Mecha anime has been around for roughly half a century, and the theme's manga debut goes back even further. Classics like Mitsuteru Yokoyama's Giant Robo and Go Nagai's Mazinger Z helped write the ...

In no art form is this sight more common than in anime, where transforming mecha are as populous as fish in the ocean.

At first glance, Neon Genesis Evangelion seems like a typical mecha anime with a group of teenagers piloting giant robots to save the world. But beneath that, it’s a psychological story about ...