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If you liked Turn A Gundam add

...then you might like Gundam: G no Reconguista Movie I - Ike! Core Fighter add

Very similar setting, premise and director. Akiman plays mecha designer role instead of character designer in Reconguista with Eureka Seven's Kenichi Yoshida taking that role in place making for a show that is extremely visually pretty. The TV show is arguably a better starting point if you're willing to watch the movies too, but if not the movies serve as a better experience as it fixes a lot of issues the show had. In a way the narrative of Reconguista feels like a follow-up to Turn A, not declaring the chance for humanity's crescendo into peace but rather alerting us of our tenuous grip on the sociological and economical frivialities we take for granted are put to the test when natural resources inevitably begin to run out.

If you liked Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou add

...then you might like Super Cub add

Super Cub is the only anime I've seen that manages to capture the ambiance that YKK has, though I'm referring more to the YKK manga than this OVA. It's slow, it's relaxing, the soundtrack has a lot of piano and classical pieces by Debussy and it's a rare modern anime to have high quality shot composition. Backgrounds are memorable not because they're beautiful but because they're immersive. The problem with a lot of shows or manga that try to emulate YKK is that they're too romanticised or emotionally charged. And while Super Cub definitely is an emotively directed anime that does romanticise cubs, it doesn't do it in an altruistic way. Those small, insignificant instances that YKK puts a shine on are very similar in Super Cub. Menial moments aren't given fanfare or try to push emotion onto you the way it is in Aria for instance. Now with that said it's still not quite on the level of YKK but it's a damn good show that, in my opinion, captures the feeling of it better than the OVA itself does.