Two nerd passions collide in Heroman

If you haven't heard Stan Lee created an anime series. Production was by Studio Bones so the animation looks pretty nice. Never been big into 'boy with giant robot' shows preferring 'boy pilots giant mech' but with east and west geekdom coming together like this I'll have to check out at least the first few episodes.

-egs

That is one American looking robot. Is this show set in Japan?