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1. Neon Genesis Evangelion (1995–1996)
TV-MA | 24 min | Animation, Action, Drama
A teenage boy finds himself recruited as a member of an elite team of pilots by his father.
Stars: Megumi Ogata, Megumi Hayashibara, Kotono Mitsuishi, Spike Spencer
Votes: 85,502
2. Code Geass (2006–2008)
TV-14 | 24 min | Animation, Action, Drama
After being given a mysterious power to control others, an outcast prince becomes the masked leader of the rebellion against an all-powerful empire.
Stars: Jun Fukuyama, Takahiro Sakurai, Johnny Yong Bosch, Yukana
Votes: 80,359
3. Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion (1997)
TV-MA | 87 min | Animation, Action, Drama
Concurrent theatrical ending of the TV series Neon Genesis Evangelion (1995).
Directors: Hideaki Anno, Kazuya Tsurumaki | Stars: Megumi Ogata, Megumi Hayashibara, Yûko Miyamura, Kotono Mitsuishi
Votes: 64,415
4. Mobile Suit Gundam Seed Freedom (2024)
124 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
Lacus Clyne becomes president of a peace monitoring organization, but things are not quite what they seem.
Director: Mitsuo Fukuda | Stars: Cherami Leigh, Johnny Yong Bosch, Max Mittelman, Zeno Robinson
Votes: 411
5. Evangelion: 1.0 You Are (Not) Alone (2007)
PG-13 | 98 min | Animation, Action, Drama
The fate of the world is threatened by seemingly monstrous entities known as Angels. NERV is an organization set up to counter this threat and it is up to young pilots to protect Earth but exactly what are the real motives behind NERV?
Directors: Hiroshi Haraguchi, Masayuki, Kazuya Tsurumaki, Hideaki Anno, Kôbun Shizuno | Stars: Megumi Ogata, Megumi Hayashibara, Kotono Mitsuishi, Yuriko Yamaguchi
Votes: 27,680 | Gross: $0.11M
6. Evangelion: 2.0 You Can (Not) Advance (2009)
TV-14 | 112 min | Animation, Action, Drama
In the face of increasingly bizarre and powerful Angel attacks, Shinji Ikari and his partner Rei Ayanami are assisted by two new pilots: the fiery Asuka Langley Shikinami and the mysterious Mari Illustrious Makinami.
Directors: Masayuki, Kazuya Tsurumaki, Hideaki Anno, Joe Fria | Stars: Kotono Mitsuishi, Megumi Ogata, Megumi Hayashibara, Yûko Miyamura
Votes: 24,922 | Gross: $0.13M
7. Darling in the Franxx (2018)
TV-14 | 24 min | Animation, Action, Drama
In a future world where humanity has been driven to endangerment by giant beasts, a strike force is assembled to destroy the monsters and save the world.
Stars: Yûto Uemura, Kana Ichinose, Nanami Yamashita, Saori Hayami
Votes: 13,940
8. Voltron: Defender of the Universe (1984–1985)
TV-Y7 | 24 min | Animation, Adventure, Family
This series focuses on five lion robots and their pilots as they fight the evil forces of King Zarkon and Prince Lotor.
Stars: Peter Cullen, Michael Bell, Jack Angel, Lennie Weinrib
Votes: 5,194
9. Metallic Rouge (2024– )
TV-14 | 23 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
Follows Rouge, an android girl, who is on a mission on Mars with her partner Naomi. The mission is to murder Immortal Nine, nine artificial humans who are hostile to the government.
Stars: Yume Miyamoto, Tomoyo Kurosawa, Cassie Ewulu, Monica Flatley
Votes: 360
10. Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch from Mercury (2022–2023)
TV-14 | 22 min | Animation, Action, Drama
In an era when a multitude of corporations have entered space and built a huge economic system, Suletta Mercury, from the remote planet Mercury, transfers to the Asticassia School of ... See full summary »
Stars: E.A. Castillo, Lynn, Kana Ichinose, Yôhei Azakami
Votes: 1,297
11. Mobile Suit Gundam (1979–1980)
TV-14 | 30 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
In the war between the Earth Federation and Zeon, a young and inexperienced crew find themselves on a new spaceship. Their best hope of making it through the conflict is the Gundam, a giant humanoid robot, and its gifted teenage pilot.
