Anime like Waga Seishun no Arcadia

Cosmo Warrior Zero

Also known as Cosmo Warrior Zero.

Studio: AT-X , Media Blasters , Vega Entertainment , MediaNet , Tsuburaya Eizou
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Sci-Fi

The long war between the planet Earth and the machine men is finally over, resulting in a peace that is more a victory for the machine men than the Earth. Warrius Zero lost his family in the war to the machine men but despite this he is still is a member of the Earth fleet that is now working in concert with the machine men. His ship, made up of both humans and machine men, has been given a near impossible task: capture the space pirate Captain Harlock. While Zero struggles to accomplish this task, evidence begins to surface that the peace between machine men and Earth may not be as it seems....



Tags: Military , Space , Space Opera , Robots , Pirates , Primarily Adult Cast , Male Protagonist

Uchuu Senkan Yamato 2199

Also known as Star Blazers: Space Battleship Yamato 2199.

Studio: Xebec , AIC , Funimation , Bandai , Production I.G , Tohokushinsha Film Corporation , Bandai Visual , Voyager Entertainment , OLM , Lantis , Shouchiku
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama , Sci-Fi

The year is 2199. The human race has been crushed in their war with the Gamilos, driven into underground cities by the invader's assault. Scientists estimate they have only a year left. The young officers Susumu Kodai and Daisuke Shima receive a mysterious capsule from a ship that made an emergency landing on Mars and return with it to Earth. It contains humanity's last hope: the planet Iscandar on the other side of the Magellan Galaxy has the technology to defeat the Gamilos and restore the planet. The space battleship Yamato is entrusted with this task, but they have only one year before humanity ends.



Tags: Space , Space Opera , Aliens , Military , Primarily Adult Cast , Ensemble Cast , Male Protagonist , Survival , Travel , War , Ships , Heterosexual , Aviation , Conspiracy , Amnesia , CGI , Post-Apocalyptic , Real Robot , Robots , Language Barrier , Love Triangle , Artificial Intelligence , Female Protagonist , Lost Civilization , Tomboy , Nudity

Uchuu Senkan Yamato

Also known as Star Blazers: The Quest for Iscandar.

Studio: Office Academy , Yomiuri TV
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Drama , Sci-Fi

In the distant future, the war between the human race and the Gamilon has taken its toll on the planet Earth. Constant bombardment of radioactive asteroids has rendered the planet's atmosphere uninhabitable. As a means of relief aid, Queen Starsha of the planet Iscandar offers the Earth Forces a device that can completely neutalize the radiation off the planet. For this task, the space battleship Yamato is launched from the remains of its World War II ancestor on a 148,000 light-year journey. However, the crew of the Yamato has only one Earth year to travel to Iscandar and back, or the human race will come to an end.



Tags: Space , Space Opera , Aliens , Military , War , Travel , Ships , Post-Apocalyptic , Primarily Adult Cast , Ensemble Cast , Artificial Intelligence , Heterosexual , Robots , Real Robot

Ginga Eiyuu Densetsu: Arata Naru Tatakai no Overture

Also known as Legend of the Galactic Heroes: Overture to a New War.

Studio: Tokuma Shoten , Artland , Magic Bus
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama , Sci-Fi

Led by Reinhard von Müsel, the Galactic Empire crushes the Free Planets Alliance in the Fourth Battle of Tiamat. Arriving in the Imperial capital of Odin to a hero's welcome, Reinhard's victory earns him a promotion to High Admiral and the distinguished title of Count von Lohengramm. On the other side, Yang Wen-li safely returns to the Alliance capital of Heinessen without fanfare and reunites with his dear friends.

Reinhard and Yang look forward to a long-awaited reprieve. However, at the request of the scheming Duke Otho von Braunschweig, the Imperial High Command orders the new High Admiral to invade the Alliance with a fleet of twenty thousand ships. After the Duke leaks the plan to the Alliance government, three fleets totalling forty thousand ships are sent to counter the incoming attack and recreate the famous Battle of Dagon. But even though Reinhard is outnumbered two to one, he has an ingenious plan—and Yang sees right through it. Will Yang's superiors heed his warning before it is too late?



Tags: Space Opera , Military , Space , Primarily Adult Cast , Politics , War , Orphan , Ensemble Cast , Tragedy , Adoption , Male Protagonist , Heterosexual , Love Triangle , Gore

The Cockpit

Studio: MADHOUSE , Jacom , Visual 80 , Tokuma Shoten , Shogakukan
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama

Slipstream
About a Luftwaffe pilot who must choose between his duty to his country: to guard a bomber loaded with Germany's final hope of victory... the world's first atomic bomb... or his duty to the world: to let it fall in flames to enemy Spitfires and be a footnote in history. Of course, things are complicated by the plane's other cargo... the woman he loves.

