Anime Like Space Brothers

After spotting what they believe to be a UFO, two brothers, Mutta and Hibito, vow to become astronauts.

Fast forward to their adult years and Mutta’s life isn’t going as expected as he toils in an automotive company while the younger Hibito is well on his way to be the very first Japanese man on the moon.

When Mutta loses his job and is given a chance to catch up to his brother by joining the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency, he jumps at the chance.

After successfully climbing Mt. Everest, Saruwatari and his climbing partner Jack spot the ISA space station. There and then, they make the vow to reach a new height – outer space.

When Helium 3, a new energy source, is discovered on the moon, NASA forms the Nexus project to harness it. However, while the two friends become entangled in it, they both take different paths to reach space.

With space travel an everyday reality and corporations taking over many responsibilities, providing an influx of new jobs, Ai Tanabe is able to satisfy her space-faring ambitions by joining the Technora Corporation.

Unfortunately, she finds out that her department, one responsible for removing space debris orbiting Earth, is just a big joke. Regardless, Ai is undeterred in her enthusiasm to make a difference in the great expanse.

In 1957, the world witnessed the Federal Republic of Zirnitra’s achievement of sending a living creature, a dog, into space. Since then, they have been in a race to send humanity to the stars with the United Kingdom of Arnack.

However, deemed that a dog’s physiology is too different from a human’s, the Federal Republic has decided to perform their next experimental launch with the cursed race of vampires.

Despite being taken by force from her home in the mountains, vampire Irina Luminesk is determined to reach from the stars.

When Kamogawa Asumi was a baby, her mother was gravely wounded in a rocket crash. Five years later when she finally passes away, Asumi struggles to come to terms with her death.

However, in her turmoil, she meets a kid in a lion mask that helps her come to a decision. To help her cope with the feelings for a mother she barely remembers and has now lost, she decides to become a rocket pilot herself.

In 2061, the students of Caird High School go to Planet Camp in space. However, Group B5 arrived at their camp site only to be engulfed by a glowing sphere and transported 5000 light years away.

In a spot of luck, they find an abandoned space ship nearby and now must struggle to both survive and get home.

As a child, Moritaka Mashiro wanted to be a manga artist like his uncle. However, after certain events transpired, he refocused his efforts towards studying in middle school.

One day, aspiring writer Akito Takagi notices some detailed drawings in Moritaka’s notebook and approaches him to propose they become a mangaka duo together.

Realizing that he might be able to get his crush to notice him if they make an anime adaption of it with her as the voice actor, Moritaka agrees, and thus, the mangaka Muto Ashirogi is born.

Upon discovering an old list she made in the last year of middle school, Mari Tamaki, who is now in her second year of high school, realizes she is not making the most of her youth. Whenever she tries to do something new, she is paralyzed with inaction.

Then one day she meets Shirase, a girl who’s mother went missing when she was in middle school on an expedition to Antarctica.

Knowing full well it is close to impossible, she works hard in order to go to search for her mother and invites Mari along for the ride.

With sketchbook always on hand, Midori Asakusa has a passion for drawing both the world around her and the world in her boundless imagination. In stark contrast, her best friend Sayaka Kanamori and her calculated approach to life keeps her grounded.

After a chance encounter with model Tsubame Misuzaki who has a passion for drawing fluid characters, Kanamori, sensing a money-making opportunity, suggests they start an animation club.

Encouraged to become a firefighter to impress his crush Yuki Nakamura, Shun Onoda is shocked when he discovers that Yuki didn’t just like firefighters, she wanted to be one after being saved from a deadly fire as a child.

Among these two hopefuls in their firefighter training is Toake Daigo, a man with remarkable talent and who burns with determination.

Together, the three attempt to overcome their own walls as they join firefighting Company M and stay course on their destiny to save others from the crises that loom over the country.

Yuugo Hachiken is a hard-working, studious student, but he is tired of trying to live up to the academic expectations that are placed on him. So when it comes time to go to high school, he enrolls in the Ooezo Agricultural High School in Hokkaido.

Being so clever, he thinks he will excel in the institution, but soon learns that farming is much harder work, both physically and emotionally, more so than he expected.

Former yakuza member Yotarou is fresh out of prison and looking to keep his nose clean. In order to stay out of trouble, he aspires to the stage of Rakugo, a traditional Japanese form of comedic storytelling.

Inspired by a man he saw perform while incarcerated, he seeks out the man to mentor him, forcing the unwilling, but distinguished Yakumo Yuurakutei to take on his first apprentice.

Araki is a veteran editor of Genbu Publishing’s dictionary division and planning on retiring. However, before he does, he seeks to find a replacement to complete his last project – a dictionary called the Great Passage.

He has since failed, until he meets Mitsuya Majime, a worker in the sales division with poor social skills.