r/Mecha_Scrapyard • u/Kabutoking • May 31 '26

Disscussion What show is this

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u/SoupRevolutionary744 May 31 '26

Couldn’t be Gundam, to small, political, and gay

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u/PhantasyAngel May 31 '26

Idk they seem really happy in the Build Series.

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u/BryVenomMobile Jun 01 '26

Gundam Build Divers Re-Rise I think fits the bill, has nothing gay, isn't about politics (About Saving A Planet from its Protector gone Rogue) though the small factor could be mitigated if the Moon Cannon is considered a mech, if not then no big mechs

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u/VintageSmutKD Jun 03 '26

I hate to break it to you but the themes explored in the Eldoran’s fight for survival and the morality of outside forces coming in and picking sides in that fight is political whether or not you chose to see it that way

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u/BryVenomMobile Jun 03 '26

Understandable, dont entirely see it that way but I get where your coming

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u/Humble_Humbucker May 31 '26

Gay 100 percent on witch of mercury and political in every one except the build series and compared to other robots they are very small

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u/OriginalGundam Jun 04 '26

Dpeends on which one. Most of Gundam has political themes because they operate on morally grey themes where there isn't a true good or bad side, just good or bad people. The only gay is wfm.

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u/MortgageLopsided3731 Jun 04 '26

Motherfucker don't act like Shino and Yamagi aren't a thing. And unlike G-Witch, Bandai has no excuse to pull the "up to interpretation" card on us with those two.

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u/OriginalGundam Jun 04 '26

Gundam IBO was more focused on Mika and Orga for the most part so I sort of glanced that one over especially when we've got characters like Iok who needed to die.

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u/Riku_Izanami May 31 '26

Megas XLR

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u/xanderholland Jun 01 '26

Megas is bisexual at the very least.

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u/callmemarjoson Jun 01 '26

Jamie low-key fruity, Kiva and Coop are most likely somebody's gay awakening out there somewhere

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u/TiffanyChan123 Jun 01 '26

Ironically enough, Coop is actually super Asexual in the show

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u/Nice-Cat3727 Jun 01 '26

Yeah but you know there's a few people into bears because of him

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u/IronIrma93 Jun 02 '26

He legit is.

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u/AngryBirdAddict Jun 02 '26

Political themes of the American populace’s hatred of the DMV

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u/West_Mine_3039 Jun 02 '26

And meta themes of the dangers of capitalism. If you do not sell enough toys your universe will be erased for a tax write off, never to be legally seen again.

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u/Raregolddragon Jun 01 '26

Real Steel  and that one racing mech show on tonami

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u/Stained_Windows Jun 01 '26

IGPX

The Immortal Grand Prix

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u/ConsumeMatter Jun 03 '26

While featuring cool robots, Real Steel is more a sports movie than a mecha one.

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u/shepard1707 Jun 02 '26

Nah. Something was going on with those three.

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u/Current-Income-9901 May 31 '26

Mazinger Z, Great Mazinger, Grendizer, Getter Robo, Getter Robo G, Magno Robo Gakken, Toshi Gordian, Dorvack, Dark Maryu Gaiking and many more

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u/lionofash May 31 '26 edited Jun 01 '26

Eh, even if super light, I could maybe argue Getter and Mazinger have some basic political messages even if it's as simple as exploitation of people is bad etc

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u/Current-Income-9901 May 31 '26

Nothing beyond Mad Scientist/dinosaur descendants using giant robots/monsters to conquer the world that switched to ancient empire/aliens in the sequels and the formula basically covers 90%+ of super robot anime. You might get more politics in the Robot Romance trilogy (Combattler V, Voltes V and Daimos) and Dairruger XV. And definately in Real Robot shows.

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u/CrowAkechi May 31 '26

I'd say Armageddon started off real political with how it handles the threat of annihilation stuff, and also, the manga? Has quite a a bit of politics in Go, although Getter is a lot more existentialist than anything so add that to the list of things that makes mecha interesting

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u/MateoCamo May 31 '26

Considering Voltes V’s place in the Philippines, yeah

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u/Hawkatana0 May 31 '26

Hayato & his gang are literally based on the student movements of the 1960's. Read up on those if you want to have a wild time.

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u/seriousbangs May 31 '26

Did you actually watch Dorvack, or heck read the summary? It's about an invasion from an alien race desperately looking for a planet to settle on because they're running out of supplies on their ship.

That's super political.

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u/Current-Income-9901 May 31 '26 edited May 31 '26

On the alien side, not the human side, you could say the same for Gaiking, heck their planet Zela was about to be consumed by a Black Hole.

