Mecha is inherently part of the SciFi genre. Surprisingly, most fantasy stories that add magic Mecha, end up READING like a sci-fi story and not like fantasy. And Sci-Fi that reads like fantasy is usually like a space opera.Gundam itself is more of a Space Opera type scifi story than it is hard sci-fi.
I mean if we are going by the letters of the genre, I would say perhaps? While the vast majority of mecha would just fall under sci-fi, you could technically write a story about mechs who are not powered by technology, but magic, making it technically not sci-fi, but instead fantasy with giant 'not-robots', which sounds pretty cool now that I think about it.
I'll be the first to admit that I'm not too well versed in Sci-fi but I'm pretty sure that since there are mechs/space it would be considered Sci-fi or at least fall into a sub-genre of Sci-fi.
Mecha is inherently part of the SciFi genre. Surprisingly, most fantasy stories that add magic Mecha, end up READING like a sci-fi story and not like fantasy. And Sci-Fi that reads like fantasy is usually like a space opera. Gundam itself is more of a Space Opera type scifi story than it is hard sci-fi.
I mean if we are going by the letters of the genre, I would say perhaps? While the vast majority of mecha would just fall under sci-fi, you could technically write a story about mechs who are not powered by technology, but magic, making it technically not sci-fi, but instead fantasy with giant 'not-robots', which sounds pretty cool now that I think about it.
I'll be the first to admit that I'm not too well versed in Sci-fi but I'm pretty sure that since there are mechs/space it would be considered Sci-fi or at least fall into a sub-genre of Sci-fi.