These are extremely good, high quality mecha anime picked across 5 decades of the medium you can get emotionally invested in, creating a genuine level of immersion to their masterful work. They are meaningful, real life influencing works, with themes that serve as important life lessons, with characters so connectable they might as well be real people, with fully realized concepts and fantasies, with stories worth the gravitas and seriousness they demand. While they might be on different levels in the immersion scale, they're all pieces of art that with their good animation, writing, directing, sound direction, art direction, and theming are well worth a watch even for non-mecha fans.
OVA, 1988,
7 eps
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7/10 in the immersion scale
Movie, 1989,
1 ep
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10/10 in the immersion scale
Movie, 1993,
1 ep
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10/10 in the immersion scale
TV, 1995,
26 eps
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9.5/10 in the immersion scale
Movie, 1997,
1 ep
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9/10 in the immersion scale
TV, 2007,
27 eps
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9/10 in the immersion scale
OVA, 2000,
6 eps
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9/10 in the immersion scale
OVA, 1988,
6 eps
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8/10 in the immersion scale
OVA, 2004,
6 eps
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7.5/10 in the immersion scale
Movie, 1984,
1 ep
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7/10 in the immersion scale
OVA, 1994,
4 eps
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7.5/10 in the immersion scale
OVA, 1992,
7 eps
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7/10 in the immersion scale
TV, 2002,
26 eps
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7/10 in the immersion scale
TV, 2000,
25 eps
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7/10 in the immersion scale
TV, 1999,
26 eps
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7/10 in the immersion scale
TV, 2010,
25 eps
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7/10 in the immersion scale
Movie, 2019,
1 ep
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7/10 in the immersion scale
TV, 2017,
22 eps
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7/10 in the immersion scale
TV, 1985,
50 eps
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7/10 in the immersion scale
Movie, 1988,
1 ep
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7/10 in the immersion scale
Movie, 1991,
1 ep
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7/10 in the immersion scale
TV, 1993,
51 eps
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7/10 in the immersion scale
TV, 1999,
50 eps
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7.5/10 in the immersion scale
OVA, 1989,
6 eps
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7/10 in the immersion scale
OVA, 2015,
6 eps
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7/10 in the immersion scale
Movie, 2016,
1 ep
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7/10 in the immersion scale
Movie, 2021,
1 ep
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6.5/10 in the immersion scale
TV, 1980,
39 eps
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6.5/10 in the immersion scale
Movie, 1982,
1 ep
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6.5/10 in the immersion scale
TV, 1977,
23 eps
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6.5/10 in the immersion scale
TV, 1978,
40 eps
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6.5/10 in the immersion scale
TV, 1983,
52 eps
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6.5/10 in the immersion scale
TV, 1981,
75 eps
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6.5/10 in the immersion scale