"Reacting to the Evolution of Robot/Mecha Anime Openings (1963 - 2024)"

[@BD_ASHIK_FF151]

The transition from hand-drawn to digital animation is fascinating. Each era has its own charm.

[@gryphman]

Brave Exkaiser and The King Of Braves Gaogaigar are the first and last shows of the "Brave Series." It was a collaboration between Sunrise (The animation studio behind Gundam) and Takara (The toy company that makes Transformers.) If you want to check out more of it, I have two playlists compiled. One features all of the intros. The other also has the intros, but each one is followed by the transformation stock footage for that show.

[@yta5256]

I think we should separate the concepts. Super Robot" is a giant hero suit, like Mazinger Z, and "Real Robot" is a robot as a weapon of war, like Gundam. Astro Boy is the originator of the Doraemon series, the Yusha series, and the Ghost in the Shell series, all of which have the question, "Can a machine have a soul? I would recommend the Yusha series for Super Robot and the 1st Gundam for Real Robot. The Yusha series has elements of Super Sentai, a clear concept, friendship between machine life and mankind, and a great mechanic depiction, while the 1st Gundam, if you can ignore the old animation, is full of calculated production techniques and excellent human drama by the genius Yoshiyuki Tomino. Mazinger Z and Getter Robo are iconic works, but they are old and require love to watch.

[@HattaTHEZulZILLA86]

You can re-live some of these old mecha anime stories by playing the Super Robot Wars videogame series, they basically crammed almost ALL of the recent and old mecha anime in one condensed videogame version of the stories AND even give you a brief history of the ACTUAL series in the options screen.

[@SatoKure]

God, I want a new game already, this has been the biggest gap from the last game in a long time iirc

[@HattaTHEZulZILLA86]

@@SatoKure You're not missing much. The latest 30th anniversary instalment is currently riddled with shameless microtransactions. You're better off playing SRW V (if you like sci fi) or SRW X (if you like a more magic based mech series).

[@SatoKure]

@@HattaTHEZulZILLA86 I know bro, I've been playing SRW since D. Still, I want a new one already, because I'm addicted to mecha crack

[@HattaTHEZulZILLA86]

@@SatoKure I recommend Kriegsfront Tactics to get some good old Front Mission mecha with guns that go bang bang fix.

[@HattaTHEZulZILLA86]

@@SatoKure KZbin is getting insane... My reply to you was deleted by them. All I said was to try out Kriegsfront Tactics for your mecha fix.

[@brandonpennie228]

The evolution of character design in these openings is fascinating. From simplistic to highly detailed.

[@gryphman]

The evolution of super robot design in particular is very fascinating. Check out the intros for Braiger, Baxingar, and Sasuraiger. They make up the J9 Series, which came out in 81, 82, and 83. You can see more and more elements of the 80s style emerging from each of their designs.

[@jerryjackson7605]

I always be sad that they don’t show Eureka Seven

[@OxygenC2]

There's a lot of mecha openings that aren't shown in this compilation sadly

[@user-rn4wg8tg4x]

The artistry in these openings is phenomenal-so much creativity and passion

[@animepassionentertainment]

Philly in the House !!!! loved the video showin love as always miss the old days on anime openings the 90's era of anime openings was 🔥🔥🔥shout out to my step pops if it wasn't for him it I wouldn't be animepassion today ✌🏾

[@ChetanBanjara-ec6xq]

It's interesting to see how different studios put their own spin on the mecha genre.

[@HanuPradityo]

Surprised Golion/Voltron didn't make it in the list. If you know Superhuman Samurai Syber Squad... Then you gonna like SSSS Gridman & Dynazenon. Because they are sequel of Gridman Tokusatsu Series. (SSSS for the homage for the American Adaptation)

[@shimegawaren7692]

I know most of them from childhood and Super Robot Wars game lol

[@markbonds7366]

The 2000s brought a fresh take on mecha with series like Code Geass and Gurren Lagann.

[@Matt_ShootsDW4]

Great video you guys. Who love to see ya'll react to all TMNT openings.

[@ultimatesquad-id5vb]

The blend of nostalgia and innovation in these openings is simply captivating!

[@NikhilKumare-cd4is]

The nostalgia is real

[@ultave]

There are some series I regret not putting in (Gatchaman is probably the biggest one), but I'm still happy you enjoyed! Been watching your tokusatsu reactions for some time.