Stars: Hirotaka Suzuoki, Tôru Furuya, Toshio Furukawa, Kiyonobu Suzuki
Votes: 2,780
12. Evangelion: 3.0 You Can (Not) Redo (2012)
TV-14 | 96 min | Animation, Action, Drama
Fourteen years have passed since the near Third Impact. Most of the world has changed, except for Shinji Ikari, who awakens in a strange new environment without having aged.
Directors: Mahiro Maeda, Masayuki, Kazuya Tsurumaki, Hideaki Anno, Joe Fria, Kiyotaka Suzuki | Stars: Megumi Ogata, Megumi Hayashibara, Yûko Miyamura, Maaya Sakamoto
Votes: 18,522 | Gross: $0.17M
13. Mobile Suit Gundam Wing (1995–1996)
TV-PG | 30 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
A squadron of giant robot pilots of a beleaguered Earth colony bring the war to their oppressive home planet.
Stars: Hikaru Midorikawa, Toshihiko Seki, Ryûzô Ishino, Akio Ôtsuka
Votes: 4,890
14. Full Metal Panic! (2002–2006)
TV-14 | 24 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
Sousuke Sagara, a member of a covert anti-terrorist private military organization known as Mithril, tasked with protecting Kaname Chidori, a spirited Japanese high school girl.
Stars: Tomokazu Seki, Satsuki Yukino, Jason Douglas, Yukana
Votes: 5,896
15. Neon Genesis Evangelion: Death & Rebirth (1997)
Not Rated | 101 min | Animation, Action, Drama
A recap of the first 24 episodes of Neon Genesis Evangelion, followed by a 30-minute continuation of the plot that would later form the first third of The End of Evangelion.
Directors: Hideaki Anno, Ken Andô, Naoyasu Habu, Hiroyuki Ishidô, Tsuyoshi Kaga, Masayuki, Shôichi Masuo, Seiji Mizushima, Tensai Okamura, Keiichi Sugiyama, Akira Takamura, Kazuya Tsurumaki, Tetsuya Watanabe, Minoru Ôhara, Masahiko Ôtsuka | Stars: Megumi Ogata, Megumi Hayashibara, Yûko Miyamura, Kotono Mitsuishi
Votes: 15,646
16. Mobile Suit Gundam Seed (2002–2003)
50 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
The discovery of an advanced model of combat mecha on their space colony throws a young man and his friends into involvement in an interplanetary war as the crew of a powerful fighting ship.
Stars: Sôichirô Hoshi, Scott McNeil, John Novak, Fred Henderson
Votes: 2,652
17. Megas XLR (2004–2005)
TV-Y7-FV | 30 min | Animation, Short, Action
Two teenage slackers find a mecha from the future that had been lying in a New Jersey junkyard for nearly 60 years and make modifications much to the dismay of the robot's attractive creator.
Stars: David DeLuise, Wendee Lee, Steve Blum, Scot Rienecker
Votes: 6,276
18. Guilty Crown (2011–2012)
TV-14 | 23 min | Animation, Action, Crime
After the outbreak of the unidentified virus "Lost Christmas" in 2029, Japan has been under the control of a multi-nation organization called GHQ. Ohma Shu is a 17 year old boy who has a ... See full summary »
Stars: Yûki Kaji, Ai Kayano, Kana Hanazawa, Patrick Seitz
Votes: 5,672
19. Grendizer U
TV-14 | 25 min | Animation, Action, Adventure | Post-production
Duke Fleed escaped to the Earth is a survivor of the Fleed Planet, he's faced with the threat of King Vega and his army. Duke decides to fight back using his best weapon - the almighty Grendizer.
