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I have watched all the Mobile Suit Gundam series and many other transforming
robot genre series, but I want to know which is the first series that started
the transforming/morphing mobile suit/robot genre in anime.

Here, transforming/morphing is changing from aircraft/armour to
humanoid/creature form or any other forms.


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What is the first transforming/morphing mobile suit/robot in anime?


I'm going to assume that you mean a giant robot that transforms into something
else, usually a vehicle. If that's the case then you have two candidates
depending on how further you want to specify them.

**Brave Raideen** was released in 1975 and it featured a giant robot that
transformed into a bird shaped rocket ship.

![enter image description here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/CBvLF.jpg)

![enter image description here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/hGutd.jpg)

**Getter Robo** was first released in 1974 and it featured three space ships
that _combined_ into a three different giant robots.

![enter image description here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Bfn5s.jpg)

An honorable mention goes to **Ambassador Magma** which was first released in
1966. The titular character changed into a rocket ship, although there was no
transforming mehcanism shown, so I (personally) wouldn't include him.

![enter image description here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/wtlxY.jpg)

![enter image description here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/phzBM.jpg)


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