Mecha anime and manga
The guide lists 488 titles tagged mecha. The genre peaked in the 2000s (118 titles). Studios with the most mecha titles: Sunrise (101), Toei Animation (16) and Ashi Productions (8). It often comes paired with science fiction, adventure and action.
Best-known mecha anime
- Mobile Suit Gundam 1979
- Mobile Suit Gundam SEED 2002
- Neon Genesis Evangelion 1995
- Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam 1985
- Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny 2004
- Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX 2025
- Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch from Mercury 2022
- Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ 1986
- Transformers: The Headmasters 1987
- 86 2021
- Sonic X 2003
- Mobile Suit Gundam Wing 1995
- Mobile Fighter G Gundam 1994
- Mobile Suit Gundam 00 2007
- Code Geass Lelouch of the Rebellion 2006
- Grendizer 1975
- Super Dimension Fortress Macross 1982
- Turn A Gundam 1999
- Gurren Lagann 2007
- After War Gundam X 1996
- Mobile Suit Victory Gundam 1993
- Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn RE:0096 2016
- Great Mazinger 1974
- Armored Trooper VOTOMS 1983
- Samurai 7 2004
- Zoids 1980
- Transformers: Super-God Masterforce 1988
- Darling in the Franxx 2018
- Aura Battler Dunbine 1983
- Eureka Seven 2005
Best-known mecha anime films
- Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX: Beginning 2025
- Mobile Suit Gundam: Char's Counterattack 1988
- Castle in the Sky 1986
- Evangelion: 2.0 You Can (Not) Advance 2009
- The End of Evangelion 1997
- Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Freedom 2024
- Evangelion: 1.0 You Are (Not) Alone 2007
- Neon Genesis Evangelion: Death & Rebirth 1997
- Macross: Do You Remember Love? 1984
- Mobile Suit Gundam F91 1991
- Evangelion: 3.0 You Can (Not) Redo 2012
- Mobile Suit Gundam II: Soldiers of Sorrow 1981
- Voices of a Distant Star 2002
- Martian Successor Nadesico: The Motion Picture – Prince of Darkness 1998
- Mobile Suit Gundam III: Encounters in Space 1982
- Mobile Suit Gundam: Cucuruz Doan's Island 2022
- Mobile Suit Gundam I 1981
- Mobile Suit Gundam 00 the Movie: A Wakening of the Trailblazer 2010
- Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz 1998
- Patlabor: The Movie 1989
- Escaflowne 2000
- Patlabor 2: The Movie 1993
- Mobile Suit Gundam: Hathaway 2021
- Code Geass: Lelouch of the Resurrection 2019
- Macross Delta the Movie: Passionate Walküre 2018
- Planzet 2010
- Bushi Road 2013
- Gundam Neo Experience 0087: Green Divers 2001
- Zone of the Enders: 2167 Idolo 2001
- Ai City
Best-known mecha manga
- Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin 2001
- Sgt. Frog 1999
- 86 2018
- Magic Knight Rayearth 1993
- Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn: Bande Dessinée 2010
- Neon Genesis Evangelion
- Patlabor
- Mobile Suit Crossbone Gundam 1994
- Tetsujin 28-go 1956
- Kannazuki no Miko 2004
- Knights of Sidonia 2009
- Mazinger
- Bokurano 2003
- Mobile Suit Gundam U.C. Hardgraph: Iron Mustang 2011
- All Purpose Cultural Cat Girl Nuku Nuku
- Heroman
- The Candidate for Goddess
- Broken Blade
- Mobile Suit Gundam: Char's Counterattack - Beltorchika's Children 2014
- Shattered Angels 2006
- Rideback 2009
- Neon Genesis Evangelion: Campus Apocalypse 2007
- Mobile Suit Gundam: The Battle Tales of Flanagan Boone 2023
- Neon Genesis Evangelion: Angelic Days
- Melody of Oblivion 2002
- Mobile Suit Gundam École du Ciel 2001
- Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn Bande Dessinée Episode: 0 2017
- Cannon God Exaxxion
- Plawres Sanshiro
- Mobile Suit Gundam-san 2001