Anime Like Full Metal Panic

Specialized troops armed with state-of-the-art weapons, Mithril is an organization tasked with stopping terrorism and keeping the peace on earth. However, their success hinges on the Whispered, individuals that possess remarkable knowledge of machinery and devices.

Enter Sousuke Sagara who is tasked with protecting Whispered candidate, Kaname Chidori. In order to do so, he joins her in high school as a student. While Sousuke has a talent on the battlefield, it seems that doesn’t transfer as well to the classroom.

However, the enemies of Mithril are just beginning to make their move.

The Holy Empire of Britannia has established itself as the dominant military nation, starting after their conquest of Japan, now named Area 11. Under Britannia’s tyranny, a number of resistance groups rose up to fight for their freedom.

Enter Lelouch Lamperouge, the exiled prince of Britannia who has been sent to live in Japan. One day, after finding himself caught in the crossfire in a battle between Britannia and insurgents, Lelouch is able to escape with his life after meeting C.C., a mysterious girl who grants him the power of absolute obedience.

For years, the Republic of San Magnolia has been at war with the Giadian Empire. They were constantly plagued by their hordes of unmanned drones until the government created an unmanned solution of their own, finally able to wage their war without casualties.

However, that is not quite the truth. The “unmanned” combat weapons are actually used by those of the 86^th sector of the Republic, but they are not considered even human.

This is the tale of both Shin, an 86er and battle commander, and Lena, their sympathetic handler who remotely commands the detachment from inside the city.

In the distant future, humanity has abandoned a ruined Earth and now lives in the furthest reaches of space fighting their eternal enemy, the Hideauze. During one of their massive space battles, a young soldier named Ledo and his mecha Chamber are flung through a warp hole into space.

He crash lands on a strange planet that is covered completely in water. To his surprise, he finds that other humans also live there aboard massive fleets of boats.

Found by the Gargantia fleet, Ledo must navigate this strange new world.

Upon the discovery of a hypergate on the moon that could teleport humans to Mars, humanity became split. After years of warfare, an uneasy peace was forged between Martians and Terrans until the Martian princess was allegedly assassinated on Earth.

Inaho Kaizuka, a high schooler who witnessed the assassination, suddenly finds himself pulled into this interplanetary conflict. He had helped the princess escape assassination, and is now trying to keep her safe until she can secure the peace between their two planets.

Kazuma Yagami is a Fuujitsu user able to control the wind. However, this ability led to banishment from his family home for not being able to control fire.

Years later when he returns home, it leads to conflict, but worse yet, several members of his family have been killed by Fuujitsu. Now, he must discover the true identity of the killer.

In response to Japan’s sky-rocketing crime rate, the Tokyo Butei Academy is established where armed detectives hone their skills to later become mercenary-type agents of justice.

Kinji Tooyama is an anti-social and blunt young man that used to be in the Assault Division of Butei Academy, but now underachieves in Logistics in order to hide his embarrassing, but powerful ability.

Despite growing up on a healthy diet of mecha anime and living on Mars, Akito doesn’t want to fight. He wants to cook. However, when Jovian Lizards come to attack his colony, he finds himself mysteriously transported back to Earth.

There, he meets Yurika, a childhood friend and the captain of the space battleship Nadesico. She takes him on as a cook and backup pilot. While the ship is filled with seemly misfits and weirdos, they are all hand-picked, highly qualified experts, Akito included.

Simon and Kamina were living boring lives in their deep underground village when, on an excavation dig, they find a mysterious object that turns out to be the ignition key to an ancient war machine.

With their new weapon, the pair are able to fend off an attack from above, but upon catching a glimpse of the sky, they set off on an adventure that will take them out of this universe.

Average business man Rokurou Okajima found his life turned upside down when he was captured and held hostage by a mercenary group in Thailand called Black Lagoon.

After learning how disposable his life was to his company, he decides to quit the salaryman life and join the very group of mercenaries that held him hostage.

While he finds himself unexpectedly good at their various work, his ideals about the world vastly clash with those of his companions.

After magic, once thought to be folklore, was turned into a technical skill, schools to teach it opened all over.

At one such school are siblings Tatsuya and Miyuki Shiba. While Miyuki excels, her brother is placed in a lower class due to his seemingly magical ineptitude. However, he has rather unique abilities that make him quite irregular.

There is no order too big for master spy Twilight.

He uses his numerous skills as a spy to keep the peace between his country and aggressive neighbors, but his recent mission demands he investigate a reclusive politician that only attends school events for his child.

Dictating that he must now have a child and wife of his own to pull off the mission, Twilight manages to recruit a small orphan girl and an office lady to play the roles.

However, what he doesn’t know is that his new daughter is an esper capable of reading minds and his new wife is actually an assassin using him as a cover to maintain a guise of normalcy.

Yuuji Kazama is a new transfer student to Mihama Academy. As an assassin that was raised by a notorious terrorist, all he craves is a normal school life.

However, with the school consisting of the principal and five other – all female – students, he finds his new school life off to a strange start.

As he gets to know each girl, he finds them just as irreparably damaged as himself, but their shared traumatic experiences bind them together.