[@ASMRPongpoom]

thank 🎉🎉🎉

[@Jay3Entertainment]

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[@ASMRPongpoom]

can you add this to reaction list search brave series opening playlist eldran series opening playlist both are birth from takara tomy company that do toy micronman and diacone before do transformer with hasbro brave series are takara+toei animation eldran series are takara+sunrise

[@lalalarose8197]

Surprised Rahxephon wasn’t included. It was one of the better ‘Evangelion clones’.

[@Mark-Elf]

Unfortunately, this compilation only shows 1/20th of the mecha/sci-fi/robot anime I grew up watching in Japan.😢 I would have liked to see the new Cyborg 009 series, Reiji Matsumoto's works (Galaxy Express 999, Space Battleship Yamato, Captain Harlock), Sunrise's 80s works following Gundam(Fang of the Sun Dougram, Armored Trooper Votoms), and the Time Bokan series included.😅 P.S.: Please also look for "Galaxy Drifter Vifam", "Blue Comet SPT Layzner", "Super Dimension Century Orguss", "Super Dimension Cavalry Southern Cross", "Gasaraki", etc.😊

[@Emmathelady]

9:29 2000’s Astroboy but no mention of 80s Astroboy?

[@dhakadboss7143]

I appreciate the content and respect to the golden years.

[@Altafa143]

Nothing beats nostalgic content! Thanks guys!

[@ThunderNerve]

Astroboy literally the beginning of anime Even we have samurai animated, but astroboy which have the actual series Btw where is the hell fokin wing gundam?

[@sladesurfer]

I highly recommend watching Daimos and Voltes V...I think you get the full episode on KZbin. It's my top 2 Anime robot growing up in Asia. It has more of adult story lines. They have English dub available. also, runner up Teknoman

[@anitadhisle]

The genre has come so far.

[@Legend4hala]

I'am big fan of mech ❤

[@ViroVeteruscy]

So many classics. Gunbuster is one of the reasons why we get so much fan service in anime nowadays >w< But yeah, they're only showing one anime per year so there are MANY not shown here.

[@tahirkureshi4586]

Japan, thank you from America

[@GamerPH.-fu8np]

Filipino had a voltest v live action series try to react on it

[@KitsuManko]

Thank you for making me realize that im already getting old. I grew up watching Voltes V and Daimos by the way and Gundam Wing is my first introduction to the Gundam franchise.

[@ShinobiX8]

Guy who made Kamen Rider made Cyborg 009 and he worked under Astro boy's creator who is known as the god of manga & anime because he essentially pioneered genres and revolutionized Japanese animation as we know it. Also Tron Uprising is an underrated mf-ing masterpiece. The live action Ghost in the Shell movie ain't that bad.

[@Mark-Elf]

I have a little bit of time, so I'd like to explain what the humanoid machines that appear here are called in the work.😊(I've hit the character limit, but I still have things I want to write 😤 4:01 Mobile Suit Gundam (Kidou Senshi Gundam)→Mobile Suit (MS), Mobile Armor (MA) / By the way, the space suits worn by humans are called "normal suits" in the Gundam universe.😁 5:08 Heavy Metal L-Gaim (Jyuusenki L-Gaim) →Heavy Metal (HM) / Mr. Nagano Mamoru's designs were amazing, and could even be called fantasy, going beyond the boundaries of real robots and super robots. In the TV anime, they are divided into the Original, which is equipped with an AI Fatima that is in charge of combat and can only be seen as a transparent shadow, and is the sexual partner of the Master, the A-class replicas without a Fatima, and the B-class. 5:21 Mobile Suit Z Gundam / The opening and ending themes were composed by Neil Sedaka. 5:34 Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ / The title of the OP1 song, "Anime Janai," translates to "Not Anime" in English.😅 5:44 Armored War Dragonar (Kikou Senki Dragoner) → Metal Armor (MA) / What's particularly noteworthy about this work is that one of the main characters is of Oceanian indigenous descent.😌 5:55 Aim for the Top! / Gunbuster → Gunbuster / As you know, this is one of the early directorial works of Hideaki Anno, the director of Neon Genesis Evangelion. When he was a student, Hideaki Anno worked part-time as an animator for The Super Dimension Fortress Macross, so the character and mecha designs for this work were done by the same people who did Macross😊 ...The "Brave Series" that followed was a return to the "super robot" genre from the mid-70s, and I don't think the fighting machines were named after a unique worldview, so I'd like to talk about some of the works that were not included in this video.😌 "Galaxy Drifter Vifam" → Round Burnian (RB) "Combat Mecha Xabungle" → Walker Machine, Walker Gallia (This refers to a giant land-based aircraft carrier that transforms into a humanoid form. Is this the beginning of MACROSS? 😅The walker machine is controlled with an interface similar to the steering wheel of a car.🤯 "Armored Trooper Votoms" → Armored Trooper (AT) "Brain Powered" → Antibody "OVERMAN King Gainer" →Overman "Escaflowne" → Guymelef "Special Machine Soldier Dorvack" →Kanglaite "Pantzer World Gariant" → Pantzer Soldier / Excavation weapons from planet Aarthto "Fang of the Sun Dougram" → Combat Armor / The film depicts guerilla warfare and political dramas reminiscent of the Vietnam War. "Blue Comet SPT Layzner" → SPT (Super Powered Tracer) "Gasaraki" → Tactical Armor (TA) "Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion" → Knight Mare Frame(KMF) "Fafner in the Azure" → Fafner "Zegapain" → Holonic Loader "Super Speedy Attack Galvion" → Metal Battler "Mobile Police Patlabor" → Labor "Psycho Armor Gobarian" → Psycho Armor "Linebarrels of Iron" →Machina "The Big O" → Megadeus ...That's it for now😌

