Machina - Recommendations

• TV (12 eps)
• 2017

After a great calamity in Japan, the world needed a hero: but did this hero need to be a god? Or a friend? Two young geniuses, Umataro Tenma and Hiroshi Ochanomizu, have labored extensively to create a powerful artificial intelligence to protect the future. The result of their collaboration was a robot, A106. In this previously untold story, Tenma and Ochanomizu lay the groundwork leading up to the birth of an android that would later change the world.

• Other

Set in a mechanical world, Mechronicle tells the story of Mechanico: a small, shy, withdrawn boy with big glasses. He is totally in love with Nell, who looks after Mechanico like he's her kid brother. One day, Nell is kidnapped by Team Magu Magu, a villainous group of machines. She soon discovers that the secret to their world is hidden in her machinery. Mechanico vows to rescue Nell and, plucking up his courage, pursues the kidnappers. The adventure begins!

• Movie (1 ep)
• 1989

• Music Video (1 ep)
• 2009

• DVD Special (1 ep)
• 2003

• TV (12 eps)
• 2021

In the year 2014, a high school student who hates machines, Akira Natsume, wants to change himself for the better and tries to take the first step in doing that... But then he gets run over by a truck. Fast forward to 2030. A police officer named Minami Uezono and her partner, the android Alma, infiltrate the scene of a trade going on at Tokyo Harbor for an unknown weapon named “EX-ARM.” They are then attacked by an enemy armed with the “EX-ARM” No.08. Put in this life or death situation, they decide to activate the “EX-ARM” No.00 that they stole from the enemy, and... 

• Movie

• DVD Special (1 ep)
• 1999

• OVA (12 eps)
• 1998

Atsuko Higuichi has amnesia and doesn't remember much more than her nickname Nuku Nuku. She's been taken in by the Natsume family until she can regain her memory; however her new family may have ulterior motives: the young Ryunosuke has fallen in love with her, the father Kyusaku seems to be the only one aware that she is an android, and his wife Akiko works for a company that has a vested interest in capturing Nuku Nuku. Will Atsuko be able to recover her memories and live a normal life, or is she destined to remain a fugitive with amnesia?

• Web (6 eps)
• 2003

BLAME! is a very dark and abstract set of 6 shorts which are based on the manga by Tsutomu Nihei. The "story" (if it can be called that) revolves around a man named Killy: a human living amongst clones and androids. His task, it seems, is to collect things known as "net-genes", and to help find the remaining humans that may or may not exist.