Acquired Taste: These are titles which may take a while to get used to. As such, you should watch several episodes before making up your mind. FLCL, Di Gi Charat, & Serial Experiments Lain are examples of such titles.
This is a genre of anime which features mechanical fighting machines. Often these take the form of giant robots but this isn't the only form mecha can take. There are tons of examples of mecha titles considering the popularity of the series. Blue Gender, Shin Seiki Evangelion, Tenkuu no Escaflowne, and Bubblegum Crisis Tokyo 2040 are all classic mecha titles.
| Title | Rating | Synopsis |
|---|---|---|
| A | ||
 Armored Trooper Votoms 1: Uoodo City |
Rent | For 100 years the star systems of Gilgamesh and Balarant have been locked in a war whose cause was long ago forgotten. Now, an uneasy truce has settled across the Astragius Galaxy. Chirico Cuvie, a special forces Armored Trooper pilot, is suddenly transferred to a unit engaged in a suspicious mission to steal secrets from what appears to be their own military! Chirico is betrayed and left to die in space, but he survives and becomes a renegade, hunted by the army and by criminals alike. Taking refuge in the poluted hell-hole known as Uoodo City, Chirico is driven by a haunting image of a mysterious and beautiful woman, his sole clue to unravelling a conspiracy so complex that he cannot even guess at its depths. |
| K | ||
 Kido Keisatsu Patoreba |
Buy | In the future, (I guess now the past because it is set in 1998) great advancements are made with the creation of Labors, giant robots designed for construction. With the increased use of Labors, Labors crimes also skyrocketed. To combate this threat, Tokyo formed the Special Vehicals Section 2 and gave them Patrol Labors or Patlabors. |
| Kidou Keisatsu Patlabor (1989) | Rent | See Kidou Keisatsu Patlabor (TV) |
 Kidou Keisatsu Patlabor (TV) |
Rent | Labor: A robot specifically designed for construction work. Labors allow dramatic advances in construction--but also in crime. To combat these new labor crimes, the police created a special unit: The Patrol Labor. And thus, the birth of "Patlabor"! |
| M | ||
 MiniPato |
Rent |
Only available as part of the Ultimate Edition(of Patlabor WXIII), these three theatrical short cartoons bring the real Patlabor stars back one last time, albeit in quite a different manner. Goto, Nagumo, and the rest have become super-deformed CGI puppets, and each of the shorts is a self-referential “instructional video” that gleefully shreds apart the Patlabor mythos. Goto talks at length about just how stupid the concept of a “Revolver Cannon” really is, Shige speculates on ways to sell more “Patlabor” merchandise by making the Ingrams transform, and Nagumo reveals the ludicrous truth behind Special Vehicles' mysterious source of income. MiniPato is one big in-joke, but folks in the know will find it hilarious, and it represents the first time Mamoru Oshii has written comedy since the Patlabor TV series ended over a decade ago. |
| P | ||
| Patlabor OAV | Buy | See Kido Keisatsu Patoreba |
| Patlabor Superdeformed | Rent | See MiniPato |
| Patlabor: The Mobile Police TV | Rent | See Kidou Keisatsu Patlabor (TV) |
| Patlabor: The Original Series | Buy | See Kido Keisatsu Patoreba |
| Patlabor: The TV Series | Rent | See Kidou Keisatsu Patlabor (TV) |
| S | ||
 Seraphim Call |
Rent | A series of stories featuring 11 girls facing different dilemmas in the futuristic city of Neo-Acropolis on a man-made Japanese island in the year 2010. |
| Soukou Kishi Votoms | Rent | See Armored Trooper Votoms 1: Uoodo City |
| セラフィムコール (Japanese) | Rent | See Seraphim Call |
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