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Anime Like Metallic Rouge

As humanity branches out into the solar system, they are assisted by androids called Neans. These Neans are prevented by the laws of robotics from harming humans, but they also have begun to seek to live on more equal terms with humanity.

To further this goal after years of subservience, a group known as the Immortal Nine have risen up against human society.

To put down these revolutionaries, a Nean almost indistinguishable from a human named Rouge Redstar and her human handler and investigator Naomi Orthmann are dispatched to Mars. However, as they go about their investigation, intrigue begins to unravel.

Harder sci-fi with some distinct tokusatsu vibes isn’t a terrible thing, but boy does this series take awhile to even make clear what the plot is – especially if you didn’t read the synopsis before watching it. If you are looking for more anime recommendations like Metallic Rouge, head on down below.

Anime Like Metallic Rouge

For Fans of Artificial Humans and Humanity

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NieR:Automata Ver1.1a

After an alien invasion, Earth was overrun by the machine lifeforms they created as weapons of war. With humanity making their last stand, they retreated to the moon and dispatched a series of combat androids from a space station to eventually reclaim the Earth for humanity.

Brutal conflict and harsh realities play out before the eyes of 2B, an all-purpose battle class android who starts to waver as she questions her very existence and what she must sacrifice for the sake of humanity.

Similarities Between Metallic Rouge and Nier

  • Both series follow combat androids in the far future
  • Humanity created these androids for a purpose, but the true purpose is revealed later as a twist
  • Main characters in both series fight because that’s what they were told to do
  • Both series follow artificial humans and their relationship with human emotions
  • Both series feature beautiful action scenes
  • Both series seem to enjoy keeping their overall plot pretty vague for a long time

Differences Between Metallic Rouge and Nier

  • Nier has a much larger emphasis on philosophy and features more unexpected twists
  • Humans keep far removed from the combat androids in Nier unlike in Metallic Rouge
  • The world has ended in Nier while it is still very much going in Metallic Rouge
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Vivy – Fluorite Eye’s Song

In a theme park ran by AI, there is a lonely stage where the first-ever autonomous humanoid sings in order to fulfill her mission of making everyone happy with her songs.

This AI, named Diva but given the nickname of Vivy by a young fan, has an encounter with an AI named Matsumoto who explains he traveled from 100 years in the future where AI have advanced so much that they rebelled and started exterminating humanity.

Together, he guides her to singularity points on a hundred-year journey in order to change the course of history.

Similarities Between Metallic Rouge and Vivy

  • Both series are about artificial humans unraveling events in the far future
  • The plot is fed to you over the course of smaller events
  • The main characters are a bit snarky
  • Both series examine humanity’s complicated relationship with the things they created
  • Both series have beautiful action and animation

Differences Between Metallic Rouge and Vivy

  • Vivy is an interesting twist on time travel by showing moments in one android’s life over a 100-year span
  • Vivy is building towards big event that was foretold in the beginning, thus its plot is not as vague as Metallic Rouge’s
  • Vivy is lower action, but excels at telling more emotional stories
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Trigun Stampede

Vash the Stampede is a heinous criminal with a huge bounty on his head after destroying an entire city. Known as the “Human Typhoon,” he brings destruction wherever he goes.

However, when two insurance agents finally meet him, they find out that Vash is not quite the villain that the bounty paints him as. Instead, they find a silly buffoon who tries his best to avoid killing while looking for his brother, despite trouble constantly finding him.

Similarities Between Metallic Rouge and Trigun

  • Both series feature the complicated relationship between humanity, aliens, and the things they create and use to survive
  • The plots follow the clash between members of the same species, fighting for different ideals
  • Both series have big interesting action, but somewhat unclear initial plots
  • Both series feature visually interesting futuristic sci-fi worlds

Differences Between Metallic Rouge and Trigun

  • Trigun Stampede is a re-imagining of an older anime series
  • Trigun Stampede follows humanity struggling on a new, non-Earth world and using aliens and technology, in a different way than humans in Metallic Rouge use Neans, to live
  • Trigun Stampede’s main story is two powerful brothers with clashing ideals fighting while Metallic Rouge is more faction-focused
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Cyberpunk Edgerunners

Scraping by a living in the rough technologically augmented society of Night City, David’s mother managed to send him to a prestigious school in hopes he could become a Corpo and climb the ladder of the business world.

However, after his mother dies suddenly in a car accident and due to lack of appropriate care, David embraces a cybernetic implant for power and that decision intersects him with a crew of Edgerunners, a group of mercenaries filled with cybernetic implants that do any job and every job to make a living.

