Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Ollie Barder covers Japanese pop-culture and gaming from Tokyo. Gundam and its ilk worked because its mecha design sat across the ...

This retro mecha masterpiece reaches across time and space with a prescient, hopeful message as timeless as its vision of the future. Reading time 4 minutes Macross Plus is as much a cultural ...

The classic mecha anime movie Macross: Do You Remember Love? will be getting a 4K remastered release next year in Japan, and it will include English subtitles. The latter is a fun point, because ...

. It will launch the anime-based mecha shooting game simultaneously worldwide, excluding China, on January 25, 2024. The official English Kite is a Japanese translator and avid gamer from Indonesia, ...

Gundam has always used its ongoing mecha premise to communicate its themes about the military hierarchy, government corruption, and empathy. In contrast, Macross‘ military conflict feels more ...

Macross Plus has been a white whale for anime fans for decades, the other great giant mecha series after Mobile Suit Gundam. It's the Rolling Stone to Gundam's Beatles of the mecha genre. It has its ...

The upcoming free-to-play online shooter Mecha Break really does well to evoke the exciting, breakneck sense of action from classic Japanese anime like Gundam Wing or Macross Plus. Focusing on the ...

A cinematic obsessive with the filmic palate of a starving raccoon, Rob London will watch pretty much anything once. With a mind like a steel trap, he's an endless fount of movie and TV trivia, borne ...

The long-running Macross series has received a handful of movies, dozens of video games, multiple anime series, and every other type of media you can imagine. The series’ latest entry, which is now ...