# What is the best mecha anime film of all time?

> Giant robots, doomed pilots and a few films that changed how anime talks about war.

*By YPB Team · Published October 20, 2026 · https://youpick.best/ranking/what-is-the-best-mecha-anime-film-of-all-time*

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1. **Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a Time** — score 1000/1000
   The 2021 finale of the Rebuild of Evangelion tetralogy, which closed Shinji's story.
2. **Code Geass: Lelouch of the Re;surrection** — score 999/1000
   The 2019 sequel film that brought Lelouch back after the original series' ending.
3. **Gundam SEED Freedom** — score 848/1000
   The 2024 sequel film that revisited Kira and Athrun's Cosmic Era.
4. **Patlabor: The Movie** — score 818/1000
   The 1989 feature about a computer virus that makes labour robots go berserk.
5. **The End of Evangelion** — score 818/1000
   The 1997 film that gave Neon Genesis Evangelion its apocalyptic, deeply divisive ending.
6. **Mobile Suit Gundam: Char's Counterattack** — score 734/1000
   The 1988 film that ended the Amuro and Char rivalry in a battle over Earth's fate.
7. **Patlabor 2: The Movie** — score 636/1000
   Mamoru Oshii's 1993 film in which a rogue officer stages a coup in Tokyo.
8. **Mobile Suit Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz** — score 520/1000
   The 1998 sequel to Gundam Wing that returned the pilots for a final conflict.
9. **Evangelion: 2.0 You Can (Not) Advance** — score 382/1000
   The 2009 second Rebuild film that reworked the series' middle act with new characters and a bigger scale.
10. **Mobile Suit Gundam F91** — score 382/1000
   The 1991 film that started a new generation of the Universal Century timeline.
11. **Macross: Do You Remember Love?** — score 382/1000
   The 1984 retelling of the original Macross story, remembered for its animation and the song at its centre.
12. **Gundam 00: A wakening of the Trailblazer** — score 382/1000
   The 2010 film that continued Gundam 00 with a first-contact storyline.
13. **Space Runaway Ideon: Be Invoked** — score 0/1000
   The 1982 conclusion to Ideon, known for a grim, cosmic ending.
14. **Mobile Suit Gundam: Hathaway** — score 0/1000
   The 2021 film adapting the Hathaway's Flash novels about a terrorist who was once a Gundam pilot.

Tags: movies, animation, mecha, gundam, evangelion