Similarities Between Metallic Rouge and Cyberpunk Edgerunners

  • Both series take place in a technologically advanced far future of Earth
  • The plots focus on the complicated relationship between humanity and the technology they created
  • You enjoy watching the terrible disparity between social classes in both series
  • Both offer beautiful action and aesthetic worlds

Differences Between Metallic Rouge and Cyberpunk Edgerunners

  • Cyberpunk, as it follows increased cybernetic usage driving people insane, is more focused on the main character’s story than the overall intrigue explored in Metallic Rouge
  • Cyberpunk takes place in a cyberpunk world where technology is advanced, but life is often still terrible for the poor whereas humanity seems pretty okay in Metallic Rouge, it’s just Neans that suffer
  • Cyberpunk injects more moments of fun levity while Metallic Rouge keeps things more serious
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Ergo Proxy

After the explosion of the methane hydrate layer, humanity was forced into a select few domed cities where society is strictly controlled. To assist humanity, autonomous robots called AutoReivs were spread throughout the cities.

Enter Re-L Mayer, granddaughter of the regent, and charged with investigating a series of cases in which the AutoReivs have gone haywire. In her investigation she comes in contact with a mysterious monster called Proxy.

After meeting a man called Vincent Law that was blamed for several of the incidents, the pair strike out across the wasteland to unravel the mysteries of the Cogito Virus.

Similarities Between Metallic Rouge and Ergo Proxy

  • Both series start with investigations into malfunctioning artificial humans that exist to serve humanity
  • The deeper the investigation goes, the more complicated the plot gets
  • Both series take place on Earth in the far future
  • Both series focus on the intrigue surrounding a special group that exist in that world for various reasons (Proxies, Proto-Neans)

Differences Between Metallic Rouge and Ergo Proxy

  • Metallic Rouge focuses on action, Ergo Proxy is a slower burn of intrigue carried out a bit more enthrallingly
  • The world is in pretty bad shape in Ergo Proxy
  • Ergo Proxy engages in more slow world-building while Metallic Rouge often feels like it is just setting up the next fight

For Fans of Lovable Duos

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Lycoris Recoil

In order to cut down on crime and terrorism, an organization called Direct Attack was formed. They take orphaned girls and turn them into agents that protect the country in the Lycoris program.

Takina is one gifted agent, but after a hostage situation leads to insubordination, she is transferred out of the main unit to a lower key branch of Lycoris ran out of a cafe.

Despite being paired with a famed, but more easy-going Lycoris prodigy Chisato while there, Takina is determined to get back into DA, but her new partner is determined to prove that there is more to life than just taking lives.

Similarities Between Metallic Rouge and Lycoris Recoil

  • Both series feature a likable main duo – one light and silly, the other stern
  • These two are involved in an ever-unraveling intrigue
  • The lighter part of the duo remains more mysterious, but is explored over time
  • Both series feature beautifully animated action and passable intrigue

Differences Between Metallic Rouge and Lycoris Recoil

  • Metallic Rouge is deep sci-fi compared to the lighter sci-fi elements in Lycoris Recoil
  • No one is an android in Lycoris Recoil, just school girl-aged secret agents that foil domestic terrorist plots in the shadows
  • Lycoris Recoil has more slice of life moments that build out the characters
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Takt Op. Destiny

After a meteor fell to Earth, the D2s invaded a large portion of the United States. In order to prevent angering the D2s who hate music, all music was banned.

Despite this, D2 attacks aren’t uncommon. The only defense against them remains Musicarts and their Conductor companions.

Takt, a piano prodigy, finds himself transformed into a Conductor after his friend Cosette is killed and transformed into his Musicart named Destiny. Together with Cosette’s sister Anna, they travel to New York City in hopes of stabilizing their pact.

Similarities Between Metallic Rouge and Takt Op Destiny

  • Both series follow a powerful special fighter and her handler overcoming foes in their path
  • Both series offer unique, but still recognizable worlds with a bit of a sci-fi spin
  • Both plots are often just long road trips, stopping to fight, and traveling to the next destination
  • Both series feature powerful individuals that fight (Musicarts, Proto-Neans)
  • Absolutely stunning action animation, but a little light on depth of plot

Differences Between Metallic Rouge and Takt Op Destiny

  • Takt Op. Destiny is about fighting aliens that hate music with the power created from music
  • Musicarts were once humans, but do lose their personality in becoming Musicarts
  • Both Takt and Destiny fill the role of Rouge in personality while Anna is more the Naomi of the Takt Op. Destiny group
  • Metallic Rouge is high futuristic sci-fi while Takt Op. Destiny feels a little more Wild Western, although still in a futuristic world
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Tiger and Bunny

In Stern Bild City, there exist those with NEXT powers who can use them for good or evil. A TV channel called Hero TV showcases heroes as they chase down evildoers and earn Hero Points.

