It was the moment he specifically banned Voltes V, alongside other super robot shows, from Filipino broadcasts in August 1979. The Marcos administration claimed these violent anime had “harmful ...

Tsubame Industries unveils $3 million Archax mecha robot, which transforms between ... While Archax's design draws inspiration from anime and mecha culture, Tsubame Industries envisions a more ...

The earliest bits of Japanese anime to make it over to the states included Speed Racer in the '60s. The form gained considerable popularity during the '90s, thanks to Cartoon Network’s Toonami ...

which not only has a flashy super-robot invading the military setup of a “real robot” anime but also has that same super-robot be in love with his pilot. The boisterous sentient alien mech ...

From the five-minute shorts of Oten Shimokawa in 1917, to the feature-length anime movies produced during World War II, to the pioneering production cycles of Tezuka in the ’60s and the ...

Studio MAPPA animated this second anime rendition of Osamu Tezuka’s ‘60s manga. It retells the story of the ronin Hyakkimaru who, alongside the young Dororo, goes on a country-wide quest to ...

In 1979, novelist and anime creator Yoshiyuki Tomino brought cutting-edge aerospace technology to TV audiences in 1979 with Mobile Suit Gundam. It offered a robot sci-fi depiction of conflicts in ...