Anime like Shirogane no Ishi: Argevollen

Aldnoah.Zero

Also known as ALDNOAH.ZERO.

Studio: A-1 Pictures , TROYCA , Aniplex , MAGES. , Nitroplus , TOKYO MX , Movic , Houbunsha , Nippon BS Broadcasting , Asahi Broadcasting Corporation
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Mecha , Sci-Fi

In 1972, the Apollo 17 mission found a hypergate to Mars on the surface of the moon. Upon landing, astronauts discovered a enchanted utility later referred to as 'Aldnoah', giving the astronauts a status of superiority. Soon, many humans have relocated to Mars, and have adapted to the name 'Martians'. After Princess Asseylum, a royal Martian princess, descends onto Earth in an attempt to create a treaty between both planets, a war breaks out between Earth and Mars, and Martian soldiers begin to descend from the sky, riding steel giants, intent on exterminating humanity.



Tags: Military , War , Conspiracy , Space Opera , Male Protagonist , Post-Apocalyptic , Real Robot , Guns , Lost Civilization , Politics , CGI , Revenge , Torture

Full Metal Panic!

Also known as Full Metal Panic!.

Studio: GONZO , Funimation , Kadokawa Shoten
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Comedy , Mecha , Sci-Fi

Sousuke Sagara, a seventeen year old military specialist working for the secret organization MITHRIL, has been assigned to protect the latest "Whispered" candidate Kaname Chidori. To complete this task Sousuke will have to deal with enemies from his past as well as the occasional panty thief. Unfortunately for Sousuke, the toughest part of his mission isn't only protecting Miss Chidori but also getting used to living an average High School students life, no easy task for someone raised on the battlefield.



Tags: Military , Guns , Real Robot , Heterosexual , Love Triangle , School , Super Power , War , Male Protagonist , Slapstick , Ensemble Cast , Terrorism , Ships , Artificial Intelligence , Politics , Work , Surreal Comedy , Alternate Universe

Kyoukai Senki

Also known as AMAIM Warrior at the Borderline.

Studio: Sunrise Beyond , Sunrise Music , Magic Capsule
Status: Finished
Genres: Fantasy , Mecha , Sci-Fi

In 2061 AD, Japan is dominated. Divided and ruled by the four major economic blocs of the world, the Japanese people spent their days oppressed as subjugated citizens. Japan became the front line of the world where AMAIM, a human-type special mobile weapon deployed by each economic zone, strode about.. One day, Amou Shiiba, a boy who loves machines, meets i-LeS (autonomous thinking AI) named "Gai," and this leads him to throw himself into the battle to reclaim Japan, by piloting the AMAIM "Kenbu" built by himself.



Tags: Real Robot , Artificial Intelligence , Male Protagonist , Tragedy , Military , Dystopian , Politics , Terrorism , Revenge , Coming of Age , Primarily Teen Cast

Kuromukuro

Also known as Kuromukuro.

Studio: P.A. Works
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Mecha

During the construction of the Kurobe Dam, an ancient artifact was discovered, and so the United Nations Kurobe Research Institute was established. Intellectuals from all over the world gathered to study the object, and the children of those researchers attend Mt. Tate International Senior High School, including the institute head's daughter, Yukina Shirahane. In the summer of 2016, a lone samurai once again awakens!



Tags: Robots , Aliens , Time Manipulation , War , Military , Ensemble Cast , Real Robot , Heterosexual , School , Revenge , Female Protagonist , Space , Male Protagonist , Swordplay

86: Eighty Six

Also known as 86 EIGHTY-SIX.

Studio: A-1 Pictures , Aniplex , KADOKAWA , BANDAI SPIRITS
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama , Mecha , Sci-Fi

Called “Juggernaut,” these are the unmanned combat drones developed by the Republic of San Magnolia in answer to the attacks by the autonomous unmanned drones of the neighboring Empire of Giad, the “Legion”. But they’re only unmanned in name. In reality, they are piloted by the Eighty-sixers—those considered to be less than human and treated as mere tools.

Determined to achieve his own mysterious ends, Shin, the captain of Spearhead Squadron, which is comprised of Eighty-sixers, continues to fight a hopeless war on a battlefield where only death awaits him.



Tags: Class Struggle , War , Military , Tragedy , Dystopian , Survival , Politics , Post-Apocalyptic , Female Protagonist , Proxy Battle , Memory Manipulation , Robots , Male Protagonist , Conspiracy , Real Robot , Guns , Primarily Teen Cast , Ghost , Artificial Intelligence , Necromancy , Achronological Order , Ensemble Cast , Gore , Super Power , CGI , Lost Civilization , Unrequited Love , Kuudere , Travel , POV , Nudity

Suisei no Gargantia

Also known as Gargantia on the Verdurous Planet.

