Why this site
Mecha Italia collects the 55 Japanese robot series that reached our screens between 1970 and 2000: 2.551 episodes, with profiles, theme songs and episode-by-episode guides.
This is not a catalogue: it is a place to find something again.
Who makes it
My name is Davide, I live in Valenza and I grew up in front of these robots. In 1980 I was five years old and I was watching Space Robot on a local TV station, before the second series had even arrived. I am not telling you this to talk about myself: I am telling you because it is the reason this site exists.
I am not a journalist and I do not work in publishing. I do another job. I built this archive in the evenings, one piece at a time.
The weeks behind the scenes
Tracking down the episodes of almost every series listed here took me weeks. If you have never done it, you cannot imagine how much time disappears into an episode you cannot find, a title that changes name, a date nobody ever wrote down anywhere.
That work is why the data in here has been checked one entry at a time. Where sources contradict each other, the site says so instead of picking one at random. Where a date is not documented, it is simply not there: I would rather have an honest gap than an invented number.
The care
An enthusiast my age notices. You notice whether there is someone behind a page who actually watched that series, or someone who copied a line out of an encyclopaedia. Every entry here has been checked: the Italian dubbing names, the first broadcast dates, the characters, the robots, the theme songs.
It is the part nobody sees, and the part that takes the most time. It is also the only part that will still hold up in ten years.
What this site does not do
It does not put the episodes online. That is not a matter of convenience: the series belong to the people who made them and to whoever holds the rights in Italy, and an archive that distributes them without permission does not last. Better a little accurate data than a pile of stuff that disappears tomorrow.
For the same reason the theme songs are not uploaded here: they are embedded from the channels that published them, and the credit stays with whoever put them online.
Where I want to get to
If one day this site has enough people to interest anyone, I would like to work with the people who own these series: the publishers and streaming platforms that hold the rights. Not to ask, but to offer: I have an audience that watched these series as children and is still looking for them. They have the films. Together, those people get to watch them again — legally, and with the right page alongside.
It is not only about money, though I would not mind. It is a personal satisfaction: that someone who has no idea how to find them can watch again the episodes that thrilled them as a child. And that nobody forgets where we come from.
One thing you can do
If you were there too, and you remember something that is missing here — a date, a name, a theme song, an episode — write to me: gattobeige@gmail.com. The memory of the people who were there is the one source no archive can buy.
The same goes for corrections: if you spot a wrong entry, tell me. The site gets better when someone who knows more than I do reads it.
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