Anime like Mecha-ude (TV)

Kill la Kill

Also known as Kill la Kill.

Studio: Aniplex , TRIGGER , Dentsu , Kadokawa Shoten , Mainichi Broadcasting System , Ultra Super Pictures , Movic , Aniplex of America
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Comedy , Ecchi

After the murder of her father, Ryuuko Matoi has been wandering the land in search of his killer. Following her only lead—the missing half of his invention, the Scissor Blade—she arrives at the prestigious Honnouji Academy, a high school unlike any other. The academy is ruled by the imposing and cold-hearted student council president Satsuki Kiryuuin alongside her powerful underlings, the Elite Four. In the school's brutally competitive hierarchy, Satsuki bestows upon those at the top special clothes called "Goku Uniforms," which grant the wearer unique superhuman abilities.

Tags: Henshin , Female Protagonist , Revenge , Incest , Nudity , Parody , Surreal Comedy , Class Struggle , Psychosexual , Dystopian , Tomboy , Super Power , Aliens , Orphan , Age Gap , Coming of Age , Primarily Teen Cast , School , Anti-Hero , Military , Cult , Bullying , Villainess , Tsundere , Ensemble Cast , Delinquents , Tokusatsu , Exhibitionism , School Club , LGBTQ+ Themes , Gore , Tragedy , CGI , Meta , Yandere , Cosplay , Cheerleading , Butler , Space

SSSS.DYNAZENON

Also known as SSSS.DYNAZENON.

Studio: TRIGGER , Graphinica , Pony Canyon , Tsuburaya Productions
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Mecha , Romance , Sci-Fi

One day, Yomogi Asanaka, a first-year student at Fujiyokidai High School, runs into a mysterious man named Gauma who claims to be a “kaiju user.”

The sudden appearance of a kaiju is followed by the entry of the gigantic robot, Dynazenon. In the wrong place at the wrong time are Yume Minami, Koyomi Yamanaka, and Chise Asukagawa, who are dragged into the fight against the kaiju.



Tags: Kaiju , Super Robot , Tokusatsu , Denpa , Ensemble Cast , Superhero , Super Power , Coming of Age , Heterosexual , Henshin , Alternate Universe , Hikikomori , Tragedy , Rehabilitation , Suicide , Male Protagonist , CGI , Bullying , Reincarnation , Female Protagonist

Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann

Also known as Gurren Lagann.

Studio: Gainax , Aniplex , Konami , Half H.P Studio , Bandai , Bandai Entertainment , Aniplex of America
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Comedy , Drama , Mecha , Romance , Sci-Fi

In a far away future, mankind lives underground in huge caves, unknowing of a world above with a sky and stars.

In the small village of Jiha, Simon, a shy boy who works as a digger discovers a strange glowing object during excavation. The enterprising Kamina, a young man with a pair of rakish sunglasses and the passion of a firey sun, befriends Simon and forms a small band of brothers, the Gurren Brigade, to escape the village and break through the ceiling of the cave to reach the surface, which few believe exist.

The village elder won't hear of such foolishness and punishes the Brigade. However, when disaster strikes from the world above and the entire village is in jeopardy, it's up to Simon, Kamina, a girl with a big gun named Yoko, and the small yet sturdy robot, Lagann, to save the day.

The new friends journey to the world above and find that the surface is a harsh battlefield, and it's up to them to fight back against the rampaging Beastmen to turn the tide in the humans' favor! Pierce the heavens, Gurren Lagann!

Tags: Super Robot , Coming of Age , Male Protagonist , Found Family , Dystopian , Post-Apocalyptic , Space Opera , Tragedy , Travel , War , Space , Aliens , Time Skip , Philosophy , Outdoor Activities , Politics , Anthropomorphism , Class Struggle , Primarily Adult Cast , Heterosexual , Urban , Henshin , Desert , Military , Mixed Media , Animals , Guns , Alternate Universe , Nudity , Love Triangle , Cosmic Horror , Swordplay , Suicide , CGI

SSSS.GRIDMAN

Also known as SSSS.GRIDMAN.

Studio: TRIGGER , Tsuburaya Productions , Fields , Pony Canyon , Docomo Anime Store , KLOCKWORX , Mainichi Broadcasting System , Ultra Super Pictures , BS11 , Graphinica
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Mecha , Sci-Fi

Collaboration with Tsuburaya Productions.

Yuta Hibiki awakens with amnesia and the ability see things that others cannot. He first encounters a Gridman in the reflection of his friend Rikka Takarada's computer and it tells him to "Remember his calling," but Yuta doesn't understand what this means. Later, in the distance, he sees an extremely large monster but it doesn't move. It's only when Yuta gets to school that the two sightings make sense: a monster attacks and the hero Yuta saw in the computer screen pulls him within the computer and transforms Yuta into a giant hero named Gridman.



Tags: Tokusatsu , Kaiju , Super Robot , Alternate Universe , Denpa , Memory Manipulation , Virtual World , Meta , Superhero , Female Protagonist , Anti-Hero , Henshin , Hikikomori , Gods , Amnesia , CGI , Super Power , Yandere , Male Protagonist , Aliens , School , Ensemble Cast , Mixed Media , Episodic , Gore , Villainess , Love Triangle

Bounen no Xamdou

Also known as Xam'd: Lost Memories.

