Anime & Donghua

Some older stuff that I didn't see mentioned (and bulletpoints since everyone's being so neat):

Metal Skin Panic MADOX-01

• A comedy about a schmuck trying to visit his girlfriend who accidentally gets stuck inside a suit of power armour. The suit design was blatantly ripped off by the rpg game RIFTS (among others).

Cyber City Oedo 808

• Three short cyberpunk films about some badass prisoners too goddamn cool to stay in space prison, given bomb collars, and suicide missions. Great intro theme. Perfect Shadowun inspiration.

The Big O

• Batman with a Giant Robot, basically, but gets rather bizarre later. In a domed post-post-apocalyptic city where everyone lost their memories 40 years ago, Bruce Wayne works as a high-stakes negotiator and moonlights as the pilot of a giant robot to punch the unusually large number of rogue giant robots that keep getting dug up (and seems to single-handedly keep the construction industry afloat with the pretty realistically massive damage the fights do to the scenery).

Newer Stuff:

Land of the Lustrous

• I always recommend this. A post-post-post-post-apocalypse earth produces three successor races to humanity. One of those is a kind of animate gemstone coral, immortal, androgynous, photosynthetic, and hunted to make into jewellery by cruel things from the moon. One day the youngest, with a fragile body, decides that they want to change.