Full Metal Panic!

Interested in the genre? Despite what people might say, mecha is a rich character focused genre with a variety of incredibly unique stories to tell. Here's a collection of shows with short, straight-to-the-point descriptions about each. Note that some of these were translated by fans, and aren't available officially/legally. A good amount of these are available on various streaming services, tho as for all well you might have to sail the high seas a bit. Disregard my personal scores, as its subjective at end of the day and you might like it. Also please don't dismiss some of these just because they're really old, they pretty much all hold up well even today. Check each out, and see what strikes your fancy. Any shows I personally haven't watch I got info on from fellow mecha friends of mine:

All shows featured in Super Robot Wars V
Not included:
Gundam Crossbone (manga)
Full Metal Panic (post-anime Light Novels)

BANG BANG BANG ★
An anime in which handguns are coolly portrayed and used as the primary weapon.

English dubs that I found to be really good and are at least comparable to (if not better than) their subbed counterparts. Part 1 - https://myanimelist.net/stacks/885


PM me if there are titles that I've missed.

Seires debuted in SRW Alpha Gaiden-SRW J

Just some of the most popular Mecha anime, not the greatest. Some of them that I still need to watch too!

The mecha genre is specific to the anime medium, for the reason that what once started from an interesting concept, over the decades and the various artistic interpretations it had gone through, did managed to reach it's full development and thematic recognition.

It's origin can be traced way back to the end of World War 2, and the notion of the general populace at the time, that the technological breakthroughs, and their further usage to help and safeguard mankind are the way that we should develop as a species, so that's when the bipedal metal giants were born - a figures with humane limbs and features, that are controlled by a person and which allows them to wield this overwhelming power in service of a greater good.

In this interest stack, I've presented the ways in this genre had changed, and the specific shows which had major impact upon the development of the mecha as a concept, and the ways it had branched out of the established norm for this genre exploring a broad spectrum of themes. The order of the shows is in chronological order, since that way the slight alterations and changes can be presented in more simple and efficient manner.

Shows where ships play some fairly notable part in the story. Stack is biased toward ocean-going vessels. Submarines are also included.

Superb animation that we all love, from our dearest Kyoto Animation Studios.

Animes that had been aired on any Filipino major channel (ABS-CBN, GMA, TV5 etc.). Not included are the shows that only aired on Animax-Asia.

Watch order for the anime adaption of Shoji Gatou's light novel series. Compilations/recaps not included.

Anime with girls, who really, really, really, really, REALLY like someone, but too tsundere to admit it, if that’s what you want.

This is a part of a series of stacks that are about artistic tendencies in anime (and that border the fine line between sophisticated and pretentious).

This stack is a work in progress.

Bibliography:
Clements, Jonathan. "The Brown Screen: Trended change in Japanese animation 1966–83." Anime: A History. Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. 154-155.
Condry, Ian. "When Anime Robots became real." The Soul of Anime. Duke University Press, 2013. 117-119, 122-127.
Hack, Brett Anthony. "Screens, Clichés, and Revolutions: Code Geass and the Mediated Imagination of Change." Anime and Social Imagination: Media Fictions in Japan’s Age of Neoliberalism. 2021. Nagoya University, PhD thesis. 160-162.

These are the anime that appear in Super Robot Wars J for Game Boy Advance.

These are the anime that appear in Super Robot Wars W for DS.
This is often considered one of, if not the best written Super Robot Wars game, and is a personal favourite of mine.

These are the anime that appear in Supa Robo Gakuen for DS. Yes, it's supposed to be spelled that way.
None of these anime feature any story whatsoever in this game, which saves me a lot of effort.

These are the anime that appear in Super Robot Wars DD for Android and İOS

Not included:
Devilman(Manga)
PAC-MAN
Kikai Sentai Zenkaiger
Mobile Suit Gundam: Char's Counterattack - Beltorchika's Children(Manga)


Note: Since the game is updated over time, there will be changes in this roster over time.