Sci-fi anime recommendations can be fascinating. Sometimes it can cover things like space travel and androids – things that are close to our technological grasp. Sometimes it covers technological possibilities far, far beyond our reach or even our understanding. These sci-fi anime recommendations cover all levels of technology and the effect that it has on societies.
At the prestigious Asticassia School of Technology, an academy charged with educating the children of prominent corporations, disputes between students are settled by duels between mobile suits. After traveling from a secluded colony on Mercury, Suletta finds herself in a duel with the best pilot in school after witnessing him arguing with his fiancee. When […]
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For skirt-chasing Ataru Moroboshi, the only notable thing about him is his extraordinary bad luck. That luck kicks in when aliens suddenly invade Earth and he is chosen to represent humanity with their planet on the line. The duel for the fate of their planet ends up being a game of tag against the alien
Under constant assault by an alien race called Noise, society doesn’t know that the idol duo Zwei Wing use their songs to charge powerful weapons known as Symphogear to fight back. After an attack at a concert, part of the duo sacrifices themselves to save a young girl, implanting a fragment of her Symphogear in
The city of Tom Sawyer is an augmented reality society where citizens buy and sell services and appearance augmentations with Love, a currency akin to likes on social media. The Decos implemented in their eyes from early childhood allows them to enjoy augmented reality and also allow the government to control it. One day, a
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
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,
The secret organization ARCAM operates independent of national loyalties and uses skilled special operatives known as Spriggan. It is these powerful super soldiers that allow ARCAM to defend powerful artifacts from a defunct civilization and prevent them from falling into the hands of people who wish to harness the power for their countries. Yu Ominae
Appleseed has always been one of those series that flies well under the radar for most anime fans. It’s like a less popular Ghost in the Shell, with which it shares a creator, in that it paints a technologically advanced and technologically divided dystopian world, but doesn’t exactly have the same sort of hooks to
On an artificial island in Tokyo Bay labeled as the Tokyo 24th Ward, a fire at a middle school changed the lives many, including three childhood friends, Ran, Kouki, and Shuuta. Having drifted apart after the incident, they are brought together on the first anniversary of the fire when their phones ring simultaneously and they
A red wind has swept over Japan and withered everything in its wake. Wherever the wind blows, rust grows and consumes all in its path. With humanity succumbing to this rust, and the world a barren wasteland, mushroom spores bore the blame for it. This has made archer Bisco Akaboshi, who grows mushrooms wherever his
