Imagine a book that would kill any one whose name is written on it, on the condition that the face of the target was previously seen by the book owner. Now, imagine this book on the hands of a seventeen year old boy, who is as highly intelligent as he is enraged at the rampant crime and corruption in...

The Robotech series is a war story in galactic proportions. Where else can a planet be under siege for some dozen years, attacked by three different races, although not simultaneously? The series is more than just a story about militaristic maneuvers and large-scale conflicts, though. With the theme...

What is it about love and alien invasion anyway? There is a rush to be part of someone’s life every time mankind finds itself in the throes of war. At least, that’s what most alien invasion stories are about. Macross tells the story of the Humans vs. Zentraedi warfare. It is more than just star-crossed...

There have been numerous companies who have been manufacturing mobile suits, zoids and other mecha ever since the first giant robot animes are franchised (think Gundam). Figma embraced a totally different demographic though; most of their action figures are based on Bishoujo characters – young, beautiful...

Yu-Gi-Oh tells the story of Yugi Mutou, a shy and kind-hearted card game expert who has a fragment of a millennium puzzle. The said fragment that he wears on his neck contains the spirit of a mysterious 5000-year-old pharaoh. This Pharaoh literally overcomes the protagonist’s body in times of stress...

Voltron, began airing on 1984, is a mecha-themed animation brought by a joint-venture of American and Japanese adaptations of two Japanese anime series. The result is a myriad of characters piloting a mean machine in order to protect a planet under attack by the robot-beasts released by the evil Zarkon,...

He left an orphan and returned a saint; a Pegasus Saint, that is – one of the dozens of warriors sworn to protect the goddess Athena. He also has a desire to protect a less divine being – his sister, who mysteriously disappeared. In an attempt to find more information that can help him find his sister,...

The setting of the Evangelion series is a desolate Earth that was first believed to be caused by rapid climate change brought by a meteor impact. It turned out that the devastation was caused by the research organization Gehirn’s experiments and contact with what is called Angels. The mysterious...