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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 , Primarily Teen Cast , Travel , Tragedy , Foreign , Swordplay , Tanks , Aviation , Coming of Age , Male Protagonist , Ensemble Cast , Revenge , Super Power , Anti-Hero , Environmental , Guns , Super Robot , Desert , Love Triangle , Time Manipulation

Soukou Kihei Votoms

Also known as Armored Trooper Votoms.

Studio: Sunrise , TV Tokyo , Nippon Animation , Maiden Japan
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama , Mecha , Mystery , Romance , Sci-Fi

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 , Conspiracy , Fugitive , Post-Apocalyptic , Revenge , Guns , Philosophy , Noir , Cyberpunk , Space Opera , Gods , Desert , Politics , Torture , Drugs , Lost Civilization , Mythology

Ginga Eiyuu Densetsu

Also known as Legend of the Galactic Heroes.

Studio: Kitty Film , T.P.O , K-Factory , Sentai Filmworks
Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Sci-Fi

For decades, the Galactic Empire has been locked in an interstellar war with the Free Planets Alliance, a conflict that involves thousands of spaceships and millions of soldiers on both sides. Two new commanders enter the conflict with great hopes: Imperial Admiral Reinhard von Lohengramm and the FPA's Yang Wen-Li. As they deal with superiors and subordinates, maneuver through complicated political arrangements, plot strategies, and win battles, each will be tested, and ultimately, changed, by the reality of war.



Tags: Space Opera , Politics , War , Military , Space , Ensemble Cast , Primarily Adult Cast , Tragedy , Philosophy , Economics , Primarily Male Cast , Terrorism , Royal Affairs , Femboy , Male Protagonist , Cult , Heterosexual , Coming of Age , Gore , Revenge , Foreign , Tomboy , Post-Apocalyptic ,

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 , Swordplay , Guns , Real Robot , Ensemble Cast , Tragedy , Family Life , Super Power , Heterosexual , Male Protagonist , Revenge , Anti-Hero , Memory Manipulation , Super Robot

Dallos

Also known as Dallos.

Studio: Studio Pierrot , Discotek
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama , Mecha , Sci-Fi

At the end of the 21st century, Earth had to confront the problem of population increases combined with shortages in resources. Development of the Moon was seen as the way to solve the situation. The Moon's mineral resources reinvigorated the Earth and brought prosperity. However, the achievement of that vision proved painful for those who'd left their home world to settle on the Moon.

One of Man's greatest dreams has become a nightmare for those who have been forced to live it out. Shun Nonomura doesn't realize it, but he's about to discover a weapon - one that can overthrow the oppressive Monopolice and bring freedom to the lunar colonists. The growing resistance movement is quick to adopt it, along with its creator, into their ranks as they rally around the mysterious alien monument known as Dallos...

Dallos was made in 1983 by Studio Pierrot, becoming world's first OVA series. It was also the directorial debut of Mamoru Oshii, who would later go on to direct such films as Angel's Egg, the first two Urusei Yatsura movies, and Ghost in the Shell.



Tags: Real Robot , Space , Ensemble Cast , Dystopian , War , Guns , Politics , Male Protagonist , Terrorism , Love Triangle , Heterosexual

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.

(SOURCE: AnimeNewsNetwork)

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

Kidou Senshi Victory Gundam

Also known as Mobile Suit Victory Gundam.

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

It is Universal Century 0153. On the space colonies located at Side 2, the Zanscare Empire has come to power and it holds onto that power through liberal use of the guillotine. With its forces invading the Earth and its space fleets preparing to subjugate the other Sides, the Zanscare Empire has nothing to fear from the weakening Earth Federation. It is opposed only by the League Militaire, whose state of the art mobile suits and young pilots comprise the only real resistance movement. Now, thirteen-year-old Uso Ewin has been dragged into the war by a battle near his home in Eastern Europe. As the Newtype pilot of the Victory Gundam, he fights not only to defeat the Zanscare Empire but also to find out what has become of his parents, who left him behind when they went into space.



Tags: Military , Real Robot , War , Coming of Age , Space , Space Opera , Tragedy , Cult

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

Juusenki L-Gaim

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

In the Pentagona System, a young man by the name of Daba Myroad leads a rebellion against Pentagona's leader, Oldna Poseidal. Daba's not alone however, meeting a large number of allies along his journey and having in his possession the powerful L-Gaim, a white Heavy Metal left to him by his father.



Tags: War , Real Robot , Space , Fairy , Slapstick , Love Triangle , Ensemble Cast , Nudity , Crossdressing , Boys' Love , Revenge

Ginga Reppuu Baxingar

Also known as Galactic Gale Baxingar.

Status: Finished
Genres: Mecha

600 years ago, J9 roared through the Solar System to fight evil and get rich. Now things are worse than ever, as lawlessness threatens to overcome the fragile ruling government and an alien fleet from outer space arrives to upset the balance even more. Amid the chaos, old friends Digo and Schutecken found the Cosmo Rangers, an updated J9, to combat crime in the asteroid belt and beyond. But even with talented members like Billy the Shot, Jumping Sama, and Lila the Immortal Butterfly, they quickly get in over their heads as their group expands to the size of an army and they become the guardians of a crumbling government.



Tags: Motorcycles , Politics , Ensemble Cast , War , Military , Space Opera , Primarily Adult Cast , Primarily Male Cast , Space , Episodic , Disability , Heterosexual , Swordplay , Tragedy , Super Robot , Adoption , Orphan , Guns