Enter, Kotetsu T. Kaburagi, or “Wild Tiger,” a veteran hero, but his performance has been on the downswing. In order to do better, he pairs up with a new hero, Barnaby Brooks Jr., or “Bunny,” but they mix about as well as oil and water.

Similarities Between Metallic Rouge and Tiger and Bunny

  • Both series follow lovable duos – one stern, and one a little more laid-back
  • Both series feature mech-like suits or transformations
  • Both series, at least in part, are about the duo investigating and fighting crime

Differences Between Metallic Rouge and Tiger and Bunny

  • Tiger and Bunny is more like a buddy cop superhero action anime
  • Tiger and Bunny continues the crime investigation plot throughout while Metallic Rouge eventually moves into loftier things
  • Tiger and Bunny focuses more on the main characters and their personal issues than Metallic Rouge which is more focused on the mystery of the characters

For Fans of Taking Down Super-Powered Individuals

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Pluto

Famous for his previous military service in the 39th Central Asia War, the world is shaken when current conservation advocate robot Montblanc is violently murdered in the Swiss Alps. As both humans and robots mourn his loss, another famous veteran robot from the conflict living a peaceful life is similarly brutally murdered in Scotland.

Seeing a pattern, Europol dispatches Gesicht, detective and one of the most advanced robots in the world, to investigate. During his investigation, Gesicht uncovers a mysterious entity known as Pluto, a discovery that gradually leads him to unraveling a conspiracy to dismantle all eight of the most powerful robots in the world who participated in the war – Gesicht included.

With himself and others obvious targets, Gesicht starts to reach out to the remaining robots from the war, including Atom, a child robot from Japan.

Similarities Between Metallic Rouge and Pluto

  • Both series feature robots hunting down or investigating the deaths of other major robots
  • Both series start as simple investigations and grow increasingly more complex
  • Artificial humans can occasionally be indistinguishable from humans
  • Both series showcase a futuristic world where androids often serve humanity, but are not always so happy about it

Differences Between Metallic Rouge and Pluto

  • Rouge is taking out Proto-Neans while something more mysterious it taking out the strongest robots in the world in Pluto
  • Metallic Rouge gets lost in deep sci-fi while Pluto keeps things grounded in a more recognizable world and tells a more easily grasped story
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Fuuto PI

In the city of Fuuto, criminals are making use of Gaia Memories that transform them into super-powered monsters called Dopants.

However, there are also good guys like the self-proclaimed hard-boiled detective Shoutarou Hidari that also use Gaia Memories to fight these criminals.

While the production of Gaia Memories have halted, sightings of Dopants still occur and Shoutarou and his Narumi Detective Agency are on the case.

Similarities Between Metallic Rouge and Fuuto PI

  • Both series feature a duo who are investigating events linking to a certain group of super-powered individuals
  • The duo has one serious character and one that is a bit more silly, but both are eccentric
  • The main characters themselves also have the same powers as those they are investigating
  • Both series feature futuristic sci-fi worlds where humans live alongside machines
  • Both have Kamen Rider aesthetics (because Fuuto PI is based on it)

Differences Between Metallic Rouge and Fuuto PI

  • Fuuto follows a private detective agency that is hunting down criminals abusing technology
  • Fuuto’s plot is more straightforward
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Blassreiter

Germany is suffering under an outbreak of Amalgams, which consist of rotting flesh that have fused with technology. They exist solely to cause chaos, and in order to combat this threat, the Xenogenesis Assault Team was established.

Alongside protecting humanity from Amalgams, the organization is also researching the newly discovered Amalgamated, powerful humans who still posses rational thought.

Joseph Jobson is on such Amalgamated human who seeks to elude the organization, but finds himself wrapped up in the terrible truth behind the Amalgam.

Similarities Between Metallic Rouge and Blassreiter

  • Both series take place in a dark sci-fi future
  • The main characters are dealing with other super-powered individuals like themselves
  • Both series offer incredibly vague, sometimes hard to grasp plots that you need to stick with to understand
  • Both offer impressive sci-fi action where characters transform to fight

Differences Between Metallic Rouge and Blassreiter

  • Blassreiter is the more tonally and visually dark series
  • Metallic Rouge has its light colors and characters while Blassreiter is all grim and dark characters

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