Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Ollie Barder covers Japanese pop-culture and gaming from Tokyo. The reason for this shaky start was because Gundam sat across the ...

The Mobile Suit Gundam franchise is the premiere mecha anime brand, with the property introducing several iconic giant robots over the years. These include the RX-78-2, the Zaku II, the Wing Gundam ...

Model making is a great hobby, but knowing how and where to start is another story. It can be overwhelming for novices: Injection-molded plastic models have been on the market for close to a century, ...

When it comes to the mecha anime genre, it's been going strong for decades and is one of the oldest in the medium. Once ruling anime as a whole, this classification has slowed down since the 2000s.

The Big-O is a unique case among anime and the mecha genre. Big action-packed fights are not the story’s focus, there are no young teens dealing with high school drama, and you won’t find any ...

In sci-fi tales, artificial intelligence often powers all sorts of clever, capable, and occasionally homicidal robots. A revealing limitation of today’s best AI is that, for now, it remains squarely ...