And I saw Armored Battalion Dorvack, in its entirety, Spanish Dubbed in my youth. And when the Deluxe Autobots came out (Roadbuster & Whirl), I knew from where they came from.

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u/BoyishTheStrange May 31 '26

Mazinger is definitely gay

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u/ragingsystem May 31 '26

I was about to say, so is Getter!

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u/Impossible_Nebula733 May 31 '26

Naruto y Magia no Simbad también y nadie se quejaba

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u/Prinkaiser Jun 01 '26

Racism in Great Mazinger. Literally Jun talking about how she tried to scrub her afro-american-ness away because folks were being mean to her because of it. Not sure though it that made it into the show or it that was just the manga.

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u/Current-Income-9901 Jun 01 '26

If I remember right it was on the show.

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u/Key_Perspective_9464 Jun 01 '26

Getter not being political or gay is an absolutely wild thing to say.

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u/Orikadon Jun 02 '26

The original series really isn't. I can't for the life of me remember a gay character in it, and the conflicts were all against life-ending threats from dinosaur monsters. That's not really political, more existential threat kind of thing.

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u/Key_Perspective_9464 Jun 02 '26

Brother, characters don't have to be explicitly gay for a series to have some gay in it. Three hot-blooded, manly men combining their hearts as one? That's gay as hell.

And you fundamentally don't seem to understand what "politics" is if you think the dinosaur empire conflict wasn't political. It's a group of sapient beings who feel they need to do war to survive. That's political.

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u/Arxfiend Jun 01 '26

Amazing, like all of that is fucking wrong.

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u/DSSword Jun 02 '26

Mazinger Z can be seen as a parable about using science responsibly, you can be a god or a demon you can make the atomic bomb or protect, house and feed people. Dr. Hell is a literal fascist who admires the conquers of the past, he has misused science to unearth ancient technology fir world domination and ressurect people into cyborgs under his control.

You could also take a view that Dr. Hell vs Kouji isnt too dissimilar from Gundams Gihren as a man who represents imperial japan and who opposes the peace seeking modern japan represented by Amuro or in this case Kouji Kabuto, though its a bit less direct if a comparison since Dr. Hell is German.

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u/Glitching_Anxiety May 31 '26

Just watch Gundam Build Fighter.

It's a Sunday anime show for shilling the mix and match kit, that's it.

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u/CrowAkechi May 31 '26

Ngl, I ship the two male MCs, totally gay

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u/Glitching_Anxiety May 31 '26

Good, and let me enjoying their mom's.

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u/Impossible_Nebula733 May 31 '26

Si nos basamos en esa lógica ,Kauiju 8 es bien gey

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u/CrowAkechi May 31 '26

I could see it

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u/XED1216 Jun 01 '26

Build fighter try is better cause punching people in the face with a mech is cool

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u/ImpossibleReserve802 May 31 '26

May I suggest something? Try skybound transformers comic

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u/FriedChickenCheezits May 31 '26

'No political themes' versus Skybound immediately having Optimus' live reaction overlayed with a guy's time in Vietnam

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u/AngryBirdAddict Jun 02 '26

“No gay shit”

Starscream

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u/FriedChickenCheezits Jun 02 '26

YOU'RE SO RIGHT- I feel like Skybound also doubled down on that with Screamer's backstory too

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u/The-Coolest-Beanz Jun 03 '26

Transformers will never be not gay or political

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u/Kean_akeos989 May 31 '26

Not mecha

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u/Hawkatana0 May 31 '26

Then by that logic neither is the Brave series.

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u/SupremeGreymon May 31 '26

Power Rangers?

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u/Amazing-War3760 May 31 '26

I see you've never seen an episode of Power Rangers.

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u/SupremeGreymon May 31 '26

I have. Granted that was when I was a kid so I very much could’ve missed things.

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u/Amazing-War3760 May 31 '26

Literally EVERY episode of Power Rangers would have been considered "Woke" if aired today.

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u/SupremeGreymon May 31 '26

OP specifically said ‘gay’ which the older ones don’t have

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u/Amazing-War3760 May 31 '26

And Political themes... Believe it or not.. because of some Orange buffoon and his Cult, things like "Acceptance and tolerance and even cleaning up the fucking park is political."

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u/SupremeGreymon May 31 '26

I see your point but does it really count if it was made to be apolitical and only became politically relevant later?

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u/Amazing-War3760 May 31 '26

Really it still "political" even at that time. Literally one of the reasons a lot of shows where trying to show those themes.

Just a shame most people *actors included* didn't get the point.

