“I was very aware of what had come out ahead of me,” Peyton tells Polygon. The director cites James Cameron’s Aliens and Avatar as obvious but undeniable milestones in the art of on-screen mechs. He ...

Melodrama and mechs go together like peanut and jelly. Battle Suit Aces leans into that pairing hard, dressing its turn-based card battles with all the panache of a classic mecha anime. It comes from ...

Anime robots known as mecha have been entertaining people since the 1960s with their huge size, larger-than-life battle scenes, and powerful themes of human determination against all odds. These ...