Looking for giant robots? Let us direct you to the full line of Gundam, Evangelion, and Ingram variants.īut Japanese animation isn’t just cuddly adorableness and cool technology. In the cute mascot character category, you’ll find Totoro, Magic Knight Rayearth’s Mokona, and Pokémon’s Pikachu.
With the huge volume of anime that Japan produces, the medium has its own archetypes that each generation of creators adds new entries to.