars provides, and is reluctant to release their firm control over their smaller step-sister. |
 Kido Keisatsu Patoreba |
Buy | In the future, (I guess now the past because it is set in 1998) great advancements are made with the creation of Labors, giant robots designed for construction. With the increased use of Labors, Labors crimes also skyrocketed. To combate this threat, Tokyo formed the Special Vehicals Section 2 and gave them Patrol Labors or Patlabors. |
| Kidou Keisatsu Patlabor (1989) | Rent | See Kidou Keisatsu Patlabor (TV) |
 Kidou Keisatsu Patlabor (TV) |
Rent | Labor: A robot specifically designed for construction work. Labors allow dramatic advances in construction--but also in crime. To combat these new labor crimes, the police created a special unit: The Patrol Labor. And thus, the birth of "Patlabor"! |
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