Real Robot /

Real Robot (リアルロボット, Riaru Robotto) is a genre of Japanese animation. The genre contains mecha robots that are powered by conventional power sources and weapons explainable by real world science, and that use ranged weapons (especially guns and cannons) and speed to survive battle situations. Mobile Suit Gundam (1979) is largely considered the first series to introduce the real robot idea and, along with The Super Dimension Fortress Macross (1982), would form the basis of what later people call real robot anime. In an interview of Yoshiyuki Tomino and other production crew members in the April 1989 issue of Newtype, about his views on the first Gundam anime that is not directed by him, he commented on realism of the show, in which he sees the sponsors, Sunrise as imaginary enemies of Gundam, since they do not accept certain level of realism. Armored Trooper Votoms is viewed by Famitsu magazine as the peak of real robot anime. The word could also be used to mean real world working robots per definition of Nikkei Business Publication. They established the concepts behind "real robots" that set it apart from previous robot anime, such as: Gundam series now still refer to itself as a