Stars: Miyu Irino, Hiro Shimono, Sumire Uesaka, Nao Tôyama
20. Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans (2015–2017)
TV-14 | 24 min | Animation, Action, Drama
300 years after the Calamity War, a ragtag group of freedom fighters and an ancient Mobile Suit rise to the call for justice, once and for all.
Stars: Bill Rogers, Adin Rudd, Kengo Kawanishi, Landon McDonald
Votes: 2,167
21. Gunbuster (1988–1989)
PG | 30 min | Animation, Action, Drama
A young pilot, daughter of a deceased space captain, is selected to pilot a gigantic robot as a key point of Earth's defense during a space war.
Stars: Noriko Hidaka, Rei Sakuma, Norio Wakamoto, Maria Kawamura
Votes: 2,017
22. Mobile Suit Gundam 00 (2007–2009)
TV-PG | 24 min | Animation, Action, Drama
In the distant future, mankind has used up all of its fossil fuels, forcing them to turn to Solar Power as an alternate energy source. As a result, this causes a rift to form between richer... See full summary »
Stars: Sam Vincent, Mamoru Miyano, Shin'ichirô Miki, Hiroyuki Yoshino
Votes: 2,686
23. Mobile Suit Gundam Seed Destiny (2004–2005)
TV-14 | 25 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
Two years after the war between the Earth Alliance and ZAFT, conflicts between the two nations heat up again. Shin Asuka, the new main character's eyes are full of sorrow as his family was ... See full summary »
Stars: Aaron Phillips, Sam Vincent, Vanessa Morley, Alyson Leigh Rosenfeld
Votes: 1,561
24. Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam (1985–1986)
TV-14 | 30 min | Animation, Action, Drama
Eight years after the One Year War, the Earth Federation creates an elite force called the Titans to hunt Zeon remnants. When Titans proves to be no better than Zeon, the Anti Earth Union Group (AEUG) is formed to restore peace in space.
Stars: Nobuo Tobita, Shûichi Ikeda, Hirotaka Suzuoki, Miyuki Matsuoka
Votes: 1,554
25. Super Dimension Fortress Macross (1982–2002)
TV-PG | 25 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
An alien spaceship crash lands on Earth and her secrets lead to a desperate war against an alien enemy sent to retrieve the ship.
Stars: Arihiro Hase, Mari Iijima, Vic Mignogna, Monica Rial
Votes: 2,306
26. Patlabor: The Movie (1989)
Unrated | 100 min | Animation, Action, Crime
The screwball cops of Special Vehicles Section 2 Division 2 must investigate and stop a spree of rampaging construction robots.
Directors: Mamoru Oshii, Kôji Sawai | Stars: Toshio Furukawa, David Jarvis, Doug Erholtz, Mîna Tominaga
Votes: 5,624
27. UFO Robo Grendizer (1975–1977)
TV-14 | 26 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
Escaping from Vega's evil forces, the young Prince of planet Fleed leaves his destroyed homeland aboard the UFO Robot Grendizer, a powerful war machine, and makes it to Earth. Rescued by a ... See full summary »
Stars: Jôji Yanami, Hiroya Ishimaru, Rihoko Yoshida, Chiyoko Kawashima
Votes: 2,444
28. The Big O (1999–2003)
TV-PG | Animation, Action, Adventure
In a futuristic city with lost memories, an expert negotiator fights threats to the city with the help of an android and his own giant robot.
Stars: Mitsuru Miyamoto, Steve Blum, Akiko Yajima, Motomu Kiyokawa
Votes: 2,354
29. Macross Plus (1994)
Not Rated | 35 min | Animation, Adventure, Drama
Two old friends/rivals find themselves rival test pilots in competing projects while a mutual old flame returns to them with her own secrets.
