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Studio: Sunrise
Status: Finished

A century of bloodshed between warring star systems has plunged nearly 200 worlds into the flames of war. Now, an uneasy truce has settled across the Astragius Galaxy...

Chirico Cuvie, a special forces powered-armor pilot is suddenly transferred into a unit engaged in a secret and highly illegal mission to steal military secrets - from their own military! Now he's on the run...from his own army!

Unsure of his loyalties and to cover their own tracks, Chirico is left behind to die in space. Surviving by luck, the renegade is now hunted by both the conspirators and military intelligence.

He is driven by the haunting image of a mysterious and beautiful woman - the objective of their mission, and his sole clue to unraveling their treacherous scheme. But the conspirators will do anything to preserve their mysterious agenda...

Tags: Military , War , Space , Real Robot , Dystopian , Anti-Hero , Philosophy , Revenge , Space Opera , Guns , Noir , Cyberpunk , Gods , Torture

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Kidou Senshi Gundam

Also known as Mobile Suit Gundam.

Studio: Sunrise , Bandai Entertainment
Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Mecha , Sci-Fi

What would you do if you suddenly found yourself in the middle of a war? Teenager Amuro Ray sees his life shattered when war comes to his home. During the chaos, Amuro finds himself inside the mobile suit Gundam, the Earth Federation's new secret weapon, and he somehow gets it to work. Amuro and the other refugees flee their homeland on the warship White Base. This group of children and inexperienced soldiers will change the outcome of the war.

Tags: War , Military , Real Robot , Space , Space Opera , Politics , Conspiracy , Tragedy , Primarily Teen Cast , Travel , Foreign , Coming of Age , Male Protagonist , Ensemble Cast , Revenge , Super Power , Guns , Anti-Hero , Love Triangle , Desert , Environmental , Time Manipulation

Where to watch?

Netflix

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Kidou Senshi Zeta Gundam

Also known as Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam.

Studio: Sunrise , Bandai Entertainment
Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Mecha , Sci-Fi

The year is Universal Century 0087. Seven years have passed since the end of the One Year War. In its zeal to stamp out any remaining opposition, the Earth Federation has organized the Titans, an elite fighting force. However, the Titans soon get out of hand, committing atrocities on par with the worst the Principality of Zeon had to offer during the war. In response, dissatisified citizens, former Zeon soldiers, and even members of the Earth Federal Forces form a resistance group known as the Anti-Earth Union Group, or AEUG. As the next war is brewing, a small AEUG group arrives at Side 7 to investigate the new Gundam Mk. II...

Tags: Space , Military , War , Politics , Space Opera , Femboy , Real Robot , Ensemble Cast , Tragedy , Family Life , Super Power , Male Protagonist , Revenge , Heterosexual , Anti-Hero , Memory Manipulation

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Crunchyroll

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Taiyou no Kiba Dougram

Studio: Sunrise
Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Mecha , Sci-Fi

The story is centered around a small group of guerilla freedom fighters on a colonial planet named Deployer, who are known as the "Deployer 7", or "Sun Fang" team. In an unexpected coup, the elected Governor of Deployer becomes dictator and rules Deployer under martial law with the support of Earth's Federation. Fighting for independence from Earth's Federation influence, the freedom fighters begin a rebellion against the Federation's Combat Armors using a Combat Armor of their own: the Dougram.

Tags: Military , War , Politics , Real Robot , Travel , Ensemble Cast , Guns , Found Family , Tragedy , Male Protagonist , Shounen , Super Robot , Heterosexual , Orphan , Anachronism

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Aoki Ryuusei SPT Layzner

Also known as Blue Comet SPT Layzner.

Studio: Sunrise , Discotek
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Mecha , Sci-Fi

The SPT Lazner is a super-powered, computerized Tracer robot. It is the strongest robot in the universe. The story's hero, Eiji, is the child of an earthman and an alien from another planet. He happens to find out about a conspiracy to destroy the earth. Using Lazner and with his friends’ help, Eiji decides to save his father's planet earth and fight against his mother's planet to achieve peace in space.

The Story takes place in an alternate reality based in the year 1996, where humanity is advanced enough to develop long-range space travel.

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Tags: Military , Space , War , Male Protagonist , Dystopian , Real Robot , Time Skip , Fugitive , Aliens , Heterosexual , Espionage , Motorcycles , Love Triangle , Primarily Male Cast , Lost Civilization , Cyborg , Aviation , Conspiracy

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Gasaraki

Also known as Gasaraki.

Studio: Sunrise , ADV Films , Yomiko Advertising , The Right Stuf International
Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Mecha , Psychological , Supernatural

The flames of war explode in the Middle East as two shadow forces unleash monstrous new weapons of mass destruction! But in a world in which giant robots are real, the most dangerous weapon of all lies buried within a human mind. Yushiro, the fourth son of the mysterious and powerful Gowa family, finds himself at the center of events that will change the future of mankind forever! Nothing can prepare the human race for what is about to be unleashed in Gasaraki!

