A cinematic obsessive with the filmic palate of a starving raccoon, Rob London will watch pretty much anything once. With a mind like a steel trap, he's an endless fount of movie and TV trivia, borne ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Ollie Barder covers Japanese pop-culture and gaming from Tokyo. Gundam and its ilk worked because its mecha design sat across the ...

In the annals of mecha anime history, Macross has stood tall as one of the genre's biggest brands ever since the franchise's 1980s debut. While Macross might be second to the Mobile Suit Gundam ...

Evan Howard is a Film and Television News writer for Collider. They are a former professional dancer living in Chicago, IL. Get ready to hop into the pilot seat and crank up the AI pop music, because ...

This retro mecha masterpiece reaches across time and space with a prescient, hopeful message as timeless as its vision of the future. Reading time 4 minutes Macross Plus is as much a cultural ...

Gundam has always used its ongoing mecha premise to communicate its themes about the military hierarchy, government corruption, and empathy. In contrast, Macross‘ military conflict feels more ...

When Japanese anime master Shoji Kawamori first saw the HSBC headquarters in Hong Kong’s central business district 30 years ago, he immediately thought how the building, completed in 1985, was ahead ...

Mecha anime has had decades to truly define itself, but these anime remain a gateway for new fans to explore the genre.

As an animator, Joaquim Dos Santos has steadily carved out a career boasting credits on some of the most influential American animated series of the past two decades. The 46-year-old animator and ...

It looks like everything old is becoming new again. Just like Y2K trends and vinyl records, another retro title from entertainment’s decades past is rearing its head once more. It turns out Macross is ...

Mecha artist Hidetaka Tenjin from the Macross series and Gundam Evolve will design Guardians for Death Beneath the Labyrinth. Ryoji who worked on Live A Live and Project ARMS is the game’s character ...