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Short Mecha OVAs

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byIdeDial
Mar 29 2023, 1:07 PM | Updated Mar 31, 2023 4:52 PM
Mecha OVAs that are shorter than 15 minutes.
Special, 1987Finished 1 ep, 2 min

Flying Dougram battles in space.

StudioSunrise
SourceOriginal
ThemesMechaSpace
4.84
967
Movie, 1983Finished 1 ep, 8 min

Malcontents on the Deloyer colony agitate for the independence of their world from the Earth Federation. In an unexpected coup, the elected Governor declares martial law and sets himself up as absolute dictator. With the approval of the Federation, he rules the planet with an iron fist. In reaction, a ragtag group (including the governor's estranged son) rises in open rebellion, using a powerful prototype Combat Armor: the Dougram. Their goal is the end of the dictatorship and total independence from the Federation's influence. The story follows the action of the guerilla freedom fighters known as "The Fang of the Sun." The war is fought across the planet Deloyer as the Federation vigorously pursues the rebels. (Source: AniDB)

StudioSunrise
SourceOriginal
ThemeMecha
5.32
1.2K
Special, 1989Finished 1 ep, 1 min

Animated video created just for a 1989 event that featured all the major mobile suit robots from the first 10 years of the Gundam anime franchise. (Source: ANN)

StudioSunrise
SourceOriginal
ThemeMecha
5.80
5.7K
Special, 2009Finished 1 ep, 5 min

The story of "Ring of Gundam" takes place in a new era long after the events of the first Mobile Suit Gundam series' One-Year War. In this world setting, a giant 600-kilometer-wide ring now floats in lunar orbit. An Earth Federation Forces member named Eiji discovers an object called "Beauty Memory" buried in a high-altitude, massive rockbed on Earth. (Source: ANN)

StudioSunrise
SourceOriginal
ThemesMechaSpace
5.16
5.3K
ONA, 2018Finished 1 ep, 14 min

The Gunpla Force Battle Tournament is a big event held in GBN once per year. Competing in the final round are Avalon, led by the champion Kyoya Kujo, and the elite 7th Panzer Division led by the cunning Rommel. Starting with Kyoya's Gundam AGE II Magnum, a variety of Gunpla take to the field to determine which is the strongest force! (Source: Official site)

StudioSunrise
SourceOriginal
ThemeMecha
6.46
7.8K
Special, 1998Finished 1 ep, 2 min

In the late Universal Century, the Earth Federation enacts an attempt to propel a craft at faster-than-light speeds. Zeon forces attack the launch facility in space and destroy it, but not before the craft can be successfully deployed.

StudioSunrise
SourceOriginal
ThemeMecha
5.50
5.6K
OVA, 2009Finished 1 ep, 2 min

30th Gundam Perfect Mission is a short original video animation (OVA) officially released by Sunrise in celebration of the 30th anniversary of the Gundam metaseries. It features all the titular and mascot gundams of the main series in a non-cannon conjoint mission. (Source: Gundam Wikia)

StudioSunrise
SourceOriginal
ThemeMecha
6.78
7.3K
CM, 2021Finished 1 ep, 0 min

A special PV advertising Gundam Unicorn themed Nike Sneakers with original animation by Sunrise.

StudioSunrise
SourceOriginal
ThemeMecha
5.40
750
OVA, 1991Finished 1 ep, 9 min

A promotional video tape with a short Z-Knight anime and other clips sold with a Z-Knight douple pack including colour variations of two Z-Knights. (Source: AniDB)

StudioSunrise
SourceOther
ThemeMecha
5.65
464
Special, 2004Finished 1 ep, 2 min

Kimi ga Nozomu Eien parodying the Gundam series in two minutes.

StudioUnknown
SourceOriginal
5.46
6.7K
Special, 2004Finished 2 eps, 6 min

In 2004, Optimus Prime is alerted to a disturbance at the gates of Autobot City; a force of Decepticons led by a vicious new enemy, a Tyrannosaurus rex calling himself Megatron!! Autobots and Decepticons from across the eras have converged on this time to clash over the newly-discovered energy source solitarium!

