Also known as: メカ, ロボット, オリメカ, オリロボ, 巨大机器人, 机甲, ヴァンツァー
Mecha (メカ - me-ka) are giant Robots, robot vehicles, robot construction equipment, robot mobile buildings and generally over-sized robot machines. While the original Japanese definition extends to include power armor, exoskeletons, and general sci-fi machinery, for danbooru purposes this tag is for piloted and/or giant robots.
Primarily seen in Science Fiction settings, though there are several cases of them in Fantasy settings.
Types of Mecha
- Externally Piloted Mecha - A mecha where the controls are external and the pilot rides on top of the machine.
- Walker (Robot) - A type of walking mecha that usually lacks arms.
- Super Robot - Mecha with super powers.
- Real Robot (リアルロボット Riaru Robotto) anime genre started by Tomino Yoshiyuki's Mobile Suit Gundam in the late 70s and early 80s. Realistic manned mecha similar in function to a humanoid bipedal Tank.
Series-specific tags
- Arm Slave (Mecha) (Full Metal Panic!)
- Armored Trooper (Soukou Kihei VOTOMS)
- AT-AT (Star Wars)
- Destroid (Macross)
- Dreadnought (Warhammer 40k) (Warhammer 40K)
- Battroid (Macross)
- Gerwalk (Macross)
- Evangelion (Mecha) (Neon Genesis Evangelion)
- Ferronis (Xenoblade) (Xenoblade Chronicles 3)
- Gekko (Metal Gear) (Metal Gear (Series))
- Gothicmade (Mecha) (Hana No Utame Gothicmade)
- Holon (Gen Lock) (Gen:Lock)
- Jaeger (Pacific Rim) (Pacific Rim)
- Kataphrakt (Aldnoah.Zero) (ALDNOAH.ZERO)
- Knightmare Frame (Code Geass)
- Laputa Robot (Tenkuu No Shiro Laputa)
- Mashin (Magic Knight Rayearth)
- Meka (Overwatch) (Overwatch)
- Metal Gear (Robot) (Metal Gear (Series))
- Mobile Suit (Gundam)
- Man Machine (Gaia Gear)
- Mobile Armor (Gundam)
- Morito (Sidonia No Kishi) (Sidonia No Kishi)
- Mortar Headd (Five Star Stories)
- Orbital Frame (Zone Of The Enders) (Zone Of The Enders (Series))
- Skell (Xenoblade X) (Xenoblade Chronicles X)
- Tactical Surface Fighter (Muv-Luv Alternative)
- The Iron Giant (The Iron Giant)
- Titan (Titanfall) (Titanfall (Series))
- Variable Fighter (Macross)
Related tags
- Exoskeleton - Small, external mechanical attachments that tends to be worn rather than piloted. Some may qualify for the mecha tag, though it should be judged on a case by case basis.
- Power Armor - Full body mechanical armor that usually augments the wearer's abilities.
- Robot Animal - Robot in the shape of an animal, sometimes overlaps with mecha in series such as Zoids and certain Super Sentai entries.
- Robot Dragon - Robot in the shape of a dragon, often overlaps with mecha due to their size.