What was your introduction to mecha?

>>15037250
Megas XLR was the first mecha thing I saw, but I didn't really get into until I discovered SRW

Transformers Armada I guess

>>15037250
Beast Wars and Transformers in general are what sparked the interest, but I think it was Full Metal Panic that cemented my love of mecha which is why I still have a soft spot for that series.

Stumbled across the Dubbed 0079 movie when I was younger. Forgot about it for years and then came back and got
Interested. Watched 0079 and mecha fan ever since

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>>15037250
Gundam wing, it started every weekday right after beyblade when I was in kindergarten.
I didn't understand a lick of english or even read the subtitles, but I was hooked the moment when I saw the intro with cool robots fucking shit up.

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honestly can't remember my first mecha anime but front mission 3 was the thing that got me into mecha in general
was looking for more shit like final fantasy tactics and stumbled upon it

Probably power rangers, it first aired when I was 5. But aside from that I'd say Gundam Wing on Toonami. I was14 in its first run.

Outlaw Star, if that counts. That was more my introduction to sci-fi shit in general though. I didn't get into mecha specifically until Gurren Lagann.

If we're limiting this to shows originally from japan it was probably either Voltron or reruns of Battle of the Planets, I can't be sure of exactly which was the first i saw, but I do distinctly remember watching both when I was very young.

Power Rangers if that counts, if not then NGE or Godannar (can't remember which I saw first).

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>>15037250
BAH WEEP GRANNA WEEP NINIBARR

Robotech Macross Saga.

Them Transforming jets just hit something so right inside my little young brain.

Voltron and Transformers came later. I owned Skyfire's figure before I even knew who he was as a Transformer... I just knew it was a "Veritech" from Robotech.

Of course I know better now, but back then, that was all there was.

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Truth to be told, I saw Mazinger when I was like 5 or something, but I don't remember much. My real love for mechs didn't awaken until I played Front Mission.

Do You Remember Love

And remember guys, it doesn't have to be a anime that got you into it. It could be a video game, western movie or cartoon as well!

Escaflowne back in the late 90s, didn't know that it was called anime.

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I think I was 4 years old when this started showing in Hong Kong. Cantonese-dubbed too. Which were all amazing back then.

First thing I saw was Voltron, in english, when I was about four or five and happened to spot it while flipping through channels. That was actually how I even discovered the Cartoon Network CHANNEL in the first place. Didn't really understand all that well back then what I was watching though, just that there were a bunch of neat lion robots. Much later on I'd discover mecha properly through Toonami. Gundam Wing, G Gundam, various incarnations of Zoids, and their Giant Robot Week event, that gave me a brief look at a bunch of different shows. I forget exactly when it was I saw the dubbed version of Mazinkaiser... but for some reason I seem to recall it being televised to some extent as well. Those were my foundations for mecha, with Kaiser being how I got into SRW through the translation for J.

>>15038837
What is it called?

>>15039833
Ganbaruger. Subdivers has the whole thing on YT.

>>15037436

Gundam wing was my intro too. My friend had sky, so I would come and watch it. He wanted to play outside whilst I wanted to watch Gundam, as I didn't have sky. Probs why my top suits are still Leo, Tallgeese and Mercurius.

I loved beyblade too. But that was on terrestrial channels.

I don't remember my exact first exposure to mecha, it could have been anything from the Armored Core PSX demo to Super Robot Wars 3 on an emulator to the demo for that old Gundam Dreamcast game. Or Power Rangers and snippets of Gundam Wing, of course.

But the first mecha anime/show I saw in its entirety was the original Mobile Suit Gundam as an adult.

G Gundam and Vandread

Battletech and Mechwarrior were my first exposure to mecha. First exposure to eastern mecha (i.e. anime) was G Gundam and The Big O. Toonami was the shit.