Make a mecha anime: a pilot, a machine and a war neither chose
Save the pilot and the machine as Characters, so the paint job, the number and every dent come back in every sortie.
Free: make your Character and its Story as picture-only Slideshows. Real video comes with a plan.
Anime
Sci-fi
Retro animeHow to make a mecha anime with AI
Make the pilot a Character, then make the machine a Character too, so its design matches in every Scene. Describe the hangar and the war in a line and the AI Director writes the Story. Watch it free as a picture-only Slideshow. With a plan, film each sortie as Clips and put them together into an Episode.
Updated November 2026 · Free to start · Web and iPhone
Sample Clips
Real Clips from fictional sample series. Same Cast from shot to shot; tap a Clip for sound.
The Long Haul The snack cupboard
Example from our house series The Long Haul, a space anime, not a mecha Story. Made with H3 Turbo, the default Clip model in Character App · fictional sample series
The machine is a Character too
In a mecha series the robot is a lead. Save it as a Character from a description or your own design drawing: its colours, its number, the cracked visor. Then it stays the same machine in the hangar, in the sky and in the wreck.
Sorties as Clips
A battle is a sequence of short Clips: the launch, the first hit, the turn, the landing. Plan it as a Story, check it free as a picture-only Slideshow, then film the beats with a plan. For fights between people, see anime fight scene.
Space anime
The same machinery makes a space anime: a crew, a ship that is part of the World, a war on the edge of the map. For the 90s cel look with grain and dusk light, try 90s anime; for every other kind of anime, make your own anime.
5 mecha anime ideas to start from
Press one and it lands in the idea box. Change a word or keep it; the Director takes it from there.
- 01Say SorryA scrap-dealer pilot inherits a machine that only starts when she apologizes to it.Use this idea
- 02One CockpitTwo pilots share one cockpit and do not share one opinion.Use this idea
- 03Port CraneA decommissioned war robot works as a port crane and still salutes passing ships.Use this idea
- 04Repair CrewA top pilot washes out and joins the crew that repairs the machines.Use this idea
- 05Under the ReservoirA space colony votes on whether to wake the giant robot sleeping under the reservoir.Use this idea
From one line to Episode 01
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Make pilot and machine
Two Characters from words or your design drawings: the pilot, then the robot, both in an anime Art style.
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Plan the sortie
The AI Director writes the battle in Scenes; watch it free as a picture-only Slideshow.
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Film it with a plan
Film each Scene as a Clip, a few seconds each, keep the best take, and put the Clips together into an Episode.
Pictures free. Filming with a plan.
Free: make your Character and its Story as picture-only Slideshows. Real video comes with a plan. The free Studio is currently one World build, one Character a day, 4 Lite Images a day.
With a plan, a narrated Slideshow Story is 40 Credits for up to 5 slides, narration and music included, and a 5-second Clip on H3 Turbo is 25 Credits. Every button shows its price before you press.
Creator · $39.99 a month 1,600 Credits, spent any of these ways
- 64 HD H3 videos
- 266 Nano Banana 2.1 pictures
- ~29 Seedance 2.5 videos
- 40 Slideshow Stories
Or Characters, Stories and Episodes from the same Credits. Starter ($19.99) makes 32 HD H3 videos; Pro ($99.99) makes 160. Every button shows its price before you press.
Questions, answered
Still curious? The guides go deeper.
Can AI make a mecha anime?
Yes. Save the pilot and the machine as Characters, let the AI Director write the Story, and with a plan film each sortie as Clips put together into an Episode.
Will the robot look the same every Episode?
Saving it as a Character is how: every Scene is drawn from the same kept design.
Is the Clip on this page a mecha Clip?
No. It is from The Long Haul, one of our house space anime series, shown as an example of an anime Clip made in Character App.
Can I use robots from an existing series?
No. Design your own machines and pilots.
What is free, and what needs a plan?
Free: make your Character and its Story as picture-only Slideshows. Real video comes with a plan. Clips, narrated Slideshows and Episodes use plan Credits, and every button shows its price before you press.
More genres
Every genre
AnimeCel-shaded arcs, rivals and late-waking powers.
90s animeCel shading, film grain, your own OC.- Anime fight sceneTwo fighters, locked designs, beat by beat.
Cast for this genre
Plan it as a full season with the AI series maker.
Guides for this genre
- Build a consistent castKeep the same face, proportions, and costume in every episode — the fix isn’t better prompts, it’s architecture.
- Plan a season arcA season arc is one promise the whole season keeps: a question episode one asks and the finale answers.
- Scenes, Takes, Clips, EpisodesCharacter App has five production nouns and they nest: a Scene is one dramatic moment, a Take is one filmed attempt at it, a Clip is the take you kept, an Episode is kept Clips assembled in order, and a Season is the run of Episodes.
Your mecha anime starts with one line.
Free: make your Character and its Story as picture-only Slideshows. Real video comes with a plan.