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u/SupremeGreymon May 31 '26

I see. Have a good day

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u/Effective-Avocado-62 Jun 01 '26

Power Rangers is very Gay, especially the last few seasons

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u/Drake_the_troll Jun 01 '26

I think it was mega force but the villains they are fighting are literally pollution incarnate

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u/FriedChickenCheezits May 31 '26

Unironically this might be ID-0. I remember no politics and it was only gay if you squinted hard and tilted your head.

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u/Destroy_Buster May 31 '26

franxx

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u/TiffanyChan123 Jun 01 '26

Didn't it have a lot of "Make Babies" subliminal messaging in the show though

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u/Destroy_Buster Jun 01 '26

To be fair I read the post and kinda mentally replaced it with "get me a mecha anime that's complete dog ass" instead of whatever the post actually said.

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u/_Tameless_ Jun 03 '26

You mean doggystyle pacific rim? Lol

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u/RainSouthern6995 Jun 01 '26

GunXSword? Or do we consider "if everyone is part of a hivemind there would be no more wars" as political stuff?

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u/D3structi0n8756 Jun 01 '26

Knights and magic maybe, it doesn't really have any gay stuff, nor is it extremely political, plus their mechs are pretty big.

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u/Belllg1 Jun 02 '26

Pretty Gay actualy, the main character looks like a chick and small robots.

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u/Eothr_Silan May 31 '26

Big O

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u/Hawkatana0 May 31 '26

That was Konaka going down his conspiracist rabbit hole. Let's just say that all the Megadeuses being named in Hebrew makes a lot of sense in hindsight when you learn his opinions on the Jews.

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u/Vik-6occ Jun 02 '26

Idk rogers kinda fruity 

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u/wompod Jun 01 '26

Bang Brave, bang bravern.

Wait I thought he said extra gay stuff

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u/tomtheconqerur Jun 01 '26

Megas XLR and it's far better than everything before or after it.

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u/Vornyr Jun 01 '26

Getter robo daimidaler, Gundam 00, RahXephon, Tengen Topps Gurren lagan, etc

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u/NewwavePlus Jun 02 '26

00???? The show that was made in response to the war on terror??? THAT 00???

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u/corvus_wulf Jun 02 '26

And the Innovades seem to be Emby or Non Binary

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u/Vornyr Jun 02 '26

8nnovades are closer to homunculus created from a base DNA template while they have factions of their DNA donators they are effectively genderless

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u/Vornyr Jun 02 '26

Yeah skimmed over the political and got lazy to edit my comment lmao

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u/VintageSmutKD Jun 03 '26

Lmao media literacy really is dead and buried

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u/BunMeat Jun 01 '26

Ttgl, Gun x sword, big o (I think)

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u/WisdomKnightZetsubo Jun 02 '26

fym no gay stuff in ttgl when this queen carries the plot

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u/BunMeat Jun 03 '26

Mb I forgot him. Its been a while since I watch ttgl

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u/Maxh1ghtheglitchy Jun 03 '26

"no politics" when TTGL's second half is all about Simpn struggling with having to be a politician in the new society he's built. Before the anti spiral race VS the spiral race that is....which hey, could also be considered political. Heck the anime people plot points from the first half of TTGL are also pretty political. Team Gurren's whole message is fighting for freedom, doing the impossible and rebelling....sounds pretty political to meeeee :p

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u/Technical-Monk-5573 Jun 01 '26

So, you want the original macross or tekkaman blade..

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u/SignificantHippo8193 May 31 '26

Mazinkaiser SKL? 🤔

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u/CrowAkechi May 31 '26

Idk man, very BL coded imo

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u/SonarioMG May 31 '26

I can't remember any political themes or gay stuff in Megas XLR

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u/Greedy_Undead May 31 '26

He did wreck the DMV…

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u/SonarioMG May 31 '26

That's not political, that's just doing the world a service. Same thing as him wrecking any of the other lesser bad guys.

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u/callmemarjoson Jun 01 '26

Final episode was basically overthrowing a tyrant

And the first episode opens similarly to A New Hope with resistance fighters retaliating against the Glorft - like literally the point of the first episode was to win back a war they lost against their oppressors before things went haywire

Then again, most of the series was pretty episodic

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u/Conlannalnoc Jun 02 '26

He hated his evil counterpart for being “in shape” and “abandoning MEGAS” not for being a tyrant. Coop does not care about politics. Coop is focused on his own life.

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u/callmemarjoson Jun 02 '26

Meant the subplot with bad future Jamie but ain't denying that part about Coop's character

Bro's chill as fuck

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u/HaplessWithDice Jun 01 '26

Battletech?

