Curious about my robot-loving followers; what's your favorite non-Gundam Sunrise mecha show? For me it's Galient and Dougram
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A tie between VOTOMS and Layzner.
mar 29, 2025, 10:08 pm • 0 0 • view
I'd have a hard time choosing between those two myself. Too bad for Takahashi that Tomino exists or his reputation would be undisputed.
mar 29, 2025, 10:11 pm • 1 0 • view
VOTOMS and Ideon, I think. VOTOMS is just so well executed in its narrative, and Ideon is so wildly ambitious for a toy show meant for children
mar 29, 2025, 10:23 pm • 1 0 • view
Nostalgia is probably coloring it for me, but Big O.
mar 30, 2025, 5:37 pm • 1 0 • view
I really love Dunbine, Votoms, and J-Decker.
mar 29, 2025, 11:27 pm • 0 0 • view
Also, I really should watch Dougram finally. Since it’s over 70 episodes I’ll probably start this autumn after I’ve moved to L.A. and settled in
mar 30, 2025, 12:42 am • 1 0 • view
Hard to decide but I have to give big points to Dunbine for being a great Isekai. L-Gaim for style points.
mar 30, 2025, 12:37 am • 0 0 • view
I can not really pick between Dougram and Votoms, but I guess Dougram just because first scene of Dougram might be the strongest start to a mecha anime ever tbh.
mar 29, 2025, 11:42 pm • 3 0 • view
A surprising amount of people responded with Patlabor, which I'l admit despite the fact that Sunrise did animate the TV series I never think of as their show since it's not their original property. But if I did that would be at the top of my list.
mar 30, 2025, 4:36 pm • 10 0 • view
🐰🐱That's the reason Lilly only mentioned Combattler V in passing. Proto-Sunrise did the animation, but the production company was Toei.
apr 1, 2025, 12:28 am • 0 0 • view
VOTOMS, Layzner, pretty much every Brave series
mar 29, 2025, 10:49 pm • 1 0 • view
GaoGaiGar, with Big O and Escaflowne following close behind.
mar 30, 2025, 2:16 am • 0 0 • view
Watched Layzer recently and it’s so peak… I found out Bandai Entertainment had planned to dub it around the same time Zeta was dubbed, but the tapes they were sent were worn out and off-coloured so they couldn’t do it 😭 Imagine a world where we got that tbh
mar 29, 2025, 10:14 pm • 1 0 • view
Yup! Gorg too! Thankfully we've got them both now. Layzner kills me, they could've just had regular beams but they just HAD to animate them on hard mode
mar 29, 2025, 10:15 pm • 1 0 • view
Layzner to me is the proto-Gundam IBO
mar 29, 2025, 10:16 pm • 1 0 • view
THE BEAM EFFECTS ARE SO COOL… the way they look like lightning sells how powerful they are :D
mar 29, 2025, 10:17 pm • 0 0 • view
But it also inherently makes them more complicated! They didn't have to go that hard
mar 29, 2025, 10:18 pm • 1 0 • view
Sunrise: we gotta make this go hard (and maybe also to look less Gundamish) let’s do crazy beam effects Also Sunrise: ah crap we’re out of budget how are we going to end the series
mar 29, 2025, 10:20 pm • 0 0 • view
Sunrise: "Oh no our sponsor's heater fan killed people, fuck shit fuck" Finish it in an OVA
mar 29, 2025, 10:22 pm • 1 0 • view
WAIT *THAT* WAS PART OF IT?!
mar 29, 2025, 10:23 pm • 0 0 • view
I haven't seen all of them yet, but so far it's Patlabor. If Patlabor doesn't count because it isn't a Hajime Yatate joint, then Escaflowne.
mar 30, 2025, 8:23 pm • 2 0 • view
My immediate first thought went to Cross Ange, a decision I’m 1000% standing behind
mar 29, 2025, 11:35 pm • 2 0 • view
Aura Battler Dunbine
mar 31, 2025, 12:17 am • 2 0 • view
Assuming bebop doesn't count (despite the great mechanical designs) I'd say say Big O and Dunbine
mar 29, 2025, 11:44 pm • 0 0 • view
Code geass was my second mecha show i got interested in by sunrise. It was interesting that it was a mecha show that is also not trying to be a mecha show if that makes any sense? Idk.
