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Hiya. Give me some recs so I can actually enjoy the genre for once.

Sure!

Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann is my favorite anime of all time. The most over the top and inspiring anime ever made with the combo of Hiroyuki Imaishi’s stellar directing and Kazuki Nakashima’s excellent writing.

Gunbuster was Hideaki Anno’s directorial debut. It’s a 6 episode OVA and the first half is admittedly a little slow but the second half is fantastic, with awesome action, cool time dilation scifi shit, and one of the best endings of any anime I’ve ever seen.

Diebuster is a sequel to Gunbuster directed by Kazuya Tsurumaki, director of FLCL. It’s pretty different from Gunbuster but also great, with some fantastic animation and action.

Giant Robo the Animation: the Day the Earth Stood Still is a 90s ova adapting a manga from the 60s. I’m always a sucker for anime that uses retro art styles with modern animation quality and this is the best example of that out there. It’s absolutely gorgeous. The source material is also from before mechas were piloted and instead the titular Giant Robo is controlled by a boy with a watch.

Star driver has fantastic mecha animation and pretty much has a gorgeous action scene every episode. It also has the most fabulous mecha pilot of all time, the galactic pretty boy!

If you didn’t watch it last season, SSSS.Gridman was really good. It’s a love letter to old tokusatsu and mecha shows and that really comes through in the animation, and what really makes the show shine is it’s villian who is really interesting and has so much personality, she’s so much fun to watch. It also has a lot of good heavy yuri subtext.