SourceOriginal
ThemeMecha
5.42
1.3K
ONA, 2019Finished 3 eps, 1 min

Transformers' Bumblebee continues his tour in Japan with new chibi-fied versions of the robot by Pop Team Epic's Bkub Okawa and animator Yuzo Yamamoto promoting the Japanese release of the Bumblebee film. The Transformers film franchise prequel stars Hailee Steinfeld as Charlie Watson, a girl who comes into possession of the Bumblebee autobot in 1987. The alien robot has lost his voice and has his memory bank damaged before taking the form of an old Volkswagen Beetle and going into hiding. When teenager Charlie Watson gets the Beetle for her birthday, she discovers it to be the mute and amnesiac B-127 and names him "Bumblebee", but his presence triggers the arrival of Decepticons Shatter and Dropkick, who receive assistance from Sector 7 to hunt him down. The film premiered in Japanese theaters March 22, 2019. (Source: ANN)

StudioUnknown
SourceOther
N/A
332
TV, 2017Finished 3 eps, 2 min

(No synopsis yet.)

SourceOriginal
5.73
3.6K
Special, 2011Finished 1 ep, 2 min

The pilot episode for Tiger & Bunny released on the first DVD & BD volume.

StudioSunrise
SourceOriginal
6.15
10.0K
OVA, 2011Finished 1 ep, 13 min

After a decades-long war against the Dark Ones reaches a stalemate, the giant robot Atlanger is about to be formally retired. But when the Earth is suddenly attacked, it'll be up to Asuka Ken and a group of ragtag rookie pilots to save everyone. (Source: Inka-Subs)

StudioAIC
SourceOther
ThemeMecha
5.39
606
OVA, 2001Finished 1 ep, 7 min

When an alien force attacks Earth, a giant sword falls onto the campus of Paradise Elementary School, transforming it into a flying vessel. The fate of the planet lies with one group of kids who must pilot powerful mecha to stop the invaders before it's too late! (Source: Anime-Planet) Note: Originally planned as a TV anime series, this ended up as a promotional video for its manga serialization on magazine Monthly Daiteioh.

StudioSunrise
SourceOriginal
ThemeMecha
DemographicKids
5.22
896
ONA, 2018Finished 2 eps, 3 min

(No synopsis yet.)

StudioSunrise
SourceGame
ThemeMecha
5.66
898
ONA, 2017Finished 5 eps, 1 min

When a gust of wind blows away a young woman's hat, a high school girl sprints past her and leaps into the air to retrieve it. However, this is no ordinary girl. Feeling the hat barely escape her grasp, the girl morphs her body into a fighter jet, blasting off into the distance with a burst of speed to catch it. This encounter is the young woman's unexpected introduction to the Henkei Shoujo: seemingly normal girls with incredible transformation powers who live among humans. [Written by MAL Rewrite]

StudioDLE
SourceOriginal
5.70
29K
ONA, 2019Finished 3 eps, 2 min

While preparing for a tea party, Hello Kitty receives a distress signal from Haro. She travels to the Universal Century timeline to help Amuro Ray and the Gundam end the One Year War. Cross-promotion to commemorate the 40th anniversary of Gundam and the 45th anniversary of Hello Kitty. (Source: ANN)

StudioUnknown
SourceMixed media
ThemesMechaSpace
DemographicKids
6.61
7.2K
ONA, 2020Finished 1 ep, 11 min

It's the highlight of GBN's anniversary event, the "Gunpla Battle One-Day Battle Royal"! Participants are selected from the Divers who played most passionately this season, and they're fighting in machines randomly assigned mainly from those Gunpla ranked highest by all Divers in the Great Gunpla Ballot! Now the final round is about to begin, with the tough fighters who've won their respective blocks! There, an unpredictable, super special, never-seen-before Gunpla dream battle will... START!!! (Source: AniDB)

SourceOriginal
ThemeMecha
6.53
3.2K

Bell and Aida are scouting the zone around Towasanga, when they're attacked by Mask Squad. Mask is piloting a new unit, a pitch black Phenex.

StudioSunrise
SourceOriginal
ThemesMechaSpace
5.87
2.9K
Special, 2011Finished 2 eps, 1 min

Specials included on SD Gundam Collection Box.