mar 30, 2025, 5:42 pm • 1 0 • view
The real GOAT though is this music video they produced with Crazy Ken Band for a food logistics company. www.youtube.com/watch?v=avNx...
mar 29, 2025, 11:55 pm • 0 0 • view
I'm only 28 episodes in to Dougram and it's already a contender. Among the shows I've finished, it's gotta be King Gainer or Gasaraki. Ideon is essentially a Gundam so I took it out of the running.
mar 29, 2025, 11:52 pm • 1 0 • view
Wow, Gasaraki is definitely a dark horse there. The main things I remember about that one are a couple of great, "realistic" mecha battles early on, half the characters having the same last name, and the plot ultimately hinging on manipulating the price of grain
mar 30, 2025, 12:45 am • 1 0 • view
Also I do not agree that Ideon is basically a Gundam so I'd still say it's in the running
mar 30, 2025, 12:46 am • 3 0 • view
Full Metal Panic I mean, it features a ship that is a submarine aircraft carrier that launches mecha (sometimes via catapult, sometimes via ballistic missile)
mar 30, 2025, 1:27 am • 1 0 • view
Ooh that's a toughie. Layzner, VOTOMS, GGG or Da Garn possibly.
mar 29, 2025, 10:48 pm • 1 0 • view
Probably a tie between Metal Armor Dragonar, Matchless Raijin-Oh, & GaoGaiGar. Giant Gorg is more of a "golem" to me than a "mecha", but I guess that would be right behind those.
mar 29, 2025, 10:08 pm • 1 0 • view
I mean we see that TECHNICALLY, assuming the Gorg is identical to the Mannon, it has a cockpit.
mar 29, 2025, 10:10 pm • 0 0 • view
But it's much cooler to ride on top of Gorg's head.
mar 29, 2025, 10:16 pm • 0 0 • view
No arguments here
mar 29, 2025, 10:17 pm • 0 0 • view
Layzner, Escaflowne, Infinite Ryvius.
mar 29, 2025, 10:42 pm • 0 0 • view
I should really watch Escaflowne again.
mar 29, 2025, 11:13 pm • 0 0 • view
Votoms and Ideon are neck and neck, with Galient right behind.
mar 29, 2025, 10:22 pm • 2 0 • view
I still gotta finish Ideon, in my heart I am a poseur
mar 29, 2025, 10:23 pm • 2 0 • view
There are simply too many dope shows out there. You are doing great with the ones you have seen. Once I finish Layzner, I think I'm heading to Dougram zone.
mar 29, 2025, 10:25 pm • 0 0 • view
Dougram is everything I wanted VOTOMS to be but didn't get
mar 29, 2025, 10:26 pm • 2 0 • view
I watched the first episode of Dougram and thought, " damn, that's how you start a fucking show!" I've kind of been running out the clock to see if it got a remaster but I doubt that's happening
mar 29, 2025, 10:28 pm • 1 0 • view
DUDE THE FIRST -MINUTE-
mar 29, 2025, 10:29 pm • 1 0 • view
On the strength of the design of the Scopedog alone... VOTOMS
mar 29, 2025, 10:13 pm • 1 0 • view
I think this and Gaogaigar will be leaders
mar 29, 2025, 10:14 pm • 2 0 • view
Yet to see Dougram, so my vote goes to Votoms
mar 30, 2025, 8:20 am • 1 0 • view
King Gainer! Also Patlabor.
apr 19, 2025, 2:23 pm • 0 0 • view
I WOULD BE LYING IF I SAID ANYTHING OTHER THAN BIG O
mar 29, 2025, 10:00 pm • 8 0 • view
The Heaven's Day episode is a Christmas tradition for me
mar 29, 2025, 10:03 pm • 1 0 • view
Patlabor.
mar 30, 2025, 12:05 am • 8 0 • view
All the Patlabors are pretty great- TV, OVA and movies.
mar 30, 2025, 12:12 am • 3 0 • view
I really really dig VOTOMS and GaoGaiGar. Vifam is rad too from what I’ve watched but can’t definitely rank it until I finish the series.
mar 30, 2025, 5:05 am • 0 0 • view
And big O
mar 30, 2025, 1:18 am • 1 0 • view
Big O so far I think is the most common response
mar 30, 2025, 1:19 am • 0 0 • view
Brigadoon
mar 30, 2025, 1:13 am • 0 0 • view
Layzner.
