Classic/Shounen/Mecha Titles

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Classic: (Style) Older anime titles, from the 80's back. As a rule of thumb, a title should at least be 10-years old.

Shounen: (Target Group) (↗shounen (少年) = "boy", "juvenile"; opposite of "Shoujo") A demographic of manga readers (generally considered 10 to 16 years of age). Refers to anime based on manga that was originally serialized in a magazine targeting boys of any age. See also: ↗Wikipedia:Shounen.

Mecha: (Story/Location) This is a genre of anime which features mechanical fighting machines. Often these take the form of giant robots but this isn't the only form mecha can take. There are tons of examples of mecha titles considering the popularity of the series.

Title Rating Synopsis
C

Cho Jiku Yosai Macross
Buy The year is 1999 and a giant, unmanned, alien spaceship crashes on South Atalia Island. Humanity attempts to come together under a U.N. banner in order to learn the secrets of this alien ship and to rebuild it. After ten years of wars and construction, the ship is completed and called SDF-1 Macross. The celebration to launch this massive space ship includes showing off the latest fighter/mecha units in Earth's forces, created thanks to the technology of the crashed ship.
E
End of Eva Rent See Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion
End of Evangelion Rent See Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion
Evangelion, The End of Rent See Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion
K
Kido Senshi Gundam Buy See Kidou Senshi Gundam

Kidou Senshi Gundam
Buy

It is the Universal Century 0079, the Earth Federation is fighting a rebel space colony force who call themselves Zeons. Earth is losing horriblely due to the Zeon's mobile suit technology(Zaku). The Earth Federation constucts an array of top secret ships and mobile suits(Gundam). Gundam is housed in "White Base" a new Federation battleship. The White Base and Gundam are attacked when they are packing up to head to earth. The ship's crew is killed and it is taken over by refugees and unexperienced soliders. They face great difficulty with the Zeon forces and within their own ranks.

M
Macross Buy See Cho Jiku Yosai Macross
Mobile Suit Gundam Buy See Kidou Senshi Gundam
Mobile Suit Gundam 0079 Buy See Kidou Senshi Gundam
N

Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion
Rent An alternative ending to the TV series, replacing the episodes 25 and 26 by a movie which now answers many of the questions left open in the series: Now that the last angel has been defeated, what will happen next as NERV has lost its purpose but still has control over two EVAs powerful enough to destroy the world as we know it? Will SEELE allow Ikari Gendou to stay in control? And what was all this story all about?
R
Robotech - The Macross Saga Buy See Cho Jiku Yosai Macross
S
Super Dimensional Fortress Macross Buy See Cho Jiku Yosai Macross
新世紀エヴァンゲリオン劇場版 THE END OF EVANGELION Rent See Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion
Genre
Action(3) Cyberpunk(1) Romance(1) Tragedy(1)
Setting
Sci-Fi(3)
Demographic
Style
Acquired Taste(1) Surreal(1)
Keywords
Dark(1) Depression(1) Sequel(1) Spiritual(1)
Violent(1)
Type
Movie(1) TV(2)
Release Year
1997(1) 1983(1) 1982(1) 1980(1) 1979(1)

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