A surprisingly emotional spin-off, Pacific Rim: The Black is a rollercoaster ride of survival, intrigue, and family set against the backdrop of an Australian apocalypse.

It's time to un-cancel the apocalypse as Netflix's upcoming anime series takes us back to the mad Jaeger-vs-Kaiju world of Pacific Rim.

There was a time when Kaiju rose from the Pacific Rim only to encounter gigantic robots, Jaegers, built to fight them back. That time has passed. Now, Australia has been overrun by Kaiju, forcing the evacuation of an entire continent. Left behind, teenage siblings Taylor and Hayley embark on a desperate search for their missing parents, teaching themselves to pilot a battered, long-abandoned Jaeger to help in their quest and give them even the slightest hope of surviving.

In all of fiction, there is nothing better than the idea of mechanised steel. It’s an enduring concept, one that continues to find ground today and seeing as I’m in charge, I feel like celebrating my love for pop culture’s greatest triumph. Also it’s my list, and if you feel like being pedantic and telling me that entry X isn’t “technically a giant robot”, then you can kiss my Striker Eureka.

While Pacific Rim may not be able to find an audience on the big screen, it’s possibly far better suited to taking a page from one of its biggest inspirations to create an anime series instead.

You have to ask yourself though, what would the world be like after the first Kaiju War had ended? Jaeger technology would be out in the wild, coastal cities would be in ruins and survivors wouldn’t be in short supply. That’s a question that Legendary’s Pacific Rim Aftermath comics are attempting to answer, as it shines a spotlight on three characters

All you need to know about this trailer for Pacific Rim: Uprising, is that it features a non-stop battle with Jaegers and Kaiju. There we go, now I've made your day.

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