Whenever I see lists of top science fiction anime I feel like the vast majority of the given shows aren’t even science fiction. Unless all it takes to be science fiction is to be fiction and have some science. Maybe so and I’m just being a bit a snob, I don’t know. I’m open to discuss the matter.

Anyway, here are some of my favorite science fiction anime. I’m curious if anyone else has some favorites that I have maybe never heard of.

  • Legend of the Galactic Heroes This is likely my all time favorite scifi anime. It’s quite long and the list of characters quite extensive which isn’t my usual forte, but there is just something so comfy about this show.

  • Blame! This is a bit of a weird manga to say the least. There probably aren’t many manga with less dialogue. Regardless I still feel like I took an endless journey across a structure of a scale I can barely comprehend.

  • Space Battleship Yamato 2199 Regrettably I have not seen the original, but this more modern remake seems to be true to the classic style.

  • Royal Space Force: The Wings of Honnêamise A visually beautiful movie with all hand drawn backgrounds and animations. A tale about a group of individuals who have a dream of building the first rocket ship to make it to space.

  • @[email protected]
    2•1 year ago

    Hsve seen LotGH and Blame. They’re quite cool. Haven’t seen the other two. Will try those out, so thank you

    Both of these anime are quite meaningful for me, similar to LotGH. The species vs species strife and conclusions of the protags, everything is impactful.

    • Psycho-pass
      Probably the most popular among the ones I mentioned.

    • Vampire Hunter D 2000
      This one would be loosely sci-fi, with strong amounts of mythical fantasy.
      The art is beautiful and the overall theme and execution seems unique, even if it’s not as deeply involving as the previous 3(might be because of the overall length of the content).

    And regarding LotGH, did you watch the remake or the original series? I’ve heard that both are good. Is it so?

    • IzzyOP
      2•1 year ago

      I have watched both versions of LoGH. I don’t hate the new one, but I would never suggest that it is on par with the original. The artstyle is the most obvious difference and I feel like a lot of the characters have been a lot less facially distinct. They all seem like they are kpop stars instead of soldiers. Another thing that irks me is that the lasers, while visually beautiful, don’t make any sense. In the original you only see the lasers as instantaneous flashes of light, but in the remake they have actual travel time. Understandably the distances at which they have these space wars are large, but not large enough to have such long travel time for light. The last problem is the music. Every single piece of music in the original is classical which sets the mood perfectly. It is hard to watch LoGH with anything other than classical music.