StudioSunrise
SourceOriginal
5.00
1.2K

Mayfly reveals Cima's backstory in flashbacks as she reflects on her past prior to the events of Episode 13. It reveals that Cima and her unit poisoned a Side 5 colony using G-3 nerve gas, under orders, but were treated as pariahs afterwards by their own countrymen for committing such an atrocity. At the end of the war her superior refused to let her retreat to Axis. Because their home colony Mahal had been converted into a weapon, Cima and her men were left stranded and homeless. (Source: Wikipedia)

StudioSunrise
SourceRadio
5.93
7.1K

As the war between ZAFT's Coordinators and Earth's Naturals comes to a close, the survivors of the conflict recuperate. Some of these veterans heal with the aid of loved ones, and others choose to recover in isolation, reflecting on their losses and the friends no longer with them. In this epilogue to the hardships of Kira Yamato and Athrun Zala, the heroes come to terms with their roles in the recent war and prepare for adventures yet to come. [Written by MAL Rewrite]

StudioSunrise
SourceOriginal
ThemeMecha
6.97
17K
ONA, 2020Finished 1 ep, 10 min

U.C. 0079 - A squadron of Zakus from the Principality of Zeon invades a neutral space colony. Amuro Ray reluctantly pilots the Gundam G40 prototype mobile suit to combat the threat, as well as Zeon ace pilot Char Aznable and his custom red Zaku II. (Source: ANN)

6.06
4.1K
Special, 2016Finished 1 ep, 3 min

The short begins when an Anaheim Electronics-manufacture Sinanju Stein unit, stolen and now affiliated with the Neo Zeon unit Sleeves, bursts through the Earth's stratosphere. The Unicorn takes off from the Nahel Argama and moves to intercept. While it engages with the Sinanju Stein, the Banshee Norn and Phenex are moving to assist. (Source: ANN)

StudioUnknown
SourceLight novel
ThemeMecha
5.79
2.2K
Special, 2001Finished 1 ep, 10 min

Short animated recap of the One Year War from the perspective of LCDR. Garret Schmitzer. Included on the game disc of the Mobile Suit Gundam: Zeonic Front, a PS2 game by BANDAI.

StudioSunrise
SourceOriginal
5.70
2.5K

A Romance of the Three Kingdoms retelling using SD Gundams.

StudioSunrise
SourceOriginal
5.84
2.5K
CM, 2016Finished 1 ep, 2 min

(No synopsis yet.)

StudioUnknown
SourceOther
ThemeMecha
5.62
584
ONA, 2020Finished 1 ep, 2 min

Crossover between Shinkansen Henkei Robo Shinkalion and Hello Kitty.

StudioUnknown
SourceOther
ThemeMecha
DemographicKids
5.82
458
Special, 2023Finished 1 ep, 10 min

Unaired footage included on the BD release of Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a Time.

StudioKhara
SourceOriginal
ThemeMecha
7.03
10K
CM, 2012Finished 3 eps, 0 min

A collaboration series between Evangelion: 3.0 You Can (Not) Redo and the Japan Racing Association (JRA). The first two ads, "Unknown Horse" and "Birth of Eva-Impact," begin with the Evangelion anime's Spear of Longinus falling from the heavens. Real-life jockey Yutaka Take, not being able to synchronize with an EVA unit weapon, tells Shinji, Rei and Asuka of the secret decision that has been made. "Eva-Impact" is an humanoid thoroughbred developed by JRA and Nerv as the "Final Battle Weapon Type Horse." Eva-Impact was born from the combination of Nerv technology and DNA extracted from legendary horses with a 150-year lineage. The fall of the Spear of Longinus triggered the development of this weapon. (Source: ANN)

StudioGainax
SourceOriginal
ThemeMecha
4.64
3.7K
Special, 2000Finished 3 eps, 2 min

A series of Gunbuster shorts included in the DVD release.

StudioGainax
SourceOriginal
ThemesMechaSpace
5.70
7.0K

A special episode bundled with the Nintendo DS game based on the series. Envious of seeing how Simon keeps his Lagann clean and neat, Kamina asks the mysterious Chitori to clean up his Gurren for him, unaware of her true intentions. (Source: Wikipedia)

StudioGainax
SourceOriginal
ThemeMecha
6.76
37K

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