# The best mecha anime of all time

From Mazinger Z to The Witch from Mercury: the giant-robot anime that top Japanese fan polls and recommendation rankings (ranking.net, All About and others).

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- Nov 27, 2024 · 中村 香織
- https://even.best/en/l/2091/the-best-mecha-anime-of-all-time

## Top 14

1. **Mobile Suit Gundam (1979)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — The 'real robot' origin that changed mecha anime.
2. **Neon Genesis Evangelion (1995)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Shinji Ikari and Eva Unit-01.
3. **Gurren Lagann (2007)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — A hot-blooded mecha show that drills through the heavens.
4. **Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion (2006)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — A boy with the power of Geass leads a rebellion.
5. **Mazinger Z (1972)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — The original piloted giant robot.
6. **Super Dimension Fortress Macross (1982)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Transforming fighters and the power of song.
7. **Eureka Seven (2005)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — A boy who surfs the sky and a robot.
8. **Mobile Suit Gundam SEED (2002)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — War between Naturals and Coordinators.
9. **Patlabor (1989)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — The police unit fighting crimes involving Labor robots.
10. **Fafner in the Azure (2004)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Teenagers defending the island of Tatsumiyajima.
11. **Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans (2015)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Child soldiers and the fight for Martian independence.
12. **Genesis of Aquarion (2005)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Combining robots and a twelve-thousand-year love.
13. **Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch from Mercury (2022)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — A Gundam set at a school.
14. **Knights of Sidonia (2014)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — The seed ship Sidonia and its war with the Gauna.

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