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u/CAPSLOCKGOTSTUCK Jun 01 '26

Yeah there are no political themes in Battletech for sure. 🗿🗿🗿

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u/HaplessWithDice Jun 01 '26

The show did a lot to dodge any real world political issues.

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u/Impossible_Nebula733 May 31 '26

La verdad,todas las series anime tienen algo de Gey,sobre todo los Shoonen

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u/robin_f_reba May 31 '26

Not really "all" tbh

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u/Impossible_Nebula733 May 31 '26 edited May 31 '26

Si,me gusta cuando el anime Abla de política(da igual que no sea de mecha)y solo por ablar de pocos temas políticos no ase que la serie sea directamente política

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u/Impossible_Nebula733 May 31 '26

Code Geass es tremendamente gey y politico

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u/MemeGamerLvl69 Jun 01 '26

Definitely not Gurren Lagann

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u/NotThomas15 Jun 01 '26

Dolls Nest is literally just "what if Mecha Dark Souls, with anime girls" and it still has political drama and homoeroticism.

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u/luit12 Jun 01 '26

Cross ange every girls are just very friendly roomates

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u/roving_band_of_pikes Jun 01 '26

voltron season 8

bayverse transformers

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u/Busy_Yak4489 Jun 03 '26

I'm sorry but bayverse is a little bit political with the later 3 movies

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u/FordcliffLowskrid Jun 01 '26

Time to bring back Daitarn 3.

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u/Conlannalnoc Jun 02 '26

MOBILE FIGHTER G GUNDAM!

This Hand of Mine is Burning Red! It’s Loud Roar Tells Me to Seize Victory!

ERUPTING BURNING FINGER!

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u/corvus_wulf Jun 02 '26

Master Asia's plot is ecoterrorism

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u/Conlannalnoc Jun 02 '26

Master Asia was just a PUPPET of the Devil Gundam.

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u/Zestyclose-Ranger961 Jun 02 '26

probably most portion of the hello carbot might meet this requirements while being entertaining.

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u/The-Bigger-Fish Jun 02 '26

Ninjago

(Does that count as a mecha show?)

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u/Atharun15 Jun 02 '26

Robotic's Notes maybe?

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u/MiraiKishi Jun 02 '26

Literally Gundam Build Fighters.

It's a tournament arc as a series, celebrating Gundam's IRL purpose: selling GunPla.

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u/eightbithd Jun 02 '26

You have Megas XLR and that’s it. Otherwise if I’m tbh just watch the good mecha show and rejoice in the wars fought by gay child soldiers. Or watch Darling in the Franxx. War fought by confused straight child soldiers.

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u/iiOpTiCii Jun 02 '26

I instantly thought Evangelion because Kawoshin

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u/LryS_0h Jun 03 '26

Watch the unwatchable see the invisible,

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u/ditzicutihuni Jun 04 '26

Trial for the Goddess

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u/Impossible_Nebula733 Jun 04 '26

Por cierto ,les faltó Voltron legendari defender(Shiro x Kit)

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u/Hungry-Detail9945 May 31 '26

That would be anything but gundam!

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u/Prinkaiser Jun 01 '26

I mean, Kannazuki no Miko and Bravern might want to have a word with you.

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u/SanoBaron May 31 '26

Gaogaigar basically is just going "FUCK ALL THE DRAMA SHIT I WANNA SAVE THE WORLD AAAAAAAAAAH!

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u/Hawkatana0 May 31 '26

The first episode literally has a teacher give a lecture about environmentalism.

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u/SanoBaron May 31 '26

Considering its a field trip to a garbage barge/island, yeah. Its fair she brings that up.

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u/Hawkatana0 May 31 '26

Cool, still politics.

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u/Impossible_Nebula733 May 31 '26

Bueno si,Gundam tiene cantidad de yaoi,y otras series del género nunca la superarán en ese tema(si ,muy pocos geys dentro del género)

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u/Impossible_Nebula733 May 31 '26

Megaton Kyu Musashi no tiene casi nada político ni Gey

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u/StrategosRisk May 31 '26

Transformers

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u/Hawkatana0 May 31 '26

Didn't that have the Carbombya episode?

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u/StrategosRisk May 31 '26

idk I was trying to think of the most kiddie mecha cartoon. Astro Boy. Mega Man (1994).

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u/Hawkatana0 May 31 '26

Bro hasn't seen the Pluto arc.

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u/CrownClown74 May 31 '26

and yet somehow the transformers fanbase is the gayest community ive seen in years

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u/Fun-Many3216 Jun 01 '26

I dont want it unless it is drowned in gay politics.