Mecha anime and manga, known in Japan as and , are
anime and
manga that feature robots (
mecha) in battle. The genre is broken down into two subcategories,
Super Robot is one category in which the anime or manga includes a super sized totally non plausible robot. The second category is
Real Robot, wherein the robots used are explainable by real world physics. Mecha series cover a wide variety of genres from comedy to drama, and has expanded into other media, such as
video game adaptations. Mecha has also contributed to the popularity of scale
model robots.