mar 29, 2025, 11:21 pm • 1 0 • view
Skullgunners were fucking terrifying
mar 30, 2025, 12:35 am • 0 0 • view
I think maybe Dougram and L-Gaim for me.
mar 31, 2025, 5:53 pm • 0 0 • view
A tie between Macross/Robotech and Escaflowne
mar 30, 2025, 10:27 pm • 0 0 • view
I am STILL working my way through Dougram and I can't believe this show got made and actually ran for so many episodes (laudatory).
mar 29, 2025, 11:45 pm • 1 0 • view
Don't forget, it's the first Real Robot show post-Gundam!!!
mar 29, 2025, 11:49 pm • 3 0 • view
It still seems like a fever dream that Che Guevara willed into existence.
mar 29, 2025, 11:50 pm • 0 0 • view
Dunbine is positively my favourite. Then Giant Gorg and Escaflowne (honorable mention to Granzort, too).
mar 31, 2025, 5:45 pm • 1 0 • view
I was going to say "I guess I can't pick Heybot due to the 2015 restructuring", but I'm picking Heybot anyway as Bandai Namco Pictures were 100% a subsidary of Sunrise at the time.
mar 29, 2025, 10:24 pm • 3 0 • view
Love me some VOTOMS.
mar 30, 2025, 4:06 am • 1 0 • view
its either Votoms or The Big O for me, theyre so peak
mar 29, 2025, 11:29 pm • 2 0 • view
Still need to watch more non-Gundam shows, but out of what I have, I adored Dougram and I'll have to give the show another watch sometime this year.
mar 30, 2025, 3:02 am • 0 0 • view
Giant gorg and votoms (I'm assuming those are both sunrise?)
mar 30, 2025, 4:16 pm • 0 0 • view
They sure are!
mar 30, 2025, 4:33 pm • 0 0 • view
Are there any from that era that aren't sunrise? Might be the faster question
mar 30, 2025, 4:41 pm • 0 0 • view
Oh believe me there's plenty, Sunrise were just the leader of the pack.
mar 30, 2025, 5:00 pm • 0 0 • view
Giant Gorg, its flat out my favorite anime also
mar 29, 2025, 11:53 pm • 1 0 • view
eureka seven!
mar 29, 2025, 11:52 pm • 0 0 • view
Sorry, but E7 is Bones, not Sunrise.
mar 29, 2025, 11:56 pm • 0 0 • view
ah piss i missed that part! hmmm that gets quite hard as there is quite a few, stuck between patlabor and big o now that i think?
mar 29, 2025, 11:58 pm • 0 0 • view
even as varied as mecha is, i just think they are extremely unique within the genre and great examples of how far you can go with mecha premises. all you need is a robot after all.
mar 30, 2025, 12:07 am • 0 0 • view
*Music sting*
apr 19, 2025, 1:23 pm • 0 0 • view
The Big O
mar 30, 2025, 9:55 pm • 1 0 • view
easily VOTOMS
mar 29, 2025, 10:40 pm • 1 0 • view
Is it weird that I liked Eureka Seven? Probably.. I’ll see myself out, sorry!
mar 29, 2025, 10:46 pm • 0 0 • view
Going 'Surely it's Macross, wait what about Patlabor, wait what about Xabungle, wait what about VOTOMS, wait what about Gunbuster, etc' and then realising that, just based on how many times I've watched it, it's probably that Obsolete show Urobuchi did for Youtube
mar 29, 2025, 11:22 pm • 3 0 • view
Macross isn't Sunrise yet.
mar 29, 2025, 11:36 pm • 0 0 • view
Oh, I foolishly missed that part of Tom's post
mar 29, 2025, 11:39 pm • 1 0 • view
He should ask about favorite MIC show.
mar 29, 2025, 11:41 pm • 2 0 • view
Xabungle
mar 30, 2025, 4:38 pm • 0 0 • view
VOTOMs, Big O, Code Geass, Dunbine, Escaflowne, Gasaraki, Patlabor, too many to name and too many I'm missing to pick one favorite.
mar 29, 2025, 10:41 pm • 2 0 • view
It has to be Escaflowne.
mar 29, 2025, 10:41 pm • 7 0 • view