[@nicodalusong149]

Since you've done this, please react to the Brave Series openings. The playlist by gryphman is the most complete one. Megaman had an OVA. The one you probably saw was the american cartoon.

[@jeromerichardson7980]

What no zoid that some bull

[@StrangeCoincidence]

7:25 goddamn you really were there day 1.. or day 1 in america, lol. i always fell asleep before the anime aired on scifi saturday nights, i think it was

[@MetalGemstones]

Rockman/Mega Man had a few shows over the years. I'm assuming the one you're remembering is the 1994 animated series for USA. There was a 1993-94 Mega Man OVA and an anime/manga based on Mega Man Battle Network and Mega Man Star Force in the 2000s

[@nepiamia]

コメント欄の人達も思ったより詳しい人多いね！ まだまだメドレーに入ってない作品も沢山あるから良かったら調べてみてね！

[@Mark-Elf]

Further P.S.: Gundam creator Yoshiyuki Tomino made a 180-degree turn to a brighter worldview after being criticized for the excessive darkness of the worldview of "Space Runaway Ideon" in "Combat Mecha Xabungle"; Yoshiyuki Tomino retired from the front line due to exhaustion from the production of "Mobile Suit Victory Gundam", and produced "Brain Powered" for the satellite broadcasting WOWOW in preparation for his retirement. The WOWOW production "OVERMAN King Gainer" followed; the character designs for the film adaptation of Haruka Takachiho's SF picaresque novel "Crusher Joe" were done by Yoshikazu Yasuhiko, the character designer for "Brave Raideen", "Invincible Superman Zambot 3", and "Mobile Suit Gundam", and the TV anime series created by this duo was "Dirty Pair", which is a SF that shares the same worldview and timeline as the above-mentioned Crusher Joe, but this is not included (although there are no robots in it 😅 Also, "Giant God Gorg," which Yoshikazu Yasuhiko directed from the original story to the animation and direction 30 years before "Gundam Origin," is not included 😔 Then, "Mobile Police Patlabor" was adapted into a movie with a hard setting by Mamoru Oshii, the director of "Ghost in the Shell," and 30 years later, it is considered that reality has finally caught up (and in the 21st century, Oshii also made it into a live-action series)... I'm sure there are many more sci-fi works that I can't remember right now 😅 ...Then there was "Armored Genesis: MOSPEADA," which became one of the materials for "ROBOTECH" along with "Macross" and "Southern Cross," "Macross 7," which played a part in reviving the popularity of the Macross series, "Future Police Urashiman" (also without robots) created by Tatsunoko Productions, the same company behind the "Time Bokan" series, "Neo-Human Casshern," and "Science Ninja Team Gatchaman," "Future Boy Conan" is a sci-fi juvenile film created by Studio Ghibli's Hayao Miyazaki when he was young (featuring the robot soldier from Laputa: Castle in the Sky), "Armored World Gallian" was an idea that preceded "Turn A Gundam," in which robots, a lost technology necessary for battle, were excavated in a world overflowing with medieval chivalry," "Dairager XV," in which 15 vehicles combine, "The Vision of Escaflowne," which could be said to have been where the staff of "Cowboy Bebop" was gathered, and "Super Power Robot Galatt," a work full of humor created by Toyoo Ashida, the character designer of "Galaxy Drifter Vifam" (a robot with a three-headed body that lives daily with the main characters, but transforms into an eight-headed body when fighting... At the time, it was thought to be impossible to make this fully three-dimensional, but after about 20 years, it was made into a three-dimensional model like the fully transformed model of Macross' Valkyrie 😅). Other than that, I haven't seen "Symphonic Poem :Eureka Seven", "Fafner in the Azure", "Muv-Luv" and others, but there's so much more to list, I think I'll stop here.😵

[@khaledmaghrabi9969]

4:50 mecha anime pv 2025 Mecha anime pv season 2 2025 and a new story begins

[@darkschneider5269]

They didn't add zambot 3 the anime to make the biggest distinction between super robot and real robots even though they added ideon as first cosmic horror and dunbine as first iseki anime aslo votoms and Dougram two biggest real robots shows

[@dakjohnson5409]

The influence of Transformers on the mecha genre is undeniable. Such a global impact!

