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Neko_Ali:
Vision of Escaflowne. It's sort of a fantasy mecha series. High school girl gets accidentally pulled into an alternate world that is mostly midevil level tech, but they have giant mecha powered by dragon hearts. It gets dark at some points, but for the most part it's a romp through fantasy tropes, dipped in mecha sauce. Along similar lines but much older (70s or 80s) is Aura Battler Dunbine.
Depending on how tightly you want to define mecha, the various Bubblegum Crisis versions are good. That's battle armor sized mech suits though, not 30 meter tall robots.
Somewhat more contemporary and less Japanese you may want to find Symbionic Titan. It was a show by Cartoon Network by the same people who made Samurai Jack. Fleeing an war on an alien world, the king sends his daughter to earth to protect her, along with one of the royal guard and a robot to help him. They have to blend in and hide from the enemy who keeps sending monsters and agents after them, so they start attending the local high school. The robot alternately pretends to be the kid's father at home, and another student at school so they all stay close. When a monster from the other dimension attacks they can transform into robots via sentai-like watches, and also combine with Octus to form a giant robot, the Symbionic Titan. They also have to deal with a military commander who hates that giant robots are tearing up the place, but also glad that they can stop the monsters. And a shadowy organization devoted to studying aliens. Sadly the show only lasted two seasons and was never finished. But it's still well worth watching.
pwhodges:
EscaFlowne is very good, I agree (though you can skip the film). It's not got very much of a mecha feel to my mind, though.
--- Quote from: Emoroffle on 09 Sep 2015, 11:56 ---Gurren Lagann I have resolved not to watch because of how stupid it is.
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Oh, c'mon! Let your hair down! It meets your requirements pretty well.
But how important is the mecha aspect? If steam-punk airships might do it for you, try Last Exile. If happy and optimistic on its own could work without a mecha in sight, there's Magical Shopping Arcade Abenobashi, or a particular favourite of mine: Uchouten Kazoku (aka The Eccentric Family). Oh look, there're happy and optimistic quotes from those last two in my sig - what a coincidence!
Blue Kitty:
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Emoroffle:
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--- Quote from: Emoroffle on 09 Sep 2015, 11:56 ---Gurren Lagann I have resolved not to watch because of how stupid it is
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It's certainly not fun if I can't enjoy it because it keeps breaking my willing suspension of disbelief. I prefer my mecha shows to follow at least some science. I can forgive outlandish power sources, metals, and magic computers if they don't constantly break the rest of reality and keep forcing my brain to just scream "NOPE!" over and over.
P.S. I've already seen Last Exile. For some clarification I'm in the mood for big robots.
pwhodges:
Yuusha Raideen. :-P
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