Giant Gorg

In the distant future of 1998, Dr. Tanaka is investigating the mysterious Austral Island, an island in the middle of the ocean a few thousand km south of Samoa which appeared with no explanation. Suddenly the doctor is murdered at the height of his research, thrusting his young son Yuu on a quest to find out the island's secrets and the seemingly evil organization GAIL which has taken over control of the island. Quickly he discovers Gorg, one of many robotic giants that seem to wander the island and attack its inhabitants. Directed by Yoshikazu Yasukiho, more famous for his earlier work on Mobile Suit Gundam, Giant Gorg has a lot of similar mecha-anime tropes, but is also a self-contained series that luckily didn't become a vehicle for selling toys, which I think really worked in favour of its character design and story arcs. I had fun over this entire series, and it surprised me at multiple points, the 80s music is just nostalgic perfection. Not quite a kids show, there's certainly plenty of violence and some very minor nudity, but no gore or anything extreme, If you're looking for a fun old school anime I would definitely recommend. It was certainly a Gorg time.