Stars: Edward Mannix, Bryan Cranston, Michael Forest, Paris Themmen
Votes: 4,012
30. Appleseed (1988 Video)
TV-14 | 71 min | Animation, Action, Crime
In a vast futuristic city, built on the ashes of the third world war, a police officer and her cyborg partner fight terrorism.
Director: Kazuyoshi Katayama | Stars: Masako Katsuki, Yoshisada Sakaguchi, Toshiko Sawada, Toshio Furukawa
Votes: 3,048
31. Bang Brave Bang Bravern (2024– )
Animation, Action, Comedy
In the future, humanity wages war with giant humanoid weapons called Titanostrides.
Stars: Ryôta Suzuki, Ken'ichi Suzumura, Saya Aizawa, Yôhei Azakami
Votes: 82
32. Patlabor 2: The Movie (1993)
TV-14 | 113 min | Animation, Action, Drama
When a terrorist attack is blamed on the Air Force, Special Vehicle Unit 2 gets caught in the middle of a growing political conflict.
Directors: Mamoru Oshii, Mizuho Nishikubo | Stars: Mîna Tominaga, Briony Glassco, Julie Ann Taylor, Toshio Furukawa
Votes: 4,601
33. Eureka Seven (2005–2006)
TV-MA | 25 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
14-year-old Renton joins the rebel GekkoState ship, co-pilots the TypeZero with the mysterious Eureka, and unknowingly becomes part of a grand scheme.
Stars: Yûko Sanpei, Keiji Fujiwara, Kaori Nazuka, Johnny Yong Bosch
Votes: 3,307
34. Aldnoah.Zero (2014–2015)
TV-14 | 25 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
In 1972, an ancient alien hypergate was discovered on the surface of the moon. Using this technology, humanity began migrating to Mars and settling there.
Stars: Matthew Mercer, Erica Lindbeck, Bryce Papenbrook, Max Mittelman
Votes: 2,464
35. Macross: Do You Remember Love? (1984)
Not Rated | 114 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
Earth braces for an invasion of giant male bionoids and their enemy, giant female bionoids.
Directors: Noboru Ishiguro, Shôji Kawamori, Katsuhito Akiyama, Tatsuya Kasahara | Stars: Arihiro Hase, Mari Iijima, Mika Doi, Michio Hazama
Votes: 3,433
36. Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn (2010–2014)
TV-PG | 436 min | Animation, Action, Drama
A conspiracy around Laplace's Box is potentially going to start another war between the Earth Federation and Neo Zeon. Chosen by fate, Banagher Links gets the key to the box, and must follow his heart to decide what to do with it.
Stars: Troy Baker, Colleen O'Shaughnessey, Yuri Lowenthal, Brandon Potter
Votes: 1,589
37. Neo Ranga (1998–1999)
TV-PG | Animation, Short, Action
Three sisters whose brother married into a remote island tribe inherit the island's guardian god, a giant monster.
Stars: Yûko Miyamura, Yûko Sumitomo, Eri Sendai, Kira Vincent-Davis
Votes: 92
38. Turn A Gundam (1999–2000)
TV-PG | 24 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
In the distant future, technology on Earth has regressed to World War I levels. Mankind's enormous twenty-kilometer-long space colonies and advanced weapons such as mobile suits have long ... See full summary »
Stars: Romi Park, Kenichi Sakaguchi, Takako Fuji, Jun Fukuyama
Votes: 410
39. Mazinger Z (1972–1974)
30 min | Action, Animation, Sci-Fi
Teenager Koji Kabuto pilots the amazing super-robot Mazinger Z to avenge its inventor (his grandfather) against the Mycene Empire, led by the evil mad scientist Doctor Hell.
Stars: Jôji Yanami, Hiroya Ishimaru, Isamu Tanonaka, Osamu Katô
Votes: 1,517
40. Infinite Stratos (2011–2016)
TV-14 | 24 min | Animation, Action, Comedy
Ichika Orimura is the first male IS pilot, and is forced to attend an all-girls' school where he runs into rivals, childhood friends and corporate spies.
