Was watching some cartoons with my kids this evening and the subject of giant robots came up. Told my son that when I was a kid my first giant robot series that I saw was Blocker Corp Machine Blaster (1976). I found the website which brought waves of nostalgia. I was around 8 years old at the time – about the age of my son now. I remembered as a kid and sharing with my friends in school drawings of the giant robots and stories about the latest episode. This was all just before my family moved to Tokyo -thereby unleashing further waves of anime mania. One of the early anime (anime at wikipedia) that my brothers and I enjoyed as kids were the Time Bokan series which includes Yattaman and its various permutations. Those were hilarious slapstick anime which we enjoyed. And then there was the Dr Slump / Arale series.
Nostalgia Anime! Blocker Corp Machine Blaster