Sonic Boom Squadron
Near the end of the war, Japan has implemented a new weapon -- a human-piloted rocket-propelled flying bomb. Aboard a bomber carrying one of these, young Ensign Nogami awaits his chance to die as a "cherry blossom", a suicide pilot. In a few hours, he will die. The date of his death is set: August 6, 1945.

Knight of the Iron Dragon
Two soldiers attempt to reach an air base in order to fulfill a promise despite the fact that it might have been rendered moot in the reality of war.



Tags: Military , War , Historical , Aviation , Anthology , Foreign , Tragedy , Primarily Male Cast , Male Protagonist , Motorcycles

Uchuu Senkan Yamato: Kanketsu-hen

Also known as Space Battleship Yamato - Final Chapter.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Sci-Fi

The year is 2203, not long after the Bolar Federation was defeated by Desslok's Galman-Gamilon Empire. A subspace dimensional dislocation has caused a distant Red Galaxy to be relocated in a collision course with the Milky Way. Stars and planets collide, making a wreck of the Galman-Gamilon homeworld. The Star Force is dispatched to investigate. They reach Galmania to find Desslok's palace in ruins.

As they pay their respects, tossing white roses down to the surface of the planet, a huge red planet crashes into Galmania, forcing to StarForce to escape with an immediate and uncalculated warp.



Note: The 35mm cut for the film has a runtime of 152 minutes. While the 70mm extended cut is 163 minutes long and once held the record for the longest theatrical animated film in the world for 36 years.

Tags: Space Opera , Space , Military

Ginga Eiyuu Densetsu: Waga Yuku wa Hoshi no Taikai

Also known as Legend of the Galactic Heroes: My Conquest Is the Sea of Stars.

Studio: MADHOUSE , Artland , Kitty Film
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Sci-Fi

This movie, based on an anecdote of "Ginga Eiyuu Densetsu" written by novelist Tanaka Yoshiki, preludes the 110-episodes TV series by describing the first encounter between the ambitious young man Reinhard von Museal under the imperial flag and the passive Yang Wenli who serves a corrupting democracy. Set in an imaginative future, the story describes the first encounter between Yang and Reinhard and discusses how heroes are born.



Tags: Space Opera , Military , Primarily Adult Cast , Space , Historical , Politics , Ensemble Cast , War , Male Protagonist , Tragedy , Philosophy

Star Wars: Visions

Also known as Star Wars: Visions.

Studio: Kinema Citrus , TRIGGER , Kamikaze Douga , Geno Studio , Studio Colorido , Production I.G , Science SARU
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Sci-Fi

An anthology of animated shorts celebrating Star Wars through the lens of the world's best anime creators and storytellers.

1) The Duel (Mizuno Takanobu, Kamikaze Douga)
2) Tatooine Rhapsody (Taku Kimura, Studio Colorido)
3) The Twins (Hiroyuki Imaishi, Trigger)
4) The Village Bride (Hitoshi Haga, Kinema Citrus)
5) The Ninth Jedi (Kenji Kamiyama, Production I.G.)
6) T0-B1 (Abel Gongora, Science SARU)
7) The Elder (Masahiko Ootsuka, Trigger)
8) Lop and Ochou (Yuuki Igarashi, Geno Studio)
9) Akakiri (Eun-Yeong Choi, Science SARU)

Note: A further batch of 9 episodes released on May 4, 2023 as Star Wars: Visions Volume 2 does not meet our eligibility requirements as only a single episode was animated by a studio meeting our Country of Origin criteria.

Tags: Space , Anthology , Swordplay , Space Opera , Aliens , Episodic , Artificial Intelligence , Robots , Tragedy , Fugitive , Cultivation , Military , Anti-Hero , Samurai , Archery , Ensemble Cast , Terrorism , Twins , Anthropomorphism , CGI , Adoption , Band , Parenthood , Marriage , Achromatic , Musical Theater

Kaze Tachinu

Also known as The Wind Rises.

Studio: Studio Ghibli , Walt Disney Studios
Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Romance

Although Jirou Horikoshi's nearsightedness prevents him from ever becoming a pilot, he leaves his hometown to study aeronautical engineering at Tokyo Imperial University for one simple purpose: to design and build planes just like his hero, Italian aircraft pioneer Giovanni Battista Caproni. His arrival in the capital coincides with the Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923, during which he saves a maid serving the family of a young girl named Naoko Satomi; this disastrous event marks the beginning of over two decades of social unrest and malaise leading up to Japan's eventual surrender in World War II.

Tags: Aviation , Historical , Work , Biographical , Male Protagonist , Tragedy , Time Skip , War , Primarily Adult Cast , Heterosexual , Foreign , Marriage , Natural Disaster , Drawing , Trains