Stars: Kôki Uchiyama, Yôko Hikasa, Yukana, Megumi Toyoguchi
Votes: 2,170
41. Gridman Universe (2023)
118 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
Follows Yuta who repeatedly drew and then erased Gridman in his notebook, which he vaguely remembers. Then he decided to confess his feelings to Rikka, and their life in such a peaceful world begins to crumble with a roar.
Director: Akira Amemiya | Stars: Chika Anzai, Junya Enoki, Daiki Hamano, Yuya Hirose
Votes: 193
42. Dragonaut: The Resonance (2007–2009)
TV-14 | 25 min | Animation, Action, Drama
With a deadly asteroid hurtling towards Earth, sexy human Dragonauts in tight uniforms and their curvaceous dragon companions come together to create a formidable fighting force with all ... See full summary »
Stars: Daisuke Ono, Minori Chihara, Eiji Maruyama, Eiji Miyashita
Votes: 152
43. Mobile Suit Gundam 0080: War in the Pocket (1989)
Not Rated | 180 min | Animation, Action, Drama
In a space colony, a young boy discovers a cadre of terrorists and innocently decides to help them.
Stars: Daisuke Namikawa, Kôji Tsujitani, Megumi Hayashibara, David Hayter
Votes: 1,507
44. Mobile Fighter G Gundam (1994–1995)
TV-PG | 30 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
It is the year Future Century 60 and most of humanity has migrated to orbiting space colonies, leaving behind the polluted Earth. To prevent war, the colonies came up with the tournament ... See full summary »
Stars: Mark Gatha, Tomokazu Seki, Matt Embry, Jonathan Love
Votes: 1,138
45. Robotech: The Movie (1986)
PG | 87 min | Animation, Action, Music
Re-edited version of a Japanese TV serial combined with a direct-to-video anime, released in the U.S. as a feature.
Directors: Noboru Ishiguro, Carl Macek | Stars: Kerrigan Mahan, Iona Morris, Diane Michelle, Gregory Snegoff
Votes: 460
46. Heavy Object (2015– )
TV-MA | 24 min | Animation, Action, Comedy
In the future, warfare has been revolutionized by the invention of mechanical weapons called "Objects." These Objects are overwhelmingly powerful, rendering traditional weapons like guns, tanks and fighter jets completely useless.
Stars: Natsuki Hanae, Kaito Ishikawa, Eri Suzuki, Justin Briner
Votes: 219
47. Gundam Wing: The Movie - Endless Waltz (1998 TV Movie)
90 min | Animation, Action, Drama
After Colony 196, Treize Kushrenada is dead and the 5 young soldiers known as the Gundam pilots have brought peace between Earth and the Colonies through Operation me. Now they move on with... See full summary »
Directors: Yasunao Aoki, Nana Harada | Stars: Mark Hildreth, Scott McNeil, Kirby Morrow, Brad Swaile
Votes: 2,614
48. Mobile Suit Gundam: The 08th MS Team (1996–2013)
TV-PG | 25 min | Animation, Action, Drama
During a one-year war, a young lieutenant leads a mobile suit team against a secret Zeon weapon, meeting its pilot who questions the morality of the war.
Stars: Steve Staley, Steve Kramer, Debra Rogers, David Ellenstein
Votes: 1,881
49. Escaflowne: The Movie (2000)
PG-13 | 98 min | Adventure, Animation, Drama
A grim retelling of the television series "The Vision of Escaflowne".
Directors: Kazuki Akane, Yoshiyuki Takei | Stars: Shin'ichirô Miki, Jôji Nakata, Maaya Sakamoto, Tomokazu Seki
Votes: 3,819
50. Patlabor: The TV Series (1989–1990)
TV-14 | 25 min | Animation, Action, Comedy
The misadventures of a police robot pilot squad and its support crew in a futuristic Tokyo.
Stars: Mîna Tominaga, Toshio Furukawa, Michihiro Ikemizu, Issei Futamata
Votes: 721