as far as Anime goes...i have always been partial to one of the original classics...AKIRA...truly the best...Ghost in the Shell wasnt bad either...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xS6BEWE57Ak
and i know many of you were too young...and i am not sure what other stations played these way back...but our local station in RI back in the late 70's and early 80's played Starblazers...another classic...and a show called Force 5...each day of the week was a different mechanized super robot...there was Grandizer, Spaceketeers, Danguard Ace...and a couple more...and i cant remember the others...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JoobYtlE4bE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gm3x5W3-Tj8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kH8Je...eature=related
i just linked opening theme songs LOL pretty cheesey...to me they were all predecessors to Go-Bots and then Transformers...
also enjoyed the Robotech series when it was on...