Modern sci-fi anime like Darling in the Franxx sometimes overly rely on emotionally triggered power-ups, chosen pilots, and battles decided by the right feeling rather than superior tactics. The mecha ...

A cinematic obsessive with the filmic palate of a starving raccoon, Rob London will watch pretty much anything once. With a mind like a steel trap, he's an endless fount of movie and TV trivia, borne ...

Anime has a wide range of genres that strongly resonate with audiences, but have also gone on to define the medium. Mecha series have been around for over six decades and are among anime's oldest ...

This retro mecha masterpiece reaches across time and space with a prescient, hopeful message as timeless as its vision of the future. Reading time 4 minutes Macross Plus is as much a cultural ...

The classic mecha anime movie Macross: Do You Remember Love? will be getting a 4K remastered release next year in Japan, and it will include English subtitles. The latter is a fun point, because ...

. It will launch the anime-based mecha shooting game simultaneously worldwide, excluding China, on January 25, 2024. The official English Kite is a Japanese translator and avid gamer from Indonesia, ...

The upcoming free-to-play online shooter Mecha Break really does well to evoke the exciting, breakneck sense of action from classic Japanese anime like Gundam Wing or Macross Plus. Focusing on the ...

As a standout entry in a foundational modern sci-fi anime franchise, 1994’s Macross Plus was not only an exciting return to the series for franchise creator and famed mechanical designer Shōji ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Ollie Barder covers Japanese pop-culture and gaming from Tokyo. Gundam and its ilk worked because its mecha design sat across the ...

Gundam has always used its ongoing mecha premise to communicate its themes about the military hierarchy, government corruption, and empathy. In contrast, Macross‘ military conflict feels more ...

Share on X (Opens in new window) X Share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook While incorporating new blood in the way of workers always helps rejuvenate a long-lasting franchise, adding new ...