Buddy_Pickle: I haven't been able to catch an episode of Samurai Jack yet, but I've got this coming Monday off from work, so I'll try to watch it then. From the comercials that I've seen, it looks pretty good.
phatcat: I loved the NIMH series. I read both The Secret of NIMH and Racso and the Rats of NIMH back when I was in elementary school.
poaw: I wouldn't say that Heinlein "invented" the giant robot genre. Heinlein's powered armor was more along the lines of an exosuit, an extention of the trooper inside designed to increase strength, firepower, carrying capacity, etc (not unlike the modern "Land Warrior"), where as "mecha" are more along the lines of a walking tank. In any case, Starship Troopers was published in 1960, while the earliest example of mecha/giant robots in anime appeared, I believe, in the Japanese animated series, Gigantor (known as Tetsujin 28 in Japan), which first aired in 1963. That's a pretty narrow gap.
-Keiichi