Gurren Lagann

TV Series · 8.2 / 10 · 1 Apr 2007 · Japanese

When a young laborer escapes to the world aboveground, he discovers a violent land in which humans battle robots controlled by a power-hungry noble.

Aldnoah.Zero

TV Series · 7.6 / 10 · 5 Jul 2014 · Japanese

In 1972, the Apollo 17 mission discovered a hypergate to Mars on the surface of the moon. Soon a war breaks out between Earth and Mars, and Martian soldiers begin to descend from the sky, riding steel giants, intent on exterminating humanity.

Star Blazers: Space Battleship Yamato 2199

TV Series · 7.1 / 10 · 7 Apr 2013 · Japanese

The year is 2199. The human race has been crushed in their war with the Gamilos, driven into underground cities by the invader's assault. Scientists estimate they have only a year left. The young officers Susumu Kodai and Daisuke Shima receive a mysterious capsule from a ship that made an emergency landing on Mars and return with it to Earth. It contains humanity's last hope: the planet Iscandar on the other side of the Magellan Galaxy has the technology to defeat the Gamilos and restore the planet. The space battleship Yamato is entrusted with this task, but they have only one year before humanity ends.

Macross Frontier

TV Series · 7.8 / 10 · 3 Apr 2008 · Japanese

A human space colony fleet is trying to find a habitable planet near the center of the Milky Way Galaxy. The story focuses on three young adults and the events that occur around them as the fleet faces a crisis of alien origin.

Gargantia on the Verdurous Planet

TV Series · 7.2 / 10 · 7 Apr 2013 · Japanese

While fighting an intense inter-galactic war, a mecha pilot is accidentally warped into a space-time neither he nor his computer recognize. After waking up from a long-time hibernation, he finds himself trapped on a planet, with human residents talking in an unknown form of language, using inferior technologies, and - most shocking to him - naturally breathable air.

Mobile Suit Gundam

TV Series · 7.9 / 10 · 7 Apr 1979 · Japanese

What would you do if you suddenly found yourself in the middle of a war? Teenager Amuro Ray sees his life shattered when war comes to his home. During the chaos, Amuro finds himself inside the mobile suit Gundam, the Earth Federation's new secret weapon, and he somehow gets it to work. Amuro and the other refugees flee their homeland on the warship White Base. This group of children and inexperienced soldiers will change the outcome of the war.

Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn

TV Series · 7.8 / 10 · 20 Feb 2010 · Japanese

When Banagher Links meets the mysterious Audrey Burne, he inherits the Unicorn Gundam and is swept up into the battle for space colony independence.

SPRIGGAN

TV Series · 6.7 / 10 · 18 Jun 2022 · Japanese

An ancient civilization's relics on Earth hold dangerous powers — it's up to ARCAM Corporation's Spriggan agents to keep them out of the wrong hands.

SABIKUI BISCO

TV Series · 6.4 / 10 · 11 Jan 2022 · Japanese

Japan’s post-apocalyptic wasteland replete with dust can only be saved by one thing—fungus. Bisco Akaboshi, a wanted criminal and skilled archer, searches for a legendary mushroom, known as Sabikui, said to devour any and all rust. Joining him on this epic saga to save the country is a giant crab and a young doctor. Can this unlikely trio find the fabled fungi and save the land?

Galaxy Express 999

TV Series · 7.8 / 10 · 14 Sept 1978 · Japanese

In a distant future, Tetsuro is a human boy who wants his body replaced with a robotic one. This is possible, but to do so he has to reach the Immortal Planet onboard the space train Galaxy Express 999. Maetel, a beautiful and mysterious blonde woman dressed in Russian style, joins him in the long journey through space. Every episode sees our heroes arriving in a new planet's space train station.

NieR:Automata Ver1.1a

TV Series · 8.1 / 10 · 8 Jan 2023 · Japanese

The distant future, 5012. The sudden aerial invasion of Earth by ＜Aliens＞ and their creations ＜Machine Lifeforms＞ led mankind to the brink of extinction. The surviving number of humans who took refuge on the moon to organize a counterattack using ＜android＞ soldiers to recapture Earth. However, the war reaches a stalemate as the ＜Machine Lifeforms＞ continue to multiply infinitely. In turn, humanity deploys anew unit of android soldiers as an ultimate weapon: ＜YoRHa＞ Newly dispatched to Earth ＜2B＞ joins ＜9S＞, the analyst currently stationed there, where amid their mission, they encounter a myriad of mysterious phenomena... This is the story of these lifeless ＜androids＞ and their endless fight for the sake of mankind.

Gunbuster

TV Series · 7.7 / 10 · 7 Oct 1988 · Japanese

In the near future, humanity has taken its first steps towards journeying into the far reaches of the galaxy. Upon doing so they discover a huge race of insectoid aliens known as "Space Monsters." These aliens seem dedicated to the eradication of mankind as they near closer and closer to discovering Earth. In response, humanity develops giant fighting robots piloted by hand-picked youth from around the world. Shortly after the discovery of the aliens, Noriko Takaya, the daughter of a famous deceased space captain, enters a training school despite her questionable talents as a pilot. There, she meets her polar opposite, the beautiful and talented Kazumi Amano, and is unexpectedly made to work together with her as they attempt to overcome the trauma of war as well as their own emotions.