Studio: bones , Aniplex , Half H.P Studio , Sentai Filmworks
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Sci-Fi

Sentan Island is a small island surrounded by the Yuden Sea. It exists in a state of dreamlike tranquility, cut off from the war between the Northern Government and the Southern Continent Free Zone. Our hero, Akiyuki Takehara, lives on Sentan Island along with his mother Fusa. He is currently separated from his father, the town doctor Ryuzo, but the bond between father and son remains. One day, after taking Ryuzo the lunch that Fusa has made for him as usual, Akiyuki arrives at school, where he is caught up in an explosion along with his friends, Haru and Furuichi. The explosion produces a mysterious light, which enters Akiyuki's arm, causing him excruciating pain. He's given no time to understand it, however, as the white-haired girl who rode on the bus with him guides him to a power unlike anything he's ever known.

Tags: Ensemble Cast , Military , War , Super Power , Love Triangle , Terrorism , Male Protagonist , Slavery , Vore , Kuudere , Amnesia , Disability

Scryed

Also known as s-CRY-ed.

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

A strange environmental phenomenon 22 years ago in the Kanazawa prefecture caused the land to split and protrude upwards reaching unprecedented heights, creating the secluded area known as The Lost Ground. Kazuma is a young mercenary who lives in the Lost Ground, looking for any work he can find to sustain his livelihood within the harsh environment. He is one of the few people that are gifted with the Alter ability, which allows him to plaster his right arm and torso with a metallic alloy. When this mercenary encounters HOLY, an order whose purpose is to suppress and capture what they call Native Alter Users, and one of the elite members of HOLY, Ryuho, an epic rivalry begins.



Tags: Henshin , Shounen , Tokusatsu , Dystopian , Primarily Male Cast , Super Power , Primarily Female Cast , Conspiracy , Heterosexual , Anti-Hero

Busou Renkin

Also known as Arms Alchemy.

Studio: Xebec , NBCUniversal Entertainment Japan , Viz Media , Yomiko Advertising
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Comedy , Fantasy , Supernatural

The story begins when high school student Kazuki Muto is killed one night saving a mysterious girl from a monster, only to wake up in his school dorm, believing it to have been a dream. However, he soon finds out that dream wasn't a dream at all when a giant serpentine monster attacks him and his sister. Tokiko Tsumura, the girl he saved, explains that the monster is a homunculus. Kazuki had been attacked and killed by it when he was rescuing her. However, she, feeling responsible for him, revived him by placing a Kakugane medallion in his chest, serving as a replacement heart.

The Kakugane, as Tokiko explains, is an alchemical device that, when activated, takes a certain form based on the Kakugane's user, forming a unique Buso Renkin. The Buso Renkin is the only thing that can destroy a homunculus monster. Using this, Kazuki creates his own Buso Renkin (the "Sunlight Heart", a huge lance). Along with Tokiko and her own Buso Renkin (the "Valkyrie Skirt", an execution scythe), Kazuki joins the fight against the homunculi and their master.

Tags: School , Shounen , Male Protagonist , Heterosexual , Magic , Female Protagonist , Twins

FLCL

Also known as FLCL.

Studio: Gainax , Production I.G , Starchild Records , Funimation , GANSIS
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Comedy , Mecha , Sci-Fi

Naota is a detached sixth grader afflicted by the pangs of puberty. He's fooling around with his brother's ex-girlfriend when a crazed girl on a motor scooter runs him over, brains him with a bass guitar, and moves into his house. This pink-haired girl, Haruko - who claims she's an alien - hurls Naota into the middle of a mega-corporation's secret agenda. Oh, and now giant battling robots shoot from his skull. Mix in mind-bending animation and tunes that echo through your cerebellum to top off the trip that will have you falling hard for FLCL.



Tags: Coming of Age , Surreal Comedy , Psychosexual , Male Protagonist , Age Gap , Female Protagonist , Meta , Philosophy , Primarily Teen Cast , Robots , Slapstick , Denpa , Aliens , Love Triangle , Parody , Mopeds , Heterosexual , Vore , Amnesia , Guns , Kaiju , Urban , Gods , Super Robot , Body Horror , Real Robot , Nudity , Episodic , Baseball , CGI

Project ARMS

Also known as Project ARMS.

Studio: TMS Entertainment , TV Tokyo , Discotek
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Fantasy , Mystery , Sci-Fi , Thriller

A boy gets involved in an accident when in kindergarten, horribly damaging his arm, but the doctors somehow manage to save it. Now, several years later, his arm seems to be becoming the focus of strange events as it turns out to be more than a normal arm. Meanwhile, a secret organizations is out to get hold of him and the power he possess.

Tags: Super Power , Crime , Shounen , Survival , Police , Dissociative Identities , Fugitive , Tsundere , Martial Arts , Terrorism , Aliens , Age Regression , Artificial Intelligence , Body Horror , Coming of Age , Cyborg , Ensemble Cast , Gore , Guns , Military , Revenge , Urban , Conspiracy , Cyberpunk , Urban Fantasy

Boku no Hero Academia

Also known as My Hero Academia.

Studio: bones , Dentsu , Mainichi Broadcasting System , Toho , Movic
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Comedy

What would the world be like if 80 percent of the population manifested extraordinary superpowers called “Quirks” at age four? Heroes and villains would be battling it out everywhere! Becoming a hero would mean learning to use your power, but where would you go to study? U.A. High's Hero Program of course! But what would you do if you were one of the 20 percent who were born Quirkless?

Middle school student Izuku Midoriya wants to be a hero more than anything, but he hasn't got an ounce of power in him. With no chance of ever getting into the prestigious U.A. High School for budding heroes, his life is looking more and more like a dead end. Then an encounter with All Might, the greatest hero of them all gives him a chance to change his destiny…



Tags: Super Power , Superhero , Shounen , Primarily Teen Cast , Male Protagonist , Urban Fantasy , School , Ensemble Cast , Coming of Age , Bullying , Cultivation , Primarily Male Cast , Prison