Nobody remembers this one, but 1983 had no mercy, a test pilot wakes up in another universe and discovers he's the only thing standing between entire star systems and annihilation. The mecha aren't sleek or smart, they're brutal tools for survival against an enemy that doesn't negotiate. Fifty-three episodes of pure war, no filler, no apologies, just a man learning that being the strongest weapon alive means watching everything you build get burned down anyway.
When an experiment goes badly wrong, test pilot David Jance is hurled through the galactic core and ends up in another universe. The year is 2545, and David soon finds himself caught up in a life-or-death fight against GRIP, whose forces answer to Dark Star. The 53-episode TV series from 1983 is a science fiction action story with mecha. In the United States it was folded into the series Macron 1.