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Only series that are ranked below 2,000 in 'Popularity' on MAL.
Check out part 2: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/8280

This is a part of a series of stacks that are about artistic tendencies in anime (and that border the fine line between sophisticated and pretentious).

This stack is a work in progress.

Bibliography:
Clements, Jonathan. "The Brown Screen: Trended change in Japanese animation 1966–83." Anime: A History. Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. 154-155.
Condry, Ian. "When Anime Robots became real." The Soul of Anime. Duke University Press, 2013. 117-119, 122-127.
Hack, Brett Anthony. "Screens, Clichés, and Revolutions: Code Geass and the Mediated Imagination of Change." Anime and Social Imagination: Media Fictions in Japan’s Age of Neoliberalism. 2021. Nagoya University, PhD thesis. 160-162.

well guys, I filled up stack #1, located here: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/6201

So i gotta start this one now

To qualify for this stack, the following must be true

1) The show includes some form of mecha, interpreted loosely.
2) The show must include one or more important female characters
3) At least one of the female characters, other than a villain, must interact directly with the mecha in an important role (typically pilot, but other roles can be sufficient)

This does not require that only females pilot or even that the main character/pilot must be female, only that we get a good active role from a female character, not just a damsel or sideline role.

Apparently this has more than one entry

Mecha that takes place in modern/modern-ish/near-future times relative to their release date.

Anime that feature Openings or Endings performed by K-Pop artists.

Due to the number limitation of entries, these ones aren't included in the stack:
> Monkey Turn (Opening: "Kokoro ga Tomaranai" by JEWELRY)
> Monkey Turn V (Opening: "Mune Ippai no Kono Ai wo Dare Yori Kimi ni" by JEWELRY)
> Tamagotchi! (5th Ending: "Kizuna" by SHU-I)
> Duel Masters VSR (2nd Ending: "Love & Peace" by CROSS GENE)
> Duel Masters!! (4th Ending: "I'm Your Joker" by IN2IT)
> Duel Masters Win (2nd Opening: "Limitless" by ATEEZ)
> The Aurora: Umi no Aurora (Ending: "Umi no Aurora" by S.E.S)
> Youkai Watch Movie 5: Forever Friends (Ending: "Daisuki Datta" by DBSK)
> Arashi no Yoru ni: Himitsu no Tomodachi (Ending: "Dear My Friend" by U-KISS)
> Rilu Rilu Fairilu: Yousei no Door (Opening: "Brand New Days" by Apink)
> Rilu Rilu Fairilu: Mahou no Kagami (1st Opening: "Papipupe Pon!" by Apink)
> Cinnamon the Movie (Ending: "Together" by DBSK)

List of mecha anime with female main characters, from oldest to newest. I have excluded sequels for most of these to prevent me from having to make 5 different stacks.

Part 1: (1983 - 2007): https://myanimelist.net/stacks/58125

If there's a mecha anime with a female MC I've forgotten to list (or an anime that is on this stack but shouldn't be) then message me or comment on my profile and I'll add/remove it.