Toys / Robot Spirits

Launched in 2008, Robot Spirits (also known as Robot Damashii) is a line of Humongous Mecha action figures produced by Bandai of Japan. Borrowing the design philosophy of their proven S.H.Figuarts line, Robot Spirits uses computer-aided design to produce high quality figures of mecha from popular anime series. The line is divided into different "Sides", each named for the respective show's name for their mecha and focuses primarily on Real Robot Genre series, with a few rare exceptions.

In 2013, the line received a tie-in PlayStation Portable game called Battle Robot Spirits, featuring several figures from the line with some Guest Fighters from the Chogokin line, including the Ideon and UCR-10/A.

Compare Super Robot Chogokin, which is Robot Spirits meets Soul of Chogokin.

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Series covered by this toyline (Series represented in Battle Robot Spirits in bold):

• Side MS (Mobile Suit)
  • Mobile Suit Gundam
  • Mobile Suit Gundam: The 08th MS Team
  • Mobile Suit Gundam 0083: Stardust Memory
  • Mobile Suit Gundam: Rise from the Ashes
  • Mobile Suit Gundam 0080: War in the Pocket
  • Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam
  • Gundam Sentinel
  • Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ
  • Mobile Suit Gundam: Char's Counterattack
  • Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn
  • Mobile Suit Gundam: Hathaway's Flash
  • Mobile Suit Gundam F91
  • Mobile Suit Crossbone Gundam
  • Mobile Suit Victory Gundam
  • Mobile Fighter G Gundam
  • Mobile Suit Gundam Wing
  • Mobile Suit Gundam Wing Dual Story: G-Unit
  • Mobile Suit Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz
  • After War Gundam X
  • ∀ Gundam
  • Mobile Suit Gundam SEED
  • Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny
  • Mobile Suit Gundam 00
  • Gundam 00: A Wakening of the Trailblazer
  • Mobile Suit Gundam AGE
  • Gundam: Reconguista in G
  • Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans
  • Gundam Vs Series
  • Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch from Mercury

• Side KMF (Knightmare Frame):
  • Code Geass
  • Code Geass: Lost Colors
  • Code Geass: Akito the Exiled

• Side LFO:
  • Eureka Seven
  • Eureka Seven Good Night Sleep Tight Young Lovers

• Side AS (Arm Slave):
  • Full Metal Panic!

• Side VF (Variable Fighter):
  • Macross Frontier

• Side MASHIN:
  • Eiyuuden Wataru
  • Mashin Eiyuuden Wataru 2

• Side EVA:
  • Neon Genesis Evangelion
  • Rebuild of Evangelion

• Side HL (Holonic Loader):
  • Zegapain

• Side FNN (Fafner):
  • Fafner in the Azure: Dead Aggressor
  • Fafner Heaven and Earth

• Side HM (Heavy Metal):
  • Heavy Metal L-Gaim

• Side CB (Cybody)
  • Star Driver

• Fujiko F. Fujio Works:
  • Doraemon

• Side YOROI:
  • GUN×SWORD

• Side HERO:
  • Heroman

• Side AB (Aura Battler):
  • Aura Battler Dunbine

• Side ovid:
  • Lagrange: The Flower of Rin-ne

• Side RF (Round Vernian):
  • Ginga Hyouryuu Vifam

• Side MA (Metal Armor):
  • Metal Armor Dragonar

• Side LB (Labor):
  • Franchise/Patlabor

• Side AMAIM:
  • AMAIM Warrior at the Borderline

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Tropes specific to this toyline:

• Adaptational Superpower Change: The FA-78-2 Heavy Gundam in the line features detachable armor much like the FA-78-1 Full Armor Gundam. In the MSV concept, the Heavy Gundam ditched the armor detachment gimmick to save on money and control its weight.
• An Arm and a Leg: The figures feature detachable limbs but the A.N.I.M.E. line feature battle damage parts to replicate famous dismemberments in the home series.
  • From Mobile Suit Gundam there's the Gouf, Char's Gelgoog, the Zeong, and the Gundam itself (though only the Final Battle version).
  • From Mobile Suit Gundam 0080: War in the Pocket there's the Zaku II FZ, and the Gundam NT-1 "Alex" itself (Through only in the standard release)
• Fingore: The Gundam Alex features battle damage parts to do the scene where its hand is mangled by the Zaku's heat-hawk in the climax of Mobile Suit Gundam 0080: War in the Pocket and it loses some fingers. Though the premium Bandai release with the Chobham armor removes those battle damage parts.
• No Export for You: Tamashii Web Exclusive ones, including the Tamashii Nation Expo exclusive sets.
• Real Robot Genre: Robot Spirits cover this genre of anime mecha.
• Spiritual Successor: to the Mobile Suit in Action! and In Action! Offshoot lines.
• Units Not to Scale: The line is pretty inconsistent with this.
  • On the one hand, the Gawain towers over the other Knightmare Frames (which is accurate to the show); on the other hand, the line includes a figure of Bonta-kun (a theme park mascot costume turned into Powered Armor), which can rub shoulders with mecha several times its height.
  • The Ver A.N.I.M.E. tries to incorporate more accurate scaling amongst the Gundam figures. It succeeds for the most part though there are several hiccups here and there.