Giant Robo: Reference

Knights of Sidonia

A thousand years after the Gauna destroyed the solar system, the seed ship Sidonia travels through deep space carrying the remnants of humanity. The alien creatures that annihilated Earth remain a constant threat, and the ship's survival depends on the Gardes, mobile weapon units capable of destroying the monsters' cores before they can regenerate. Nagate Tanikaze has spent his entire life in the ship's underground depths, isolated from the society above, where he trained relentlessly on pilot simulators. When he finally emerges, his exceptional skills earn him the right to pilot the legendary Garde Tsugumori and a place in humanity's defense force. As Nagate joins the fight against the Ga

I’m the Evil Lord of an Intergalactic Empire!

Liam lived his previous life as a hardworking and honest man, only to die deep in debt and betrayed by his wife. Reborn as the ruling noble of a planet within a vast interstellar empire, he resolves to live only for himself this time. Determined to become a tyrant, he sets out to exploit his subjects and crush anyone beneath him. Yet his efforts backfire spectacularly. Every selfish decision he makes somehow brings peace, prosperity, and happiness to the people under his rule. The more he tries to be a villain, the more beloved and popular he becomes, leaving him trapped in a life of unintended benevolence.

Appleseed

In the aftermath of World War III, the world lies in ruins. Nomad soldier Deunan Knute and her cyborg partner, Briareos Hecatonchires, scavenge for survival in the desolate Badside wastelands. Their harsh existence takes an unexpected turn when they are recruited and brought to Olympus, a gleaming utopian city that stands as a beacon of civilization's reconstruction. Integrated into the elite ESWAT police force, Deunan and Briareos are tasked with protecting Olympus's interests. However, they soon discover that the city's perfect facade conceals deep-seated tensions and violent conflicts. As they navigate their new roles, they become entangled in international plots and a dark struggle that

Joshi Kouhei

In the future, colonists who migrated to an alternate dimensional space rebel against Earth, seeking independence. The United Army of Earth answers with a long, multi-dimensional war, and the battlefronts keep spreading with no end in sight. Hoping to break the deadlock, the United Army deploys a new weapon in vast numbers: the Assault Girls, machines shaped like teenage schoolgirls that render every earlier weapon obsolete. Corruption eventually claims every pilot, and those who succumb turn rogue. To hunt them down, the army fields the 13th Independent Assault Girl Hunting Platoon, nicknamed the Hyena Platoon, crewed by outcasts and criminals.

Eureka Seven: Psalms of Planets

Renton Thurston is a fourteen-year-old boy who spends his days helping out in his grandfather's garage, repairing machines and dreaming of flying around the world. The routine wears on him, and so does living in the shadow of a father remembered as a legendary hero. What lifts his spirits is lifting, an extreme form of aerial hoverboarding that takes him above the rooftops. One day a large LFO craft called Nirvash falls from the sky. A girl named Eureka emerges from it and asks for repairs. Renton, instantly smitten, throws himself into helping her, and the two set out on a journey that will change both of their destinies.

Xing Jia Hun Jiang Zhuan

Song Yunxiang, humanity's last mecha-sorcerer, is reborn into his own schoolboy body and finds himself back on the campus where he was once shunned for having no spiritual constitution. With him come a System and sixty years of combat experience and technical knowledge. The first time around he was too weak to change anything, and he could only watch as his friends and comrades died in the war that was coming. Now he has the means to design and build mecha of his own, and to turn them against the monsters. Yet the past is not only a battlefield. Everyone he lost is alive again, and the choices he makes this time are shaped by the regrets he does not intend to repeat.