The ten most popular mecha anime, ranked by how many fans follow them.
1. Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion
2006 · 25 episodes · Finished. Watch on Crunchyroll, Netflix.
On August 10th of the year 2010, the Holy Empire of Britannia began a campaign of conquest, its sights set on Japan. Operations were completed in one month thanks to Britannia's deployment of new mobile humanoid armor vehicles dubbed Knightmare Frames. Japan's…
2. Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion R2
2008 · 25 episodes · Finished. Watch on Crunchyroll, Netflix.
One year has passed since the Black Rebellion, a failed uprising against the Holy Britannian Empire led by the masked vigilante Zero, who is now missing. At a loss without their revolutionary leader, Area 11's resistance group—the Black Knights—find themselves…
3. Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann
2007 · 27 episodes · Finished. Watch on t, Hulu, Crunchyroll.
Simon and Kamina were born and raised in a deep, underground village, hidden from the fabled surface. Kamina is a free-spirited loose cannon bent on making a name for himself, while Simon is a timid young boy with no real aspirations. One day while excavating…
4. Neon Genesis Evangelion
1995 · 26 episodes · Finished. Watch on Netflix.
Teenagers pilot giant mechas to defend Earth from enigmatic beings called Angels.
5. Darling in the FranXX
2018 · 24 episodes · Finished. Watch on Hulu, Crunchyroll.
The distant future: Humanity established the mobile fort city, Plantation, upon the ruined wasteland. Within the city were pilot quarters, Mistilteinn, otherwise known as the “Birdcage.” That is where the children live... Their only mission in life was the…
6. Guilty Crown
2011 · 22 episodes · Finished.
Japan, 2039. Ten years after the outbreak of the "Apocalypse Virus," an event solemnly regarded as "Lost Christmas," the once proud nation has fallen under the rule of the GHQ, an independent military force dedicated to restoring order. Funeral Parlor, a…
7. Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion
1997 · 1 episode · Finished.
With the final Angel vanquished, Nerv has one last enemy left to face—the humans under Seele's command. Left in a deep depression nearing the end of the original series, an indecisive Shinji struggles with the ultimatum presented to him: to completely accept…
8. FLCL
2000 · 6 episodes · Finished. Watch on Hulu.
Nothing interesting happens in Naota's life since his brother left for America, leaving him with his grandfather and father in their boring little town. On his way home with Mamimi—his brother's ex-girlfriend—a pink-haired, crazy woman riding a Vespa, named…
9. Date A Live
2013 · 12 episodes · Finished. Watch on Hulu, Crunchyroll.
"Before the world ends, kill me or kiss me." Thirty years before the events of Date A Live, an enormous explosion devastates east Asia and kills 150 million people. This is the first known "Spacequake", an inexplicable natural disaster that has since become…
10. Ghost in the Shell
1995 · 1 episode · Finished. Watch on Hulu, YouTube.
2029: A female cybernetic government agent, Major Motoko Kusanagi, and the Internal Bureau of Investigations are hot on the trail of “The Puppet Master,” a mysterious and threatening computer virus capable of infiltrating human hosts. Together with her fellow…
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