Studio: Production I.G , Bandai Visual , Yomiuri TV , Lantis , Viz Media , Nitroplus , Bushiroad , Hanabee Entertainment , Manga Entertainment
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Mecha , Sci-Fi

The story begins in the distant future in the far reaches of the galaxy. The Human Galactic Alliance has been constantly fighting for its survival against a grotesque race of beings called "Hidiaazu." During an intense battle, the young lieutenant Ledo and his humanoid mobile weapon Chamber are swallowed up into a distortion of time and space. Waking from his artificially induced hibernation, Ledo realizes that he has arrived on Earth, the planet on the lost frontier. On this planet that was completely flooded by the seas, people live in fleets of giant ships, salvaging relics from the seas' depths in order to survive. Ledo arrives on one of the fleets called Gargantia. With no knowledge of the planet's history or culture, he is forced to live alongside Amy, a 15-year-old girl who serves as a messenger aboard the Gargantia fleet. To Ledo, who has lived a life where he knows nothing but fighting, these days of peace continue to surprise him.



Tags: Environmental , Lost Civilization , Artificial Intelligence , Post-Apocalyptic , Male Protagonist , Ships , Real Robot , Isekai , Language Barrier , Military , Aliens , Pirates , Super Robot , Tanned Skin , Space , Heterosexual , CGI , Philosophy , Guns , Disability , Cult , Revenge

Promare

Also known as Promare.

Studio: Trigger , XFLAG , GKids
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Mecha , Sci-Fi

Thirty years have passed since the appearance of the Burnish, a race of flame-wielding mutant beings who destroyed half of the world with fire. When a new group of aggressive mutants calling themselves Mad Burnish appears, the epic battle between their leader, Lio Fotia, and Galo Thymos, a new member of the anti-Burnish rescue team Burning Rescue, begins.



Tags: Firefighters , Robots , Super Robot , Male Protagonist , Environmental , Super Power , Primarily Adult Cast , Aliens , CGI , Satire , Politics , Urban , Conspiracy , Terrorism , Post-Apocalyptic , Philosophy , Motorcycles , Dystopian , Alternate Universe , Class Struggle , Dragons , Artificial Intelligence

SSSS.GRIDMAN

Also known as SSSS.GRIDMAN.

Studio: Trigger , Tsuburaya Productions , Fields , Pony Canyon , Docomo Anime Store , KLOCKWORX , Mainichi Broadcasting System , Ultra Super Pictures , BS11 , Graphinica
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Mecha , Sci-Fi

Collaboration with Tsuburaya Productions.

Yuta Hibiki awakens with amnesia and the ability see things that others cannot. He first encounters a Gridman in the reflection of his friend Rikka Takarada's computer and it tells him to "Remember his calling," but Yuta doesn't understand what this means. Later, in the distance, he sees an extremely large monster but it doesn't move. It's only when Yuta gets to school that the two sightings make sense: a monster attacks and the hero Yuta saw in the computer screen pulls him within the computer and transforms Yuta into a giant hero named Gridman.



Tags: Tokusatsu , Kaiju , Super Robot , Alternate Universe , Denpa , Memory Manipulation , Virtual World , Meta , Superhero , Anti-Hero , Henshin , Gods , Hikikomori , Amnesia , CGI , Super Power , Aliens , Yandere , Male Protagonist , School , Ensemble Cast , Female Protagonist , Gore , Villainess , Love Triangle

SSSS.DYNAZENON

Also known as SSSS.DYNAZENON.

Studio: Trigger , Graphinica , Pony Canyon , Tsuburaya Productions
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Mecha , Romance , Sci-Fi

One day, Yomogi Asanaka, a first-year student at Fujiyokidai High School, runs into a mysterious man named Gauma who claims to be a “kaiju user.”

The sudden appearance of a kaiju is followed by the entry of the gigantic robot, Dynazenon. In the wrong place at the wrong time are Yume Minami, Koyomi Yamanaka, and Chise Asukagawa, who are dragged into the fight against the kaiju.



Tags: Kaiju , Super Robot , Tokusatsu , Denpa , Ensemble Cast , Superhero , Super Power , Coming of Age , Heterosexual , Henshin , Alternate Universe , Tragedy , Rehabilitation , Male Protagonist , Bullying , Hikikomori , CGI , Suicide , Reincarnation , Female Protagonist

Back Arrow

Also known as BACK ARROW.

Studio: Aniplex , Studio VOLN , BANDAI SPIRITS , BS11 , ABC Animation , Movic , Legs
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Fantasy , Mecha , Sci-Fi

Lingalind is enclosed by the Wall. The Wall covers, protects, cultivates, and nurtures the land. The Wall is God. One day in Edger, a village on the outskirts, a mysterious man named Back Arrow appears. Arrow has no memory, but he claims that all he knows is that “I came from outside the Wall.” Arrow tries to go beyond the Wall to regain his memories but is pulled into one conflict after another.



Tags: Super Robot , Male Protagonist , CGI , War , Tokusatsu , Slapstick , Ensemble Cast , Henshin , Dissociative Identities , Tragedy , Nudity