MegaBots Inc., an American robotics company, has issued a challenge to Suidobashi Heavy Industries that makes anyone who watched sci-fi or anime giddy with excitement. MegaBots wants to put its Mk. II giant fighting robot against Suidobashi's Kuratas in an epic duel. The Japanese robotics company responded Monday and accepted the challenge, but with one caveat: The duel will include not only giant robots shooting guns, but also melee combat as part of the competition.

"Giant robots are Japanese culture," Kogoro Kurata, Suidoboshi Heavy Industry founder and CEO, said in the video response to MegaBots' duel challenge. Kurata said it was "super American" to add giant guns to anything and wanted to include melee combat to make the duel more interesting and exciting.

With both manufacturers are ready and willing to have a giant robot duel, the only thing we can do is wait and hope it happens sooner rather than later. MegaBots has yet to respond to Suidoboshi's video.

As Kurata said, giant robots very much ingrained in Japanese culture. Whether it's popular anime series like "Gundam," "Neon Genesis Evangelion," "Macross" or the pioneer of the mecha anime series, "Tesujin 28-go," robots are a big deal. There's even a giant Mobile Suit Gundam statue in Odaiba, Japan.

In a way that art can imitate life, and vice-versa, this match has already happened. In "G Gundam," Neo America and Neo Japan squared off in the Gundam Fight Finals.