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 ...

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 ...

As a standout entry in a foundational modern sci-fi anime franchise, 1994’s Macross Plus was not only an exciting return to the series for franchise creator and famed mechanical designer Shōji ...

Mecha is one of anime's most tried and true storytelling styles, but some of these titles represent foundational genre turning points!

As an animator, Joaquim Dos Santos has steadily carved out a career boasting credits on some of the most influential American animated series of the past two decades. The 46-year-old animator and ...