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Anime like Zoids

Similar anime recommendations based on Zoids's genres, mood signals, pacing, and watch profile.

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Gurren Lagann The Movie: Childhood's End anime cover
2008MOVIE1 episodes

Gurren Lagann The Movie: Childhood's End

This is the story of a man who has yet to realize what destiny holds in store for him…. In the distant future, mankind has lived quietly and...

Robot Carnival anime cover
1987OVA9 episodes

Robot Carnival

9 of Japan's leading animators were asked to create a short segment that followed the theme of "Robots," for their inclusion in this film....

Gurren Lagann anime cover
2007TV27 episodes

Gurren Lagann

In a far away future, mankind lives underground in huge caves, unknowing of a world above with a sky and stars. In the small village of Jiha,...

Brave Bang Bravern! anime cover
2024TV12 episodes

Brave Bang Bravern!

Bang Brave Bang Bravern is set in a world where humanoid armored weapons known as “Titatonostrider” (“TS” for short) are used in warfare.

Full Metal Panic! anime cover
2002TV24 episodes

Full Metal Panic!

Sousuke Sagara, a seventeen year old military specialist working for the secret organization MITHRIL, has been assigned to protect the latest...

The King of Braves: GaoGaiGar anime cover
1997TV49 episodes

The King of Braves: GaoGaiGar

In the year 2005, a race of alien monsters called Zonders emerge from underground and launch a series of attacks on the city of Tokyo. The only...

Dr. STONE anime cover
2019TV24 episodes

Dr. STONE

After five years of harboring unspoken feelings, high-schooler Taiju Ooki is finally ready to confess his love to Yuzuriha Ogawa. Just when Taiju...

Shangri-La Frontier anime cover
2023TV25 episodes

Shangri-La Frontier

"When was the last time I played a game that wasn't crap?" This is a world in the near future where games that use display screens are classified...

Trigun anime cover
1998TV26 episodes

Trigun

Vash the Stampede is a wanted man with a habit of turning entire towns into rubble. The price on his head is a fortune, and his path of...

Dragon Ball anime cover
1986TV153 episodes

Dragon Ball

Goku Son is a young boy who lives in the woods all alone—that is until a girl named Bulma runs into him in her search for a set of magical objects...

Eureka Seven anime cover
2005TV50 episodes

Eureka Seven

Renton is a teenager trapped working as a mechanic in a backwater town. He dreams of joining up with a daredevil group of pilots known as...

DRIFTERS anime cover
2016TV12 episodes

DRIFTERS

The story centers around Shimazu Toyohisa, the real-life samurai who fought in the pivotal Battle of Sekigahara. In his dying moments, Shimazu is...

FLCL anime cover
2000OVA6 episodes

FLCL

Naota is a detached sixth grader afflicted by the pangs of puberty. He's fooling around with his brother's ex-girlfriend when a crazed girl on a...

Outlaw Star anime cover
1998TV24 episodes

Outlaw Star

Gene Starwind is a jack-of-all-trades responsible for odd jobs and bounty hunting with his partner, Jim Hawking. Stuck on a rundown planet, he’s...

Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin anime cover
2015OVA6 episodes

Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin

The first episode, Aoi Hitomi no Casval, tells the story of Casval Rem Deikun and Artesia Som Deikun (Char and Sayla, before Char became known as...