Top 10 Saddest Mecha Anime You Should Not Miss

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Gurren Lagann

Gurren Lagann

• Status: Full 27/27
  Country: Japan
  Studio: Gainax
  Air: April 1, 2007 – September 30, 2007
  Director: Hiroyuki Imaishi
  Kazuki Nakashima
  Genre: Action, Adventure, Humor, Drama, Mecha
  Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann commonly referred to as Gurren Lagann is a mecha theme anime made by Gainax and co-produced by Aniplex and Konami. Gurren Lagann is an extremely easy anime to watch. The anime is 27 episodes long and is an original anime, there is no need to read more manga to understand or get the full experience. The entire series is available in both subtitled and dubbed formats on Hulu, and it is also possible to purchase a Blu-ray version with both formats included. 

In some future, people will have to live underground, suffering from all kinds of deprivations: lack of food, lack of shelter, lack of light, lack of sanitation and so on and so on. Fed up with the cramped life of burrow-eating, young Kamina of Jeeha Village is determined to find his way to the surface, where he was once taken up by his father. Accompanying Kamina is Simon - a shy and weak sugar boy, but he is the owner of a "small but martial arts" mecha The content seems familiar, a weak kid picks up a mecha...

There is optimism and hope that propel the characters in Gurren Lagann forward. However, it's hard not to choke up at the ending with most characters facing death.

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Code Geass

ode Geass - Lelouch Death? and Aftermath

• Director: Gorō Taniguchi
  Ichirō Ōkouchi
  Music: Kōtarō Nakagawa, Hitomi Kuroishi
  Studio: Sunrise
  Episodes: 25
  Status: Full
  Genre: Anime series, Sci-Fi, Super Power, Drama, Military, Mecha, Action,
  Code Geass is an anime series created by Sunrise, directed by Gorō Taniguchi and written by Ichirō Ōkouchi, with original character designs by the mangaka group CLAMP. 

  Code Geass is a manga adapted into mecha anime that has only gained more acceptance over time as iconic anime like Attack on Titan inspired its bold developments. Code Geass doesn't diminish the power of the infamous mecha genre Lelouch centers on, but also focuses on making him the villain.

  There's nothing too cold about blackening heroes and Code Geass excelling in this installment. It is heartbreaking that Lelouch becomes blackened by power and strays further from his starting point.

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RahXephon

RahXephon - Opening (OP) ver. 2

• Director: Yutaka Izubuchi
  Music: Ichiko Hashimoto
  Episodes: 26
  Status: Full
  Genre: Drama, Mecha, Action, Romance, Fantasy, Mystery, Psychological
  Premiere: 21.01.2002 to 11.09.2002
  RahXephon is a Japanese anime television series created and directed by Yutaka Izubuchi. The film follows 17-year-old Ayato Kamina's ability to control a machine known as the RahXephon, and his inner journey to find a place in the world.

  RahXephon is a mecha anime for teens. This anime is quite similar to Neon Genesis Evangelion. RahXephon takes place in a vague vision of the future, where Ayato Kamina, a shy teenager, becomes the key to social salvation through driving the standard machine. 

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Blue Gender

Blue Gender Opening - Break Free

• Genre: Romance, horror, science fiction, machinery, post-apocalyptic
  Director: Masashi Abe
  Katsumi Hasegawa
  Music: Kuniaki Haishima
  Episodes: 26
  Status: Full
  Premiere: October 10, 1999 - March 31, 2000
  Blue Gender is a Japanese anime television series created by Ryōsuke Takahashi, creator of Armored Trooper Votoms and Gasaraki, which aired in Japan from 1999 to 2000 and lasted 26 episodes.

  Blue Gender is an anime adaptation of the manga that feels like humanity is extinct for a reason. Humanity has been forced to retreat from Earth and take refuge on a second Earth due to the exterminative efforts of the extraterrestrial Blue. Yuji Kaido, the timeless savior of the series, faces an uphill battle against Blue and tries to secure the future of humanity.

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Space Runaway Ideon

Space Runaway Ideon Opening HD

• Genre: science fiction, mechanical, post-apocalyptic
  Director: Yoshiyuki Tomino
  Music: Koichi Sugiyama
  Episodes: 39
  Status: Full
  Premiere: May 8, 1980 - January 30, 1981
  Space Runaway Ideon is a 1980 anime television series produced by Sunrise, created and directed by Yoshiyuki Tomino, produced shortly after his most famous work, Mobile Suit Gundam. Space Runaway Ideon begins in the year 2300, the bleak, apocalyptic history of the star ship Solo as they travel across the universe and wage war on the extraterrestrial Buff Clan over a celestial robot known as Ideon.

  Space Runaway Ideon looks bright and cheerful thanks to its '80s color palette, but the nostalgic series has built a reputation for rampant deaths and tragedies in anime.

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