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Mecha anime recommendation thread.

Oh one thing I forgot to mention about Nadesico is that the series is an omage to the mecha of Go Nagai in particular (Mazinger/Tranzor Z, Getter Robo, & Grendizer primarily.)

While on the subject of Go Nagai, I should clear up a common misconception about his work. Many incorrectly state that Go Nagai's original Getter Robo series from the 70s was the first combining robot anime. While Getter Robo did popularize the concept, it did not originate it. Osamu Tezuka wrote a story in the Astro Boy manga series back in the 50s, which would later be animated in the 1963 series, (still beating Go Nagai's anime to the punch), and again in the 1980s series, that featured Astro combining with a large number of other robots to form one giant robot.

OsamuTezuka wrote:

Nadesico I just want to point out that there's a new complete box set that just came out last month that includes everything. It includes the series, the movie, (which from what I understand is a new story, not a retelling of the series), and the subbed-only Gekiganger III OVA.

The movie is a sequel to/continuation of the series, much like what the Eden of the East movies were for that series. It is not widely-respected.

A couple for the "fantasy mecha" category:

Maze (aka Maze, The Mega-Burst Space: I don't recall if the OVAs have any, but the TV series' action scenes are a mix of mecha and non-mecha fights, and mecha do figure into parts of the story in a big way. (And this wasn't classified as a mecha series in our Encyclopedia, but I have now corrected that.)

Utawarerumono: While not purely or even primarily a mecha series, one of its story arcs does involve mecha use.