 If you liked
Kidou Senshi Gundam
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Soukou Kihei Votoms
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Though Votoms is aimed at a more mature audience then Gundam, both are about civilizations that have been at war for many years and are now looking to further evolve humans in order to gain the upper hand. Whether they call them Newtypes (Mobile Suit Gundam) or Perfect Soldiers (Soukou Kihei Votoms), both series present characters who have a naturally or genetically enhanced battle potential compared to normal humans. They have heightened senses and are thus feared on the battlefield by other pilots.
Both series are very character driven and have a lot of development for especially the protagonists.
Yoshiyuki Tomino and Ryosuke Takahashi are two of the greatest exponents of the realistic robotic genre.
It changes the conception of the mecha, no longer a divine machine but normal combat machines used by men.
It also loses the concept of antagonist in favor of a more complex definition of war that overwhelms people forced to kill for institutional duty.
More mature themes are introduced.
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Classic Sunrise mecha anime and prime examples of the real robot subgenre. Both anime deal with more mature aspects of war, and have somewhat similar transhumanist ideas (Newtypes & Perfect Soldiers).
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