[@nicodalusong149]

It's unfortunate it's not even on the list.

[@YukiYuki3601]

Yeah, DIACLONE(Original franchise of TF), MACROSS, and TF series made huge impact since 1980s.

[@NicoleAmalfi02]

Transformer originate from Japan

[@Matt-cn2nn]

Don't let mecha anime fans see this, lmao

[@YukiYuki3601]

TF is a part of mech anime made by Nelson Shin and Toei animation.

[@NeoPlayzGame]

I highly recommend you check out Getter Robo Armageddon and Getter Robo Arc. The series kinda strayed from the original by becoming darker and i love it. Basically, robots powered by space radiation

[@NeoPlayzGame]

Oh and did i mention its the cause of the series’ body horror?

[@raydenhajime7615]

I'm so sad that Zoids didn't include in since it's also mecha anime

[@williambanks2223]

They forgot 8-Man, one of the first Robo shows. Mazinger Z, Raideen, and a lot of the robo cartoons of 70's became the Mattel toy line, Shogun Warriors. They had 3 large robot toys, and the rest were die-cast miniatures. You guys should look back at the live action robo shows like Giant Robo, Ambassador Magma, etc.

[@trapalonemillz2667]

Continue the 90s and 80s cartoons, also marvel too

[@junishikawa1686]

なつかしい〜♪

[@tapanmondal6084]

In the old days, when creators had passion and cared about their audience.

[@MinhHoangNguyen-wd1uy]

Can you react to Mecha size comparison?

[@Jay3Entertainment]

Do you have a link

[@Taeko-nr9id]

太陽の使者 鉄人28号と超電動ロボ鉄人28号FXも欲しかった旧作からの流れと変遷が···

[@skyebates246]

Why did you guys not carry on with the Wayne series it is one of the best series ever made please watch more episodes.

[@Jay3Entertainment]

"We haven’t stopped watching Wayne. We're just raising money to get that and other shows edited. If you’d like to help us out, show some love on Patreon."

[@Tsu-375]

Am i blind or they didn't added Aldnoah zero?

[@avstnda4-tw1ig]

パトレイバーがないんやな。

[@sgsairl1706]

Everytime I see these kind of videos, I'm always sad not seeing Escaflowne, Dual, Vandread, RahXephon, Fafner, Heroic Age, Bokurano, Asura Cryin openings. So sad they only choose one anime each year. Macross Seven, many other Gundam like Wing and X, they have great songs too. I think I'm not seeing any Patlabor and Zoids too, or did I miss them? Sakura Wars was popular back then. Good to see Kannazuki no Miko tho, the songs are good, you should check the other songs of the anime.

[@ASMRPongpoom]

why i not see super thank i want to thank other reactor not do

[@kirosera]

Gurren Lagann is still my favorite show, I just love how it didn't have to go the super serious, depressing and political formula that Gundam and Eva did. Gridman and Dynazenon were awesome too, it was like watching tokusatsu shows in anime form

[@mavsgreen]

Absolutely, well said!!!

[@mr.protagonist5639]

Then you'll probably like other super robot shows rather than real robot. Stuff like mazinger

[@Nik-md4to]

That's why it will never remotely come close to the quality of storytelling and also popularity of Eva. Gurren lagann is the most overrated anime of all time.

[@kirosera]

@@Nik-md4to honestly, what do you get out of kicking down other people's hobbies or interests? This is one of the saddest things I see people do on the Internet

[@antidave]

Everything is political though. The food and water we eat is political. I don't think people understand what politics are lol

[@Icarowhorider71]

Hironobu Kageyama. 🎤🎤 Dragon ball z Saint seiya Kamen Rider x Ultraman Sonic Super sentai Metal heroes Games Cartoons Anime Please see Hironobu Kageyama 🎧🎙️🎵

[@user-rk1bm8mg7c]

votomsが入ってない？

[@minato3730]

ガンダムはロボットじゃない！モビルスーツや😂

[@johnballard5547]