Tags: Military , Politics , Economics , Conspiracy , Real Robot , War , Mythology , Kaiju , Cult , Shrine Maiden , Foreign , Historical , Lost Civilization , Dancing , Kuudere , Clone , Yakuza , Tanks , Youkai , Samurai

Where to watch?

Hulu

YouTube

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Kidou Senshi Gundam: Dai 08 MS Shotai

Also known as Mobile Suit Gundam: The 08th MS Team.

Studio: Sunrise
Status: Finished
Genres: Adventure , Drama , Mecha , Romance , Sci-Fi

UC 0079 - After the success of Operation Odessa, more and more Earth Federation soldiers are sent to earth to free it from the hands of the Principality of Zeon. As Zeonic troops retreat to unknown parts of the world, it's up to the Earth Federation Ground Force to find them and exterminate them.

Ensign Shiro Amada is made leader of the 08th MS Team, leading a team of Ground Type Gundams into battle. His mission: to distract the enemy and find a mysterious new Zeon weapon. But can he complete it when he falls in love with a Zeon pilot, named Aina Sahalin?

Tags: War , Military , Real Robot , Male Protagonist , Politics , Primarily Adult Cast , Heterosexual , Love Triangle , Space , Nudity

Where to watch?

Hulu

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Densetsu Kyojin Ideon: Hatsudou-hen

Also known as The Ideon: Be Invoked.

Studio: Sunrise
Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Mecha , Sci-Fi

The epic conclusion to the Ideon saga, featuring what was meant to be the final 5 episodes of the TV series. The Solo Ship and its crew continue their intense battle with the Buff Clan leading to a final battle that will determine the fate of all life in the universe.

This movie features the last episode of the TV series Space Runaway Ideon (39), and four more episodes (40-43) that were meant to air on TV, but never did since the show was cancelled.

This movie was the second part of a double feature along with "The Ideon: A Contact".

Tags: War , Space Opera , Tragedy , Cosmic Horror , Military , Space , Aliens , Ensemble Cast , Heterosexual , Real Robot , Gore , Super Robot , Guns , Lost Civilization , Nudity , Revenge , Samurai

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FLAG

Studio: Aniplex , The Answer Studio , Bandai Entertainment
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Drama , Mecha

In the mountainous Asian country of Uddiyana a civil war rages. No end lay in sight for the war-torn nation until a lone photographer snapped an iconic image that would come to be known simply as "Flag." Hope arises as the many factions involved begin an approach to peace, rousing the call for a ceasefire behind the featured flag.

When an unknown guerilla sect steals this symbol of unity, a U.N. Special Development Command unit is dispatched using the latest in military technology, a transforming bipedal exoskeleton known as the HAVWC system. Recruited to document this mission is a war-time journalist, the author of the "Flag" photograph, Saeko Shirasu.

Witness the trials and triumphs of a peacekeeping taskforce behind the camera's view-finder as they take their first steps towards the recovery of the road to peace and discover the truth behind a struggle.

Tags: Military , Photography , Politics , Foreign , War , POV , Female Protagonist , Tragedy , Real Robot , Meta

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Kikou Kai Galient

Studio: Sunrise
Status: Finished
Genres: Fantasy , Mecha , Sci-Fi

Set in a far flung medieval-looking world of Arst, Prince Jordy Volder takes up the fight against the ambitions of the conqueror Marder. Jordy uses the legendary giant robot "panzer" Galient, which is one of many panzers that have been preserved underground for thousands of years. Using an army of advanced robot panzers, Marder is conquering all of Arst in preparation of his plan for dominance of the Crescent Galaxy.

Tags: Real Robot , War , Aliens , Space , Lost Civilization , Super Robot

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86: Eighty Six

Also known as 86 EIGHTY-SIX.

Studio: A-1 Pictures , Aniplex , KADOKAWA , BANDAI SPIRITS
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama , Mecha , Sci-Fi

Called “Juggernaut,” these are the unmanned combat drones developed by the Republic of San Magnolia in answer to the attacks by the autonomous unmanned drones of the neighboring Empire of Giad, the “Legion”. But they’re only unmanned in name. In reality, they are piloted by the Eighty-sixers—those considered to be less than human and treated as mere tools.

Determined to achieve his own mysterious ends, Shin, the captain of Spearhead Squadron, which is comprised of Eighty-sixers, continues to fight a hopeless war on a battlefield where only death awaits him.

Tags: Class Struggle , War , Military , Tragedy , Dystopian , Survival , Politics , Post-Apocalyptic , Female Protagonist , Proxy Battle , Memory Manipulation , Seinen , Robots , Male Protagonist , Conspiracy , Real Robot , Guns , Primarily Teen Cast , Ghost , Artificial Intelligence , Necromancy , Achronological Order , Ensemble Cast , Unrequited Love , CGI , Lost Civilization , Kuudere , Travel , POV , Nudity , Gore , Super Power

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Crunchyroll